"If it was football, baseball, basketball, checkers, card games ... a look at the quarterback. Coach Craig Bohl and his staff were impressed enough to give Allen a scholarship.

Allen, by all accounts from coaches and teammates, has taken on an enhanced leadership role this season in a way he hadn't in the first six years of his NFL career. The two-time All-Pro has approached ...

Bob Uecker was a famously mediocre Major League hitter who discovered that he was much more comfortable at a microphone than home plate. And that was just the start of a second career in entertainment ...

Josh Allen just came along at the wrong time ... I haven’t seen a single Craig Kimbrel rumor this winter. Is he still interested in pitching or is he retiring? Really wish I could tell you.

Once more, for baseball immortality, Billy Wagner closed it out ... Suzuki, Sabathia, and Wagner will be inducted — with late former Phillies slugger Dick Allen and Dave Parker, who got voted in last ...

A major-league baseball ... Craig Kimbrel, Francisco Rodriguez, Joe Nathan, and Jonathan Papelbon aren’t. The first three have more saves than Wagner. Papelbon has a similar ERA+, plus the postseason ...

Stump Mitchell was drafted by St. Louis in 1981, taken in the ninth round after a stellar college career out of The Citadel.

Jack Counsell, a member of Northwestern University’s baseball team and son of Cubs manager Craig Counsell, stands inside the school’s indoor baseball training facility in Evanston, Friday ...

A right-handed bat was among chief baseball officer Craig Breslow and Co.’s biggest needs entering the offseason. Despite losing right-handed slugger Tyler O’Neill in free agency to the ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Mark Allen, who had been Illinois’ pitching coach for the last five seasons, has died. He was 49. Illinois said in a statement Thursday that Allen died Wednesday ...

And while there's not much time left before Spring Training, Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow says that they're still looking to fill that hole. “We’re still very much engaged in ...