The Year in Sanity: Jim Joyce
His blown call cost Armando Galarraga a perfect game. But from the moment he realized his mistake, he was golden
Wednesday, Oct 13, 2010 1:15 AM UTC 10News The Year in Sanity
King Kaufman
News The Year in Sanity
Why I’m against baseball’s instant replay
The technology won't necessarily rob the game of heart, but it definitely won't fix what's wrong
Monday, Oct 11, 2010 7:44 PM UTC 21Life Baseball
Hard times? TV can be your lottery ticket
If you can get your sob story on the tube, you're gold. But what about the other millions of desperate Americans?
Thursday, Aug 5, 2010 7:06 PM UTCLife Great Recession
Worst! Calls! Ever!
Slide show: Umpire Jim Joyce's error ruined Armando Galarraga's perfect game. How does it stack up against history?
Friday, Jun 4, 2010 1:04 AM UTC 40Life Baseball, Slide Shows, slideshow
Remembering Ernie Harwell
To know the longtime voice of the Detroit Tigers, through the radio or in person, was to love him
Wednesday, May 5, 2010 11:01 AM UTC 13News R.I.P., Baseball
The unmystical joy of playing catch
Monuments of purple prose have been built to fathers and sons tossing the ball. The truth: It's just plain fun
Tuesday, Apr 20, 2010 4:21 PM UTC 31Life Parenting, Baseball, Fatherhood
Great comebacks in history
His Masters revival is nothing new. From King Tut to Elvis to Mickey Rourke, some big returns through the ages
Wednesday, Apr 7, 2010 3:01 PM UTC 21Life Tiger Woods, Celebrity, Golf
Neifi Perez: Bad baseball Hall of Famer
He played abysmally, infuriated fans and tested positive for drugs. Yet I went from ridiculing him to admiring him
Tuesday, Mar 30, 2010 12:35 AM UTC 41Entertainment Baseball, Nonfiction, Books
Why this column has been so quiet
Because, like a lot of things in this business, it's shutting down. But this isn't a sad story. These are exciting times.
Wednesday, Apr 15, 2009 11:00 AM UTC 138Entertainment
The genius of Yogi Berra
Biographer Allen Barra talks about his new book, in which the lovable, quotable old catcher comes off as intelligent, shrewd and decent.
Wednesday, Mar 25, 2009 11:00 AM UTC 32Entertainment Baseball
NCAA Tournament, Day 2 — live!
Another 16 goes down, but not without a fight, in a great afternoon of basketball.
Friday, Mar 20, 2009 10:05 PM UTCEntertainment Basketball
NCAA Tournament, Day 1 — live!
If you want to understand America, you don't have to watch all this basketball. But it helps.
Thursday, Mar 19, 2009 11:15 PM UTC 15Entertainment Basketball, College basketball
Tracy Ringolsby on the death of his newspaper
The Hall of Fame baseball writer quickly fires up a blog in the wake of the Rocky Mountain News' demise. "I never felt the Internet was a threat."
Friday, Mar 13, 2009 11:00 AM UTC 11Entertainment Baseball
The All-Withdrawal team
Give me the guys who've pulled out and I can rule the World. Baseball Classic, that is.
Wednesday, Mar 4, 2009 12:00 PM UTCEntertainment Baseball
Best! Game! Ever! Played!
The trend in sports books is to claim that a single contest changed the course of history. Sure it did.
Thursday, Feb 26, 2009 12:00 PM UTC 27Entertainment Football, Basketball, Baseball
Show us the damn dead people!
Academy Awards viewers get a little taste of the kind of coverage sports fans loathe.
Monday, Feb 23, 2009 5:20 PM UTC 20Entertainment
A-Rod’s “medicine”
Alex Rodriguez doesn't seem to come fully clean, but without fear of baseball's draconian punishments, he offers something in short supply in the war on drugs: Information.
Wednesday, Feb 18, 2009 12:00 PM UTC 42Entertainment Drugs, Baseball
Favre retires — this is not a drill
It appears the future Hall of Famer is going to keep trying until he gets it right.
Wednesday, Feb 11, 2009 9:15 PM UTC 13Entertainment Football, Peyton Manning
Last clean player, please bring the flag
Knowing about Alex Rodriguez's positive steroid test from 2003 changes nothing, but get out your torches and pitchforks anyway.
Monday, Feb 9, 2009 12:00 PM UTC 58Entertainment Baseball
Kurt Warner, Hall of Famer?
In the wake of his third fine Super Bowl performance, the readers write about that and other big-game subjects.
Wednesday, Feb 4, 2009 12:00 PM UTC 44Entertainment Football, Super Bowl
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King Kaufman joined Salon in 1997 as its first copy chief. Its first copy editor, too. Over the years he has had various writing and editing jobs, most notably typing a sports column from 2002 through 2009. Before coming to Salon, he spent seven years at the San Francisco Examiner,
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