Despite Aches, Damon Happy to Play Near Home
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Johnny Damon said that he enjoyed playing so close to home so much he might want to finish his career with the Devil Rays.
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Johnny Damon, who has also been bothered by problems with his calves and back this season, has embraced the role of designated hitter, but still hopes to return to center field at some point.
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Look no further than his locker and the name on his back, figured Johnny Damon, who last night was the self-designated whipping boy in the Red Sox clubhouse.
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WALTHAM - When Ray Allen woke up yesterday morning, the sting of Wednesday's last-second loss to the Pistons had subsided, and thoughts turned to the next game.
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As the sun set Saturday evening, Michael Robinson lay face-up on a football field in Madison, Wis. At the same moment, Adam Taliaferro sat on a sofa in his State College apartment.
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If nothing else, Mike Lowell has a sense of humor about the circumstances that brought him to Boston. There are no delusions here. Just a sense of perspective and acceptance and - in his mind - a chance to garner some laughs.
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The University of Massachusetts knows the feeling. It was glad Boston College experienced it last night.
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Yankees center fielder Johnny Damon is expected to miss at least a few days of spring training for personal reasons.
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Boston Red Sox manager Terry Francona walked into his clubhouse Thursday morning and it was the same place he&#39;s enjoyed all season.
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Chris Webber is playing for Detroit, his hometown team, and he is winning again. To him, these gifts overshadow the paradoxical questions that have trailed him whenever he has left a place.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- Johnny Damon hit a first-inning home run in his return to the Red Sox lineup after missing four games with a jammed right pinkie, sparking Boston&#39;s 7-1 victory over the Oakland Athletics on Tuesday night.
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In the first inning last night at Fenway Park, Red Sox [stats, schedule] leadoff hitter Johnny Damon [stats, news] jump-started his team&#39;s offense by hitting a home run to right field.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Maybe this one will come back to haunt the Celtics on the day the ping-pong balls fall, but in the here and now, yesterday's 96-88 overtime victory over the Nets had an unmistakable feel-good quality about it.
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One of the most durable players in baseball, Johnny Damon , last night missed a fourth straight game for only the second time in his three seasons with the Red Sox. Damon, who leads the league in runs (106) and AL center fielders in on-base percentage (.390), remained hampered by a sprained right pinkie and yielded again ...
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No doubt Kenyon Martin is happy in Denver, a place where he feels wanted and is part of an up-and-coming team.
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The Red Sox have played a week's worth of games since Carlos Pe&#xF1;a enjoyed what he called ``the most special moment of my whole entire career," the 10th-inning walkoff home run he hit at Fenway Park before family and friends Sept. 4.
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â¢ Johnny Damon speaks the truth. Quoth the hairy one after Game 5, &quot;We&#39;re going in there with no pressure. It&#39;s something we&#39;re not supposed to do.