Nearly three weeks into this fledging baseball season, Jerry Manuel’s New York Mets are indeed a force to be reckoned with … The Philadelphia Phillies enter play Friday with their best start since 1993 … In my last column, I promised that the Rockies would be winning all of their games.

Damn, it feels good to be a Yankees fan. … The Red Sox are a proud organization blessed with a storied tradition in American baseball.

This past Saturday night CBS aired a Strikeforce fight show. Strikeforce is a small promotion trying to make a splash in the Mixed Martial Arts market that has all but been monopolized by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).

Last Sunday, March 28, 2010, the 25-year professional wrestling career of the Heartbreak Kid (HBK), Shawn Michaels came to an end.

Catch as catch can wrestling, or catch, is the real sport that professional wrestling evolved from. Wrestlers used to have to know how to be entertainers and wrestle in order to become professionals, but that is not the case anymore. If you’re a tough body builder with athleticism, you do not need to have actual wrestling skill.

It may come as a shock to many that wrestling was at one point the most popular sport in the country, that it was not always what you see on television today, and that it actually used to be an athletic competition pitting the toughest people in the world against each other.

In the wake of the Binghamton University basketball program’s fall from grace over the past year, a group of university faculty members are collecting signatures to press the school to drop its Division I athletics status.

In years past, finding more than a couple thousand Stony Brook students who even know the names of more than one player on the basketball team was probably an exercise in futility. But this wasn’t a normal year, and as that number of fans packed a raucous a Stony Brook University Arena on March 18, things seemed to be different for once.