From now until at the very least the July 31st trade deadline, Carlos Beltran will know what it’s like to be the prettiest girl at the ball. Beltran won’t win the MVP award that matters this season — that honor will go to his soon-to-be former teammate Jose Reyes — but he has officially been […]

Sports writers aren’t considered among the upper crust of society’s intellectuals. But few have left the yard as spectacularly in recent memory as the Chicago Tribune‘s Steve Rosenbloom in his latest blog entry. Rosenbloom, for the uninitiated, has made a career out of pushing buttons — think a lower rent, more entertaining Jay Mariotti. He pulls no punches […]

History will show that the Texas Rangers defeated the Oakland Athletics 6-0 on July 7, 2011. An insignificant occurrence in the grand scheme of things if there ever was one because if nothing else, sports are a momentary distraction from the things that do matter in life. But for one family and in particular, one […]