Source: Chicago Tribune
Scratch one event from the baseball off-season. Not only will Major League Baseball not get its first $1 billion franchise, but it doesn't look as if the Cubs will be sold, at any price, before the 2008 season has begun.
Source: Yahoo! Sports
...The potential numbers here are staggering, the potential impact difficult to fathom. This isn't a BALCO investigation, the busting of a single California lab which netted a couple dozen athletes yet still rocked sports to its core.
Source: Yahoo! Sports
....DEA agents and local police examine evidence at a seized storage residence. An international investigation code-named Operation Raw Deal that culminated in the last four days could produce the next steroids scandal in sports – and perhaps the biggest yet.
Source: The New York Times
Barry Bonds's home run pushed him past Hank Aaron and pushed baseball's sacred history into an awkward spot.
I don't disagree with anyone who talks about Bonds as petulant ass.
Source: The New York Times
Commissioner Bud Selig decided to witness Barry Bonds's run at history instead of remaining in Milwaukee where he could have watched the Mets' Tom Glavine pitch in an effort to win his 300th game.
Source: The Idea Exchange
This summer has brought several major scandals in the world of sports. Although they may give their respective sports a black eye in the short run, these sports scandals will bring positive long-term results.
Bud Selig of Major League Baseball must have had too many hot dogs at AT&T; Park during the course of his long and lonely life.
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....There's no reason to condemn him," said Jackson, "If you can't prove it, embrace him and his record. The record speaks for itself."
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A rundown of baseball news of July 10th, including All-Star game schedule, Scott Boras proposal for a new stat and the Bud Selig-Bonds feud
Oh but for again the happy ignorance of time gone by. Not paying any attention to time but rather instead making a jolly mockery of age and gathered wisdom — there are too many of these, but who am I to deny them their blissful glee, even me amid this timeless sadness.
Wonder where Bud Selig adopted this tactic from.
Source: ESPN.com
Gary Sheffield has said in an interview in the latest GQ magazine that Latino players are playing in the Major Leagues more because they "are easier to control" and "don't understand the language so they can't talk back".
Source: CNN
Barry, Rocket, Dice-K ... let the questions begin
Source: The Onion
With the regular season winding down and the White Sox seven games out of first place, a sweating, visibly shaking Bud Selig entered Ozzie Guillen's office Monday to tell the notoriously proud, hot-tempered manager that his team had been eliminated from playoff contention.
Source: The Onion
MILWAUKEE—After four years in which the outcome of the All-Star Game determined home-field advantage in the World Series, Commissioner Bud Selig has announced that Major League Baseball will attempt to increase fan interest by allowing the game's outcome to determine the direc …
Source: ESPN.com
To borrow a phrase from Buddy Holly - "That'll be the day!"
Source: Sports Illustrated
Does it shock anyone that David Wells has something to say about Bud Selig? Nevermind the fact Selig is by far, the worst Commissioner in MLB history, I don't think that you could find a more ignorant man, ignorant at the fact that the entire league pretty much hates the guy and
"No one will argue about who baseball's greatest Commissioner is. It is the ninth Commissioner, Bud Selig.
Source: WorldNetDaily
Under pressure from China, Major League Baseball is forcing Taiwan to compete in the upcoming World Baseball Classic under the name "Chinese Taipei" and to not display the island nation's flag or have its anthem played.