Harrison, NJ – Harrison, NJ (SportsNetwork.com) – Bradley Wright-Phillips bagged a hat trick on Saturday as the New York Red Bulls rolled to a 4-1 victory over Seattle Sounders FC at Red Bull Arena. Wright-Phillips opened the scoring after just 30 seconds, converted a penalty kick in the 54th minute …

NEW ORLEANS – An arbitrator has sided with the New Orleans Saints in ruling that Jimmy Graham can only be considered a tight end for the purposes of his franchise tag designation. The ruling Wednesday by Stephen Burbank is setback for Graham, agent Jimmy Sexton and the NFL Players Association, …

Arlington, TX (SportsNetwork.com) – Adam Rosales’ game-winning RBI single in the bottom of the ninth gave the Texas Rangers a 3-2 win over the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in a finale of this three-game series. Trailing 2-1 heading into the home ninth, Alex Rios singled off Huston Street (0-1) …

(SportsNetwork.com) – With just two games left in the regular season, the Pirates are assured of a second straight trip to the postseason. Still at stake is the NL Central crown or possibly a wild card home playoff game. Pittsburgh enters this afternoon’s contest in Cincinnati one game behind the …

Are gasoline shortages and lines at the pump just around the corner? Some say it’s 1973 all over again. Or is it? • Yes, we have unrest in the Middle East and oil prices are rising.• No, we don’t have the insane set of price and allocation controls that led …

Finally, the Obama administration has seen the light and has agreed to send the cases of the five 9/11 co-conspirators back to the military tribunal in Gitmo. Of course, they should have left the cases there in the first place. The display Monday by Attorney General Eric Holder, in which …

In a surprising move, the president of the United States took to the podium Wednesday to address an issue he and his staff had long thought was a done deal: to tout the existence of a birth certificate proving that he, in fact, was born in the USA. The reason? …

The long-awaited demise of Usama bin Laden still dominates the news. But the feel-good story of justice finally served will soon have a hard time competing with the feel-bad story of high gas prices. The price of a gallon of gasoline is at $3.98 as of Friday May 6. And …

Two years after President Obama’s inauguration, his administration faces a significant sobriety check with this week’s visit of China’s president followed by President Obama’s State of the Union address next week. At first glance, these two events might appear related only in terms of a coincidence of timing. In fact, …

You know there are severe distortions in the economy when you hear government officials and their media pundits saying things like: “It is a terrible tragedy for the economy that home prices are falling to levels where people can actually afford to buy them.” Of course, they say it in …