Opinion

When Alex Rodriguez looks back on his early Twitter days, he's not going to be able to say he wasn't warned.

The headline on CBS Sports: "This is probably a bad idea: Alex Rodriguez has joined Twitter."

Merriam-Webster defines all-star as “composed wholly or chiefly of stars or of outstanding performers or participants.”  On July 16, the stars and outstanding performers from the 30 Major League Baseball teams will assemble at Citi Field in New York to showcase their talents in a battle for World Series home-field advantage.  

The beginning of the 2013 season is slowly creeping forward for the Penn State football team.

Summer practices are set to begin in early August, and for most fans, it can’t come soon enough.

There are so many questions coming into this year about who will fill in for graduated seniors on both offense and defense and who will become the leaders on this new team.

With fan voting for the 2013 MLB All-Star Game coming down to its final stretch, players ranging from sure things to long shots are using Twitter as their prime method of self-marketing.

Carlos Marmol was a big distraction for the Chicago Cubs before being demoted Tuesday.

The baseball gods can be cruel, but they’ve got nothing on Father Time.

That crotchety old you-know-what rarely allows for ballplayers to age like fine wines, and he’s particularly unfair to pitchers. One day a pitcher will be fine and the next—BAM!—he’ll be over the hill. No more velocity, no more stuff, no more guile, no more nothing.

In light of how things were going for a while there, it didn't occur to me to imagine a scenario in which there would be a huge fuss over Ricky Nolasco.

But lo and behold, such a fuss is happening now.

The trade deadline is rapidly approaching, bringing with it an endless series of rumors about players who will be on the move to hopefully push a contending team into the postseason. 

MLB players involved in the Biogenesis scandal may not be suspended in 2013, according to an ESPN Dallas report.

The Arizona Diamondbacks traveled to Washington, D.C., on June 25 to open a three-game series against the Nationals.

The Washington Nationals were desperately in need of some wins before the All-Star break. The Nationals were a team many picked to win the World Series this year, but they came into this series with a losing record.

The great grit experiment has been successful so far in Arizona, as the Diamondbacks are currently sitting atop the NL West. Led by Paul Goldschmidt, the D-Backs looked to pad their division lead at the expense of the Nationals.