Tim Floyd suddenly resigned as basketball coach at Southern California on Tuesday following allegations that he gave $1,000 in cash to a man who helped steer former star player O.J. Mayo to the Trojans.

Of types of pitchers I find a certain fascination in the sinkerballer, who can somehow throw a large part of pitching strategy and deception out the window and just throw the pitch one after the other.

avid Ortiz turned on A.J. Burnett’s 95-mile-per-hour fastball and pounded it into the center-field seats for a two-run homer. It was the kind of pitch that Ortiz has missed often this season because his bat speed has been lacking

Anthony Swarzak had yet to make his major league debut last month, when the Twins' road struggles started to become glaring.

No, Rivera is not going to set the world on fire, but he is a steady hitter who is putting up better numbers than the likes of Magglio Ordonez, Hideki Matsui, Elijah Dukes, Milton Bradley, Chris Young and David Ortiz.