In an interview on Wednesday with Colin Cowherd on ESPN Radio, former Boston Red Sox starting pitcher and current ESPN analyst Curt Schilling claims that members of the Red Sox organization encouraged him to use steroids while injured in 2008. WEEI has the quotes. “At the end of my career, in 2008 when I had […]

On Sunday, February 10th, AMC's acclaimed show The Walking Dead returns for the second half of season three after taking the last two months off. The show averaged over ten million viewers during the first half of this season, and is unquestionably a smash hit, regardless of plotholes, inaccuracies compared to the comic book, and […]

For all of the talk about PED abuse being a huge problem in Major League Baseball, I think in reality, players getting DUIs is a much bigger problem. Whenever there's a player arrested for driving under the influence, it's usually swept under the rug pretty quickly, and penalties from the league are nearly nonexistent. Colorado […]

MLB's investigation of Anthony Bosch's Biogenesis clinic in Miami has turned up a name that will resonate across the landscape of baseball: Milwaukee Brewers left fielder Ryan Braun. Braun's name wasn't tied to any specific performance enhancing drugs, but the 2011 NL MVP has been linked with the scarlet letter in the past afterhe failed […]

With Spring Training on the horizon, the St Louis Cardinals got some bad news when they announced during a press conference today that starting pitcher Chris Carpenter was still feeling pain in his right shoulder following surgery to correct thoracic outlet syndrome this past July. The Cardinals have shut Carpenter down from throwing, and believe […]

After yesterday's trade of Jed Lowrie to the Athletics, a new narrative is popping up around the Houston Astros by some mainstream writers: the team is an embarrassment that makes the A's and Marlins look like big spenders. Much is being made about Houston's payroll in 2013, which will likely end up around $25 million […]

The Houston Astros have dealt one of the six players they had under contract for 2013, shortstop Jed Lowrie, to the Oakland Athletics as part of a

Former Arizona Diamondbacks starting pitcher Brandon Webb is retiring at age 33,

Kevin Millwood, who spent 2012 with the Seattle Mariners, is calling it a career after 16 seasons in the majors. Millwood reportedly only wanted to pitch near his home of Gainesville, Georgia, and the Braves (nor the Rays) showed any interest in him this offseason. For his career, Millwood finishes with a 169-152 record with […]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NfCm9P8naDQ During this Sunday's Super Bowl on CBS, baseball fans will see a familiar face in one of the expensive commercial spots: Springfield Cardinals hitting coach Phillip Wellman, who made headlines in 2007 as manager of the Mississippi Braves for a ridiculous mid-game tirade. In the ad for Volkswagen, Wellman (along with some other internet […]

This story isn't going anywhere anytime soon, folks. ESPN's Outside the Lines is reporting that Anthony Bosch (director of the Biogenesis clinic in Miami) would personally inject Alex Rodriguez with performance enhancing drugs at Rodriguez's home in Miami on Biscayne Bay. The texts, the source said, usually came late at night, telling Anthony Bosch to […]

After initially saying that he was going to retire earlier this offseason, former Cincinnati Reds third baseman Scott Rolen has done an about-face, and now wants to play in 2013. Rolen is apparently seeking a salary similar to the $6.5 million he made in 2012. The Reds would be hard-pressed to fit him in their […]