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Archive for August 30th, 2010
Monday, August 30th, 2010
Now pitching as a set-up reliever for the Orange County Flyers...
Mark Prior.
No player has better served as a symbol for the current way young pitchers are handled than Prior, who was drafted second overall by the Chicago Cubs in the 2001 draft (behind Joe Mauer and ahead of Mark Teixeira). ...
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Monday, August 30th, 2010
Coming into this year there were high expectations in Chicago for the Cubs. They looked like they were headed in the right direction and they looked like they would be a competitor in the NL Central after a second place finish in the division in 2009. However, that hasn’t exactly ...
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Monday, August 30th, 2010
It’s not very often that a team that comes so close to advancing to the NBA Finals gets a complete makeover in the offseason. However, that is exactly what happened with the Western Conference runners up this summer. Not only did the Phoenix Suns completely remake their roster, but the ...
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Monday, August 30th, 2010
Even though Reggie Bush and Vince Young have both had their moments under the sun for their respective teams, it's no longer possible to make the same solid argument that Mario Williams wasn't worthy of the No. 1 overall draft pick in the 2007 draft. Williams has been one of ...
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Monday, August 30th, 2010
With the Detroit Tigers ten games behind the first-place Minnesota Twins in the AL Central division, Johnny Damon did something very few players would ever do. He blocked a late season waiver-trade to a playoff contending team, but it wasn’t just any team. It was the Boston Red Sox, the ...
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Monday, August 30th, 2010
Many thought that Ron Artest's career would be all but over after he was involved in one of the NBA's most infamous fights, a brawl in which he entered the stands, instigating a fight between players and fans. Coming off an All-Star season, Artest was suspended 73 games, the longest ...
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Monday, August 30th, 2010
This interview took place on Friday, August 27, before the Arizona Cardinals played the Chicago Bears in their third preseason game. In that game, which the Cardinals won 14-9, Matt Leinart completed nine of ten passes for 84 yards and one touchdown (to Steve Breaston).
Every year it seems like at ...
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Monday, August 30th, 2010
What do you do when the player that everyone considers the savior of your franchise and others basically portray as the savior of the sport of baseball succumbs to an injury? Correct answer: Whatever you can to make you, your fans and your organization feel the slightest bit better.
That's what ...
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