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October 2008 Archives
9:17 PM Fri, Oct 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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Boston guards Sam Cassell and J.R. Giddens, and forward Bill Walker did not dress for tonight's game.......
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8:44 PM Fri, Oct 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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BOSTON -- Kevin Garnett became the youngest player in NBA history to achieve 1,000 career games in the NBA last night. He set the mark at 32 years and 165 days, breaking Shawn Kemp's record of 33 years and 24......
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7:56 PM Fri, Oct 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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By ROBERT LEE Journal Sports Writer BOSTON - Boston third-year point guard Rajon Rondo believed throughout the summer that it wasn't a matter of if the Celtics would exercise their fourth-year option on the 22-year-old floor general, but when. After......
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3:33 PM Fri, Oct 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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BOSTON (AP) - Tim Wakefield's $4 million option for 2009 has been exercised by the Boston Red Sox. The 42-year-old knuckleballer was 10-11 with a 4.13 ERA in 30 starts this year, his 14th season with Boston. He is second......
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2:41 PM Fri, Oct 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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There's no piece of equipment in sports that says as much about its owner as the hockey mask. And if you've seen any of the Friday the 13th movies (after the second one, of course, when Jason replaced that leather......
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2:35 PM Fri, Oct 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) - Leigh Steinberg, a prominent sports agent who helped inspire the movie "Jerry Maguire" and has acknowledged a battle with alcoholism, was arrested on suspicion of being drunk in public. Police said Friday that Steinberg, 59,......
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2:28 PM Fri, Oct 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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Click the play button below to hear Shalise Manza Young's comments, recorded this morning. She discusses why Patriots-Colts is still a big game to the players who will be on the field, the Patriots' keys to victory on offense and......
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1:24 PM Fri, Oct 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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BOSTON, Mass. (AP) - The Boston Celtics have exercised the fourth-year option on guard Rajon Rondo. Terms of the deal, which covers the 2009-2010 season, were not disclosed Friday. The 22-year-old Rondo is entering his third season with Boston. He......
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11:04 AM Fri, Oct 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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RAVENNA, Mich. (AP) - He had belonged to the same team at a bowling alley for 45 years, and he had just rolled a 300 for his first perfect game. Then Don Doane collapsed on the floor while high-fiving his......
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10:27 AM Fri, Oct 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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Here's a link you can click on beginning at noon today to watch the World Series champs parade through the streets of their no-longer title-starved city. It will work only in Internet Explorer.......
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10:23 AM Fri, Oct 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Alex Duff Bloomberg David Beckham's income from endorsements fell 6.6 percent in the year he joined the Los Angeles Galaxy, according to the accounts of his London-based company Footwork Productions Ltd. Beckham paid himself and other staff 5.2 million......
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8:06 AM Fri, Oct 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Judy Battista The New York Times FOXBORO -- A football game between the Indianapolis Colts and the New England Patriots used to establish an edge for home-field advantage in the playoffs and certify a candidate for a run at......
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2:04 PM Thu, Oct 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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Who is eating crow today? The Philadelphia fans who last year were calling for the firing of Phillies manager Charlie Manuel. The laidback Manuel was not an instant hit in Philly, a town that favored hard-charging (and often not very......
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1:48 PM Thu, Oct 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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Dr. Don R. Powell, psychologist and author of Best Sports Clichés Ever, has a (self-serving) theory about Tuesday's contest between occasional ESPN contributor Barack Obama and Dennis and Callahan radio sidekick John McCain: The presidential candidate with the most astute......
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1:34 PM Thu, Oct 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) - Are Barack Obama and John McCain ready for some football? Bristol, Conn.-based ESPN says the presidential candidates are planning to participate in one-on-one interviews via satellite that would air at halftime of "Monday Night Football," the......
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1:24 PM Thu, Oct 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The Indianapolis Colts could lose starting cornerback Marlin Jackson for the rest of the season after he injured his knee in practice. Coach Tony Dungy said Jackson was injured during Wednesday's workout when he tried to stop.......
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1:05 PM Thu, Oct 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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HAMDEN, Conn. (AP) - Quinnipiac University has expelled three white students after police charged them with making harassing phone calls to black players on the school's men's and women's basketball teams. Hamden police say they charged 18-year-old Charles Merritt of......
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12:58 PM Thu, Oct 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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DETROIT (AP) - The Detroit Tigers declined the option on shortstop Edgar Renteria's contact Thursday, choosing to give him $3 million instead of $11 million to return. The Tigers previously announced plans to part ways with the 33-year-old Renteria, who......
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12:10 PM Thu, Oct 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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New England's Stephen Gostkowski has been named the AFC's special teams player of the month for October. It is the first such honor for the former fourth-round draft pick from Memphis. From the NFL press release: Gostkowski has made 9......
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11:32 AM Thu, Oct 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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Former Pawtucket Red Sox manager and NESN studio commentator Ken Macha is expected to be named soon as the new manager of the Milwaukee Brewers, according to a report on ESPN. It would be the second major-league managing job for......
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10:09 AM Thu, Oct 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti, speaking to the Los Angeles Times, yesterday identified re-signing Manny Ramirez as one of his club's top three priorities this offseason, but added that he will not let public pressure to bring back the popular......
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9:47 AM Thu, Oct 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Injured Indianapolis Colts safety Bob Sanders, running back Joseph Addai and cornerback Kelvin Hayden all practiced Wednesday. They could be healthy enough to play Sunday against archrival New England. "I expect that they will all be out......
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9:20 AM Thu, Oct 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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The Boston Bruins are the seventh most-valuable franchise in the National Hockey League, according to the annual list released yesterday by Forbes.com. Last season was the most successful for the league in the 10 years that Forbes has been tracking......
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8:58 AM Thu, Oct 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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TOKYO (AP) - Junichi Tazawa, a hard-throwing right-handed pitcher who wants to play in the major leagues, was passed over by Japan's 12 professional teams in Thursday's amateur draft. Tazawa, whose fastball reaches 97 mph, had asked Japanese teams not......
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8:47 AM Thu, Oct 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Matt Cassel is closer to Tom Brady (circa 2001, anyway) than you might think. The Philadelphia Phillies are World Series champions. Click here to download the file in pdf format.......
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3:51 PM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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The reporter is Danyelle Sargent, and we can only guess how she figured that new 49ers coach Singletary might have recently made a phone call to the now deceased Bill Walsh. But we do know this, Sargent is the same......
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3:19 PM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Greg Bishop and Lynn Zinser The New York Times A group of U.S. Senators, led by Arlen Specter, sent NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell a letter Tuesday expressing their continued disappointment over what they consider the exclusionary nature of showing......
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2:49 PM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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Shalise Manza Young reports from Foxboro that Patriots nose tackle Vince Wilfork, who met with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell yesterday about repeated incidents of unsportsmanlike conduct, doesn't think he'll be suspended by the league. Two media outlets are already reporting......
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2:33 PM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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Starting pitcher Brett Myers, interviewed in today's edition of USA Today, said that if the Phillies had played the Red Sox in the World Series, he would have asked manager Charlie Manuel not to pitch him at Fenway Park. During......
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2:32 PM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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Well it almost feels like we are back in the division playing Indianapolis. We have had so many games with them and so much history with this team the scouting report looks like a phone book. But, they look as......
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12:57 PM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Dan Barbarisi Email
Bill Belichick and the Patriots staff may stick to the line that no player is irreplaceable, but Dallas Clark knows better. The Colts tight end has faced off against Safety Rodney Harrison for the last six years, and is sure......
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10:39 AM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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According to a story first reported by ProFootballTalk.com and later confirmed elsewhere, Patriots nose tackle Vince Wilfork will not be suspended by the NFL for illegal hits. The unnamed source who spoke to ProFootballTalk said NFL commissioner Roger Goodell was......
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10:05 AM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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TNT basketball commentator/bomb-thrower Charles Barkley got the season started in fine fashion yesterday during an informal lunch with reporters. According to Newsday, Barkley crossed a line with his remarks about the New York Knicks, whose former coach, Isiah Thomas, was......
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9:59 AM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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The Dallas Morning News reports today that the Mavericks and the Cowboys are planning a Thursday announcement that the 2010 NBA All-Star Game will be played at the Cowboys' new football stadium in Arlington. Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said in......
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9:13 AM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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BOSTON (AP) - The Kraft family, owners of the New England Patriots, have completed a new agreement that makes them the title sponsor of the Israel Football League. The league, which will now be called the Kraft Family IFL, is......
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8:58 AM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Bill Coats St. Louis Post-Dispatch ST. LOUIS - The New England Patriots committed 22 penalties in their first six games this season. The Pats' total still is 22 - a league low - after they pitched a perfect game......
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8:32 AM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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LOWELL, Mass. (AP) - A Lawrence barber who killed one man and wounded two others during an alcohol-fueled argument in a moving van over a Yankees-Red Sox playoff game has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and other charges. Julio Rodriguez......
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7:57 AM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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I was just checking the hour-by-hour forecast for Philadelphia on weather.com, and it looks like conditions will be good enough for the Phillies and the Rays to resume Game 5 of the World Series, which was suspended on Monday night......
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8:21 PM Tue, Oct 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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Commissioner David Stern was looking forward to tonight's ring presentation ceremony for what was admittedly a selfish reason - it seemed safe to assume the league's longtime top man would be greeted a warm welcome. "I'm always welcome in places......
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7:16 PM Tue, Oct 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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BOSTON -- The Cleveland Cavaliers won't watch the Celtics be given their championship rings tonight. Instead, they will stay in their locker room. "There is no need to watch it," Cleveland superstar L:eBron James said. "That's for the fans and......
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5:28 PM Tue, Oct 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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BOSTON -- Welcome to TD Banknorth Garden. The Celtics are getting ready for their season opener and their 2008-09 campaign where they will attempt to defend their NBA-best 17th NBA title. Here is what we know so far about......
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4:37 PM Tue, Oct 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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Division I Preliminaries Central Falls at Hendricken, ppd., Wed., 6 p.m. Hope at South Kingstown, ppd., Wed., 6 p.m. East Providence at Cumberland, ppd., Wed., 6:30 p.m. Division II Preliminaries Central at Narragansett, ppd., Wed., 3:30 p.m. Pilgrim at Mount......
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3:52 PM Tue, Oct 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Stephanie Garry St. Petersburg Times HAZLETON, Pa. -- In the living room, SportsCenter is on. They're talking about Joe Maddon, the Tampa Bay Rays' manager, and his spunky 75-year-old mother. The newscaster quotes her saying something that ends with,......
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3:34 PM Tue, Oct 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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The New England Revolution announced today that star forward Taylor Twellman will be out indefinitely because of concussion-related symptoms. Twellman suffered his injury when he collided with Los Angeles Galaxy goalkeeper Steve Cronin on a play that ended Cronin's season.......
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3:32 PM Tue, Oct 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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The Boston Red Sox today received righthanded pitcher Virgil Vasquez on a waiver claim from the Detroit Tigers. With the addition of Vasquez, Boston's major league roster is at the limit of 40 players. In addition, the Red Sox announced......
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1:14 PM Tue, Oct 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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With snow falling in the Philadelphia area, Major League Baseball has decided to postpone the resumption of Game 5 of the World Series until Wednesday night at the earliest.......
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1:12 PM Tue, Oct 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Kevin McNamara Journal Sports Writer As expected, Buffalo native Blake McLimans has verbally committed to Michigan this morning after narrowing his choices to UM and Providence. McLimans is a 6-10 shooting big man who should fit perfectly into John......
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12:59 PM Tue, Oct 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Xavier was picked by the Atlantic 10 coaches and media to win the league championship and return to the NCAA Tournament. The Musketeers, who lost to UCLA in a regional final in last season's NCAA tournament, received......
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10:51 AM Tue, Oct 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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BOSTON (AP) - Celtics general manager Danny Ainge has been given a new title and a contract extension as the team kicks off the defense of its 17th NBA championship. The team announced Tuesday Ainge has been promoted to president......
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9:38 AM Tue, Oct 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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By George M. Thomas Akron Beacon Journal INDEPENDENCE, Ohio - The Boston Celtics will get their championship rings Tuesday night prior to facing the Cavaliers in the NBA season opener at the TD Banknorth Garden in Boston. Their minds probably......
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9:07 AM Tue, Oct 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Tim Dahlberg AP Sports Columnist If this were baseball, there would be enough anguish and outrage to last a season. Had it happened during an Olympics, the world would be talking about it for years. There's nothing quite as......
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8:55 AM Tue, Oct 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike Fitzpatrick AP Baseball Writer PHILADELPHIA - Welcome back to the World Series. Leading off for the Philadelphia Phillies, a pinch hitter for October ace Cole Hamels. Here comes Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon out of the dugout. Yup,......
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8:44 AM Tue, Oct 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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World Series Game 5 suspended by rain; Celtics get set to start their NBA title defense; the Patriots celebrate an entire game without a penalty; Moses Brown celebrates a girls tennis championship. Click here to download the file in pdf......
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9:57 PM Fri, Oct 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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East Providence 3, Woonsocket 0 Shea 3, Fatima 1 Central Falls 3, Middletown 0 To view all of today's girls volleyball results and summaries click here......
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9:53 PM Fri, Oct 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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Toll Gate 21, Coventry 6 Tolman 29, Warwick 18 Johnston 30, Mount Pleasant 0 South Kingstown 14, Cranston East 6, o.t. Barrington 19, Hendricken 7 To view all of today's football results and summaries click here......
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8:20 PM Fri, Oct 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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Mount Pleasant 1, Hope 0 Cranston East 1, North Providence 0 To view all girls soccer results and summaries click here......
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8:10 PM Fri, Oct 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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Lincoln 3, Central 1 South Kingstown 4, East Providence 1 Burrillville 1, Davies 0 To view all of today's boys soccer results and summaries click here......
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7:27 PM Fri, Oct 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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Lincoln School 5, La Salle 2 Middletown 6, Coventry 1 PCD 5, Warwick 2 Mount St. Charles 4, Bay View 3 To view all of today's girls tennis results and summaries click here......
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6:01 PM Fri, Oct 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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Wheeler 2, Pilgrim 0 Toll Gate 2, Woonsocket 1, 2 o.t. Rocky Hill 2, Burrillville 1 East Greenwich 2, Cumberland 0 To view all of today's field hockey results and summaries click here......
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3:23 PM Fri, Oct 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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Multiple news outlets in New York City are reporting that the police went to the home of former New York Knicks coach Isiah Thomas just after midnight this morning because of a report that someone had overdosed on sleeping pills.......
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1:46 PM Fri, Oct 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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Mike Lowell, during an interview with WEEI.com site editor Rob Bradford, reflected on Tom Brady's medical issues. Lowell recently had arthroscopic hip surgery to repair a tear in his hip and fix a bone spur. "We were actually talking about......
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1:37 PM Fri, Oct 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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FOXBORO (AP) - Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels has spoken to Tom Brady and is optimistic that Brady will work diligently to be back on the field in 2009. McDaniels expressed that optimism Friday without setting a timetable for the......
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1:31 PM Fri, Oct 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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LONDON (AP) - An expanded regular season would improve the overall quality of the NFL and increase interest among fans, commissioner Roger Goodell said Friday. The NFL discussed adding one or two more games to the regular-season schedule at its......
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12:04 PM Fri, Oct 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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Providence College will hold its annual Friar Fanfest at Alumni Hall Saturday from Noon to 2:30 p.m. The event is free for all fans and will feature the annual Mal Brown intrasquad scrimmage for the men's basketball team. The......
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11:35 AM Fri, Oct 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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Click the play button below to hear Shalise Manza Young's comments, recorded this morning. She discusses the challenges facing Brandon Meriweather and other defensive backs as they try to fill the void left by the injury to Rodney Harrison, how......
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9:10 AM Fri, Oct 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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LONDON (AP) - Broadcasters are already seeing a drop in advertising revenue for NFL games because of the global economic crisis, league commissioner Roger Goodell said Friday. At a conference on the globalization of sports held ahead of Sunday's NFL......
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8:47 AM Fri, Oct 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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BOSTON (AP) - Four fans sitting along the boards at the Bruins game were treated for cuts when a hit by Boston forward Milan Lucic shattered the glass and sent shards raining down on the seats Thursday night. Two......
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8:06 AM Fri, Oct 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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NFL Network reporter Adam Schefter reported tonight that New England running back Sammy Morris will miss two to three weeks due to the knee injury he suffered against Denver on Monday night. Morris rushed for a career high 138 yards......
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9:42 PM Thu, Oct 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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Providence middleweight Demetrius Andrade won his professional boxing debut with a second round TKO of Patrick Cape tonight at the Northern Quest Casino in Spokane, Wash. The fight was stopped 24 seconds into the second round.......
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9:41 PM Thu, Oct 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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West Warwick 3, Tolman 0 North Kingstown 3, East Greenwich 0 Scituate 3, Warwick 0 Barrington 3, Exeter/West Greenwich 2 Toll Gate 3, Cranston East 2 Coventry 3, South Kingstown 1 Chariho 3, Pilgrim 0 To view all of today's......
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8:48 PM Thu, Oct 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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Burrillville 1, St. Raphael 1 Prout 1, Tiverton 0 Exeter/West Greenwich 1, West Warwick 0 Rogers 8, Fatima 1 Ponaganset 2, Johnston 0 To view all of today's boys soccer results and summaries click here......
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8:41 PM Thu, Oct 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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Coventry 3, Toll Gate 1 Exeter/West Greenwich 1, Westerly 1 Bay View 3, Ponaganset 0 Lincoln 2, Smithfield 1 Central Falls 3, Davies 2 Cranston West 1, Pilgrim 0 La Salle 4, Scituate 0 Prout 2, Chariho 0 South Kingstown......
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8:12 PM Thu, Oct 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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Warwick 5, Cranston East 2 Portsmouth 6, Exeter/West Greenwich 1 Cumberland 6, Cranston West 1 North Providence 5, Rogers 2 Coventry 4, Mt. Hope 3 To view all of today's girls tennis results and summaries click here......
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6:13 PM Thu, Oct 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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Bay View 3, Barrington 1, o.t. Cumberland 1, Lincoln School 0 To view all of today's field hockey results and summaries click here......
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5:52 PM Thu, Oct 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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Rocco Baldelli is in right field, and batting seventh, for the Tampa Bay Rays in Game Two of the World Series tonight. Get the complete lineup via the St. Petersburg Times' Rays blog and the Tampa Tribune's Rays blog.......
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3:56 PM Thu, Oct 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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NEW YORK (AP) - Television ratings for Game 1 of the World Series were down from last year. The Philadelphia Phillies' 3-2 win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Fox on Wednesday night earned a 9.2 rating and 15 share,......
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3:49 PM Thu, Oct 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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NEW YORK (AP) - The NBA's Board of Governors has approved the expanded use of instant replay for the 2008-09 season. Referees will be allowed to review video to determine if a field goal was a 2- or 3-point attempt,......
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3:37 PM Thu, Oct 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - The woman who prosecutors determined falsely accused three Duke lacrosse players of rape maintains in a new memoir that she was attacked, a claim that provoked an angry lawsuit threat from one player's family. Crystal Mangum,......
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2:48 PM Thu, Oct 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- The Providence Bruins are back on top of the American Hockey League's Atlantic Division -- where they spent most of last season -- and one of the main reasons is their power play. Heading into tomorrow's game at......
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2:34 PM Thu, Oct 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike Ogle The New York Times Mike Tranghese, the Big East commissioner, remembers with a satisfied grin the push-back he got from the conference's men's basketball coaches in 2005 before the league ballooned to its current size of 16......
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2:29 PM Thu, Oct 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Eric Tucker Associated Press PROVIDENCE -- After a sterling debut as a head coach at Drake, Keno Davis is bracing for a tougher challenge - and opponents - in his first season at Providence. He was hired in April......
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2:21 PM Thu, Oct 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Karen Crouse The New York Times ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Four drained bottles of booze in the locker of a recovering alcoholic would be cause for concern in most workplaces. In the Tampa Bay Rays clubhouse, the empty Champagne......
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1:12 PM Thu, Oct 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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Note: Because of an error at the AP, a year-old story was posted at this URL earlier today. The following is the correct coaches poll story. NEW YORK (AP) - Connecticut forward Maya Moore, the Big East's top player last......
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1:01 PM Thu, Oct 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Curtis Eichelberger Bloomberg Philadelphia Eagles fan Steven Katz has spent four years on a waiting list for two season tickets, and says he'd pay an extra $200 a game to jump to the top. He'd have company, National Football......
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9:44 AM Thu, Oct 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jim Thomas St. Louis Post-Dispatch On the one hand, running back Steven Jackson said his right thigh injury is headed in the "right direction." After a light indoor workout Wednesday, he said the thigh felt good. But he declined......
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9:22 AM Thu, Oct 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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Sports Illustrated's Jon Heyman, who first broke the story of Manny Ramirez's trade from the Red Sox to the Dodgers this past summer, reported last night that Los Angeles is willing to meet (or at least approach) Ramirez's annual salary......
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8:01 AM Thu, Oct 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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Doctors are so concerned with the infection in Tom Brady's left knee that they have performed three procedures in an attempt to eliminate it, according to The Boston Herald, which quotes an unnamed West Coast source familiar with the Patriots......
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8:00 AM Thu, Oct 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jim Baumbach Newsday Darryl Strawberry has a message for Joba Chamberlain: Stop now. Don't be like me. Shortly after learning about Chamberlain's alleged DUI early Saturday morning, Strawberry said he called Yankees executive Ray Negron and asked him to......
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7:59 AM Thu, Oct 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Rick Gosselin The Dallas Morning News Matt Cassel once had the best job in football. Now he has the worst. Cassel spent the first three seasons of his NFL career watching Tom Brady set NFL passing records and win......
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10:03 PM Wed, Oct 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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Central Falls 2, Woonsocket 0 North Smithfield 1, Davies 1 Lincoln 8, North Providence 1 Tolman 4, Central 2 Hendricken 5, Toll Gate 0 La Salle 1, Hope 0 Westerly 4, Cranston East 1 Cumberland 2, Mount St. Charles 1......
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9:12 PM Wed, Oct 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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Hope 6, Masters 3 Johnston 2, West Warwick 1 Cranston East 1, Middletown 0 Classical 2, St. Raphael 2 Tiverton 6, Narragansett 1 Woonsocket 3, Tolman 3 To view all of today's girls soccer results and summaries click here......
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9:03 PM Wed, Oct 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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Classical 3, Lincoln 0 Fatima 3, Central 0 Central Falls 3, Hope 0 La Salle 3, Burrillville 0 Westerly 3, Rogers 0 Prout 3, Tiverton 0 Ponaganset 3, Cumberland 0 To view all of today's girls volleyball results and summaries......
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6:47 PM Wed, Oct 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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Rocco Baldelli was expected to start Game One of the World Series for the Rays tonight, but he is not in the lineup. Ben Zobrist will be Tampa Bay's right fielder tonight. Rocco Baldelli was expected to start Game One......
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4:56 PM Wed, Oct 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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The Red Sox announced today that Luis Alicea will not be offered a new contract with the organization, ending his two-year stint as the team's first-base coach. Alicea, a former major-league second baseman who played for the Red Sox in......
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PROVIDENCE -- Providence junior middleweight Demetrius Andrade, who was a member of the 2008 United States Olympic boxing team, will meet Patrick Cape (4-2, 2 KOs) in a four-round bout in his pro debut tomorrow night at the Northern Quest......
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WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) - Michael Victorino stands along Hana Highway wearing an orchid lei, smiling and waving and holding a bright green sign bearing his last name as trucks rumble by. It's a day before Game 1 of the World......
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - Barack Obama and John McCain agree on at least one thing: the importance of the World Series. The presidential candidates recorded inspirational quotes about baseball from historical figures, including Martin Luther King Jr. and former......
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New England QB Matt Cassel has been named AFC Offensive Player of the Week for his 18-for-24, 185 yard, three touchdown, zero turnover performance against Denver on Monday night. Cassel had a career-high passer rating of 136.3, which the fifth-highest......
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IRVING, Texas (AP) - Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo doesn't expect to play again until mid-November. Romo, who wanted to play last week with a broken pinkie on his throwing hand, said Wednesday the plan now is to return after the......
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Just about everyone knew that something wasn't right with Red Sox pitcher Josh Beckett as he struggled through the American League playoffs, posting two poor starts and one grueling five-inning performance in Game 6 of the ALCS. Now, speaking to......
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By Danielle Sessa Bloomberg Baseball is counting pennies on everything from seats to sponsorships as it prepares to play next season in an economic slowdown. With the Philadelphia Phillies and Tampa Bay Rays about to open the World Series tonight......
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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) - Brett Favre denies reports he called former Detroit president Matt Millen a few weeks ago and gave him information the Lions could use in a game against the Green Bay Packers. The New York Jets......
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FOXBORO (AP) -- The New England Patriots have placed safety Rodney Harrison on injured reserve, ending his season. The move came Wednesday, two days after Harrison tore a quadriceps muscle in his right thigh. The injury is expected to end......
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NEW YORK (AP) - The Los Angeles Lakers will avenge their NBA finals loss to the Boston Celtics, according to a survey of the league's general managers. The executives who responded to the NBA.com GM survey also picked Cleveland's LeBron......
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NEW YORK (AP) -- The Providence College Friars are picked to finish 10th in the Big East in the conference's coaches poll, released today. Keno Davis' Friars did not have any players on the 10-player preseason all-conference team. Notre Dame......
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Retired slugger and active celebrity boxer Jose Canseco said in an interview with the A and E Network that he now regrets naming players as steroid users in his 2005 book, "Juiced." Canseco spoke to A and E for a......
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The Patriots made a statement on Monday night, and now Jim Donaldson is trying to figure out what it means. Paul Kenyon takes you inside the URI Rams' preparations for the coming season, and Joe McDonald has the story on......
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Red Sox Nation apparently extends even to Nebraska strip clubs. According to the New York Daily News, which quotes a club goer named Gary Bohaty, the Yankees pitcher was drinking at the Night Before Lounge in downtown Lincoln, Neb., when......
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By Sam Mellinger The Kansas City Star ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - His story is baseball's version of the American dream, of persistence turning humble beginnings into eventual stardom. Back then, no scouts would talk to Evan Longoria. Now, he bats......
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America's number-one sports news source, the celebrity web site TMZ.com, has posted a video of the former Red Sox slugger out on the town in Los Angeles. Click here to watch the video, in which Ramirez admits he did not......
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BOSTON (AP) - Harry Mangurian Jr., a former owner of the Boston Celtics and renowned horse breeder, has died of leukemia. He was 82. The funeral home handling his arrangements said Mangurian died Sunday. He died at Holy Cross Hospital......
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BOSTON (AP) -- Boston Red Sox manager Terry Francona will be heading for surgery this offseason. Francona said Tuesday that he's had a back problem and hasn't had full feeling in his arms since May. He hopes to get that......
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Providence Bruins defenseman Johnny Boychuk is the Reebok/AHL Player of the Week after recording a goal and six assists over three games for Providence this past weekend. The 24-year-old Boychuk had three assists in Friday's win over Springfield, a goal......
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Adam Schefter of NFL.com reports that the New England Patriots' veteran safety suffered a season-ending, and potentially career-ending, torn quad muscle late in the third quarter of last night's Patriots-Broncos game. Click here to read the blog entry.......
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By Mark Whicker The Orange County Register There should never be a baseball game in March or November. There should never be a five-game series in postseason play. Too many undeserving teams make it to the postseason, which is why......
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By Mason Levinson Bloomberg The Tampa Bay Rays' 3-1 win over the Boston Red Sox in the decisive seventh game of the American League Championship Series was the most-watched baseball game in cable-television history. Some 13.4 million viewers tuned in......
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By Jack Curry The New York Times ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Jason Varitek had to know the questions about his future were coming, but he still did not seem prepared for them. As soon as Varitek was asked if he......
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By David Ramsey The Gazette FOXBORO -- First, let's look at the good news. Sure, the Denver Broncos stumble as a confused, and confusing, team. Yes, they delivered one of the worst NFL performances of this decade in Monday's 41-7......
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By Woody Paige The Denver Post FOXBORO -- On the Broncos' schedule Sunday is Bye. Bye is favored by 10 points. Denver, these are your worst Night Mares. That's as bad as it gets, but probably not. Monday Night Mortification.......
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By Mark Kiszla The Denver Post FOXBORO - His eyes bulged in anger as his cheeks grew redder with every fumble, missed tackle and stupid penalty committed by careless, inept and undisciplined Broncos. Mike Shanahan could not believe what he......
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Bay View 3, Mt. Hope 0 East Providence 3, Burrillville 0 Ponaganset 3, Woonsocket 0......
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Lincoln 4, Bay View 3......
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Tolman 6, Bishop Keough 1 Burrillville 6, Johnston 1 Central 2, Fatima 0 Rogers 2, Hope 2 Woonsocket 6, Davies 0 Mount Pleasant 2, Masters 1......
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BY ROBERT LEE Journal Sports Writer FOXBORO -- Denver coach Mike Shanahan has a lot of respect for both Tom Brady and Matt Cassel. "We all know what Tom Brady has done and what he has meant to the Patriots......
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Tiverton 4, West Warwick Cranston East 4, Woonsocket 3 To view all of today's girls tennis results and summaries click here......
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LAS VEGAS (AP) - Las Vegas sports books favor the Tampa Bay Rays to win the World Series over the Philadelphia Phillies and would owe huge payouts if the American League champions prevail. Oddsmakers say enough bettors took the Rays......
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NEW YORK (AP) - Yankees manager Joe Girardi and co-chairman Hal Steinbrenner lent their support Monday to pitcher Joba Chamberlain, arrested last weekend on suspicion on drunk driving. "I have spoken to Joba and he made it very clear to......
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BOSTON (AP) - Boston Red Sox third baseman Mike Lowell has had surgery on his right hip. Red Sox spokesman John Blake said Lowell was awake after his surgery Monday. Blake said last year's World Series MVP wanted to surgery......
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Click the play button below to hear Jim Donaldson's comments, recorded this morning. He discusses the stakes of tonight's game for both teams -- the Broncos looking to take control of their division and the Patriots looking to keep pace......
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By Tim Cowlishaw The Dallas Morning News ST. LOUIS -- It was right there in front of Jerry Jones' eyes. And he missed it. There is no more shining example of how the radical move of an in-season head coaching......
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By Kat O'Brien Newsday ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Maybe it all stems from Joe Maddon. Maybe Maddon is what put the Rays over the edge. Yes, of course he had to have the players, had to have more talent to......
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By George Vecsey The New York Times ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - "Heroes are made in Game 7," Evan Longoria was saying late Saturday night in front of his locker, after the Rays had lost a second straight game, with the......
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Click the play button below to hear Joe McDonald's comments, recorded this morning. The topics: Matt Garza's big-time effort in Game 7, Joe Maddon's decision to go with David Price to get the most important outs of Tampa Bay's season,......
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The Bulldogs' senior star added another accomplishment to his already impressive running resume as he captured the individual title in the Boys Championship Division race at the Brown University High School Cross Country Invitational on Saturday. Our game of the......
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By Alan Schwarz The New York Times ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Rocco Baldelli swung as if it could have been his last game. For all he knew, it could have been. In the bottom of the fifth inning of Sunday......
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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - New York Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain's first court appearance for his arrest on suspicion of drunken-driving has been scheduled for December 17. Chamberlain was cited early Saturday in Nebraska on suspicion of driving under the influence,......
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By Aaron Kuriloff Bloomberg The New York Yankees and Dallas Cowboys, two of the strongest brands in sports, have joined Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and CIC Partners to form a food and retail company. Legends Hospitality Management LLC will run......
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By Alan Schwarz The New York Times ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Coco Crisp made the rounds that Red Sox players rarely have to. He walked up to Kevin Youkilis, sitting silently and motionless on his clubhouse folding chair with his......
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NEW YORK (AP) - A handwritten letter from Mickey Mantle to his fiancee and a pitching incentive agreement for Babe Ruth have failed to sell at an auction of New York Yankees memorabilia. An auction spokeswoman said Sunday that bidding......
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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - New York Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain apologized for "an error in judgment" on Sunday. He was arrested early Saturday in Nebraska on suspicion of driving under the influence, speeding and having an open container of alcohol......
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BOSTON (AP) - In contrast to the raucous celebrations that followed victorious postseasons in 2004 and 2007, it was a quiet homecoming for the Red Sox after their 3-1 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 7 of the......
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Hope 48, Central Falls 34 East Greenwich 35, Smithfield 0 Portsmouth 21, Barrington 7 Middletown 26, Classical 0 Ponaganset 35, Central 14 To view all of today's football results and summaries click here......
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Burrillville 4, Moses Brown 1 Cranston East 3, St. Raphael 2 Warwick 2, Scituate 1 To view all of today's girls soccer results and summaries click here......
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Barrington 4, Ibstock (West London) 1 Moses Brown 2, Wheeler 1 To view all of today's field hockey results and summaries click here......
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NORTH DARTMOUTH, Mass. -- The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's football team scored three times in the first 14 minutes, opened up a 21-7 lead, and held off a late rally to defeat visiting Salve Regina, 41-33, in a New England......
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Smithfield 2, Scituate 0 To view all of today's boys soccer results and summaries click here......
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SMITHFIELD -- Jerell Smith (Brooklyn, NY) rushed for 104 yards on 16 carries while Anthony DiNaso (Staten Island, NY) caught a pair of touchdown passes to lead Bryant University to a 20-7 win over visiting Robert Morris University before a......
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SOUTH KINGSTOWN -- Villanova scored six straight touchdowns, including three by receiver Phil Atkinson, in a 44-7 rout of Rhode Island on Saturday. Atkinson's first score was an 84-yard touchdown reception from Christopher Whitney that tied the game at 7......
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PRINCETON, N.J. -- Junior All-Ivy wide receiver Buddy Farnham scored two touchdowns and compiled 285 all-purpose yards to lead Brown to a 31-10 Ivy league win over Princeton and keep the Bears unbeaten in the Ivy League with a 2-0......
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SI.com's Jon Heyman is reporting the Yankees' top executives have decided to pursue many of the game's premier free agents, chief among them starting pitchers CC Sabathia, A.J. Burnett and Derek Lowe, and first baseman Mark Teixeira, among others, this......
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La Salle 49, Medicine Hat 12 Exeter/West Greenwich 38, North Providence 18 Mt. Hope 14, Cumberland 7 Westerly 14, South Kingstown 12 West Warwick 27, Shea 26 Moses Brown 28, Mount Pleasant 12 Cranston West 40, Chariho 21 To view......
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Tiverton 6, Fatima 2 Hope 3, Toll Gate 0 Cumberland 1, Central Falls 1 Portsmouth 3, Mt. Hope 0 To view all of today's boys soccer results and summaries click here......
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Rocky Hill 1, Warwick 0 Lincoln 1, North Kingstown 0 Bay View 3, Cumberland 1 East Greenwich 3, Lincoln School 0 To view all of today's field hockey results and summaries click here......
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La Salle 4, Portsmouth 0 Bishop Keough 2, Davies 1 West Warwick 1, North Providence 0 Rogers 1, Central 0 Narragansett 1, Middletown 0 Lincoln 1, Mount St. Charles 0 Tolman 2, Shea 0 Moses Brown 5, Rocky Hill 3......
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Tufts University junior Meghan McCooey of Cumberland, a former Rhode Island state singles champion at Mount St. Charles, and Julia Browne won the Intercollegiate Tennis Association National Small College Doubles Championship yesterday at the Copeland-Cox Tennis Center in Mobile, Ala.......
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East Providence 5, Ponaganset 2 Exeter/West Greenwich 4, Chariho 3 Portsmouth 4, Rogers 3 Barrington 6, South Kingstown 1 To view all of today's girls tennis results and summaries click here......
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Bill Belichick opened today's news conference at Gillette Stadium with an unusually big smile, and it was clear that he wasn't thinking at that moment about the Denver Broncos. Here's what the coach said to start out the session: "Anybody......
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By William C. Rhoden The New York Times BOSTON - Until Tampa Bay's meltdown on Thursday, the Rays' spectacular postseason performance was distinguished by bold moves, free swinging and the uninhibited exuberance of youth. Now, after watching the defending champion......
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I'm not sure if it qualifies as bulletin-board material (can't hurt his paper's web hits, though), still it is pretty remarkable that reporter David Murphy has this story on his baseball blog, High Cheese. Murphy apparently was not one of......
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Patriots coach Bill Belichick opened his press conference this morning by asking the small group of reporters if they had been able to get any sleep last night thanks to the Red Sox' epic Game 5 win. "I couldn't turn......
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Click the play button below to hear Joe McDonald's comments, recorded this morning. The topics: Joe Maddon's ill-fated decision to stick with Grant Balfour against David Ortiz, the Red Sox wearing down Tampa Bay relievers with long at-bats, Coco Crisp......
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By Gary Shelton St. Petersburg Times BOSTON -- Time was, your mouth might be dry. Time was, the doubts might be setting in. No more. The Rays lost a devastating game Thursday night, 8-7. They didn't lose anything else. They......
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By Rick Morrissey Chicago Tribune BOSTON - The Tampa Bay Rays had a seven-run lead Thursday night in Game 5 of the American League Championship Series and were just seven outs away from going to the World Series when the......
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By Alan Schwarz The New York Times SOUTH DEERFIELD, Mass. - Alec Eckel was torn. Not long before his bedtime on Monday, as he watched Rocco Baldelli slam a home run into the Boston night, Alec found himself doing the......
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By Ken Davidoff Newsday BOSTON - Just when Yankees fans thought it was safe to gloat, even a tiny bit . . . Wowza! No matter what happens in the rest of this American League Championship Series - and the......
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By Marc Topkin St. Petersburg Times Trailing three games to one apparently wasn't enough of a deficit for the Red Sox. So they waited until they were down seven runs in Thursday's Game 5, and with only seven outs remaining,......
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The Boston Herald reports today that Red Sox players last month voted to give left fielder Manny Ramirez a two-thirds playoff share, reflecting the fact that Ramirez spent about two-thirds of the season with Boston before being traded to the......
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Scituate 2, Barrington 0 Bay View 1, Lincoln 0 Cranston West 3, Chariho 1 East Greenwich 2, Warwick 0 Exeter/West Greenwich 2, Pilgrim 1 South Kingstown 1, Toll Gate 1 Cumberland 4, Mt. Hope 2 East Providence 2, Smithfield 1......
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Central 1, Smithfield 0 Hope 1, Central Falls 1 Shea 4, Mount Pleasant 3 Pilgrim 3, Middletown 1 Classical 1, Mount Pleasant 0 South Kingstown 3, North Kingstown 2 Warwick 7, Cranston East 1 To view all of today's boys......
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Mount Pleasant 3, Tolman 1 North Smithfield 3, Scituate 1 Mt. Hope 3, Rogers 0 East Greenwich 3, Pilgrim 0 Chariho 3, Cranston East 0 Prout 3, Narragansett 0 Burrillville 3, Cumberland 0 Coventry 3, North Kingstown 2 To view......
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Woonsocket 2, Smithfield 1 Burrillville 6, Classical 0 To view all of today's field hockey results and summaries click here......
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Cranston West 6, Westerly 1 PCD 7, Shea 0 Toll Gate 4, Narragansett 3 Bay View 7, North Kingstown 0 Mt. Hope 7, Hope 0 Moses Brown 4, Lincoln 0 Smithfield 5, Classical 2 Mount St. Charles 7, La Salle......
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By Shalise Manza Young Journal Sports Writer There were once again seven players missing during the media-access portion of practice today, but they were a slightly different seven: T Matt Light (knee), who missed yesterday's session, was back on the......
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VENICE, Fla. (AP) - Tom Tresh, the 1962 AL Rookie of the Year and part of three New York Yankees teams that reached the World Series, has died. He was 71. Tresh died Wednesday after a heart attack, according to......
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NEW YORK (AP) - The official price of Super Bowl tickets will reach $1,000 for the first time this season. The NFL confirmed Thursday that 25 percent of the tickets for the Feb. 1 game in Tampa will be priced......
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By Tim Dahlberg AP Sports Columnist There's a reason I didn't major in statistics in college. They give me a headache, no matter how hard I try to digest them. But I do have an appreciation for what they can......
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Click the play button below to hear Joe McDonald's comments, recorded this morning. The topics: The Rays' decision to start Scott Kazmir over James Shields, which Joe views as a mistake; the Red Sox hoping that they can continue hitting......
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The Dodgers are done (through absolutely no fault of his own) and now the speculation game is on concerning free agent Manny Ramirez. Although Ramirez completely rejuvenated the Los Angeles franchise in the eyes of its fans, Sports Illustrated sees......
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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) - Former NBA star Vlade Divac has become an adviser in Serbia's government. The 40-year-old says he will be in charge of humanitarian issues and sports, and will work with Vice Premier Ivica Dacic. The ex-Los Angeles......
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