August 30, 2010 | Volume 113, Issue 7

Amid all the drug scandals and guaranteed megacontracts that have reduced the sport to a business absent loyalty from either players or fans, I often have to remind myself why I am still a...

How did Roger Clemens end up in hot water? It all started with a real estate scam in Maryland

Who's Hot

Forget the beverage cart: Unlike his TV alter ego, Jon Hamm is all golf

The Reds are unable to hold a ceremony honoring Pete Rose's record-breaking 4,192nd hit on Sept. 11, the 25th anniversary of the play, because Rose has an appearance scheduled at a casino that day.

Died

Kurt Warner

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Perhaps because the New York Giants were the ball club of Manhattan's bookish Upper West Side, Bobby Thomson and the Shot Heard 'Round the World have each assumed a place in the intellectual...

In mid-July of 1951, with his New York Giants languishing behind the Brooklyn Dodgers, manager Leo Durocher moved struggling slugger Bobby Thomson from the outfield to third base. "Maybe he's...

The Interview

Colten Young

A bloody import may be the next MMA

Big questions hang over the year's final Grand Slam event, which Rafael Nadal has never won

Call Of the Wild

Talented players who have yet to have a breakthrough season are tough to pass up. But be very careful

Three To Get Ready

With ratings and attendance off, NASCAR should rev up its postseason Chase—and here's how

Triple Crown

Forget those April predictions. Upstart contenders (that's you, Padres), breakthrough stars (hello, Joey Votto) and resurrected veterans (welcome back, Miguel Tejada) will make it a September to...

Professional, polite, eager to please—could Joey Votto be more perfect? An MVP and an end to the Reds' playoff drought wouldn't hurt

It's no shock that the Twins are in first. But their best pitcher? That's different

After years in baseball oblivion, Miguel Tejada is relevant again in San Diego

Are you experienced? Doesn't matter—call-ups will be critical down the stretch

Getting Underfoot

A tough Texan who can take down a boar with a Bowie knife, Kevin Kolb isn't scared off by the pressure of succeeding Donovan McNabb in Philly

Washington is ecstatic that it's plucked an alltime great from an archrival

With an almost Phelpsian performance in the year's biggest meet, free-spirited Ryan Lochte overtook the king of Beijing as the world's best swimmer—for now

New Orleans coach Joe Pasternack went home hoping to build the team he had grown up watching into a Division-I power. Then everybody else left

THE VIDEO OF HIS BATTING-CAGE EXPLOITS HAS TURNED HIM INTO AN INTERNET CURIOSITY AND A MEDIA STAR. HOW CAN A KID SO SMALL AND SO YOUNG HANDLE 85-MPH HEAT? ARE HIS PARENTS UP TO SOMETHING? IS ARIEL...

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