Terry Francona

Bobby Valentine has a better guess where he'll be Thursday than the Yankees do. Bobby V, who has posted fewer Vs than any Red Sox manager since Billy Herman in 1965, figures to be on the other end of a phone call summoning him to a meeting with the...

Few baseball men are wiser than Joe Maddon. He proved it with this conclusion about the postseason viability of the White Sox after arriving in Chicago on Thursday. "You just never know, man,'' the Rays manager said. No, you don't. But you do know this:...

A year ago Friday, Robert Andino etched his name into Orioles lore with a ninth-inning sinking liner to left that escaped the glove of Boston’s Carl Crawford, plated Nolan Reimold with the game-winner, extinguished the Red Sox’s playoff...

BOSTON — The Orioles arrived at Fenway Park on Friday focused on continuing their march toward the playoffs. The Boston Red Sox were waiting, their focus and motivation an open question after a season gone terribly awry. So, what exactly is...

Boston drama never ends Paul Doyle Hartford Courant This one's not even close — the Red Sox are beyond dysfunctional. Once considered baseball's model franchise after winning two titles in four years, the Red Sox are a mess. The team...

Who's running asylum? Peter Schmuck Baltimore Sun This is both a simple question and a complex one. If the Red Sox go in the tank like they did last September, it's hard to imagine Bobby Valentine lasting the season. But owners John Henry and Larry...

NEW YORK — Bobby Valentine said he doesn't read it and he doesn't listen to it. Surely, he smells it. Surely, he smells the rot from a locker room where too many of his players run to ownership to point fingers and too few of them run to the...

Carl Crawford says he needs Tommy John surgery. What the Red Sox really need is Tommy John of 1977. What the Red Sox really need is a road map to get them rowing in the same direction. As the rain fell Saturday on a delayed start to the alleged greatest...

For decades, Liverpool soccer fans at the team's 120-year-old stadium, Anfield, have been singing their adopted anthem, "You'll Never Walk Alone." Brendan Rodgers, who was named the team's new manager June 1, is hoping that the partisans of the former...

FORT MYERS, Fla. — As he starts his job as the Red Sox's manager, Bobby Valentine gets to be one part Tommy Lasorda, two parts James Carville and three parts the guy who walks behind the elephants in the circus parade. And he loves every minute of...

Second baseman Robert Andino and his band of upstart, red-hot, second-place Orioles swear they're facing just another tough divisional rival on the road this weekend. It's not a big deal, Andino says, that Friday will be the first time his club plays a...

Yes, the NHL and NBA playoffs will keep the nation's arenas busy for another couple of months, but the conclusion of the NCAA men's and women's basketball tournaments is a definite signal that it's time to head to the great outdoors. The start of the...