Dave Martinez

Bobby Valentine has a better guess where he'll be Thursday than the Yankees do. Bobby V, who has posted fewer Vs than any Red Sox manager since Billy Herman in 1965, figures to be on the other end of a phone call summoning him to a meeting with the...

[Down the stretch is a daily Orioles Insider blog that will set up the coming night for the O's and their American League competition as the push for the postseason continues.] About last night O's drop first game of road trip to A's Betemit (wrist)...

The only luxury manager Robin Ventura had during the Twins' 18-9 humbling of his White Sox on Tuesday night was pulling most of his starters by the sixth inning in preparation for Wednesday's series finale. "We'll forget this game and play tomorrow,"...

LAKESIDE, Calif. -- Sheriff's homicide detectives made a public appeal Tuesday for information in the shooting death of an El Capitan High School student whose burned-out car was found at the Barona Indian Reservation. Christopher Carioscia, 17,...

Scott Tarnow and Jerry Murray's proposed golf practice facility at Newport Harbor High remains in the planning stages. Tarnow, Newport's boys' and girls' golf coach and assistant coach Murray, have submitted multiple proposals to school administrators,...

Carlos De La Cruz bought his first gun several months ago. The husband, father and new homeowner wanted to protect all of the above, fearing more crime in these trying economic times. He says, "When you lose a job, a lot of people lose their minds and...

Area pawn shop owners are protesting a bill they say is "bad for business." It would cap interest rates at 36 percent nationwide, significantly reducing pawn shop profits. It happens every recession: business at pawnshops increases. Managers at American...

The power-heavy White Sox were pounded Thursday by an exceptional rookie. Veteran Javier Vazquez failed to erase questions about his malaise on big stages. And for all their experience, the Sox failed to rattle the mind-set of a young and confident...

Even the uniform had to come out of retirement, but there was No. 22, throwing with the same smooth motion that carried Jim Palmer to the Hall of Fame. Only the velocity had been changed.Palmer didn't push it, and he didn't have to. He showed up at Twin...

Maybe it was the disguises. One game into a series that was 91 years in the making and the White Sox still must be wondering when the Cubs are coming to Comiskey Park. And who was that sure-handed, fleet-footed team in the all-blue uniforms? With left-...

The sounds of old Comiskey Park were resurrected Tuesday night at the ballpark across the street from where the proud, old stadium once stood. Often criticized as a sterile, lifeless park, new Comiskey came alive on cue before the largest regular-...

Up is down. East is west. Black is white. In a through-the-looking-glass experience that would have made the late Paul Richards proud, the White Sox put away the Cubs with pitching and defense. Wilson Alvarez may not go down in Chicago folklore alongside...