Former major-league pitcher Tom "Flash" Gordon also spoke to USA TODAY Sports about Mariano Rivera, Bo Jackson and George ...

Super Mariano pitched a total of 1,283.2 innings in 1,115 during his MLB career, or an average of just 1.15 innings pitched per game. Despite that, he won 5 World Series, was a 13-time All-Star ...

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — Mariano Rivera remembers his Little League days fondly. What he remembers most: He hated to pitch. The former Yankees closer was inducted into the Little League Hall of ...

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — Mariano Rivera remembers his Little League days fondly. What he remembers most: He hated to pitch. The former Yankees closer was inducted into the Little League Hall of ...

Unless he shocks everyone and unretires, Mariano Rivera has thrown his last pitch on a major-league field. And he isn't going to play centerfield, either. Rivera said Saturday night that Thursday ...

Mariano Rivera said he won%27t play again for the Yankees; ... Rivera said he won't pitch this weekend during New York's season-ending series at Houston and that his mound days are over.

Mariano Rivera has built a Hall of Fame career on one inning, one pitch.The cut fastball, boring in on left-handed batters and so often resulting in a shattered bat, is Rivera’s signature, but ...

Mariano Rivera turned 44 years old on Friday, which is as good a reason to remind everyone that Mariano Rivera dominated Major League hitters at age 43 in 2013. Rivera’s career ERA of 2.21 is ...

Nobody, ever, has kept it simpler than Mariano Rivera, the man with a single out pitch and a singular mind. "Why fix something that is not broken?" he said, whenever you asked him whether he ever ...

Updated 7:19 PM ET (AP) KANSAS CITY, Mo. - New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera says he will return to the mound by 2013, vowing to overcome a knee injury that figures to end his season.

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) Mariano Rivera remembers his Little League days fondly. What he remembers most: He hated to pitch. The former Yankees closer was inducted into the Little League Hall ...