Miguel Cabrera leads the majors in batting average (.387) and RBI (47) and is one home run shy of the AL leaders.(Photo: Tim Heitman, USA TODAY Sports) Story Highlights Miguel Cabrera is on another Triple Crown bid Barry Bonds says Cabrera is by far the best player in baseball Cabrera’s career numbers: .320 BA, 332 [...]
Golf: Tiger’s breathtaking victory was tempered by a soap opera sideshow
May 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment
(PhatzRadio / Golf.com) — There is the golfer and there is the man, and both are great, as Jay Gatsby was great, as Barry Bonds and Mickey Mantle and Michael Jordan were great. Can you imagine someone more exciting and flawed and unknowable than Tiger Woods? For a half-hour there at the finale of the [...]
MLB: Clemens – Won’t ‘lose sleep’ over HOF vote
February 19, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Roger Clemens #21 of the Sugar Land Skeeters throws in the second inning against the Long Island Ducks on September 7, 2012 in Sugar Land, Texas. (September 6, 2012 – Source: Bob Levey/Getty Images North America) (PhatzRadio / AP) — KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Roger Clemens said little publicly in the immediate aftermath of the Hall [...]
MLB: Baseball card company strips Pete Rose of all-time hits record
February 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
(PhatzRadio / USA Today) — Pete Rose is Major League Baseball’s all-time hits leader with 4,256. But don’t expect to find his name attached to the historic accomplishment on any Topps baseball card. That’s because Topps does not acknowledge Rose’s record on the back of any card where his feat is referenced in the feature [...]
MLB: Sammy Sosa says he, Mark McGwire belong in Hall of Fame
January 24, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Sammy Sosa, seen in this 2004 file photo while playing for the Chicago Cubs, thinks he and Mark McGwire should be in the Baseball Hall of Fame. (Jack Dempsey/Associated Press) (PhatzRadio / CBC Sports) — Sammy Sosa thinks he and fellow steroid-tainted star Mark McGwire belong in the Hall of Fame. Slammin’ Sammy also said [...]
MLB: Biggio got most votes in year where no one got into Hall
January 12, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Former Houston Astros second baseman Craig Biggio waves to the crowd as part of a ceremony saluting the All-Time 25-Man Roster of the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park on September 22, 2012 in Houston, Texas. (September 21, 2012 – Source: Bob Levey/Getty Images North America) (PhatzRadio / AP) — HOUSTON — Craig Biggio thinks [...]
MLB: MLB to test for HGH during the season
January 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment
PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. (AP) Major League Baseball will test for human growth hormone throughout the regular season and increase efforts to detect abnormal levels of testosterone, a decision the NFL used to pressure its players. Baseball players were subject to blood testing for HGH during spring training last year, and Thursday’s agreement between management and [...]
MLB: Hall of Famers happy to see Bonds, Clemens denied
January 10, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Former baseballer Barry Bonds talks with Jens Voigt of Germany riding for RadioShack-Nissan-TREK prior to the start of Stage Three of the USA Pro Challenge from Gunnison to Aspen on August 22, 2012 in Gunison, Colorado. (August 21, 2012 – Source: Garrett Ellwood/Getty Images North America) Story Highlights Kaline: “I’m kind of glad that nobody [...]
MLB: No players elected to Hall of Fame by BBWAA
January 10, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Hitting coach Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals watches the Cardinals work through batting practice ahead of Game Three of the World Series at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington on October 21, 2011 in Arlington, Texas. (October 20, 2011 – Source: Tom Pennington/Getty Images North America) NEW YORK (AP) — No one was elected to [...]
College Football: Steroids loom in major-college football
December 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
WASHINGTON (AP) — With steroids easy to buy, testing weak and punishments inconsistent, college football players are packing on significant weight — 30 pounds or more in a single year, sometimes — without drawing much attention from their schools or the NCAA in a sport that earns tens of billions of dollars for teams. Rules [...]
