A GRIP ON SPORTS • We’ve some wild comebacks in our more than 60 years of watching baseball games. Participated in some, on both the good and bad sides. But few matched the oddball nature of Monday ...

It's not exactly breaking news to point out that pitchers in the here and now, at least in the aggregate, are throwing harder than they ever have before. It's entirely possible that this phenomenon is ...

Boys are oiling their mitts, men have started playing hooky, and Dick Cheney just one-hopped it like a pussy. Yes, baseball season is in full swing, and our dip-juice cup runneth over. Normally, this ...

Every baseball game every night includes pitch sorcery like nothing we have seen before. The average major league pitcher throws harder than ever (an average of 94.0 mph on two- and four-seam ...

They’re not saying “Gooooose”—they’re booing. Yes, baseball fans are booing Hall of Fame reliever Rich “Goose” Gossage for his crazy broadside on sports talk radio last week against the game he loves.