NEW YORK – The New York Knickerbockers are tired. But not physically. They are tired of underachieving, whether expectations were even realistic, year after year. Tired of hearing fans complain about that underachieving, and tired of the media asking about – you guessed it – underachieving. At the beginning of every season, the question isn’t […]

TORONTO – Addison Barger made World Series history, sent Rogers Centre into bedlam and probably buried the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 1.  Barger greeted lefty reliever Anthony Banda with a 413-foot shot to right center field, the first pinch-hit grand slam in World Series history and give the Toronto Blue Jays an 11-2 lead […]

TORONTO — They kept saying they wouldn’t be intimidated. They refused to fear the mighty Los Angeles Dodgers. They may be playing north of the border, and few folks in Southern California have ever heard of any of them – with the exception of the few with famous fathers – but, oh, can the Toronto […]

TORONTO — Tony Clark, executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, restated his concerns over gambling in sports in the wake of the NBA gambling scandal, emphasized that the union will never agree to a salary cap, and believes that the small and large market teams are separated only by their willingness to […]

When Tom Aspinall and Ciryl Gane step into the Octagon for their heavyweight fight at UFC 321, it’d be the wrong time to leave the room to grab a beverage. It’d be too much even to blink, at risk of missing the outcome. Aspinall, the 32-year-old from England, has finished off his last three opponents […]

NEW YORK — On June 29, 2021, Chauncey Billups sat down in front of the media at the Portland Trail Blazers practice facility to detail his vision of getting the team back to competing for championships, even though Portland had made the postseason in each of the eight seasons before his arrival (making one Western […]

TORONTO – When it began, Blake Snell was still in control, not just of the game but an entire postseason. Addison Barger was on the bench, a virtual unknown beyond the Canadian border and his hometown of Tampa. The Los Angeles Dodgers still had the whiff of indomitable defending champions, locked in a tie but […]

We’re past the halfway mark of the 2025 college football season and the main contenders for the honor of top quarterback are well-established at this point. Indiana’s undefeated run to a top-five national ranking comes in no small part thanks to quarterback Fernando Mendoza. After the team’s statement win against Oregon on the road, Mendoza […]

TORONTO — It was a 12-batter onslaught, a beatdown that started with a leadoff walk, accelerated with a grand slam that made World Series history and ended with a pile-on two-run homer from the player that perhaps best exemplifies just how suffocating these Toronto Blue Jays are. And now the Los Angeles Dodgers will be […]