Apparently Rangers’ hitting coach Rudy Jaramillo is a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: “You know all this [bleep] that’s going on around the world, weather-wise, well, we’re seeing it in Arlington. The jet stream at The Ballpark ain’t what it used to be. That’s changing. I think it’ll help our arms. It’s […]

Like white people all over this country, I really love the idea of soccer. So do folks in Seattle: The Seattle Sounders FC may be the upstarts on the local sports scene, but the new pro soccer team appears to be having little trouble attracting sponsors and ticket buyers . . . The Sounders have […]

The prosecutions’ appeal in the Barry Bonds case is on the accelerated calendar: The U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco said in a filing today it’s expediting the government’s appeal of the ruling. The judge barred positive drug tests and other evidence unless they are supported by testimony from Greg Anderson, Bonds’s former trainer, […]

Remember back in January when I told you about the tell-all memoir by former Angels farm hand Matt McCarthy? Yeah, it seems like there may be less there than meets the eye: Matt McCarthy, a graduate of Yale and of Harvard Medical School now working as an intern in the residency program at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia hospital […]

Things to read while taking full advantage of the extra three days the Civil Rules give you for responding to a brief that was served by regular mail: Victor Wang ranks the farm systems. Victor’s approach is different than many you’ll see in that he weighs multiple prospect lists first, and works from there. I’m […]

Print them out. Memorize them. Use them on draft day.

This time, from the least to the middle

If only changing one’s luck were as easy as changing one’s name.

How does NCAA Division 3 compare to Division 1?

Let’s look at the numbers