Articles in the ‘Baseball’ Category

The National Football League announced the extension of television rights deals for another nine years with CBS, Fox, and NBC yesterday.
The announcement was hardly surprising, considering how game broadcasts were found to account for 23 out of 25 of the most-watched shows in television this fall.
The new agreement comes with a few notable [...]

Thanksgiving this year had the Green Bay Packers facing up the Lions in a game reminiscent of the game back in 1962.
As the Packers, 10-0, went into Detroit to defend an NFL championship, Jerry Kramer believed that the team, under the coaching of Mike McCarthy, would not face the challenge that the Packers did [...]

The Twins should have shown Joe Nathan how serious they were about keeping him for a ninth season.
In the absence of this serious pursuit from the Twins, Nathan has signed a deal with the two-time defending champion in the American League, the Texas Rangers.
The contract was for two years, amounting to $14 million [...]

A pair of home runs has driven the Detroit Tigers to a 7-5 victory over the Texas Rangers on Thursday, saving the team from elimination.
With the win, the American League Championship Series is heading back to Texas.
In their return to Arlington, the Rangers are clinging to a lead of 3-2 in the best-of-seven [...]

Up until the Tuesday game, Ben Francisco had been known simply as the “other guy” in the trade with Cliff Lee. He was the reserve outfielder whom nobody expected to do enough to get to play regularly for the National League East champs of Philadelphia.
He became an overnight hero after the game, thanks to [...]