Now that Derek Jeter has left baseball, the rest of the sport can focus on the real business of October, the play-offs and the suddenly dramatic road to the World Series.

It’s only getting seedier in the Alex Rodriguez saga that has baseball tearing itself to pieces.

A 38-year-old man convicted of killing a woman with an axe during a burglary nearly two decades ago has been executed in the state of Delaware’s first death sentence since 2005.

MARK TEIXEIRA and Hideki Matsui shook the New York Yankees from their slumber and sent the World Series to tonight’s third game in Philadelphia tied at 1-1.

Two men arrested during May Day security operations had their cases adjourned today at Dublin District Court due to a shortage of judges.