Marlins Park

In a dim corridor Monday along the third-base side of Wrigley Field, about 30 feet away from a restroom still equipped with troughs and a wall holding pay phones, Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts outlined the tentative deal struck to renovate the rickety 99-...

It's too early to say who will be the first player taken in the 2013 draft — could be University of Florida pitcher Karsten Whitson or another advanced college prospect or a high school stud like Austin Meadows, an outfielder from Georgia, or...

The best pitch in baseball? It's probably the fastball, although a good changeup is a close second. As Commissioner Bud Selig heads toward retirement, with a legacy for creating labor peace and growing a game that had stagnated badly under his...

PHOENIX — Go ahead, admit it. You care about the WBC, don't you? Don't you? You may not want to care, you may think the whole event is a waste of your time and your team's pitching, but you're a little curious about what's going to happen this...

There are some things that can be bought. A space flight. The chance to be cryogenically frozen. Or maybe just some of the simpler things, like a 12-cylinder Ferrari Testarossa, beachfront property in Turks and Caicos or one of the socks Curt...

SAN FRANCISCO – Is there any stopping the Dominican Republic? It sure doesn’t look like it. Tony Pena’s team is on the verge of not only winning the World Baseball Classic but becoming the first team to ever go through the event...

  We won't mention the man by name today. We'll try to avoid doing it ever, because he is one of the most hated people in South Florida. Yep, on the South Florida popularity scale, he is in the same neighborhood as Scott Rothstein. He has a long way...

MIAMI — One victory away from San Francisco, three away from the championship they covet, the celebration has started early for Robinson Cano and his decorated teammates from the Dominican Republic. Not the party, however. That was in the...

Ho, ho, ho. If there ever was a year that we needed Santa, this is it. Of course I'm not really Santa, even though I do have the correct body type. But we can all help, right? So allow me to hand out presents to some folks we all know. Granted, some may...

You want explanations, don’t you? You want clues as to how and why Jeffrey Loria could do something so unspeakably cynical to a sports franchise he holds in public trust.   Now that the Marlins owner has pushed the panic button and left South...

Ozzie Guillen asked for trouble when he left Jerry Reinsdorf for Jeffrey Loria, and it came along as part of the package with the $10 million deal he signed to manage the Miami Marlins. Guillen was fired Tuesday with three years remaining on his four-...

Ozzie Guillen is getting what he asked for when he left one of the most loyal owners in sports to work for one of the quirkiest. His job is in jeopardy only one season into a four-year deal, and few will be sad if he is swept out alongside longtime player...