All-Star Game and lifesaver extraordinaire. Yup, Bryce Harper is the second coming. Once upon a time, MLB players held jobs in the offseason. The good ones owned local businesses—car dealerships and the like—the not-so-good ones dug graves. But now that the owners and the union have thoroughly streamlined the process of separating …

Help Bryce get into the All Star game [vote] Where’s the money? [candidates call it in] CPAC kid no longer CPAC proud [ruh-roh] Mayor is pissed [we can do better] By Scott Ableman  

Although President Obama’s first pitch at the All Star game wasn’t as bad as this one, Jonathan Papelbon was still not terribly impressed. "That was what, a split he threw?” Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon said. "He almost spiked it there, which I don’t think is very good. If you’re …

Barack Obama will be adding baseball broadcaster to his résumé. SI.com learned Sunday that the President will join Fox Sports announcers Joe Buck and Tim McCarver during Tuesday’s All-Star Game. Obama is expected to be in the booth sometime between the third and fifth inning. Joey Buck is hoping this …

Every now and then something happens in sports that reminds us all that sometimes those Nike and Gatorade commercials can be real. If you didn’t see what Josh Hamilton did last night at the MLB home run derby, you missed out. A former first round draft pick in 1999, Josh …