BUFFALO — In what has been the strangest of hockey seasons, the Blues couldn’t flip the script Wednesday at KeyBank Center. Eight consecutive losses were followed by seven straight wins. But the Blues couldn’t get to eight, losing 6-2 to the Buffalo Sa…
Ben Frederickson: With tears in his eyes, Albert Pujols accepts Stan Musial Lifetime Achievement Award
Astill-growing list of awards and honors earned by Albert Pujols during his remarkable career has expanded again, and it’s safe to say this addition will forever be among the most special, judging by the tears he wiped from his eyes. The retired Pujols…
2022 in review
JANUARY Omicron surge Cities around the country and around the world suffered a new surge of coronavirus cases fueled by the omicron variant in late 2021 and into early 2022. Deaths and infections hit new records. One-year anniversary of Capitol riot A…
2021 in review
JANUARY Capitol riots Supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in a brazen show of force on Jan. 6, as Congress met to certify the 2020 election. Lawmakers were forced to run for safety as the building was ransacked by radicalized …
Blues hang on, end Vegas’ nine-game winning streak
LAS VEGAS – Two days after avoiding a nine-game losing streak, the St. Louis Blues ended a nine-game winning streak by the Las Vegas Golden Knights. Just a couple of blocks off the Vegas Strip, the Blues improved to 5-8-0 with 3-2 triumph for their sec…
Blues end the losing streak with 5-3 win over San Jose
ST. LOUIS — For one night at least, the agony is over for the Blues. Yep, they finally won a game — it’s true — defeating the San Jose Sharks by a score of 5-3 Thursday night before a sellout crowd of 18,906 at Enterprise Center. It had been eight in a…
Cardinals’ Nolan Arenado, rookie Brendan Donovan win Gold Gloves
ST. LOUIS — In his first year as a big-leaguer, rookie Brendan Donovan on Tuesday was awarded the utility Gold Glove in the first year that the award has been handed out. Donovan was a finalist for the award with teammate and former Gold Glove winner T…
Nolan Arenado opting in to remainder of 5-year contract with Cardinals
ST. LOUIS — The Cardinals will have their star third baseman Nolan Arenado back for 2023 and for every season after that through 2027. Arenado — a seven-time All-Star and nine-time Gold Glover — notified the Cardinals that he is opting into the remaind…
Benjamin Hochman: Something must change with how Cardinals build playoff-ready roster
John Mozeliak didn’t like the way it was phrased. That’s fair. To his credit, his Cardinals front office has built a perpetual winning culture — the Cards have had a record above .500 in each of the past 15 years. But I asked if there could be a simult…
Longtime ace Adam Wainwright returns to Cardinals for 2023 season, per source
Adam Wainwright, a fixture of the Cardinals’ rotation for 15 consecutive winning seasons and guiding presence for a generation of young starters, will return to the Cardinals for the 2023 season, a source told the Post-Dispatch. It will be Wainwright’s…