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Bruins lose in front of sparse crowd

BOSTON (AP) Jamie Langenbrunner scored two goals to lift the New Jersey Devils to a 3-1 win over the Boston Bruins on Thursday night in a game played in front of about only 1,500 people due to a major snowstorm.

Brian Gionta also scored and Martin Brodeur stopped 19 shots for the Devils, who halted a two-game losing skid that came after a nine-game winning streak.

Marc Savard had a power-play goal for Boston, which snapped a three-game winning streak at home. The Bruins played 11 of their previous 13 on the road.

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Indoor track meet postponed

The big girls indoor track meet scheduled for tonight at CCRI-Lincoln has been postponed due to the weather. The events will be rescheduled over several different days:

Monday at 5:30 p.m.: North Kingstown/Ponaganset

Monday at 8 p.m.: Hope/Warwick Vets/Westerly; Barrington/Coventry/East Providence; La Salle/Pilgrim/West Warwick; Cranston West/East Greenwich; Cumberland/Mt. Hope

Jan. 3 at 4 p.m.: Bay View/South Kingstown

Jan. 3 at 6:30 p.m.: Classical/St. Raphael

Jan. 10 at 6:30 p.m.: Central Falls/Rogers/Shea

Posted by Mike McDermott  at 11:18 AM | Permalink | Comments 0

A-Rod finalizes contract with Yankees

NEW YORK (AP) - Alex Rodriguez set another record for baseball's highest contract, finalizing his $275 million, 10-year agreement with the New York Yankees on Thursday.

A-Rod set the previous mark with his $252 million, 10-year deal with Texas in December 2000. Traded to the Yankees in 2004, he opted out of that contract Oct. 28, during the final game of the World Series.

Yankees senior vice president Hank Steinbrenner said New York would not negotiate further with Rodriguez because his decision eliminated the $21.3 million subsidy the Yankees were to receive from Texas from 2008-10, a figure negotiated at the time of the trade.

But Rodriguez then approached the Yankees through a managing director at Goldman Sachs and negotiated his new deal without agent Scott Boras.

Rodriguez won his third AL Most Valuable Player award last month after hitting .314 with 54 homers and 156 RBIs.

Posted by Mike McDermott  at 10:56 AM | Permalink | Comments 0

Download today's sports cover

Today's Sports cover profiles Erik Murphy, a big-time basketball talent from South Kingstown who has gone to a Massachusetts prep school in search of stronger competition. It's a common story among the best players in Rhode Island. Also, Shalise Manza Young reports on what coaches Bill Belichick and Eric Mangini were saying as their teams prepare to face off in Foxboro.

Click here to download the file in pdf format.

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ESPN source says Clemens named in report

ESPN is reporting that, according to a source close to a former Yankees trainer, Roger Clemens will be among the major league players named in the Mitchell report on performance-enhancing drugs in baseball.

The report, from ESPN The Magazine's Shaun Assael, says that George Mitchell's source is Brian McNamee, who worked for the Yankees and as a personal trainer for Clemens and Andy Pettitte. The source told Assael that he supplied Clemens with steroids while Clemens was with the Yankees and prior to his joining the team.

Click here to read the report on ESPN.com.

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Live video coverage of the Mitchell report

You can find live coverage of George Mitchell's press conference, scheduled for 2 p.m. today, to release his findings into performance-enhancing drugs in baseball, on projo.com via AP video. AP is also planning on providing live coverage of Bud Selig's news conference, which is scheduled at 4:30.

For now, you can see AP video reports previewing the release, and predicting what the report will say.

Posted by Mike McDermott  at 9:55 AM | Permalink | Comments 0

Time change for Dec. 19 Celtics game

The NBA announced a time change for the December 19, 2007 game between the Detroit Pistons and the Boston Celtics. The game in Boston, MA at the TD Banknorth Garden was originally scheduled to be played at 7:30 p.m. ET is now scheduled for a tip-off at 7:00 p.m. ET. The game will now be broadcasted by ESPN.

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