Rick Reed, 59, has been running around the fields of Toledo for the last few days, trying to prove he’s still a major league umpire after a stroke in May 2008 took him off the field and another stroke last February seemingly slammed the door on his 27-year MLB career as an umpire and crew […]

Sam Young, the former Pittsburgh Panthers basketball star who isn’t DeJuan Blair, is getting ready for the June 25 NBA Draft. In preparation for his possible picking, Sam has been trying out with different teams.

One of those teams was the Toronto Raptors. While working out with the Canadian club last weekend (man, I could sure […]

It was billed as the hockey playoff series everyone wanted to see, and for six games it was. With three overtimes in that spell — and two other games that easily could have been pushed into extra frames, too — the Capitals-Penguins second rounder felt like an instant classic heading into Game 7. All it […]