Rob Manfred

WILD IRISH (PETE) ROSE You wonder if Pete Rose didn’t get a jump on his St. Patrick’s Day celebrating when he petitioned Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred for reinstatement. Rose, MLB’s all-time leader...

A COOL BUD Baseball’s spring training is underway and the sport is under the auspices of a new commissioner. As teams get in shape and reshape their rosters for the rigors ahead, baseball itself...

  College Basketball Duke University coach Mike Krzyzewski reached a marvelous milestone never before achieved in men’s college basketball. When his team knocked off St. John’s 77-68 at a sold-out Madison Square Garden in...

  Major League Baseball managed, in one day, to name a successor to Commissioner Bud Selig. It wasn’t a first-ballot smash for Rob Manfred, MLB’s chief operating officer, but in the end he got...

  If there has been campaigning, we didn’t see any ads on TV. Perhaps it has all been done quietly, and with some propriety. The election? It’s for commissioner of Major League Baseball. Thirty...