City safety rankings coincidentally reflect MLB standings...St. Louis was recently named the Most Dangerous City in the US while Detroit was only in 2nd place. MySpace is not so MySpecial anymore. Online Christmas Shopping could be more costly than playing Spider Solitaire at work. An Oklahoma man was killed in his attempts to scare the Haunted Hayride passengers; we can't say his attempts failed. Vaseline is only one way to make your pumpkin last......

Word is bouncing around New York City that Cuban leader and noted baseball fanatic Fidel Castro has bought the big tobacco farm. On the day of the MLB All-Star game, no less. Net gossip Wonkette reports that the net rumor started with Jonah Goldberg from the National Review Online. She seems skeptical, as are we. But, hey, it's on the internets, so it could be true. Alex Jones scoffs at the report, saying Castro died......

Texas may be out of the College World Series a little early this year, but junior outfielder Drew Stubbs has about a million reasons to celebrate. The Cincinnati Reds selected the three-year starter with the eighth selection in the first round of the MLB draft. The All-American centerfielder leaves having played the second-most number of games in Horns' history. Congrats, Drew. In other Texas-related draft news, Longhorn pitcher Kyle McCulloch was taken by the World......

It's a mad, mad workd out there, folks. And here's the proof... SFist commenters pose for before and aftershocks when the mayor commemorates a 1906 earthquake...at 4:30 in the morning. A hot tip on the Chronicle vending machines comes in and the SFist war correspondent risks life and limb to post this dispatch from the frontlines. Houstonist announces their new Cops spinoff "World's Funniest Tazer Videos" and the possible cancellation of their pervs' "World's Grossest......

"Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack..." The sports gods are smiling on us today. As we wrap up March Madness tonight with the men's basketball championship, we also celebrate the unofficial national holiday known as Opening Day for Major League Baseball. We Seamheads are in wide-eyed excitement in anticipation of six months of the best sport in the world. Lo siento, futbol. And we are even more excited than usual, as our beloved......

After much hemming and hawing and marketing tests, the powers that be have settled on a name and branding concept for Austin’s NBDL team. Ladies and Gentlemen…we present to you the Austin Toros. Team owner David Kahn said the team picked the name because it is multi-layered, meaning it represents the fight and power of a professional sports team while giving a nod to the Latin flavor of its home city. The Austin team......

Major League Baseball has finally decided to go after more than benchwarmers in its search for the truth about steroids in the game. MLB is suspending former Texas Ranger Rafael Palmeiro for 10 games for violating the league’s substance abuse policy. Considering Jose Canseco fingered Palmeiro in his book Juiced as being one of the players he instructed in the ways of steroid use, we doubt seriously that he is being suspended for using......