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Skip Caray made the call when the Atlanta Braves won the World Series in 1995: "Yes! Yes! Yes! The Braves have given you a championship! Listen to this crowd!" He made the call when Sid Bream scored on Francisco Cabrera's pinch-hit to win the National League Championship Series for the Braves in 1992: "Here comes Bream! Here's the throw to the plate! He iiiiiiiisssssssss ... safe! Braves win! Braves win! Braves win! Braves win! ... Braves win!" And he made the call in the late innings of a lousy game in the lost season of 1979: "You have our permission...

Sources close to the family said 68-year-old Skip Caray, the Voice of the Braves, died Sunday evening. According to AtlantaBraves.com, The 2007 Major League Baseball season marks Skip Caray's 32nd calling games for the Atlanta Braves on TBS. In addition, Caray is also the voice of the Braves on WGST-AM (640), WUBL-FM (94.9) and the Braves Radio Network which includes WDUN News/Talk 550 in Gainesville. In 2004, Caray was inducted into the Atlanta Braves Hall of Fame, along with fellow Braves announcer Pete Van Wieren. In 2000, Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell declared July 30th “Skip Caray and Pete Van Wieren...

The Atlanta Braves are sad to report the passing of longtime broadcaster and friend, Skip Caray. Caray died in his sleep earlier today at his Atlanta home. "Our baseball community has lost a legend today," said Braves President John Schuerholz. "The Braves family and Braves fans everywhere will sadly miss him. Our thoughts are with his wife Paula and his children." This season marked the 33rd year Caray had been calling games for the Atlanta Braves, a majority of which were for TBS, which gave Caray a national audience and fan base. Caray came to broadcasting naturally as the son...

End of an era for TBS, Braves, fans For three decades, Braves games have been beamed around the country on TBS. They became America's Team — but Sunday, America will watch for the last time. All across America Sunday, thousands of people like Bill DeArmond of Winfield, Kan., will say goodbye to an old friend. For three decades, they have watched the national telecasts of Braves games on TBS, turning Atlanta's baseball team into — at least for a while — "America's Team." Today, America will watch for the last time. The Braves' season finale at Houston marks the end...

MIAMI, Fla. -- Jose "El Nino" Temprana, a 105-year-old former Cuban political prisoner, became a U.S. citizen Friday. Temprana took the oath of citizenship in Miami early Friday. -snip- During the Cuban Revolution, he and three of his sons opposed Fidel Castro and were imprisoned in 1964 for 30 years. Following his sentence, he moved to Miami and has been free for the past 12 years. In the same ceremony Friday, Edgar Renteria of the 1997 World Series champions Florida Marlins also became a U.S. citizen. Renteria is now a shortstop for the Atlanta Braves.

John Smoltz made Major League history Thursday at Turner Field. The Atlanta Braves veteran became the first pitcher to amass 200 wins and 150 saves, and he added to his long list of records (most career postseason victories and strikeouts) and achievements (a Cy Young, a World Series ring and a Roberto Clemente award for community service). Smoltz also drew attention to his rightful place in the baseball pantheon, among the pitching elites, even if he seems destined to be the third wheel to longtime teammates Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine. Despite his remarkable consistency, durability and, perhaps most notably,...

ATLANTA - The Atlanta Braves will mix baseball with the gospel when they hold another “Faith Day” this weekend. But one of the country’s most prominent Christian organizations has been tossed out of the game. Focus on the Family, a group founded by James Dobson, was barred from participating in Sunday’s postgame activities after sponsoring the first such event at Turner Field last month. While the team wouldn’t provide a reason for its decision, several gay rights groups on the Web bristled with speculation that Focus on the Family was given the boot for promoting its belief that homosexuality is...

It’s late in the campaign season, time for the networks to pull out all the stops promoting the greatness of the Democratic Party. But you can only stoop so low, right? You wouldn’t actually try to boost the reputation of the most discredited president in fifty years if he were a Democrat, would you? Oh yes, you would, if you’re NBC’s Katie Couric.[Provide caption of what you think Jimmuh's listening to.] Katie has a long history of boosting former president Jimmy Carter, so much so that it was reported the Man from Plains thanked her personally when he won the...

In the coverage of military conflict, an abundance of viewers demand that TV anchors and reporters who deliver such tidings stand on their side. Or at least pretend to. Fox News Channel was a popular source on the war partly because it often referred to the teams as We and They. Updates were disseminated under the heading Operation Iraqi Freedom, a label composed not by the network but the White House. There was no disguising where loyalties lie."Everybody knows Fox News Channel wants America to win," the network's Bill O'Reilly once told his radio flock. "We're upfront about that."So it...

NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- AOL Time Warner, the world's largest media and Internet company, may sell its three sports franchises to bolster its financial position, its chief executive officer said. AOL spokeswoman Tricia Primrose confirmed Monday that CEO Richard Parsons had told securities analysts Friday the company is searching for ways to strengthen its balance sheet, and offered up the sports teams "as an example of a non-core asset." However, Primrose stressed that "no discussions" are under way for such a sale. AOL, whose stock has fallen 63 percent in the past year, is under pressure to boost revenue and...

Braves' Old World by Jeff Kallman Familiarity breeds indifference when not breeding contempt. Exhibit A, the Atlanta Braves; exhibits A-1 and A-1a, Mr. and Mrs. Greg Maddux.Maybe securing the division clinch on their day off had something to do with it. Make no mistake of thinking the Braves earned nothing; they just earned it too soon. They turned a rickety April and a game but grinding May into a June prune, shearing to the hilltop and planting enough thorny thicket behind them to obstruct anyone even thinking about trespassing. It meant Maddux getting to spend what proved clinching day...watching Monday...

SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) - Knuckleballer Hoyt Wilhelm, the first reliever elected to the Hall of Fame and the last pitcher to throw a no-hitter against the New York Yankees, has died. Wilhelm died Friday, but the cause of death was not released. Baseball records listed him at 79 years old, though the funeral home handling the arrangements said he was 80. Wilhelm played from 1952 and 1972 and when he retired, he held the major league record for games pitched at 1,070. Jesse Orosco and Dennis Eckersley have since passed that mark. While known for his fluttering pitch — it...

At 10 P.M. on July 4th John Smoltz of the Atlanta Braves strode to the mound to face Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa with runners on first and second and the Braves clinging to a narrow lead. Mr. Smoltz pitched aggressively and got two strikes on Mr. Sosa as flashing cameras made the bleachers appear like seating for fireflies. As fans chanted "Smoltzie, Smoltzie," their hero nibbled at the corners of the plate and missed. The count went to three balls, two strikes, and the Atlanta crowd rose, cheering for a strikeout. Then, an anti-climax: The pitcher missed low, the...