Melissa Segura: Nationals hope DiPuglia brings Red Sox sheen to Latin operations
Another critical piece of the Washington Nationals efforts to rebuild their operations abroad was put into place Wednesday afternoon when Boston Red Sox Latin American coordinator Johnny DiPuglia...
View ArticleMelissa Segura: Cuban defector Aroldis Chapman remains a mystery -- and a risk
What's it worth? Aroldis Chapman had tossed the question around in his mind more times than he could count. What was it worth to leave everything he had ever known for all that he didn't, he would...
View ArticleMelissa Segura: Alderson outlines plans for improving MLB's Dominican operation
The Dominican Republic's talent pool of baseball players is as deep as it is polluted. The heartwarming, rags-to-riches narratives of players like Pedro Martinez and Vladimir Guerrero who escaped...
View ArticleMelissa Segura: No-hitter lifts Ubaldo Jimenez out of baseball obscurity
Before taking the mound last Saturday night in Atlanta for the game that would change his professional life, Colorado pitcher Ubaldo Jimenez felt different, and not in a good way. He was sleepy and...
View ArticleMelissa Segura: MLB's silence on immigration law puzzling and disappointing
All it took was three little letters: L-O-S. With that change to the front of their jerseys during the NBA playoffs this week, the Phoenix Suns became "Los Suns" and Arizona's basketball franchise let...
View ArticleMelissa Segura: Dempsey's upbringing in Naco-nowhere led to U.S. dream
NACOGDOCHES, Texas -- Soccer makes Victor Rivera sick, and this is a man who once made sure that every minute he wasn't selling tacos he was coaching soccer, and when he wasn't coaching soccer he was...
View ArticleMelissa Segura: Gracemont (Okla.) helps save its school by adding football...
Jeremy Scott knew everyone in the room would think he was crazy. Hell, he even thought he was crazy as he stood in May 2010 to address the Gracemont, Okla., school board. Scott was a newcomer to...
View ArticleMelissa Segura: Economic considerations at heart of Carmona's decision
By now, the Fausto Carmona and player-to-be-named-later jokes have been told and the pitcher's mug shot has circulated around the web yet questions still remain. Carmona, the Cleveland Indians pitcher...
View ArticleMelissa Segura: Player litigation ramps up after Seau's death, but it's an...
The phone rang more frequently at Craig Mitnick's Philadelphia-area law offices late in the afternoon on May 2 as news of legendary linebacker Junior Seau's suicide started circulating. On the other...
View ArticleDrafted at 13, how one player changed international signing rules
On a rainy March afternoon, Jimy Kelly squeezes into his seat between the tightly packed tables at La Nueva Espana Restaurant in New York City's Washington Heights neighborhood. The smell of fried...
View ArticleMelissa Segura: Army combatives tournament offers unique arena for...
Army National Guard guardsman Kailey Carlson, a diminutive PhD candidate in psychology who plans to specialize in treating female vets affected by rape and post-traumatic stress syndrome, is being...
View ArticleMelissa Segura: No-hitter lifts Ubaldo Jimenez out of baseball obscurity
Before taking the mound last Saturday night in Atlanta for the game that would change his professional life, Colorado pitcher Ubaldo Jimenez felt different, and not in a good way. He was sleepy and...
View ArticleMelissa Segura: MLB's silence on immigration law puzzling and disappointing
All it took was three little letters: L-O-S. With that change to the front of their jerseys during the NBA playoffs this week, the Phoenix Suns became "Los Suns" and Arizona's basketball franchise let...
View ArticleMelissa Segura: Dempsey's upbringing in Naco-nowhere led to U.S. dream
NACOGDOCHES, Texas -- Soccer makes Victor Rivera sick, and this is a man who once made sure that every minute he wasn't selling tacos he was coaching soccer, and when he wasn't coaching soccer he was...
View ArticleMelissa Segura: Gracemont (Okla.) helps save its school by adding football...
Jeremy Scott knew everyone in the room would think he was crazy. Hell, he even thought he was crazy as he stood in May 2010 to address the Gracemont, Okla., school board. Scott was a newcomer to...
View ArticleMelissa Segura: Economic considerations at heart of Carmona's decision
By now, the Fausto Carmona and player-to-be-named-later jokes have been told and the pitcher's mug shot has circulated around the web yet questions still remain. Carmona, the Cleveland Indians pitcher...
View ArticleMelissa Segura: Player litigation ramps up after Seau's death, but it's an...
The phone rang more frequently at Craig Mitnick's Philadelphia-area law offices late in the afternoon on May 2 as news of legendary linebacker Junior Seau's suicide started circulating. On the other...
View ArticleDrafted at 13, how one player changed international signing rules
On a rainy March afternoon, Jimy Kelly squeezes into his seat between the tightly packed tables at La Nueva Espana Restaurant in New York City's Washington Heights neighborhood. The smell of fried...
View ArticleMelissa Segura: Army combatives tournament offers unique arena for...
Army National Guard guardsman Kailey Carlson, a diminutive PhD candidate in psychology who plans to specialize in treating female vets affected by rape and post-traumatic stress syndrome, is being...
View ArticleMelissa Segura: Catching up with Ronda Rousey
Despite requesting 23,234 words in the Nov. 5 issue of Sports Illustrated (on newsstands now) to explain why and how MMA fighter and armbar specialist Ronda Rousey is the sport's most transcendent...
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