Our friend Pete Toms has a new regular feature over at Maury’s place: The Business of Sports Network is pleased to announce the first instalment of “Last Week in Bizball”, a weekly notebook column from staff reporter Pete Toms. Each week LWIB will compile opinion and reporting on topical baseball biz subjects from the preceding […]

Jane Heller was stuck in her house in Santa Barbara at the height of the recent wildfire. She understandably freaked out a bit, but something kept her sane: The phone rang with rumors of friends whose houses were burning to the ground. The local television stations suspended their regular programming to cover the fire nonstop […]

Hal McCoy of the Dayton Daily News thinks that sportswriting is dying. Jason at IIATMS disagrees. You can probably guess where I come down on this.

Get the personal strategies and secrets for dominating your keeper league, courtesy of your minor league baseball expert, Matt Hagen.

Fanno gets a dog!

I had meant to get to this when it ran last week, but Manny Mania kind of took over. Anyway, Maury was interviewed in USA Today, and he talks about his site, the business of baseball, and a few other things. Nice exposure for Maury.

This is pretty much the perfect link on which to end a week like the one we’ve just lived through. I may have a post or two tonight on NBC, but as soon as those go live, I’m going to sleep and I’m not waking up until Monday morning. Have a good weekend everyone.

TUCK! toons every week, right here.

My NBC colleague Mike Celizic on Zack Greinke, in a column entitled “Finally, baseball gives us as hero to admire“: Finally, baseball has a fresh young superstar nobody can throw so much as a pebble at, a kid who is the perfect antidote for Manny B. Manny and A-Fraud and everything else that drives you […]

The Mets have removed the New York Post and Daily News from the clubhouse. Here’s one interpretation: The Mets consider their players’ psyches so fragile that they no longer provide copies of The Post or the other New York tabloid in their Citi Field clubhouse. The newspapers were a staple of the Mets’ clubhouse for […]