Brad Penny was back on the mound Sunday, resuming his throwing program a week after shutting it down because of right shoulder fatigue....

John Smoltz has been working out hard. But with a return date of June 1 following shoulder surgery last season, the pitcher is finding it harder to not play....

The first two times Japanese right-hander Junichi Tazawa has taken the ball in exhibition games for the Red Sox, there have been college opponents standing in the batter's box....

Unlike the last time he took the mound in a game for the Red Sox, Josh Beckett didn't need anti-inflammatories just to make it bearable. The ace took the ball for the first time in 2009 with his health intact, and the fact that the opponent was only Boston College mattered little to Beckett....

From no-hitter to no confidence, Clay Buchholz fell hard last year -- all the way to Double-A. But the hurler is over his rough patch and feeling refreshed....

In a Red Sox camp in which hardly any roster spots are up for grabs, the backup catching position bears watching....

The Red Sox shortstop position is at a crossroads. There isn't a player earmarked for the position entering Spring Training. Instead, Julio Lugo and Jed Lowrie are set for an old-fashioned position battle, one Boston has hardly had in recent years....

There are a few contenders for the World’s Largest Cowboy Boots. The best claim perhaps belongs to this pair, which stands 12m tall, outside the North Star Mall in San Antonio, Texas. Tall as they are, they’re barely visible from above, but thankfully the Street View car drove right by. ...

The world’s largest weather vane can be found in Yukon, alongside the runway at Whitehorse airport, in the unusual form of a DC-3 plane. After 28 years of service, mostly among Canada’s northern communities, the plane was retired in 1970 and lay idle for a while. Volunteer effort led to ...

While Red Sox followers gear up for Spring Training, Boston general manager Theo Epstein is still working hard at putting the finishing touches on the 2009 roster....