Joe Girardi was summoned upstairs for the first time. The new manager of the New York Yankees met Sunday with owner George Steinbrenner, who hadn't spoken with Girardi since the former catcher interviewed for the job in October. ...more

February 18, 2008

Thinking 'out loud until it started to hurt... ...more

February 17, 2008

In classic buddy movies such as "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," a mismatched pair of friends learn to transcend their differences and forge a lasting, loyal friendship. ...more

February 17, 2008

Roger Clemens' jersey was tossed from the Yogi Berra Museum. ...more

February 17, 2008

Few men who have ever gripped a baseball know more about saving games than Mariano Rivera. ...more

February 16, 2008

Better Things To Do Regarding "He Said, He Said" (front page, Feb. 14): God help us. This country is fighting wars in two places in the world. The national debt is at an all-time high. We are told a recession is looming. Homes are being foreclosed on, and the economy is in the tank. ...more

February 16, 2008

While there is a role for the U.S. Congress in big and small matters that concern Americans, most of us are tired of hearing about Major League Baseball's steroid case and the New England Patriot's videotape scandal. For some reason, though, the nation's most important business has been put on hold for hearings and questioning. Sometimes Congress is all we have to hold people accountable, so we don't dismiss their power to call people on the carpet. Sometimes these matters are relatively small. But the Roger Clemens steroid accusations is not a matter that should have members of Congress locked up for days hearing testimony. It serves no purpose. It seems like some members of Congress enjoy the face time they get on these frivolous hearings. They want to fight for the best sound bite, or to see who can best insult someone being questioned. It's one thing when it was tobacco executives sitting there lying to the country about the dangers of their products, and quite another when a baseball pitcher and his trainer are lying about each other. ...more

February 15, 2008

One of Brian McNamee's lawyers predicted Roger Clemens will be pardoned by President Bush, saying some Republicans treated his client harshly because of the pitcher's friendship with the Bush family. ...more

February 15, 2008

WASHINGTON Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee kept a tight grip on their contradictory accounts of illegal drug use in a dramatic showdown Wednesday before a congressional panel whose 40 Democrats and Republicans seemed to line up and take sides on a partisan basis. ...more

February 14, 2008

Is it too late to make changes in the baseball schedule? Can they just play one game and hold 162 of these hilarious congressional hearings? ...more

February 14, 2008