– What a difference a year makes. – (SportsNetwork.com) – Baltimore Orioles manager Buck Showalter hopes to add a third Manager of the Year Award to his mantel on Tuesday when the Baseball Writers’ Association of America continues to dole out its postseason honors. Showalter seems to win one of …

Washington, DC (SportsNetwork.com) – Minnesota Vikings defensive end Spencer Nealy will have the start of his 2014 season cut short. “Spencer Nealy of the Minnesota Vikings has been suspended without pay for the first four games of the 2014 regular season for violating the NFL policy on performance enhancing substances,” …

Manchester, England (SportsNetwork.com) – David Silva has signed a new five- year contract with Manchester City to remain with the reigning Premier League champions until 2019, it was announced Tuesday. Silva joined City from Valencia in 2010 and has guided the Citizens to two Premier League titles, the FA Cup …

Boston, MA (SportsNetwork.com) – Jake Arrieta flirted with a perfect game in his last outing and followed that up by coming four outs away from his first career no-hitter on Monday. Arrieta (5-1) threw a career-high 120 pitches and allowed just one hit and a walk with 10 strikeouts over …

Wisconsin’s battle over the union label continues to resonate nationwide. Lefties complain about conservative funders David and Charles Koch in often obscene fashion, making juvenile plays on their last name and prank calls like troublesome children. The so-called mainstream media are heavily invested in that strategy, calling the Koch brothers …

Even though Congress and the president have yet to agree on a level of spending for fiscal 2011, the debate in Washington is starting to shift to other fiscal issues. Today’s release of the House Budget Committee chairman’s fiscal 2012 budget proposal is likely to spur much more substantive discussion …

Here is my list of five things you should not say to a pregnant woman in ascending order: Number 5: Don’t tell us how fat or out of shape you feel. We’re packing at least 25 extra pounds as we deal with nausea, back pain, swelling, and a host of …

It has been four days since we learned that the infamous Usama bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda and the most wanted man in the world has been killed. I would like to thank the brave United States Navy SEALS. As an American-Muslim woman, I am happy that justice …

As President Obama prepares to welcome Chinese President Hu Jintao to the White House this week, China is debuting new military capabilities and issuing threats of an arms race with Japan. When Hu arrives on January 19, he and Obama will discuss East Asian hotspots, including North Korea’s nuclear program …

Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has it right. The so-called “Gang of Six” proposal to increase the debt ceiling is “not ready for prime time.” The extremely short document is vague, and if six Senators can’t agree on what the individual income and corporate tax rates are going …