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- Dice-K’s rehab continues to progress as yesterday he took the mound against minor leaguers. He threw about 40 pitches yesterday and is scheduled for a bullpen session Friday and two innings of a minor league game Saturday according to pitching coach John Farrell.

- SS Jed Lowrie has been diagnosed with mononucleosis. He complained of extreme fatigue and went through a battery of tests. He’s working lightly now.

Yes sir, Ron Washington knows how to party.
The Texas Rangers manager said he made a “huge mistake” last season, referring to his past use of cocaine, which was made public Wednesday when Major League Baseball announced that he failed a drug test last summer.
Before apologizing for partying like a rock star, Washington offered to resign [...]

Monday’s contest between the Mariners and the Diamondbacks saw the benches clear and Cliff Lee get ejected for… not knowing how to pitch?
Lee was tossed for supposedly trying to hit Arizona catcher Chris Snyder in the bottom of the third inning. There had been an incident in the first where Snyder ran into Lee, who [...]

Join Mark and Ben as they start previewing Major League Baseball 2010 with the AL and NL East. They’ll also make their early predictions for the NCAA Basketball Tournament.
Plus Mark will do his usual sports world whiparound to cover the other major stories and Ben will keep you up to date with everything happening [...]

After just finishing Beyond Belief, by Josh Hamilton, I can honestly say this is a book for anyone who has ever had to overcome any type of issue in their life or who has seen addiction affect someone they love. Or simply, just for the baseball enthusiast.
Here’s the thing– if you can get through the [...]

Nomar Garciaparra signed a one day minor league deal with the Red Sox today and promptly retired. After thirteen seasons, the 35 year old decided he “had nothing left in the tank.” Given his last two seasons performance, I can see why. His celebrity status around the majors had almost left as soon as he [...]

Mark and Ben are joined this week by our old buddies Rick and Ryan from PigskinAddiction.com. They’ll talk Combine, Draft, Free Agency and GIVE AWAY A FREE COPY OF PA’s FANTASY BASEBALL GUIDE!!!!
Plus Mark will do his usual sports world whiparound to cover the other major stories and Ben will keep you up to [...]

Join Mark and Ben this week as they are joined by Olympic (Nordic) Gold Medalist Billy Demong. They’ll also look back on the Olympics and the NFL Scouting Combine and forward to the rest of the NHL season.
Plus Mark will do his usual sports world whiparound to cover the other major stories and Ben will [...]

That’s all you need to know about third base when it comes to the Arizona Diamondbacks.  Reynolds, who has a knack for making the spectacular plays, has the chance to turn himself into a superstar at the hot corner.  A couple of things though have dogged Reynolds over his first few seasons.  Although he makes [...]

Let’s not get down em yet because they traded away Drabek, Taylor, and D’Arnaud to get Halladay (on top of Marson, Carrasco, and Knapp for Lee previously), the Phils still got some firepower left in their system. An if you think they don’t have pitchers left you’re wrong, they could field an entire rotation with [...]