A week ago, pitcher Jack Morris was tired of talking about the baseball Hall of Fame. He was grateful to be on the ballot, but, after 12 years with a vote total that seemed to be going nowhere, he didn't know what else to say about his candidacy.
To mark the start of the baseball postseason, I've put together this postseason quiz, which is both a short test about baseball in October and an homage to pitcher-poet Dan Quisenberry, whose nickname might well have been Postseason Quiz, given how often his Royals made the playoffs -- four times in six seasons -- in the days when such a thing was still possible in Kansas City.
Senate Republicans have an internal memo from the Department of Homeland Security that they say shows the Obama administration "conspiring" and "scheming" to allow millions of illegal immigrants to stay and work in the United States.
In the wake of Congress' $787 billion economic stimulus bill and $700 billion TARP bailout legislation, fiscal conservatives are ringing alarm bells over how much Washington is spending beyond incoming revenue. The federal budget deficit is expected to reach $1.56 trillion this fiscal year, up from a record $1.41 trillion in fiscal 2009, according to the Treasury Department.
CNN's Dan Lothian reports on the growing deficit and the Obama administration's reaction to it.
So you are no doubt asking: What the heck is going on here? Another perfect game? These used to be the rarest of feats. Perfect games used to be like solar eclipses and cheerful Pearl Jam songs. Now, they happen about as often as 100-degree days in Arizona. It's strange. One of the few joyous moments of my sports childhood happened in 1981 when Cleveland's Len Barker threw a perfect game against Toronto. It made the Cleveland Indians the centerpiece of baseball for a while, because no pitcher had thrown a perfect game in 13 years and no pitcher would throw a perfect game for three years afterward. Lenny Barker got to be famous for a while.
CNN's Chuck Conder talks with two highly educated Census workers and why they took the temporary jobs.
Extended unemployment benefits will temporarily expire for thousands of Americans on Monday because the Senate went on its spring recess without approving a one-month deadline extension.
Extended jobless benefits will run out for at least 212,000 Americans out of work after April 5 because the Senate closed up shop Friday afternoon without a deal to extend filing deadlines.
On the eve of a two-week spring recess, the Senate found itself embroiled again over the issue of a short-term extension of unemployment benefits and other programs.
Times were tough for Joe Orr, but he was keeping family afloat.
An Atlanta man struggles to make ends meet after losing his unemployment benefits.
The Senate voted Tuesday to pass a $10 billion measure to extend benefits for unemployed workers and fund road projects after Sen. Jim Bunning agreed to end his filibuster.
We get a look at Senator Jim Bunning's political career through the eyes of his constituents. CNN's Ed Lavandera reports.
Sen. Jim Bunning was called one of the nation's five worst U.S. senators by Time magazine in 2006 and as a baseball player became one of the few pitchers to anger Mickey Mantle enough to make him charge the mound.
Sen. Jim Bunning's decision to block a bill extending unemployment benefits was a smack in the face to struggling Americans across the country.
CNN's Don Lemon talks to six retiring congressmen on the role of bipartisanship in Washington.
After days of intense infighting, the Senate voted late Tuesday night to extend the deadline for the jobless to apply for extended unemployment benefits. Several hours later, President Obama signed the measure.
Top Democrats tore into one of their Republican counterparts Monday for blocking an extension of unemployment benefits that would provide assistance to millions of jobless Americans.
Michelle Bachelet: The president of Chile was born in Santiago in 1951. Her Web biography tells a remarkable story. The mother of three children is trained as a doctor, with graduate studies in military sciences.
President Michelle Bachelet address her country after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake.
Department of Transportation secretary Ray LaHood on Monday blamed a senator's filibuster for furloughing thousands of federal employees and threatening state jobs while shutting down highway construction projects nationwide.
Depending on extended unemployment benefits to see you through the Great Recession?
The Senate adjourned Friday without approving extensions of cash and health insurance benefits for the unemployed after a lone senator blocked swift passage due to his insistence that Congress first pay for the $10 billion package.
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke moved a step closer to keeping his job on Thursday as a Senate Banking committee voted to confirm his nomination.
Sen. Arlen Specter's decision to leave the Republican Party in April handed President Obama a key vote in the Senate, and Specter was rewarded by quickly being endorsed by the president and Democratic leaders in his bid for re-election next year.
Mark Buerhle joined one of baseball's most elite clubs on Thursday afternoon in Chicago -- the Zeros-Only Gang of 18 whose members have each put together 27 consecutive outs in a winning ballgame (sorry, Harvey Haddix). It's an elite club, but not limited to elite pitchers. In fact, Buerhle, a good-but-not-great hurler, slots fairly neatly into the middle ranks of the roster of perfectos.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was back on the Supreme Court bench Monday in her first public appearance since undergoing surgery for pancreatic cancer February 5.
A Senate panel recommended that the full Senate confirm Tim Geithner as the next Treasury secretary.
Here's my theory: Most sports fans are formed by the most cataclysmic or euphoric sporting event of their childhood. I am the sports fan that I am today because four days before my 14th birthday, with the Cleveland Browns in field-goal range, Sam Rutigliano called a play called Red Right 88, and Brian Sipe threw an interception against the Oakland Raiders. Then Brian put his hand in his face, and he stumbled off the field, and Rutigliano said, "I love you Brian," and I was wrecked forever.
For the second time this year, the government is considering the use of taxpayer money to rescue private companies. Sen. Jim Bunning warns of creeping socialism, but he seems to have found few allies. As financial skeptic James Grant recently mused, Why no outrage?
Will he stay or will he go?
A Senate committee approved a five-year, $35 billion expansion of a children's health insurance program that would be financed through higher tobacco taxes
The Senate immigration compromise was effectively killed Thursday, failing to pass a critical procedural hurdle.
Environmental groups say the vote on three key amendments will determine their support of the Democrat-backed measure
The Senate voted 95-2 Wednesday to approve Robert Gates as President Bush's choice to replace Donald Rumsfeld as defense secretary.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke admitted Tuesday to Congress that he made a mistake talking to a television reporter about market perception of his inflation-fighting credentials.
One of the harshest critics of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan in the Senate isn't much happier with the man nominated to succeed him, Ben Bernanke.
Marvin Miller is the man who brought labor work stoppages, millionaire players and free agency to the world of professional sports, three things for which many fans will never forgive him.
Republican challenger John Thune beat Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, adding a South Dakota Senate seat to GOP gains in Georgia, Florida, Louisiana and the Carolinas.
Republican Jim Bunning almost watched an insurmountable lead disappear against Dr. Daniel Mongiardo, his Democratic challenger.
Sen. John Kerry and President Bush stump within minutes and miles of each other today in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a final reminder on the final day of campaign 2004 of just how small this dead-heat race can feel.
Sen. Jim Bunning said his wife was "black and blue" after his opponent's staff physically assaulted her at a summer picnic -- a charge his rival called "outrageous."
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told a Senate panel Tuesday the economy is strong and that the risk of inflation appears to be in check, comments that reinforce the broad market belief the Fed will slowly raise interest rates in the year ahead.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Federation of Independent Businessmen and the National Taxpayers Union all have given Senator Jesse Helms excellent ratings. But MONEY doesn't agree? How ...
Talk about serendipity. We have just spent hours hovering over the congressional debate on ''family leave'' and come away with one genuinely interesting fact: Jim Bunning hit 160 batters during his...
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