Curt Schilling News

Justin Verlander says it's May. Yu Darvish says it's not the first great opposing pitcher he's faced, and won't be his last.

BOSTON WHEN Jon Lester reached the majors in June of 2006, the 22-year-old southpaw joined a starting rotation that included Curt Schilling, Tim Wakefield, David Wells and Josh Beckett - along with the more than 1,700 games, nearly 9,300 innings, nine All-Star nominations and six world championships already between them.

We expect the extraordinary, in many ways, we demand the extraordinary. For "superstar athletes," success and failure has never been more vague.

Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling defended Clay Buchholz from accusation that he used sunblock.

A Yahoo report on Wednesday backed up a claim by Dirk Hayhurst - and according to WEEI, a claim Curt Schilling made as well - that pitchers use sunscreen in combination with rosin to create a substance that gives a strong grip on the baseball.

Just about every Major League team hit the 30 game bench mark over the weekend, and while the MLB season is a marathon not a sprint, 30 games is an adequate sample size to reflect on what we have learned so far.

Yu Darvish is striking out batters at a pace not seen in the American League since Pedro Martinez was in his prime with the Boston Red Sox.

While Robert Downey, Jr. was assaulting the opening weekend box office record of another of his own films, the Diamondbacks took their ailing offense to San Diego.

BOSTON : Coming off a disastrous 69-win 2012, expectations at Fenway were the lowest they have been in a decade.

It didn't exactly have the cacht -- or the sale price -- of the bloody sock worn by former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling , but the Cincinnati Reds gave fans a chance to own another blood-stained piece of baseball memorabilia.

You remember the celebration. Curt Schilling holds a bottle of champagne, yelling into a group of Red Sox ready to explode.

No N.B.A. team has escaped a 3-0 hole to win a best-of-seven postseason series. Then again, no major league baseball team had ever done it, either, until the Boston Red Sox ousted the Yankees in the 2004 American League Championship Series.

Not much fanfare accompanied the 200th win Tim Hudson had recorded in the major leagues on Tuesday night, just like not much fanfare accompanied the 200th win for Roy Halladay two weeks ago.

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It seems like a simple tale -- almost an admirable one: A retired sports star loved video games so much, he wanted to make one of his own.

You have to imagine what it was like being Don Carcieri in the harsh winter of 2010.

After our bats stayed in the freezer last night, we'll be hoping for better from the offense today at Coors Field.