Human Element

College basketball has determined that three-tenths of a second, while a barely blinkable unit of time, is enough to…

The Marlins tonight won their 59th game of the season, over the Phillies, no thanks to this call at first by umpire…

This is ridiculous. Whatever your thoughts on decorum in baseball or whatever, one of the games best players should…

And it was Jerry Meals! And, say, he's done this sort of thing before!

We're torn about this play in the second half of tonight's Gold Cup match between the United States and Costa Rica.…

Umpiring comes with all sorts of occupational hazards, not the least being that a catcher might just whiff on a…

When we profiled umpire Tony Randazzo last year, we noted he had an "aggressive attitude." That aggression was on…

Chicago White Sox announcer Ken "Hawk" Harrelson was obviously a little high-strung yesterday when Chicago had bases…

This is not a double play. It would've been, probably, if Texas Rangers first baseman Mitch Moreland caught the ball…

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A 49-year-old high school umpire, who witnesses say was "visibly under the influence," is in custody in an Illinois…

Well, what do you know? MLB has not only decided to swing its shithammer at the crew that screwed up a basic rules…

In some bizarre way, the terrible call Angel Hernandez made in Cleveland is a great argument for more video replay…

Madness in Indy: Andrew Luck had the most single-game passing yards ever for a rookie with 433 (and two touchdowns…

Either that referee really didn't want to seem like he had a conflict of interest by high-fiving a player from one…

The NBA released a video yesterday of all the flops that they officially consider flops now that the NBA is…

As many have noted, two weeks ago, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution asked Chipper Jones what he thought of the…

Like the call that handed the Seahawks the win over the Packers two Mondays ago, the ruling in the Braves-Cardinals…

It was bound to happen. Call it Murphy's Law of Contrarian Journalism. Two weeks back, it was ESPN's Darren Rovell…