Tulowitzki agrees to big deal with Rox  —  Colorado to give young shortstop unprecedented extension  —  DENVER — Shortstop Troy Tulowitzki's six-year, $30 million contract extension, the largest ever granted a Major League player with fewer than two years of experience …

Positive reinforcement  —  Fans offer plenty at annual Cubs Convention, but this team has question marks  —  So the optimism is back on the North Side, a suspicion confirmed by the buzz at the Cubs Convention.  —  And that can mean one thing: Uh-oh.  —  One year after venom-spewing fans …

Source: Royals, Tomko agree to one-year deal … The Kansas City Royals have reached preliminary agreement on a one-year, guaranteed $3 million contract with free-agent pitcher Brett Tomko, a baseball source said.  —  The deal, which includes an additional $1.5 million in incentives …

The 10 greatest Game Sevens in World Series history  —  Let's finish up this series of articles.  —  Game Seven is the ultimate in drama.  There is no Game Eight.  (Well, not since the early 1920s).  Any close game has a chance to become a classic.  Only 39 of the 103 Series went this far.

Needs and Luxuries: Tampa Bay Rays  —  Up next in our Needs and Luxuries series, the Rays.  Here's how they're set up.  —  C - Dioner Navarro  —  1B - Carlos Pena  —  2B - Akinori Iwamura  —  SS - Jason Bartlett  —  3B - Evan Longoria  —  LF - Carl Crawford  —  CF - B.J. Upton

Sunday Notes  —  This week the story came out that Juan Encarnacion was not expected to play in 2008.  This came as no real surprise but it is still a true shame.  If you don't recall the injury it happened when a foul ball off the bat of Aaron Miles (thanks Rotoworld!) fractured his left orbital bone on August 31st.

3RD TYNES A CHARM!!!  —  KICKER CAPS SUPER BOWL RUN WITH OT KICK  —  Nothing deters these Giants.  —  Nothing stops these Giants.  —  Not unholy cold.  Not the mystique of sacred Lambeau Field or the presence of future Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre or yet another road game …

Spiezio speaks out through music  —  Addresses depression and chemical dependency on album  —  ST. LOUIS — Scott Spiezio apologized that he can't tell more, not yet.  He hopes that one day he'll be able to tell the whole story of the sickness that consumed him during the 2007 season.

Age and Depression  —  Thanks to everyone who had questions and observations about last week's column on career baserunning.  Today I wanted to quickly address four reader queries related to the article.  —  First, I had noted in the column that nine of the top twenty runners in career EqBRRate …

Official: No quick sale for the Cubs  —  CHICAGO (AP) — The drawn-out process of Tribune Co. selling the Chicago Cubs may not end until midseason or later, the team's senior vice president said Sunday, in part because Wrigley Field first must be sold off.  —  Crane Kenney told attendees …

Dodgers agree on one-year deal with Proctor  —  Team avoids arbitration by coming to terms on a contract worth more than $1.1 million with the veteran right-handed reliever.  Only left-hander Joe Beimel is now eligible for arbitration.  —  Right-handed pitcher Scott Proctor …

Every Given Sunday  —  Reconstruction in Slow Motion  —  A quick glance at the Pittsburgh Pirates' roster might make it seem as though Neal Huntington has been asleep at the wheel in nearly four months on the job as general manager.  The Pirates have only seven players on their 40-man roster …