Opposing pitchers and managers already don’t treat Mike Trout like just any other 21-year-old, so why do the Los Angeles Angels think it is okay to do so? Control should never equal comfort, a lesson it seems could be learned soon in Anaheim. Now, Trout seems to be a good enough guy. He plays hard...

The next three weeks of spring baseball will be different than it is in most years. Instead of the usual mixture of spring warm-up games scattered through Florida and Arizona, the World Baseball Classic takes the sport out of team allegiance and wraps some of the best players in the world in their flags...

I’ve always had an appreciation for Stephen Curry. Ever since his days as a Davidson Wildcat, where he acted the part of David and took out his mighty 3-point slingshot to slay college basketball’s giants, I made it a point to make sure to keep tabs on what’s going on with the fair-skinned...

Watch this. Then watch this. Truth be told, if you played basketball more than once in your life (or still play), something like both of these plays happened to you. Whether it was during your days as an intramural all-star or back on the monkey bars before your growth spurt, you were on the receiving...

By Andrea Masenda / @andreamas05 During the summer of 2010 while doing an internship through the Institute on Political Journalism in D.C., I was afforded the opportunity to attend a taping of ESPN’s “Pardon The Interruption” and “Around The Horn.” While sitting in the control...

My senior year of high school I named a resilient housefly after him that refused to die in Mrs. Frankowiac’s Economics class. He scored a hat trick in a poem I wrote in 8th grade, which would give him four for his career. I took his first name as my own in sophomore year Spanish. I molded his...

Exactly three weeks from today, I will turn 29 years old. That means I was not even conceived yet when the 1982-83 Philadelphia 76ers completed a sweep of the Los Angeles Lakers to win the 1983 NBA title. I never saw a single second of that team take the court, never saw the madness of a playoff game...

Three years ago, when Kevin Garnett had finally matriculated from the outhouse in ‘Sota to the penthouse in Beantown, he was able to give a young LeBron James a lesson that would eventually (in my opinion) lead to a “Decision” of some sort. This is what KG had to say to young Bron...

In today’s society there are the haves and the have-nots. We see colleges repositioning themselves to make superconferences that will be able to compete at a high level and that will draw more and more money into match-ups that could possibly happen on a yearly basis. The Big 12 has accepted schools...

On the second floor of an old white barn on the property where I grew up and still live today, there’s a basketball court. It’s half of a court, with a wooden floor that was pieced together by my father’s hands. He wanted my brother and me to have a place to practice and play. We could play at...

This past Sunday I decided to get started early on some spring cleaning in my house. You see, I’ve lived in my new place here in Oakland for about 6 months, and for those 6 months I’ve lived like a normal person in about 75% of my residence. See, I live in a 2-bedroom apartment, and I’d...

(Ed’s Note: To catch up on the top 100 players in baseball breakout, here’s the links. 100-76, 75-51, 50-26 and 25-11) It’s tough to do an intro to the very best of the game and just why they are, so I won’t bother. The credentials on the best of the top 100 players in baseball are below...