Appeals court to hear baseball steroids challenge
Appeals court to hear baseball steroids challenge
A federal appeals court has granted the Major League Baseball Players Association a new hearing in their challenge of the government’s use of the positive drug tests of more than 100 players in its investigation of performance enhancing drugs.
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Revamped Bush gets next start for Brewers
David Bush will start Game 3 of the Division Series for the Milwaukee Brewers Saturday when postseason baseball returns to the city for the first time since the 1982 World Series.
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Shields not changing approach
Shields not changing approach For the first playoff game in the history of Tampa Bay’s franchise, James Shields will throw the Rays’ first pitch, as he did for on Opening Day in this Cinderella season of theirs. In Game 1 of the American League Division Series, Shields will face the White Sox, with a sellout crowd behind him at Tropicana Field.
Notes: Dominican police seek Mets‘ Burgos
New York Mets reliever Ambiorix Burgos was driving an SUV when it slammed into two women who later died of their injuries, according to police in the Dominican Republic.
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Rays’ playoff roster relies on versatility
Rays’ playoff roster relies on versatility The Rays announced their playoff roster Thursday morning, just hours before facing the White Sox in Game 1 of the American League Division Series.
Rays loving their home dome
Rays loving their home dome Baseball’s new superpower, the Rays, showed their strength in Thursday night’s 6-4 victory over the White Sox. And Chicago became a little bit more familiar with the increasingly important kryptonite for teams opposing the Rays: Tropicana Field.
Cubs’ Game 1 loss has a familiar feel
Friends and Cubs fans, we come today to plead for calm. We detected some bad karma Wednesday night, as the home team lost 7-2 to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Such as the moment in the fifth inning when James Loney hit a grand slam over the center field wall. Or the seventh inning, when Manny Ramirez took a pitch near his shoestrings and drilled it toward Lake Michigan like a 3-iron shot.
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War of words: Balfour, Cabrera go at it
War of words: Balfour, Cabrera go at it Rays reliever Grant Balfour is known to yell a choice word or two after each pitch, but in a seventh-inning at-bat with the bases loaded, Sox shortstop Orlando Cabrera took exception.
Tigers spoil Devil Rays home game
Gary Sheffield and the Detroit Tigers made sure the Tampa Bay Rays would not celebrate on their home field.
Mets‘ GM Omar Minaya gets new deal through 2012
The New York Mets have given general manager Omar Minaya a new contract that runs through the 2012 season. The deal contains club options covering 2013 and 2014.
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