The New York Yankees and Minnesota Twins have started trade talks involving Johan Santana. Yankees senior vice president Hank Steinbrenner said Monday that discussions are ongoing but it was too early to tell whether they would lead to a deal. He did not detail how far talks had progressed.
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Major league pitcher Joe Kennedy died early Friday morning while at home with his family in Florida, agent Damon Lapa confirmed to ESPN.com. The cause of Kennedy’s death could not immediately be determined, Lapa said.
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Baseball superstar Barry Bonds was charged Thursday with perjury and obstruction of justice for allegedly lying when he said he did not use performance-enhancing drugs. The indictment, unsealed Thursday by federal prosecutors in San Francisco, is the culmination of a four-year federal probe into whether he lied under oath…
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Jake Peavy was a unanimous winner of the NL Cy Young Award on Thursday after leading the league in wins, ERA and strikeouts — pitching’s version of a Triple Crown….
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Barry Bonds, who holds two of baseball
s most cherished records, was indicted in San Francisco today on four counts of perjury in connection with his testimony about his use of performance-enhancing drugs.
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#2: Darren Dreifort, Dodgers (5 years, $55 million!) - L.A. rewarded its young (29 at the time) righty with this deal in the winter of 2000 — despite a 39-45 career record with a 4.28 ERA. Dreifort responded with one full season — as a reliever, in ‘04 — nine wins, 15 losses, one save, […]
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Eleven current free agents will be named in former Senator George Mitchell’s report on steroids use in baseball and all 11 players have been notified by the commissioner’s office, The Boston Globe reported on its Web site Thursday afternoon.
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In a move many Astros fans have wanted since Game 5 of the 2005 National League Championship Series, closer Brad Lidge was traded Wednesday night, going to the Philadelphia Phillies in a five-player deal that brought former University of Houston speedster Michael Bourn home.
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Manager Terry Francona wants Mike Lowell to remain with Boston. So does re-signed pitcher Curt Schilling, who’s used his personal blog to stump for the World Series MVP’s return. The one ally Lowell needs in his corner is Theo Epstein.No worries there. Epstein is busy at the general managers’ meetings in Orlando, Fla., trying to […]
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Major League Baseball has apparently switched DRM clearinghouses. As a result, some fans are stuck with DRMed footage that they purchased, but are unable to watch because their licenses can’t be verified.
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"We started working on developing the site back in October 2004," Kevin Rose told ZDNet "We started toying around with the idea a couple of months prior to that, but it was early October when we actually started creating what would become the beta version of digg. The site launched to the world on December 5th 2004."
Kevin Rose's friend David Prager (The Screen Savers, This Week in Tech) originally wanted to call the site “Diggnation”, but Kevin wanted a simpler name. He chose the name "Digg", because users are able to "dig" stories, out of those submitted, up to the front page. The site was called “Digg” instead of “Dig” because the domain name “dig.com” was previously registered. “Diggnation” would eventually be used as the title of Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht's weekly podcast.