On a Saturday evening earlier this year, Cal State L.A. professor Ericka Verba and her former bandmates took the stage at Santa Monica’s Church in Ocean Park to perform a tribute to the mid-20th ...

After 12 Major League seasons, Gerardo Parra has decided to retire, as reported by MASNsports.com’s Dan Kolko during today’s broadcast. Parra will move into a new role as a special assistant in the ...

NEW YORK -- For a guy who entered the season as a fourth outfielder, Arizona's Gerardo Parra has quietly found a way to make himself indispensable. When the Diamondbacks arrived in spring training, ...

Gerardo Parra hadn’t been back in the District since December 2019. On Saturday afternoon, the 11-year veteran was told he was heading back to the big leagues. Like any other minor league call-up, ...

WASHINGTON D.C.-- There's a basic human desire to compare every pennant winner, and to cram their players into the same familiar bins. There's the hotshot youngster, the ringless veteran, and so on.

“He’s going to die any minute now,” a college classmate of mine said in 1994, when the Chilean poet Nicanor Parra had just turned eighty and we were eighteen. I asked if the poet was sick or something ...

Jason Parra picked up the trumpet at the age of three; it was his father Julian’s. It was twelve years later that he would start playing the instrument in High School. It was a bit odd that Jason ...