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July 20, 2008 - July 26, 2008 Archives
10:46 PM Sat, Jul 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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JUNIORS (13-14) -- Championship final: Johnston 15, Barrington5. MAJORS (9-10) -- Cumberland National 10, Johnston American 0; Middletown 7, Warwick American 3. MAJORS (10-11) -- Lincoln 5, Cranston Western 4; Portsmouth 12, Warwick Continental 1, 4 inn. JUNIOR SOFTBALL......
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8:11 PM Sat, Jul 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Thom Cahir Email
Sunday, July 27th #16 Ocean State Financial-Post 10 at #1 Gershkoff Auto/Auburn Post 20, 5pm, Cranston Stadium (first game, best-of-three) #2 Shields Post 43 at #15 Providence Panthers, 1:00, Davis Park, Providence (Shields leads series, 1-0) #3 Cra-Mar Meadows at......
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3:11 PM Sat, Jul 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Shalise Manza Young Journal Sports Writer The Patriots have just announced the signing of RB Lamont Jordan. The NFL Network is reporting it as a one-year deal. To make room for him, WR Robert Ortiz was released. Jordan, 29,......
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3:06 PM Sat, Jul 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
As the Yankees are on the field taking batting practice at Fenway, the guy scheduled to play left field today and hit seventh in the New York lineup is on his way to the park. Xavier Nady, obtained in......
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1:49 PM Sat, Jul 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
By Joe McDonald Journal Sports Writer BOSTON - Take a deep breath Red Sox fans, because Manny is back in the lineup. He's playing left field and batting fourth. "Don't even worry guys,I" he said to a group of reporters......
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1:00 PM Sat, Jul 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
What shapes up as a wild day for the Red Sox has gotten off to an interesting start, most notably on the Manny Ramirez front. For one of the rare times all season, the Boston lineup was not posted......
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2:03 PM Fri, Jul 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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ESPN's Chris Mortensen is reporting this hour that the New York Jets, a team that already has a quarterback competition involving Chad Pennington and Kellen Clemens, have received permission to talk to Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre. Favre, who......
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1:49 PM Fri, Jul 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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BARNSTABLE, Mass. (AP) - A Cape Cod man accused of beating a man with a baseball bat because he thought he was a Yankees fan was released from jail Friday by a judge who said the media had made too......
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12:38 PM Fri, Jul 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - A minor league pitcher accused of throwing a ball that hit a fan during a bench-clearing brawl was charged with felonious assault. (Click here to see a video) Peoria Chiefs pitcher Julio Castillo was arrested Thursday......
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12:17 PM Fri, Jul 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
The New England Patriots Alumni Club is now selling tickets to its Game with the Greats, a chance for fans to watch the broadcast of the Oct. 5 Patriots-49ers game in San Francisco with some of the team's all-time great......
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12:12 PM Fri, Jul 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
By Shalise Manza Young Journal Sports Writer Bill Belichick just held his daily press conference; and here are some key points from the chat: Getting Jerod Mayo signed: "It's good to have every player in camp. But we worked with......
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12:09 PM Fri, Jul 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Click the play button below to hear Sean's comments, recorded this morning. The topics: the Yankees' surprising pitching success, Joba Chamberlain's first start at Fenway Park, and which of these two teams is better positioned to win the division. Here's......
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11:24 AM Fri, Jul 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) - Indianapolis receiver Marvin Harrison walked onto the field to cheers Friday, while the Colts opened their first training camp practice since 1998 without quarterback Peyton Manning. Harrison missed most of last season because of a......
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10:26 AM Fri, Jul 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Earlier this week we mentioned that Providence Bruins coach Scott Gordon and former Providence and Boston Bruins coach Mike Sullivan were among seven candidates for head coach of the New York Islanders. Today Newsday reports that both Sullivan and Gordon......
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10:22 AM Fri, Jul 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Chaka Daley, head coach of the Providence Colege men's soccer team, has signed a contract extension to remain with the Friars through 2013, the college announced today. Daley, who took over the program in the summer of 2000, led the......
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9:52 AM Fri, Jul 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
By Marc Topkin St. Petersburg Times KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- As executive vice president Andrew Friedman looks to acquire a right-handed-hitting outfielder, the Rays might yet have another intriguing option. Rocco Baldelli played rightfield for Double-A Montgomery on Wednesday his......
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9:36 AM Fri, Jul 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
By Danielle Sessa Bloomberg It took nine years for Rich "Goose" Gossage to get enough support to be voted into the baseball Hall of Fame and be recognized as one of the greatest closers in history. He says the wait......
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8:09 AM Fri, Jul 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
MADRID, Spain (AP) - Now that the Boston Celtics are once again NBA champions, American basketball's next great championship hope falls to the men's Olympic team. "They need it worse than the Celtics needed a championship this year," Paul Pierce......
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8:03 AM Fri, Jul 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
HOUSTON (AP) -- Nancy Lieberman savored every moment of her brief return to professional basketball, even throwing in a no-look pass. The 50-year-old Hall of Famer had two assists and two turnovers in the Detroit Shock's 79-61 loss to the......
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7:56 AM Fri, Jul 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- Fifteen players and both managers were ejected -- and a fan was sent to the hospital -- following a 10-minute, benches-clearing brawl in a Class-A minor league game between affiliates of the Cincinnati Reds and......
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9:34 PM Thu, Jul 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Corey Bourassa Email
The Boston Red Sox today announced several new amenities for fans visiting Fenway Park to usher in the second half of the 2008 season. These amenities include improvements to existing facilities and introduction of brand new items in the ballpark......
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8:54 PM Thu, Jul 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Outfielder Brandon Moss today was optioned to Pawtucket. While the Red Sox have not added anyone to their roster yet, it is assumed that David Ortiz will rejoin the team for the start of the weekend's series against the New......
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8:43 PM Thu, Jul 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Corey Bourassa Email
TAMPA, Fla. -- Barry Bonds in pinstripes? If nothing else, the New York Yankees talked about it. High-ranking Yankees officials gathered for meetings at their spring training complex Thursday, a day off for the team before it begins an important......
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5:47 PM Thu, Jul 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Corey Bourassa Email
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- America East Commissioner Patrick Nero announced today that Burrillville native Kerri Fagan, former Associate Director of Championships at the NCAA, has been hired as Senior Associate Commissioner effective September 2. "We are extremely excited to have Kerri......
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5:32 PM Thu, Jul 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Corey Bourassa Email
After a three and a half-hour rain delay, the third and final round of the Fidelity Investments Junior Golf Classic at The Bay Club in Mattapoisett, Mass., was canceled. None of the 74 golfers stepped foot on the course yesterday,......
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5:32 PM Thu, Jul 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Chris Venditto Email
Jerod Mayo is on the field for the Patriots' second training-camp session of the day. The team announced earlier this afternoon it had reached a conrtract agreement with the first-round draft pick. --SHALISE MANZA YOUNG......
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4:24 PM Thu, Jul 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Corey Bourassa Email
Matt Broome finally broke through and won a golf championship yesterday, and he did it in one of his biggest events of the year. The Rhode Island Country Club star and Barrington High grad won the New England Amateur......
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4:01 PM Thu, Jul 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
The Pawtucket Red Sox won an afternoon game, 11-6, today in Columbus to earn a split of their four-game series with the Clippers. Charlie Zink (12-3) pitched six innings for the win, while the PawSox got home runs from Gil......
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3:16 PM Thu, Jul 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Shalise Manza Young Journal Sports Writer The Patriots have announced the signing of first-round pick Jerod Mayo. The 10th overall pick, out of Tennessee, Mayo can now get down to the business of learning the inside linebacker position. Terms......
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2:51 PM Thu, Jul 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Barry Bonds in pinstripes? If nothing else, the New York Yankees plan to talk about it. Yankees officials gathered for high-level meetings at their spring training complex Thursday, a day off for the team before it......
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1:36 PM Thu, Jul 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Cumberland's Rocco Baldelli, sidelined since May 2007 because of lingering hamstring problems and what doctors have told him and the Rays is a mitochondrial disorder that causes extreme fatigue, played outfield for the first time during his rehab work for......
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1:18 PM Thu, Jul 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) - The Detroit Shock came up with a way to distract some attention away from their skirmish earlier this week. The Shock signed 50-year-old Nancy Lieberman (shown at right playing for Old Dominion in 1979), a......
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1:04 PM Thu, Jul 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
The Patriots inadvertently left S Rodney Harrison off the physically unable to perform list that we posted earlier. Harrison is the 12th man on the list.......
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12:57 PM Thu, Jul 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
The Bruins have traded center Pascal Pelletier to the Chicago Blackhawks in exchange for center Martin St. Pierre, according to the Blackhawks' Web site. Pelletier, 25, played his first six NHL games with the Bruins last season. He was a......
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12:39 PM Thu, Jul 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
By Paul Kenyon Journal Sports Writer For one day a week, sports talk is back on the radio in Rhode Island. If the guy running the show seems familiar, well, that's only because he is. Scott Cordischi, who spent 14......
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12:13 PM Thu, Jul 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
AP photo / Winslow Townson Pedro Martinez and his father, Pablo, watch Ramon Martinez pitch a minor-league rehab game in Lowell, Mass., in this 1999 photo. SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) -- New York Mets right-hander Pedro Martinez was......
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12:11 PM Thu, Jul 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Journal photos / Gretchen Ertl Tom Brady and Vince Wilfork stretch during the morning camp session, while fans hope to catch glances of players entering practice in Foxboro.......
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11:36 AM Thu, Jul 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
By Bob Bensch Bloomberg New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter spoke to Bloomberg Radio's "On the Ball" program. The interview will air this weekend. On whether he could see himself playing for another team: "Hopefully not. It's a business and......
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11:23 AM Thu, Jul 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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Click the play button below to hear Sean's comments, recorded this morning. The topics: Justin Masterson, Jed Lowrie and the possibility of obtaining Juan Uribe, Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz. Here's what Sean had to say about the Sox possibly......
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10:56 AM Thu, Jul 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Fans who wanted a glimpse of Red Sox slugger David Ortiz had to deal with rain delays and an unwanted visitor in right field. After Ortiz left the game, a skunk scampered into right field in......
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10:50 AM Thu, Jul 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
By TOM MEADE Journal Sports Writer The big news this week is the 75-pound striper that East Greenwich angler Peter Vican caught about a mile off Block Island's New Harbor (photo at right). The full story about the catch will......
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