Should the Twins Trade Joe Mauer?

Fantasy Baseball: Pitchers are generally riskier than hitters, but in 2009, players such as Jose Reyes, David Wright and Josh Hamilton showed that hitters could be risky as well. So if you plan to have at least two of the following 24 pitchers on your team, it may be worth your while to look…

It’s official. Europe has no culture. Well, except for David Beckham. People can say that Americans are fat, lazy and ignorant of the world around us. That may or may not be fair. But thanks to British poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy penning an ode to David Beckham, there is no longer anybody…

A few weeks ago, I got accepted to study yoga with Richard Freeman, a master Ashtanga instructor who I highly respect. He only trains 40 or so students a year, out of Shiva knows how many who apply. From what I can tell, the ones who receive the special rose have either been studying yoga for a…

Mikan drills.  I did them forever.  Left hand.  Right hand.  Off one foot.  Off the other.  The narrative I pursued was clear.  I first rolled a ball on the floor.  Then I learned to catch and pass, dribbled up and down the driveway with my head buried like an ostrich, but then, like a…

I love the Huffington Post. I really do. HuffingtonPost.com is definitely one of SportsChat’s most frequently visited pages. There is no denying its presence in the national consciousness.

And in this business there is no need for enemies. We should all just agree to be “frenemies.”

But if…

The questions of how the core four of the New York Yankees compare to other groups of four players who played together for ten or more years, which was discussed here last week, raises the question of what was the greatest threesome of all time to have played together for ten or more years. …

It is generally a good idea to wait on catchers, a volatile position that can change substantially from year to year. Catchers are injury-prone and unlikely to play more than 135 games or so. Once you get past the top tiers, most of the catchers in the second half of the top 12 have equivalent…

As part of his continuing quest to make some chump change by taking a beating from Herschel Walker, Jose Canseco posted this picture of him eating with Strikeforce match-maker  Rich Chou and CEO Scott Coker at PF Changs in Pleasanton, CA to his Twitter feed. While ostensibly the idea behind the…