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WASHINGTON (AP) — Just as many expected would happen all along, labor negotiations between the NFL and the players’ union are heading right down to the wire – and possibly beyond. In the first real indication of what’s been going on behind closed doors, the federal mediator overseeing talks said Thursday the two sides made [...]
JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — St. Louis Cardinals ace Adam Wainwright will have Tommy John surgery on his right elbow and miss the entire season. Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak confirmed the news Thursday from spring training camp. He said he learned the severity of the injury Wednesday night after the 29-year-old pitcher sought a second [...]
The wins of the father have been, in a sense, visited on the son. Dale Earnhardt Jr. inherited plenty from the old man — fast reflexes, fearlessness and the biggest tribe in NASCAR — but too many expectations and, so far, too little of his staying power. He’s won plenty of races, but none the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The NFL and the players’ union wrapped up a sixth consecutive day of mediated talks Wednesday — and they will meet again Thursday. NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith and most of his negotiating group — including four current players — left Wednesday’s session at the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service [...]
FT. MYERS, Fla. — There is only sunshine here in Red Sox camp, both figuratively and literally, so much so that one longtime Boston journalist has taken to calling it “Camp Sunshine.” The strengths of this Red Sox team seem plentiful, the weakness nitpicky. They had an unquestionably huge winter, leading to gigantic expectations for [...]
The Indianapolis-to-Charlotte/Indianapolis 500-Coca-Cola 600 “double” has been dead for seven years, but there could be a successor of sorts this year: A Charlotte to Sin City special. The Izod IndyCar Series confirmed its 2011 season finale at Las Vegas Motor Speedway with an enticing twist: A $5 million reward to any driver from another series [...]
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Alex Ovechkin blasted such a hard shot into the top corner of the net that Washington Capitals coach Bruce Boudreau couldn’t see the puck go in even after watching the replay. What chance, Boudreau wondered, did Pittsburgh goalie Marc-Andre Fleury have? “That’s what he does,” Boudreau said in amazement after Ovechkin’s goal, [...]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The New Jersey Devils appeared to be buried and out of the Eastern Conference playoff race months ago, but they apparently never got the memo. Dainius Zubrus (FSY) scored goals in the first and third periods and the Devils earned their seventh straight victory by beating the Carolina Hurricanes 4-1 on [...]
NEWARK (AP) — Cross impossible off the list of adjectives describing the New Jersey Devils’ playoff chances. If they keep winning at this rate, unlikely and improbable could soon be outdated words, too. The surging Devils still have a long way to go to really enter the Eastern Conference playoff race, but Ilya Kovalchuk (FSY) [...]
Bob Sanders appeared in only nine of a possible 48 regular-season games over the last three seasons. CAPTION By Brian Spurlock, US Presswire The Colts are parting ways with oft-injured safety Bob Sanders. Team owner Jim Irsay tweeted the news on Friday morning: We have released Bob Sanders today. We thank Bob 4 all his [...]
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