All Posts Tagged With: "major-league"
Counterpoint: Interleague Play A Win For Baseball
June 12, 1997, was a day that changed regular season Major League Baseball. And the Texas Rangers and Arlington helped usher in the era known as Interleague Baseball.
19May2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Key witness in baseball's Clemens trial in last day on stand
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The key witness in ex-baseball pitching ace Roger Clemens ‘ federal perjury trial faces a last day of marathon testimony on Friday, with the defense likely to hammer anew on his shifting story. Brian McNamee , Clemens’ former trainer, has spent about 20 hours this week in U.S
18May2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Why Baseball Managers Don't Make The (Relative) Big Bucks
Forbes released its list of the top-10 highest paid coaches in American sports on Tuesday. Bill Belichick tops the list; he makes $7.5 million per year
18May2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Obama kids Beckham about his age, underwear line
Associated Press – WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is ribbing soccer star David Beckham over his age and his outside interests, saying it’s a “rare man who can be that tough on the field and also have his own line of underwear.” Obama welcomed Beckham and the Los Angeles Galaxy to the White House Tuesday to celebrate their third Major League Soccer Cup. The president joked that the star-studded Galaxy, led by Beckham, midfielder Landon Donovan and forward Robbie Keane , are the ” Miami Heat of soccer.” Obama told the 37-year-old Beckham that half of his teammates “could be his kids. We’re getting old, David.” The president said the model and athlete was “holding up better than me.” Beckham generated attention in February when H&M aired ads for his new undergarment collection during the Super Bowl.
15May2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Baseball Fires Arbitrator Who Overturned Braun Ban
Less than three months after Major League Baseball objected to the overturning of Ryan Braun’s 50-game suspension for a positive drug test, Shyam Das, the arbitrator in that case, was fired, according to a person in baseball with direct knowledge of the decision.
14May2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
MLS boss Garber raves about new Houston stadium (The Associated Press)
HOUSTON (AP) Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber visited the Houston Dynamo’s new stadium on Friday, the eve of its opening, and talked about the expansion of the league. Garber raved about BBVA Compass Stadium and the growth of soccer in Houston. ”Houston …
11May2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Baseball's bid to speed up games is just a head fake
At long last, Major League Baseball may have found a solution to all those painfully laborious games stretching past three hours: Just don’t let pitchers fake the pickoff throw to third base, whirl and threaten to throw to first.
11May2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
MLB poised to pick off 1st-and-3rd trick move
By BEN WALKER | Associated Press – NEW YORK (AP) — Yankees reliever Rafael Soriano stepped toward third base and bluffed a pickoff throw, then twirled and made a soft toss to first. No dice, the Tampa Bay runners didn’t fall for that ol’ trick — they’d seen it too often. Starting next year, no one might ever see that exact play again
10May2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Major League Baseball to help tornado victims
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Major League Baseball and a charitable foundation run by players announced Wednesday that they are working with Habitat for Humanity to build nine homes for the tornado-ravaged communities of Joplin , Mo., and Tuscaloosa , Ala., with more than half of the funding coming from State Farm Insurance
10May2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
NHL approves Blues sale
ST. LOUIS — The NHL board of governors has approved the sale of the St.
9May2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued