San Francisco had reportedly been a favorite to sign Burnes, who grew up in Bakersfield and attended Saint Mary’s College in ...

NPR's Scott Simon and Howard Bryant of Meadowlark Media recap the year in sports: the ascendance of women's basketball, the Paris Olympics, and the loss of some baseball legends.

Willie Mays. Pete Rose. Fernando Valenzuela. Carl Erskine. And last week, Rickey Henderson. The sports world lost so many ...

Like you, I seldom slow down enough to reflect on the past, at least not in a deep way. But every now and then the past finds ...

Part of what makes baseball the best are the feats and amazing stats accruing left and right, every single day. We chronicle them throughout the year, but there’s no better time than before the ...

Here are sports legends and trailblazers the world lost in 2024. Franz Beckenbauer, 78. He won the World Cup both as a player ...

San Francisco 49ers president of football operations and general manager John Lynch remembered late Oakland Athletics legend ...

A’s president Dave Kaval will resign from the organization after being the public face of the organization’s planned move ...

One of the first big baseball moments I can remember from my childhood is when Rickey Henderson broke Lou Brock's all-time ...

The Detroit Tigers agreed to a 1-year, $15 million deal with former New York Yankees infielder Gleyber Torres.

The last time I saw Rickey Henderson was late September in the Athletics’ clubhouse as the last, sad homestand at the Oakland ...

Rickey Henderson loved baseball. I mean, he loved baseball. He loved baseball so much that I used to imagine him missing his Hall of Fame induction ceremony because he had a game. Rickey played until ...