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One of baseball's hottest rivalries will kick off the start of the 2013 Major League Baseball season Monday as the New York Yankees take on the Boston Red Sox at Yankees Stadium.
Less than six months after the San Francisco Giants closed the book on the final Major League Baseball game of the 2012 season with a World Series victory, the chase for the 2013 World Series begins again where it always does-Opening Day.
Mark Teixiera will have more time to focus on the Big Apple as the WBC calls up Eric Hosmer.
Watch out, ESPN, there's a new player in town in sports broadcasting.
Bud Selig is ready to tighten the screws even more.
Retirements are often sad affairs in sports. A beloved player says a final goodbye to the fans and the game that he loved so much. Fans are often left with a sorrow that they won't see their hero take the plate or make the big play just one more time.
As the baseball preseason gets into full swing, even the most hardened cynic can think back to when the game seemed a bit more innocent and a whole lot cheaper. Between lockouts, higher ticket prices, rising cable sports channel costs, it's refreshing to know that to some players, it's not all about the money.
Felix Hernandez has signed a $135.5 million contract extension to keep him in a Seattle Mariners uniform through the 2019 season. King Felix is one of the most dominant young pitchers in the game today, so his performance and the details of the contract should set a precedent for what other hurlers can demand in their next contracts.
Earlier this week, one Philadelphia 76ers fan bought 18 tickets to a game at the Wells Fargo Center on StubHub for $.04, and paid less than a dollar after the ticket purchase fee. The Sixers are tied for 19th in the NBA in attendance this season, averaging 16,253 fans per game, which is exactly 80 percent of the arena's capacity. Which team from each league is most likely to bounce back from a disappointing number?
The New York Yankees' goal of reaching the World Series this season could be jeopardized with the news that superstar third baseman Alex Rodriguez could likely miss the entire season due to hip surgery.
Arizona Diamondbacks shortstop Justin Upton has been traded to the Atlanta Braves along with Chris Johnson in exchange for Martin Prado, Nick Ahmed, Brandon Drury, Randall Delgado and Zeke Spruill, MLB.com reports. Upton will play on the same team as his older brother B.J. for the first time in their respective professional careers.
The Boston Red Sox re-signed Pedro Martinez, this time to be a special assistant to General Manager Ben Cherington, the Boston Globe reports.
The Dodgers are looking to add the sixth regional sports network to the Los Angeles market with their own station, created by the forthcoming agreement with Time Warner Cable for its television rights. TWC is supposedly getting ready to shell out between $7 billion and $8 billion over a 20-year period. For the first time since 1989, Sandy Koufax will have an official role with the organization.
The Cincinnati Reds will host the franchise's fifth Major League Baseball All-Star Game in 2015. Which Reds icons will be involved in the festivities?
Across the sports world, on a day when President Obama's inauguration was the talk of the nation, athletes paid tribute to a civil rights pioneer from decades past who helped open doors for African Americans in all professions in all walks of life.
