After a 10-week trial the jury took just over 10 hours to find Roger Clemens not guilty on all charges that he obstructed and lied to Congress when he denied using performance-enhancing drugs....

This is a work of imaginative fiction. Courts determine guilt or innocence. ** A gavel pounds out its steady cadence, the sound echoing through a packed courtroom nestled between two clouds and...

The Federal Government, whose batting average has dipped well below the "Mendoza Line" when it comes to prosecuting cases involving high-profile athletes, will step into the batter's box on Monday,...

In 2004 Frank McCourt bought the Los Angeles Dodgers for a little over $430 million, most of it with debt-ridden loans. He then proceeded to: drive the team into bankruptcy while driving away fans...

As you know, SB Nation has embarked upon a video adventure with Google / YouTube. You will see some of this in the not too distant future right here on Barking Carnival. Aside: We are currently...

A coda to the world series from a distraught Rangers fan.

The Rangers have a better-balanced, more talented team overall, but the Cardinals have three distinct advantages: (1) Chris Carpenter; (2) Tony LaRussa; and (3) a better bench. Saint Loo used all...

There is no biographical information on Nelson Cruz’s Wikipedia page. Just a name, a date of birth and a chronological listing of his baseball career. I don’t know anything about his family....

This is why the Texas Rangers are going to be so damn hard to beat in the postseason. For one thing, the bullpen is a bottomless well of asphyxiating filth. That Whatasizes narrow Ranger leads...

Time is short, but I wanted to put in a few quick words before first pitch in the Texas/Tampa ALDS. Since there's a beer vendor that desperately needs my attention, I'll leave most of the data...

Come on skinny love just last the year Pour a little salt we were never here My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my Staring at the sink of blood and crushed veneer I tell my love to wreck it all Cut out...

Koji Uehara hails from Osaka, Japan. Mike Adams was born in Corpus Christi but grew up in Sinton, Texas, both of which, according to the Googleplexer, are a long fungo and 6,700 miles in a kayak...

This is where I thought the Rangers stood going into the last week before the non-waiver trading deadline, which strikes at 3 p.m. CT on Sunday: By most accounts, the Rangers are poised to make m...

If you don't get this, then you don't get sports, and you probably don't have a son. War Bruce Bochy for offering the kid a beer during his crossroads moment. Not to put too fine a point on it,...