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August 17, 2008 - August 23, 2008 Archives
11:50 AM Sat, Aug 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Joe McDonald Journal Sports Writer TORONTO - Red Sox pitcher Josh Beckett has been pushed back for a second time and is now scheduled to pitch on Friday against the White Sox at Fenway Park. The right-hander, who has......
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6:37 PM Fri, Aug 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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Patrick Sheehan and Brett Quigley both got themselves off the PGA Tour bubble today and earned spots in the second round of the FedEx Cup playoffs, the Deustche Bank Championship to be held next week at the TPC of......
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6:15 PM Fri, Aug 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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The Boston Celtics announced today that they have signed 2008 second-round draft pick Bill Walker. "Bill's hard work and skill development this summer has given us the belief that he can be in our short-term plans as well as our......
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3:31 PM Fri, Aug 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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Mike Szostak has prepared season previews for the Bryant College and University of Rhode Island football seasons. Click here to read the URI preview, and click here to see a video of URI training camp. Click here to read the......
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3:30 PM Fri, Aug 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Joe McDonald Journal Sports Writer TORONTO -- Red Sox pitcher Josh Beckett just began playing catch with pitching coach John Farrell. Trainer Mike Reinold is watching. The right-hander has been feeling numbness and tingling in his fingers on his......
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2:21 PM Fri, Aug 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Chang McClatchy Newspapers BEIJING - Faced with growing doubts about the ages of medal-winning Chinese women gymnasts, the International Olympic Committee has asked the leading international gymnastics body to look into whether the Chinese athletes were in fact......
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12:53 PM Fri, Aug 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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The Boston Celtics announced today that they have signed free-agent forward Darius Miles to a deal with undisclosed terms. Miles was drafted in 2000 out of East St. Louis High School by the Los Angeles Clippers and has not played......
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12:50 PM Fri, Aug 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike Downey Chicago Tribune BEIJING - Oh, how Howard Cosell would mock this. Having followed the halcyon days of Cassius and Smokin' Joe and Big George and the young Sugar Ray, how it would have pained the perspicacious Howard......
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12:09 PM Fri, Aug 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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The United States is one game away from reclaiming the gold medal in men's basketball. The Redeem Team raced out to a 21-point first-quarter lead, faltered in the second quarter but never let it get too close in the second......
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11:42 AM Fri, Aug 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Chang McClatchy Newspapers BEIJING - With just two days left before the end of the Olympic Games, some U.S. sports officials were fretting Friday about a likely U.S. second-place finish in the gold-medal count, far behind China, and......
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11:13 AM Fri, Aug 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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Well, maybe it will be a game after all. Playing without their biggest star, Manu Ginobili, the Argentine team roared back from a huge deficit in the second quarter and goes in the locker room trailing the United States by......
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11:11 AM Fri, Aug 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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Click the play button below to hear Joe McDonald's comments, recorded this morning. The topics: why the Red Sox struggle so much in Toronto, Paul Byrd's importance to the pitching staff, Byrd's third consecutive start against the Blue Jays, and......
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10:42 AM Fri, Aug 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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In Beijing, they've just concluded the first quarter of the semifinal men's basketball game between the United States and Argentina, and it is not much of a game at all. The United States has completely frustrated Argentina on the offensive......
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10:19 AM Fri, Aug 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Erik Matuszewski Bloomberg Lloy Ball shared hugs with his teammates and coaches, then ran to the stands after the U.S. men's volleyball team earned a spot in the Olympic gold medal game with a semifinal win over Russia. Just......
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10:04 AM Fri, Aug 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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BEIJING (AP) - Pau Gasol scored 19 points as Spain beat Lithuania 91-86 to advance to the Olympic gold medal game for the first time since 1984. Rudy Fernandez added 18 Friday night for the Spaniards, who will face either......
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9:53 AM Fri, Aug 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Keith Bradsher The New York Times HONG KONG - Four horses and their riders were suspended from Olympic show jumping on Thursday after preliminary tests suggested that the skin of the horses might have been treated with a banned......
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9:01 AM Fri, Aug 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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BEIJING (AP) - The Cuban baseball team will go for gold again, having beaten the United States 10-2 to reach the Olympic championship game. Alexei Bell hit a three-run homer in the eighth to put the punctuation mark on the......
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8:54 AM Fri, Aug 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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NEW YORK (AP) - Olympic superstar Michael Phelps will write a book telling the story behind his historic eight gold medal swims just in time for the holiday season, Free Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, announced Friday. In......
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8:42 AM Fri, Aug 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Amalie Benjamin The Boston Globe TORONTO - Ten million dollars. It's less than the Red Sox are paying David Ortiz or J.D. Drew or Mike Lowell. But it was a barrier that, according to Baseball America, no club had......
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8:37 AM Fri, Aug 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Paul Hagen Philadelphia Daily News Only a cynic would suggest that baseball hasn't made great strides in implementing a drug-testing policy during the last decade. And yet, a glance at the list of players who have been suspended reveals......
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8:33 AM Fri, Aug 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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Good morning. Joe McDonald examines the unsettled state of the Red Sox' starting rotation, Shalise Manza Young waits with the rest of us to see if Tom Brady will play tonight for the Patriots, and the Americans reach Olympic glory......
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8:28 PM Thu, Aug 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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Hall of Fame third baseman Mike Schmidt, appearing tonight at McCoy Stadium, said that Manny Ramirez's behavior in his final days in Boston was "from a player's standpoint, one of the worst things I've ever witnessed in the history of......
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4:05 PM Thu, Aug 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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By D. Orlando Ledbetter Atlanta Journal-Constitution ATLANTA -- Falcons defensive line coach Ray "Sugar Bear" Hamilton has options. Defensive end John Abraham and defensive tackle Grady Jackson are givens. The 22-year coaching veteran could use Chauncey Davis at end or......
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3:44 PM Thu, Aug 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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Click here to read Tom's weekly roundup of what's biting and where.......
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3:33 PM Thu, Aug 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- Rob Murray, an assistant coach with the Providence Bruins for the last five years, has been named P-Bruins' head coach. He replaces Scott Gordon, who last week was named head coach of the New York Islanders. "Rob's passion......
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3:31 PM Thu, Aug 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - The home of the New Hampshire Fisher Cats ranks first in a list of vegetarian-friendly minor league ballparks. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals released the rankings. Norfolk, Va.-based PETA says MerchantsAuto.com Stadium has the......
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3:05 PM Thu, Aug 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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TORONTO (AP) - Carl Pavano, written off by New York Yankees' fans, will return and start for the team on Saturday at Baltimore. The 32-year-old right-hander signed a $39.95 million, four-year contract with the Yankees before the 2005 season but......
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2:38 PM Thu, Aug 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Scott Fowler Charlotte Observer BEIJING - Hope Solo has a surname that suits her. The U.S. women's soccer goalie flies solo. Her position is solitary by nature. Her blunt comments less than a year ago got her ostracized by......
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2:19 PM Thu, Aug 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Journal Sports Writer There might not be a pro golfer anywhere with an attitude quite like Tom Johnson's. For that matter, there are not many athletes in any sport who have gone through as much as Johnson......
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2:12 PM Thu, Aug 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Michelle Kaufman The Miami Herald BEIJING -- Track and field and baseball aren't the only sports with performance-enhancing issues. Try heading over to Olympic table tennis. Yes, table tennis. Just outside the Peking University Gymnasium is a white tent......
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1:26 PM Thu, Aug 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Luciana Chavez The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) BEIJING - USA men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski and his staff did not appoint a team captain for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. LeBron James fancies himself the man for the job.......
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1:10 PM Thu, Aug 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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The Boston Red Sox have signed 31-year-old catcher David Ross to a minor-league contract in an attempt to add catching depth for the stretch drive, according to a report by Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports, who was quoting unnamed league......
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11:42 AM Thu, Aug 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Dan Baynes Bloomberg News The U.S. beat Brazil 1-0 in the Olympic women's soccer final in Beijing to win its third gold medal in four attempts. Carli Lloyd got the only goal six minutes into the first period of......
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11:39 AM Thu, Aug 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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Click the play button below to hear Joe McDonald's comments, recorded this morning. The topics: Clay Buchholz, Josh Beckett and Tim Wakefield, and Julio Lugo -- will he play again this season? Here's some of what Joe said about what......
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11:12 AM Thu, Aug 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Luciana Chavez The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) BEIJING - They dropped the stick. In the process, the men's and women's 400-meter relay teams for the United States watched a long, dominant history of American sprint relay teams slip......
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11:08 AM Thu, Aug 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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Erik Murphy, the South Kingstown native who is regarded as one of the top high school basketball players in the country, will taste a bit of the big time in the Big Apple. Murphy, a 6-foot-9 senior-to-be at St. Mark's......
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9:48 AM Thu, Aug 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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BEIJING (AP) - Diana Taurasi had 21 points and the U.S. women's basketball team beat Russia 67-52 Thursday to advance to their fourth straight Olympic gold medal game. The Americans will face either Australia or China on Saturday as they......
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9:09 AM Thu, Aug 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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NEW YORK (AP) - The NFL Players Association says executive director Gene Upshaw has died. The Hall of Fame guard was 63. As union head, Upshaw helped NFL players obtain free agency and the riches that came with it. His......
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9:05 AM Thu, Aug 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Howard Ulman AP Sports Writer FOXBORO - The New England Patriots played poorly on offense in their first exhibition game. The offense and defense were shaky in the second game. It's only the preseason, so there are no signs......
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9:00 AM Thu, Aug 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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AP photo / David J. Phillip BEIJING (AP) - The U.S. has failed to advance out of the first round of both the men's and women's 400-meter relays at the Olympics, dropping the baton in each race. First, men's......
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8:59 AM Thu, Aug 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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BEIJING (AP) - The U.S. Olympic softball team was denied a fourth straight gold medal, losing 3-1 on Thursday to Japan in the sport's final appearance in the games for at least eight years. The Americans' 22-game Olympic winning streak......
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