Rick Morrissey

Hearing Olympic swimmer Amanda Beard say she posed nude because she wants to celebrate the female athlete's body is like hearing statuesque ESPN broadcaster Erin Andrews say the male athletes...

Baseball brawls serve a purpose, but sometimes the participants do have regrets. During a bench-clearing brawl in 1995, then-White Sox manager Terry Bevington and then-Brewers manager Phil Garner got into...

Kosuke Fukudome doesn't need a translator to know that his batting average has dropped like an anvil. And Cubs manager Lou Piniella doesn't need a translator to tell Fukudome he...

It's not a big deal, Kerry Wood said. Only back spasms. "Same thing I've dealt with my whole career," he said. "Actually, a lot of guys have them." But a...

Do not, under any circumstance, try to find meaning in the decision to make Kyle Orton the starting quarterback in the Bears' exhibition opener Thursday night, coach Lovie Smith had...

Do not, under any circumstance, try to find meaning in the decision to make Kyle Orton the starting quarterback for the Bears' in their exhibition opener Thursday night, coach Lovie...

And so one of the more bizarre stories in American sports history came to its illogical conclusion Tuesday, with the Packers all but showing Brett Favre the door. "They don't...

I get it that boxing is dying. Or at least I get it that boxing is perceived to be dying. We're all in the process of dying. But that simple...

This, friends, is baseball weather. You walk out of your air-conditioned, artificially massaged, man-made weather system and get body-slammed by the humidity at Kauffman Stadium. The heat index, which is...

Ken Williams spotted Ken Griffey Jr. in the White Sox's dugout and smiled. "Welcome to the family," the general manager said, hugging his new center fielder. One of Griffey's family...