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Mariano Rivera is arguably one of the greatest baseball players of all time. But with his career coming to an end soon, he's going to need to find ways to occupy his time when it's done. The Harlem Globetrotters extended an olive branch to Rivera, offering to help him fill the void on the basketball court by drafting him earlier this year in the number 38 moment of our countdown.

The New York Yankees' season has been filled with everything and anything on and off the field, so much so that the 1970's Bronx Zoo seems like not even a soap opera. The Boss vs. Billy with Reggie in-between and Thurman Munson and Jackson going at each other...

Mariano Rivera is synonymous with Metallica's Enter Sandman after a Major League career consisting of well over a decade of entering baseball games with the song serving as the soundtrack. As a result, the Cleveland Indians decided to give Rivera a gold copy of the album as their gift to him during his farewell tour this season.

Mariano Rivera is obviously influential on a baseball field, but it can be argued that he is just as influential off of it. Rivera, a native of Panama, was finishing a series with the New York Yankees in Texas against the Rangers. That same night, the semifinals of the CONCACAF Gold Cup, a North American international soccer tournament, were being held in Cowboys Stadium. His native Panama were ta

Mariano Rivera is certainly the greatest closer in baseball history, but many people don't remember that he also saw four plate appearances in his storied 19 year career. And despite having a batting average of .000, Mo still managed to drive in one run in his career in the number 41 moment of his career.

Believe it or not, there are only 42 games remaining in the final regular season of the storied career of New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera. With the playoffs looking unlikely for the Yankees this season, it's also possible that these next 42 games will be it for the most storied closer in baseball history...

Miguel Cabrera became the first player ever to homer in consecutive at-bats against Mariano Rivera this past weekend, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

Yankees fans get mad when faced with reality. They aren't going to like the near future. Now of course things can change on one injury, one trade, or one good free agent signing. However right now it is fairly easy to see the Mets are better then the Yankees, now and into the near future...

The captain has returned, which is good for the Yanks.  But for baseball, it is even better.  Ratings are down, as is attendance, and the Yanks didn't have a face for the lovers and haters of the team to relate to or for those same people to go to the ballpark and see.  Now they do.

Major league baseball has revealed their top selling jerseys for 2013 and the list has a few major surprises. According to just jersey sales, Buster Posey, the tremendous catcher for the world champion Giants is the most popular player in the game...

What a night it was in New York City at the 84th All-Star Game at Citi Field. It was all about Mariano Rivera, as it should have been.  Rivera ran out from the bullpen to his customary "Enter Sandman" for the bottom of the 8th inning.  And then the baseball world froze for Mo, and rightly so...

There is no question that Mariano Rivera is a Hall of Fame closer.   But the question now is, Will Rivera get into Cooperstown on the first ballot like a Ty Cobb or Ted Williams or Hank Aaron or Ernie Banks or Willie Mays or Cal Ripken Jr...