Mr Softball guns for second shot at Games
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It took Don Porter nearly three decades   to win Olympic status for women's softball and the   septuagenarian is in no mood to step aside before restoring his   sport to the zenith of international competition.
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The Killer B's are back to try again, facing a familiar nemesis. Who knows? This might be the last chance for Craig Biggio and Jeff Bagwell to show they can come through when it matters most.
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Metal bats have a magical quality. They can turn warning-track fly balls into home runs and pop-ups into hits.
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Arizona leftfielder Quinton McCracken left the game with a strained right groin after chasing after a foul ball in the first inning...Bautista extended his hitting streak to eight games...Los Angeles first baseman Hee-Seop Choi is mired in an 0-for-12
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After-school sports club are being launched to improve basic skills like throwing and catching.
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Hideo Nomo is getting another shot at pitching in America.
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For only the second time in a regular-season game, John Smoltz sensed an extra excitement that normally comes in the postseason.
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There's a method to finding tomorrow's home runs.
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Manny Ram&#xED;rez crushed a batting practice ball, sending it up about 12 rows into the seats in left-center field. He sent the next one a handful of rows into the seats in left. Then, on the final ball in his set, Ram&#xED;rez decimated the pitch, his swing propelling it near the spot where his 451-foot home run had ...
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Sammy Sosa found his power stroke, Kenny Rogers finally gave up a run and the Arizona Diamondbacks made it two triple plays in one weekend at spring training.
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By Douglas A. Kaid, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Jan. 31--LAKEWOOD RANCH -- Sometimes the other team is simply better. It's a tough thing to admit for competitors who spend all season trying to convince themselves they can't be beaten if they play their best.
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Bailed out by his offense for the second straight start after lasting less than four innings, Tim Wakefield had few specific reasons for his performances since returning from a missed outing because of back trouble. His health was fine. He thought his pitches were going to be fine. But the Devil Rays - almost always fooled by the knuckleball - ...
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ATHENS -- After Australia beat the United States softball team in a preliminary-round game four years ago on a walk-off homer, American ace Lisa Fernandez received a card from the Aussie team with the message, &quot;Lisa, we got your number.&quot;
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When Australia scored a token run in the fifth inning of the gold medal game Monday at the Olympic Softball Stadium, it was the first scored here against the US - in the ninth and final game
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Larry Walker is back in the playoffs for the first time in nearly a decade, and he&#39;s making the most of his second shot. In the Cardinals&#39; playoff National League opener, the three-time batting champion led the hit parade.
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Daisuke Matsuzaka threw another 50 pitches of live batting practice yesterday, including three to surprise visitor Manny Ram&#xED;rez .
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Good shooters keep shooting. And that's exactly what Kyle Stockmal and the Watertown boys' basketball team did.