opening day

In sports, you expect injuries. You even expect gruesome injuries.  You know that at some point during the course of play, you're going to come across a fracture or a muscle tear so grotesque that it leaves you watching through the fingers you've reflexively thrown over your face.

There’s something romantic about Opening Day. The fresh cut grass, cut into some intricate pattern that you could never do in your own yard. The crack of the wood bat -- something that gets lost in the ping of nearly all levels of baseball now...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Michael Pineda will be the New York Yankees' fifth starter. Manager Joe Girardi announced the decision before Tuesday night's game against Philadelphia. Pineda, who missed the past two seasons after right shoulder surgery, beat out David Phelps, Adam Warren and Vidal Nuno...

I was driving through Troy on Tuesday afternoon, and the temperature in my car said 56 degrees. It was sunny. The street was covered in the water of melting snow. And then, because of daylight savings time, the sun stayed in the sky until nearly 7 p...

As the snow melts, that bright thing in the sky that we don't see often called a sun starts to make a more known presence. This can also be know as the resurgence of spring time. That doesn't quite signify the spring for sports fans. For many of us including me, you know it's that time of the year when you're sweating it out, picking 12th seeded Davidson over 3rd seeded Maryland to get into the El

Washington Nationals left fielder Bruce Harper went yard twice on Opening Day.  What record did Harper set?

This video is awesome.  A blinded Pittsburgh native, Jeremy Feldbusch, threw out the first pitch on Opening Day for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

A brief muse on Opening Day.

The Yankees beat the Tigers, 6-3 on Opening Day.  There are a few very positive signs for the 2011 Yankees already.

So tomorrow is opening day.  The day when everyone is 0-0.  When everyone has a chance...Except the Pirates.  They're pretty much screwed.  I'd put money on the Expos making the playoffs before the Pirates. But everyone else has a chance! 162 games plus playoffs, seven months, four hundred thousand pounds of sunflower seeds, two million feet of bubble tape and more than a few cans of Skoal from no