It's been a month and a half since any of our local teams even competed for, let alone won, a championship. And while the Revolution will soon have to get back to work to finally get over the hump and claim their first MLS Cup, they can at least bask in the glow of the SuperLiga title. The tournament, featuring a few MLS teams and a few Mexican teams, came down to the Revs vs.......

"Night game, day game, get in at 5, night game, day game, day game, night game, extra innings, get in at 5." Beat poetry, or Jason Varitek describing the most recent stretch of the Red Sox' schedule? In any case, the brutal road trip and the Minnesota-bullpen-sponsored rebirth are in the rear-view mirror, and only a series with the perpetually underperforming Orioles stands between the Sox and the All-Star Break. Many of the Sox, of......

The happiest Red Sox fans around have to be the ones who stopped watching baseball around 7:30 last night. They would have seen Game 1 of the doubleheader, a 13-3 Sox rout/Home Run Derby. They would have seen the Yankees' nightmarish loss to the Mets. But most importantly, they would have been spared Game 2, in which Atlanta demolished the Sox 14-0. A wild day all around. Game One was a laugher thanks in part......

On a day when Daisuke looked mortal, and the bullpen was in a state of flux, the Red Sox turned to Manny Ramirez to get them out of trouble. And so he did, hitting a 2-run homer in the 4th to give the Sox a 7-5 lead, then a solo shot deep into right to give them their 8-7 win. Daisuke struggled in the first, no thanks to two fielding muffs by Alex Cora Julio......