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Stephen Strasburg to Opt Out of Contract with Washington Nationals Every year the World Series is won by a team in baseball. Every year, that team is afforded little time before they’re reminded that baseball is a business. The Washington Nationals got their dose of this on the day of the celebratory parade of their championship run. Less than a week after winning the World … [Read more...] about Stephen Strasburg to Opt Out of Contract with Washington Nationals

Free agency changed the very fabric of baseball more than forty years ago. The champions of that battle, Curt Flood and Marvin Miller are ever-fading memories to those of us old enough to remember it. Younger fans are lucky to know anything about it all. But all fans know free agency as a fixture of the game’s reality. And with it come mechanisms unique to the process. … [Read more...] about MLB Free Agency: The Walk Year

At least one person has died and four more were injured as several tornadoes touched down in the Houston area on Saturday, damaging homes and flipping vehicles. … [Read more...] about Tornadoes touch down around Houston, killing 1

Luka Doncic of the Dallas Mavericks is the latest professional athlete whose home has been burglarized. … [Read more...] about Mavs star Luka Doncic is latest pro athlete whose home was burglarized, business manager says

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday apologized to his Azerbaijani counterpart for what he called a "tragic incident" following the crash of an Azerbaijani airliner in Kazakhstan that killed 38 people. … [Read more...] about Putin apologizes to Azerbaijani leader for ‘tragic incident’ involving crashed Azerbaijani plane