“Think you’re good?” is the unofficial saying of Major League Table Tennis. It’s the question aimed at every person who’s ever smacked a plastic ball across a rickety table in a basement or a garage.

That famous 1999 Nike commercial asserting that baseball fans dig the longball looks more true now than it has in years. For the first time since 2001, four Major League Baseball players hit more than ...

For the fifth time in the last 10 seasons, the team with MLB's highest payroll has made the World Series. Baseball has a competition problem.