Topic: Baseball

The Los Angeles Dodgers are far from the first or worst example of the nouveau riche in sports. But their flagrant displays of wealth, and the extent to which they persist, could determine if one of the best franchises in baseball history becomes an ideal model of success once again, or a very expensive joke.

From the clammy doldrums of baseball's dog days, two heroes rise to free-associate, analyze Rick Sutcliffe's understanding of immigration law and herald the arrival of Jeremy Guthrie Whatever.0. What, it's August.

Melky Cabrera is not Manny Ramirez, in any number of ways. But the currently disgraced Giants outfielder could learn a lot about what to do, and what not to do, from his similarly free-spirited big league predecessor.

Beep Baseball is the modified version of baseball for the visually impaired, and the Beep Baseball World Series is, yes, its answer to the World Series. But even at an event that's chock-full of sportsmanship and charitable feeling—what's more wholesome than a baseball tourney sponsored by an Iowa Lions club?—there was a little rivalry, some jingoism, and a dash of chest-thumping sports bluster.