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Archive for February 21st, 2012

Billy Beane, Oakland A’s Face “Unique Situation” as AL West Ramps Up Spending

Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

With the Academy Awards coming up this weekend, Moneyball is back in the headlines. So is the opening of spring training in Major League Baseball. It's an interesting juxtaposition given that the Athletics are expected to break camp with a pretty young team to send up against a pair of ...

Alvin Gentry Refuses to Waste His Energy Thinking About the Future of Steve Nash

Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

The Phoenix Suns and Alvin Gentry are in a pretty tough spot. On the one hand, the Suns are trying to win games; their goal coming into the season was to be a playoff team and Gentry has to find a way to motivate his players to do just that. ...

David Price: “I feel like this might be the best Rays team that I have ever been on”

Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

Thanks to a great late season run and a tremendous pitching staff, the Tampa Bay Rays snuck into the playoffs last year only to have that ride come to an end at the hands of the Texas Rangers. However, the future is bright in Tampa Bay. Despite playing in the ...

Tim Wakefield: “If I do get a call in May or June or whatever, I’ll have to entertain those options.”

Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

Tim Wakefield has announced his retirement from the game of baseball after 19 seasons. The Red Sox rubber arm had a remarkable run given the nature of his specialty pitch: the knuckleball. This pitch can be virtually unhittable, and even harder for hitters to pick up when Wakefield's  knuckleball was ...

Bill O’Brien: “My goals are to make alumni and our letterman very proud of the football team we put on the field in the fall.”

Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

It's quite a challenge to replace a legend at any big time college football institution, especially at Penn State University, where the king that was Joe Paterno coached for 46 years before being dethroned by an alleged child sex abuse scandal involving former assistant Jerry Sandusky.  Throw in Paterno's passing, ...