Major League Baseball or MLB for short is the greatest standard of professional baseball played in the world. It consists of the teams that participate in the National League and the American League. Among the 30 teams that participate, 29 teams are from the United States and there is one team from Canada.

MLB manages both the International Baseball Federation as well as World Baseball Classic. The popularity of MLB is evident from the fact that the average attendance is over thirty thousand per game. In terms of attendance it is next only to NFL, Bundesliga, Premier League and AFL.

The celebrated MLB venue Fenway Park which recently became the cause of heartbreak for the fans of Red Sox has embarked upon a yet another new role. It has projected itself as a significant venue for the political events. It hosted one of the top political chat shows of the nation along with gracing the political campaigns of the presidential election fore-runner and Republican Mitt Romney as well as that of Scott Brown who is the local Senator.

On Friday, the prestigious park celebrated its 100th anniversary and the occasion has been looked forward by the top brass of the team as well as the entire city of Boston all this spring.

To mark the occasion, Romney and his wife Ann gave interview to the famous journalist Diane Sawyer of the ABC television. They were seated inside a Fenway sky box with the view of the ground in the background. Later h watched the match between Tampa Bay Rays and Red Sox. Red Sox lost the game.

John Henry the owner of Red Sox who at one point in time had campaigned for Democratic John Kerry as well as donated considerable amount in the Democratic funds displayed bipartisanship by opening the ballpark

However, very few were happy and convinced by Romney?s credibility as a faithful member of the Red Sox team.

When asked by a journalist whether Romney supports his home state team Detroit Tigers or the team Red Sox, he sounded diplomatic by taking the side of the Boston Club.?Goodness, for Red Sox, I am scared?, he said. ?I have been living in Massachusetts for the past 40 years?, he chirped.

He could not leave the Detroit team either. He was quick to add that, ?There is no doubt of the fact that I am a Tigers? fan from my childhood days?.  He is not alone as many a high profile politicians like Barack Obama are now pitching for MLB teams.

Borussia Dortmund bested Borussia Monchengladbach 2-0 in the Borussen derby to clinch their second league title in a row. Earlier in the day Bayern Munich who fielded a considerably weaker team due to their Champions league commitments defeated Werder Bremen 1-2 at Bremen?s home ground due to an own goal by Naldo on 75th minute and Ribery stunner in injury time after Naldo had put his team ahead on 51st minute.

Despite this victory Bayern Munich will go on to concede the title to Borussia Dortmund as they defeated Borussia Monchengladbach courtesy of Ivan Perisic and Shinji Kagawa on 23rd and 59th minute respectively. This win restored Dortmund?s 8 point lead over Munich which made them winner of the Bundesliga with 2 more rounds to go.

The match was dominated by Dortmund as Monchengladbach was on the back foot from the first minute. The first goal came through when Ivan Persic converted a magnificent free kick by Marcel Schmelzer. The second came when Robert Lewandowski slipped Kagawa a through ball which he converted. The two goals were enough to give Dortmund the title. Marcel Schmelzer was the player of the match with his phenomenal performance as a left back.

The season began for Dortmund with the loss of their talisman Nuri Sahin to Real Madrid but Dortmund found success on the foundation of their squad under the leadership of Jurgen Klopp. Mario Goetze the new messiah of Germany, Robert Lewandowski the Polish hitman, Mats Hummels the German tank, Neven Subotic the Serbian tiger and Shinji Kagawa the Japanese wizard.

Despite a below par performance in the Champions League Dortmund gave stiff competition to Bayern Munich early in the season when the Bavarians looked unstoppable but soon Dortmund overtook them and the final confrontation on 11th April between the two teams which was decided by a Lewandowski goal gave Dortmund a 8 point lead and ended Bayern?s chances of winning the trophy.

After winning the title wild celebrations broke in the Dortmund camp. “We might have displayed our best season,” said Klopp “We haven’t been defeated in 26 league matches, that’s just crazy.?And we never felt that we would lose our way. It just kept on and on.”

“The unity within the club has impressed me” said the German national football team manager, Joachim Low, After praising the work of Jurgen Klopp he said ? There is a tremendous sense of bond between team, manager, club officials and supporters. The Title is rightfully theirs.?

According to Alex Ovechkin everything was right regarding him being benched in the game 4 against Boston of the NFL series. He was benched by the coach Dale Hunter for near about 15 seconds in the last 14 minutes of the play in which Washington won over Boston by 2-1.

?According to me the time I am in the ground does not matter. But this is also true that I always wanted to be in the playground all the time. But at the end of the day it?s the decision of the coach? said Alex.

According to both the coach and Alex the top scorer and the captain of the team is absolutely fit for the games. Hunter said that he made Alex benched after seeing some of the bruins lines on the ice. He does not want to harm the star player with any injury who earns about $10 million dollar in each NFL season.

Hunter said, ?You need to get the best shot blocker at the end of the game blocking all the shots, but at the same time it is necessary to protect the offensive player from breaking their foot.?

The other players of the team denied the fact. They said that they did not even see Alex Ovechkin on the playground for more than 1.58 minutes at a stretch on the third session of the NFL playoff.

According to Troy Brouwer, the absence of Alex in one game does not means that he is not a part of the team. He is always there in the team to score goals for the team and give us the chance to win each and every game.  He also said that if the team would have been lagging by a goal them Alex would be the obvious choice but as we were leading by one goal we needed the best defensive players to be out there in the field. Alex also understood the situation.

?Hunter pointed out at Jay Beagle when he dropped down in front of the Boston?s defence men when they were to take a shot at the last 10 seconds of the play. He said,? Alex is the first one who jumps there in the field when beagle is down and out.

According to Alex Ovechkin it does not matter how much he is playing until and unless the team is winning the games on the playground.