You know those really useful predictions everyone makes before the start of the football season? Don’t lie, you made them yourself, either on paper or indirectly to friends. Well guess what, they already took a hit this weekend; heck, my only prediction was short-sighted and that went wrong, saying assuredly that Aston Villa wouldn’t win [...]

Albert Pujols became the 26th player to hit 500 home runs in major league baseball last night. He is now officially part of a very exclusive club, but it really doesn’t feel that way. The Steroid Era has more carry than a Pujols long-ball, and as we react to one of the greatest hitters, not [...]

Miguel Cabrera, heading into this season as the best hitter in baseball, is batting .227 through his first 11 games. He is recovering from October sports hernia surgery and is continuing to rehab his core muscle strength, but his early struggles jump out and made me want to write about baseball’s obsession with huge, insanely [...]

They’re back. Those spring workouts that look oh so relaxed and the Dodger blue hats that pitchers and catchers adorn are on display as Spring Training returns. For Don Mattingly’s Dodgers, it is a week before every other club reports to either Florida or Arizona, but that is OK by me. Watching Clayton Kershaw play [...]

When it rained blue and green confetti on Sunday evening in Super Bowl 48 (I refuse to use Roman numerals, as the NFL still insist on doing), it meant only one thing for baseball fans: Spring Training is around the corner. Now everyone wants to get back to playing catch; even Super Bowl winning quarterback [...]

As an Aston Villa fan, I worry about where the club is heading. It has been awful this season; in fact it hasn’t looked at all promising since the day Martin O’Neill left the club. A majority of Villa fans insist that O’Neill is a traitor; that he did wrong by the club and we [...]

It was a season of change. It was a season of hurt, devastation and empowerment. A season of new faces, a city full of the most passionate fans, and shifting expectations. There was one goal for the 2013 Boston Red Sox; to relentlessly win, to win relentlessly. After the Boston marathon bombings back in April, [...]

Boston last won a World Series at home in 1918. It was in front of 15,238 fans at Fenway Park and Babe Ruth was a defensive replacement late in the game. Now, after a 3-1 victory in Game Five over the St. Louis Cardinals, John Farrell’s 2013 Red Sox are one win away from a [...]

Jonny Gomes was the unlikely hero in Game Four of the World Series. His three-run home run in the sixth gave Boston a 4-1 lead, and they ended up beating the Cardinals 4-2 to tie the series at two games apiece and guarantee that these two teams will return to Fenway Park. Like Gomes, this [...]

As the World Series switched from Fenway Park to Busch Stadium for Game Three last night, one thing was evident throughout the game and all the way to the end, where St. Louis walked-off on an obstruction call at third base; National League rules change the way a baseball game is played, both strategically and [...]