Palmeiro Returns to Texas for First Time
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Rafael Palmeiro wanted to end his career in Texas, where he spent 10 seasons and hit his 500th home run last year. Instead, the slugger got pushed aside.
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The Houston Astros and free-agent outfielder Orlando Palmeiro agreed to an $800,000, one-year contract Tuesday. The Astros also signed right-handed reliever Russ Springer to a minor league contract.
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BALTIMORE - Manny Ram&#xED;rez was back in Boston yesterday from his weekend hiatus at home in south Florida, according to Red Sox manager Terry Francona, and today is expected to pick up a bat to determine where he is in his recovery from a strained oblique.
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Goalkeeper Nick Rimando is returning to Real Salt Lake, two weeks after the team dealt him to New York.
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Roberto Alomar will try to rejuvenate his career with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
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Sammy Sosa is finding a groove in his comeback with the Texas Rangers. Sosa homered for the second time in spring training, going 2-for-3 Wednesday in the Rangers' 9-8 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks at Surprise, Ariz.
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PHILADELPHIA -- Andy Pettitte&#39;s first year as a non-Yankee ended yesterday in appropriately depressing fashion: His team was here at Citizens Bank Park, and he was back home in Houston, preparing for season-ending surgery.
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Sport: Fifa confirms that Brazil will host tournament for first time since 1950.
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The way things have turned their way in recent weeks, the Red Sox seemed strong enough to overcome even the loss of Manny Ramirez to an injury. But they were grateful just the same when the slugger returned yesterday after missing only one game with a left knee contusion.
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Manchester United received a much-needed boost in an injury-plagued season when French international striker Louis Saha returned to the first team for the first time in just over two months.
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Mark Teixeira needed only a single to hit for the cycle, and his Texas Rangers teammates wanted to see him make some baseball history.   "They were kidding me, telling me to trip over first base if I hit one into the gap," Teixeira said...
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Octavio Dotel knows he's joining a team that struggled last season. He also sees an opportunity to play in the World Series.
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David Wells could be back on the Yankee Stadium mound on opening day. With Pedro Martinez headed to the New York Mets and Curt Schilling's recovery from ankle surgery taking longer than expected, the Red Sox's newest acquisition might start the season opener against his former team at Yankee Stadium.
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Gary Sheffield returned to the New York Yankees' lineup Friday night &#151; at a new position &#151; for the first time since being sidelined by a left wrist injury in late May.
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Rafael Palmeiro didn't want his homecoming with the Baltimore Orioles to end after just one season, so he took a pay cut and accepted a one-year, $3 million contract yesterday.
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Dick Vitale's first "Welcome Back" came well before the start of the Duke-North Carolina game.
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Bill Parcells is returning to ESPN, the network he left before signing on to coach the Dallas Cowboys.