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Verlander signs extension with Tigers, potential for over $200 million
LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — Detroit Tigers ace Justin Verlander agreed Friday to a $180 million, seven-year contract, topping Felix Hernandez for the richest deal for a pitcher in baseball history. "I love this city & the fans," Verlander tweeted....
Tags: Felix Hernandez, Justin Verlander, MLB Most Valuable Player Award, Awards and Prizes, Baseball
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Las Vegas: Stars, athletes and golfers team up for Jordan tourney
Athletes and entertainers will come together April 4-7 in Las Vegas to swing their clubs for charity at the 12th annual Michael Jordan Celebrity Invitational. The star-studded event, in its third year in Las Vegas, will be held at the top-ranked Shadow...
Tags: Golf, Celebrities, Sports, Make-A-Wish Foundation of America, Michael Phelps
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LeBron proper mix of fun, professionalism
Over the past several days, a brush fire has raged across the sports shows as everyone struggles for new conversation points about LeBron James' amazing, perhaps historic, regular season. This new debate centers on why LeBron, ahem, dunks so much in pre-...
Tags: Mario Chalmers, Kobe Bryant, Human Interest, Gregg Popovich, Shaquille O'Neal
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Do Dodgers need a mad scientist for good clubhouse chemistry?
It’s getting tough for the rich. Just ridiculous. They can’t buy love, and now it seems, chemistry. Hope they’re still able to nab a swimsuit model. I mean, there has to be some perks beyond being first in line for a Tesla. Perhaps...
Tags: Brandon Belt, Vin Scully, Science and Technology, Baseball, Chemistry
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Lloyd Waters: Baseball, apple pie and heroes
Back in the late 1950s and early ’60s, the school ground in Dargan was the place to be if you wanted to play a little baseball. All the kids in the community would enjoy their summer vacations from school by playing the most popular sport....Tags: Sammy Sosa, Apples, Baseball, Whitey Ford, The Herald-Mail
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Mike Piazza had dreams of using karate to take out Roger Clemens
So Mike Piazza was planning to go all Ralph Macchio on Roger Clemens? And then when he had the opportunity, decided just maybe it wasn’t his best idea? Hey, that’s show business, or at least the autobiography business. Piazza’s...
Tags: New York Yankees, Baseball, New York Mets, Karate, Elisabeth Shue
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Slugger Frank Thomas chastises baseball's steroid users
Former major league slugger Frank Thomas, who is eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame next year, let it be known that he's glad he thrived through hard work rather than taking the easier route and using performance-enhancing drugs. During the...
Tags: Tom Glavine, Baseball, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, American League, Sports
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Many Hall of Famers seem glad Clemens, Bonds were snubbed
Al Kaline, Dennis Eckersley and Mike Schmidt have a few things in common. One, they are all members of baseball's Hall of Fame. Two, they are all glad no one was elected to join them this year. “I’m kind of glad that nobody got in this year,...
Tags: Frank Robinson, Mike Schmidt, Mark McGwire, Philadelphia Phillies, Baseball
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Could it finally be year for Dodgers-Angels Freeway World Series?
Here’s a little dream that’s been spinning around unfulfilled since 1966 -- a freeway World Series. Dodgers vs. Angels, cars streaming back and forth on the Golden State Freeway, all the baseball world focused on Southern California. It&...
Tags: Adrian Gonzalez, Baseball, Consumers, Scott Rolen, Mike Piazza
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Did Mike Piazza use steroids? 'I didn't,' he says in book
The Hall of Fame election came and went without the release of Mike Piazza's long-awaited book. Piazza might have been the best-hitting catcher in baseball history, but he and everyone else in a star-studded field of candidates was rejected in an election...
Tags: The New York Times, Sammy Sosa, Mike Piazza
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Flagging U.S. interest reflected in mediocre WBC roster
Will the third time be the charm for the World Baseball Classic? Not if the underwhelming U.S. roster is any indication. While many of Commissioner Bud Selig's innovations have enjoyed immediate success — especially expanded playoffs and...
Tags: Kyle Lohse, John Axford, Seattle Mariners, Baseball, Yovani Gallardo
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Armstrong's turn on Oprah's couch
When Lance Armstrong met last month with his own personal Javert, Travis Tygart of the anti-doping agency, he said after the frustrating meeting, "You don't hold the keys to my redemption. "Only one person holds the keys to my redemption, and that's me,...
Tags: Whitney Houston, Lisa Marie Presley, Baseball, David Letterman, Michael Jackson
Mar 29, 2013
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|Story| Los Angeles Times
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|Column| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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Feb 10, 2013
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Feb 9, 2013
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Jan 19, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Jan 16, 2013
|Column| Baltimore Sun
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