Sports

 Getting to know the major players of Erie's Minor League Baseball team.

From doodling dinosaurs in grade school to painting as a professional artist with Disney, Erie Celebrity Sports Artist Kevin-John is someone you ought to know.

The LeBron James-led Heat take on the Tim Duncan-led Spurs, as the NBA Finals get underway.

Introducing AK's Take: A new blog series from an everyday dude here to put things in terms we can all understand.

If it weren't for one special man, Erie may never have seen a Ben Speggen or Alex Bieler byline in this fine collection of pressed ink and wood flakes we call the Erie Reader. Meet Frank Garland.

How will the Baseball Writers Association of America evaluate the "Steroid Era" now that Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, and Sammy Sosa are eligible for the Hall of Fame?

Is this Otters skater the NHL's next big thing? Alex Sibley fills us in on the 15-year-old phenom.

Another debate! No, it's not Ted Williams v. Joe DiMaggio...or is it? Jay Stevens opens a can of worms.

Maybe you noticed, maybe you didn?t, but I was away for a good chuck of the summer. At the Olympics, working a contract gig for NBC editing internal newsletters. So I was there, in London, for sport?s biggest pageantry. Here are some thoughts and observations:

Pedaling an average of 80 miles a day, six days a week, for more than two months. She?ll cross at least three mountain ranges -- the Cascades, Rockies, and Appalachians -- climbing 8,000 feet on one particularly difficult leg in Wyoming.

Being a sports fan means being able to root like hell for a team, and paint everything in deliciously simple black-and-white, us-versus-them narratives. It?s fun to pull for teams because it?s simple. Our team is good. Their team is not. We tend to turn a blind eye toward things that complicate our fandom.

The Eerie Roller Girls return to the rink and deliver a whoopin'.

After correctly picking the Super Bowl match-up, Lee's back to weigh in a week before the big game.

With the conference champions to be determined this week, Lee's back and making his locks.

Lee went 3-1 last week. Now it's the Divisional Round and Lee?s back with a whole new batch of pieces.