Articles in the ‘Baseball’ Category

Mere minutes after Joel Ward made a shot to the net late on Wednesday, racist rants started to rain down via Tweets on the Internet.
Several websites, such as BlackSportsOnline and Chirpstory collected dozens of the degrading tweets. Majority of them used the f-word and the n-word, with some of them issuing death threats.
Ward [...]

Lawyers representing Roger Clemens sought to discredit a key witness in the perjury trial of the All-Star pitcher, saying that Brian McNamee is lying and profiting from it.
McNamee is a former strength coach who testified that he injected steroids as well as human growth hormone on Clemens. The lead attorney of Clemens, Rusty Hardin, [...]

Nothing at Safeco Field on Saturday afternoon suggested anything out of the ordinary, especially since the game was just between the Chicago White Sox and the Mariners.
However, towards the end of the game, the 22,472 strong audience already jumped to its feet and cheered for something that was turning historical. Philip Humber of the [...]

Only eight games going into the 2012 season, the San Francisco Giants are looking into bad news: closer Brian Wilson will possibly require elbow surgery, putting him off for the rest of the season.
On Friday night, an MRI showed that Wilson had “structural issues” on the ligament of his right elbow. This piece of [...]

A few minutes just before boarding a bus taking the team to the airport, Manny Acta, manager of the Indians stood just outside his office with his bags in hand and expressed disappointment over the decision of Major League Baseball to slap Ubaldo Jimenez with a suspension for five games.
It was early Monday evening [...]