Dan McGrath

ESPN's Peter Gammons is as infatuated with baseball as he was his first day on the job at the Boston Globe more than 35 years ago. That enthusiasm has been...

Three Nights in August By Buzz Bissinger Houghton Mifflin, 280 pages, $25 Tony La Russa has been a major-league baseball manager for 26 uninterrupted seasons. A five-time manager of the...

Officer Quinn was a very happy man on Saturday. My South Side brother-in-law has been an unabashed White Sox fan for the 30-plus years I have known him, and he...

The big question going into Saturday's Chicago regional final: Which team will have anything left? Illinois won its semifinal by 14 points but had to play hard for all 40...

Actress Ashley Judd, Kentucky's most celebrated backer, is writing a guest column for the Lexington Herald Leader during the tournament. Saturday she revealed she's day-to-day with the flu, "the nasty...

Nobody in the locker room mentioned the "B" word after Notre Dame's 24-23 loss to Boston College on Saturday, perhaps because it was too painful. A victory would have left...

Ralph Wiley could be intimidating--he knew what he knew and he wasn't afraid to say so. But that's not it. He was smart and eerily insightful, capable of seeing things...

Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero By Leigh Montville Doubleday, 513 pages, $26.95 Leigh Montville was one of the country's most accomplished sports journalists during his lengthy career...

I'm a sucker for baseball books, and I happen to have come across two exceptional ones in the past few weeks: "The Ticket Out: Darryl Strawberry and the Boys of...

Feel good? By all means. Sappy? Not in the slightest. "Miracle," the cinematic saga of the U.S. hockey team's improbable march to the 1980 Olympic gold medal, is two solid...