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Ozzie Guillen: open mouth, insert foot. After startling revelations that he loves Fidel Castro and respects how long the Cuban dictator has been in power, to go along with comments he made to CBS Sportsline that he drinks and gets drunk after every game — win or loss, the controversial, [...]

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Chipper Jones announced today that he will retire at the end of the 2012 season. As the final active player from Atlanta’s dominant 1995-2005 stretch in which the Braves won 100 games 5 times, Jones was the heart and soul of the Braves offense. Carried by pitching aces, Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, and John [...]

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SCOTT JACOBS
Yesterday, I analyzed baseball’s plan to institute two more wild card spots, and the tradition versus expansion debate.  Today, baseball made the dramatic change official.  It was inevitable, as we had been hearing murmurs of an expanded field for months.  What I didn’t realize was how this would alter (and I use that word [...]

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In 1939 college hoops instituted what would become the NCAA tournament, an 8 team single elimination playoff, to crown a champion. There were 3 rounds and none of the games were televised.  Why? Well, television didn’t exist at the tourney’s birth. Twelve years later, the tournament was expanded to 16. A few years later [...]

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Ryan Braun has it all, he’s the reigning NL MVP, he’s got a sick scruff beard that would be the envy of any zit faced 13 year old boy, and according to Major League Baseball, he’s twice the man as you or me… no literally, he’s TWICE the man.
During a random drug test that [...]

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When someone offers you $254 million, even the classic angel and devil on the shoulder argument sometimes colludes into the same thing.   More brilliant work from one of our favorites: 7th Inning Sketch freelance artist Gary Finkler.

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In the wake of Albert Pujols STUNNING defection to the Angels, a thought immediately popped into my head:
Did Albert Pujols just become a bigger social pariah then LeBron James?  Did the beloved iconic slugger just tarnish his ’sterling’ reputation by bolting the only franchise he’s ever known for sunny skies and warmer weather?  And [...]

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While the Marlins and Cardinals hogged the spotlight in the Albert Pujols derby, a third ‘mystery team’ was waiting in the wings. Hello Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
Shortly after Miami pulled their $200 million offer to Pujols, it was assumed that Phat Albert was a lock to return to the Red Birds.  The sides [...]

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