He talks to himself, even shouts to himself as he races in from the bullpen to the rescue. He's from Down Under, but Over The Top works for the man from Sydney, Australia, who could moonlight as a Tasmanian Devil. ...more

October 9, 2008

In the 1984 film "The Natural," Robert Redford played a gifted baseball player who approached the manager and asked for a chance to try out for the team. ...more

October 5, 2008

It's no small irony that the Rays might face the Minnesota Twins when the American League playoffs begin Thursday afternoon at Tropicana Field. ...more

September 30, 2008

When baseball's regular season began, Minnesota Twins rookie right fielder Denard Span was disappointed. ...more

September 13, 2008

Sometime in July, in the middle of his latest attempt to yank himself from a slump that had endured much of the season, SS Jason Bartlett decided less might be more. ...more

September 4, 2008

This is supposed to be the series in which the Rays pound the nails into the Yankees' coffin – at least as far as the American League East title goes. ...more

September 3, 2008

For the Rays, it's 33 games to go. It's time to start deciding the American League East championship, and an important stretch opens tonight, when the Toronto Blue Jays arrive at Tropicana Field to begin Tampa Bay's nine-game homestand. ...more

August 26, 2008

Hawaii's mini-mashers got a little help from Mexico's miscues to win a fourth straight Little League World Series title for the United States. ...more

August 25, 2008

Maybe embarrassment finally kicked in. Or pride. ...more

August 20, 2008

The letter arrived to Coach Sonny LeBlanc at the beginning of summer, inviting his Tampa Heatwave softball team to participate in the World Fastpitch Connection World Series in Myrtle Beach, S.C. ...more

August 20, 2008