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Pete Rose: Now he says he did bet on baseball, but being Charlie Hustle means never having to say you're sorry.
January 6, 2004
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ESPN's firing of football columnist Gregg Easterbrook for anti-Semitism only looks honorable if you don't look too closely. Plus: Fox ignores the Jeffrey Loria story.
October 21, 2003
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It's a myth that Montreal is a great baseball town, but it does deserve a chance to keep the Expos. Plus: Call for NFL predictions.
August 29, 2003
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The good news is that the new, improved All-Star Game was a dandy. The bad news is that Bud Selig was hoping that would happen.
July 16, 2003
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"The Boss" is back, and that's great news for Yankee-haters everywhere. Even Bud Selig.
June 17, 2003
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The thrill of ties and disputed finishes. The agony of scandals, blown calls and moral relativism. Plus: Endless debate.
By King Kaufman
December 31, 2002
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Pete Rose is unrepentant and unapologetic, but so what? He's done his time -- and forgiveness is the American way.
By King Kaufman
December 12, 2002
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Bud Selig and his goons celebrate the Fall Classic by cracking down on a Giants pitcher's tribute to a fallen friend.
By Keith Olbermann
October 23, 2002
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The victories of the Angels, Twins and Cards show how empty the owners' and commissioners' arguments were.
By Allen Barra
October 8, 2002
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A few modest proposals to prevent the game from squandering whatever fan goodwill remains.
By King Kaufman
August 31, 2002
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In five Wednesday meetings, the last ending Thursday morning, owners and players inched closer to an agreement. Stay tuned.
By Keith Olbermann
August 29, 2002
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Posturing owners! Angry bankers! Scary lawyers! Rats who gnaw the eyes out first! A day by day guide to the last weeks of the labor war.
By Keith Olbermann
August 27, 2002
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The players get it. The big-market owners get it. So why do the small-market owners seem so dense?
By Allen Barra
August 23, 2002
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The players of one small-market team have voted against authorizing a strike deadline.
By Keith Olbermann
July 29, 2002
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If competitive balance is the main issue in the contract talks, why
does their main proposal address payroll imbalance?
By King Kaufman
July 23, 2002
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Even good writers are doing bad stories on the issues behind the looming baseball strike. Why is the media peddling the owners' line?
By Allen Barra
July 18, 2002
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Ted Williams transcended the game; Bud Selig took the fun out of it. The clueless commish should have used position players to pitch in the All-Star Game.
By Allen Barra
July 11, 2002
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The pundits who think this year's tie was worse than the game in which Ted Williams broke his elbow need to take a drug test.
By King Kaufman
July 11, 2002
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The workers demand buccaneer capitalism! The owners insist on socialism! As a strike looms, baseball negotiations offer a bizarro-world version of reality.
By King Kaufman
May 16, 2002
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The baseball commissioner wants to shut down the Minnesota Twins, and fans fought back with a sold-out home opener. But will the city have to build a stadium it can't easily afford to keep the team?
By King Kaufman
April 15, 2002
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But then managers and players will find other ways to slow it down. So relax and settle in to your armchair.
By Allen Barra
April 11, 2002
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Selig and the baseball owners are brewing more bad-faith deals. Plus: A great new boxing film, "Joe and Max."
By Allen Barra
March 7, 2002
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Grilled by congressmen asking embarrassing questions about Major League Baseball's supposed business crisis, the commissioner switched sports and put on a Gale Sayers-like display of evasion.
By Allen Barra
December 14, 2001
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The baseball owners' hand-picked committee, working from cooked books, has an absurd plan to fix the sport's finances. Why is the media taking it seriously?
By Allen Barra
July 21, 2000
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A pair of South Carolina lawmakers say the "Black Sox" star's lifetime ban from baseball should be lifted. They're right.
By Gary Kaufman
June 15, 2000
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