Forget everything I’ve ever written suggesting that Bud Selig is to baseball what FEMA was to New Orleans. Forget all the sarcastic barbs and cutting criticism. Ignore the All-Star Game tie, the delayed response to steroids, the hemming and hawing and indecision and non-decision and a day-too-late decision.
Moving from a major market to a smaller one and from an economic boom to a bust, tickets for baseball's All-Star game will be cheaper this year.
Gonzaga's Josh Heytvelt hit the winning 3-pointer in the final minute, scored 17 points and grabbed 11 rebounds to lead the Reese's All-Stars to a 105-100 win over Hershey's All-Stars in a college senior All-Star game on Friday night.
Amare Stoudemire's performance should draw great reviews, whether it was a farewell performance to his Phoenix fans or an audition for the teams considering trading for him.
Shaq and Kobe were together again, and they combined to lead the West to a 72-67 halftime lead Sunday night at the NBA All-Star game.
Three-time champions together, now three-time All-Star MVPs. And leave it to Shaquille O'Neal to coin a nickname for himself and Kobe Bryant. "The Big Legendaries," O'Neal said. Long ago broken apart, Shaq and Kobe were together again Sunday. Just like the good ol' days, they were winners — and the only sign of any feuding was when they playfully fought over the MVP trophy they shared.
The All-Star Game should reward players based solely on their play in the first half of the season, not on anything else. Even if they are not all-league performers or among the most dominant players at their position for the entire season, if they have had a tremendous first half of the schedule, they should be in the All-Star game.
The home of hockey produced an All-Star shootout from start to finish. All that was missing was Rocket Richard.
Penguins captain Sidney Crosby expects to play in the NHL All-Star game on Sunday in Montreal despite having a sore left knee.
With the Kremlin walls and domes of St. Basil's Cathedral as backdrops, an international squad led by Jaromir Jagr defeated an all-Russian team 7-6 in the Continental Hockey League's All-Star game on a bitterly cold Saturday night in Red Square.
The NBA All-Star game is coming to the new Dallas Cowboys stadium in 2010 and plenty of good seats are available — more than 100,000.
The Cavaliers and the Magic could lose their biggest names in the summer of 2010 when and become free agents. Both teams are apparently prepping themselves to shell out massive bucks next summer in hopes of not only retaining their stars but bringing in a second big name in order to keep their top guys in-house. Word is that the Cavs will be after Yao Ming now that a Chinese company has heavily invested in the team. And the Magic is going to have do something big for Wade, especially since the team is before summer's end. (South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Draftexpress.com)
Marquee starters were long gone. So were nearly all the other pitchers. His bullpen empty, National League manager Clint Hurdle approached David Wright and asked whether he had the right stuff to take the mound and close out the All-Star game. Did the New York Mets third baseman think chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon or general manager Omar Minaya would mind?
Commissioner Bud Selig finally got around Wednesday to announcing what the rest of baseball has known for more than a year: The Los Angeles Angels will host the 2010 All-Star game.
Joe Torre doesn't mind that he was left off the coaching staff for the All-Star game at Yankee Stadium. He might not have accepted an invitation anyway.
Duke's DeMarcus Nelson scored 21 points to help the National team beat the American team 106-100 in the National Association of Basketball Coaches All-Star game Friday.
Like tourists who flock here, a few All-Stars departed the Big Easy with souvenirs from a memorable weekend.
Jason Kidd is Eastern Conference All-Star, who by Sunday could play for a team in the West.
Boston Celtics forward Kevin Garnett withdrew from the NBA All-Star game Sunday and was replaced on the Eastern Conference roster by Detroit Pistons forward Rasheed Wallace.
Marc Savard made Atlanta feel like home all over again. With hockey luminaries such as Sidney Crosby sitting home, Savard stepped up. The Boston Bruins forward scored the winning goal with 20.9 seconds left Sunday night to lift the Eastern Conference to an 8-7 win over the West.
Mike Babcock of the Detroit Red Wings and John Paddock of the Ottawa Senators were selected to coach the NHL All-Star Game in Atlanta on Jan. 27.
Major League Soccer deputy commissioner Ivan Gazidis can't discuss any topic without David Beckham's name coming up. It's all Beckham, all the time. Not that Gazidis minds. He's become well-versed in the subject of Beckham. After announcing Thursday afternoon that this season's All-Star game will be held in Denver on July 19, Gazidis knew the first question would be whether Beckham was eligible to play.
If Jason Varitek can be an All-Star, why not me? Apparently the public shaming isn't going exactly as planned, because Manny Ramirez is getting a lot of All-Star votes:
The 2009 All-Star balloting has kicked off, and you can vote here.
The East Valley Tribune is reporting that the 2011 MLB All-Star Game has been awarded to Phoenix, which will be hosting for the first time.
Finally. Not that it wasn't a thrill to watch two baseball games' worth of outstanding defensive plays--and a lifetime's worth of errors by poor Uggla.
Major League baseball's oldest living former player talks about today's baseball players, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and his own baseball career.
A new species of carnivorous slug has been discovered in Wales.
The Post has learned the identity of every All-Star Game vote winner from the AL and NL for the July 15 game at Yankee Stadium and the starting pitchers.
The Braves fell for the sixth time in seven games, thanks to a less-than-stellar effort from Jo-Jo Reyes and a brutal offensive effort in falling 6-1 to Houston at Turner Field on Saturday.
....Time Warner has surfaced as the leading candidate to take over the running of NBA TV from the league.
Yesterday, rights-holder TBS aired an official "selection show" that revealed the lineups for the All-Star game. A few minutes after the announcement was aired, ESPN SportsCenter aired the same lineups — after all, the AP had published them.
The move is punishment for ESPN having reported the all-star selections Sunday afternoon even as TBS was doing so with a special show for which it had acquired rights.
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.
After Major League Baseball announced early All-Star voting results Tuesday, San Francisco Chronicle columnist Ray Ratto fired a shot a Mets shortstop Jose Reyes, suggesting the Mets shortstop "might not even make the team without the voters."
Thanks to a tip from former Roughneck announcer Barks, it seems that SportsNet will be showing the NLL All-Star game this year. This is especially good news given that there has been only spotty TV coverage of any NLL game in Canada this year.
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It's like somebody just played a joke on me. Scratch that one. Not somebody, that implies a wide array of possibilities. No, I know exactly who pulled this one on me. All-Star Weekend just clowned on me.
The money, extreme as it is, long ago became acceptable. The attitude? Tolerable. The posses, the agents, the perks? Background noise.
Wow. More people tuned in to watch a rerun of The Andy Griffith Show on TVLand than watched the NHL All-Star Game.
The NHL drew a dismal .7 rating and down 76% from the previous years.
Finally, something seemed to be going right for the National Hockey League. Despite flagging attendance and abysmal television ratings, the league was headed into next week's midseason break on a wave of positive publicity.
The Rory Fitzpatrick write-in campaign took a hit Wednesday. Several high-profile hockey personalities have spoken out against the "Vote for Rory" campaign, including Phoenix Coyotes coach Wayne Gretzky, who suggested the NHL intervene.
Trying to vote the journeyman defenceman on to the Western Conference team for the NHL all-star game has become a trend like reality TV. A spark that began with an Internet website has taken hold like wildfire.
And so begins the changing of the guard.