Baseball: A whole new ball game?
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The Boston Red Sox finally laid to rest the &#39;Curse of the Bambino&#39; by defeating the &#39;Ruth-less&#39; New York Yankees this week.
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BOSTON Go figure this World Series. An old maxim in baseball is you always give away more runs with shoddy defense than you gain with torrid bats.
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ST. LOUIS -- Among the thousands of phrases around sports that you never, ever expect to hear -- a list that includes &quot;Speak up, TO,&quot; &quot;Bonds cracks me up,&quot; &quot;I can&#39;t wait for the NHL to start again,&quot; and &quot;More WNBA, please&quot; -- is this one:
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The numbers are so one-sided, it&#039;s startling. The American League is 8-0-1 in the last nine All-Star games. AL teams also swept the past two World Series and won an overwhelming 61 percent of interleague games against the NL this season.
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Six teams will play baseball games today, and two more will join them tomorrow. The Moneyball boys won&#39;t be one of them. Their reinvention of the game didn&#39;t work this season.
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well, sort of very own â-t. Louis Cardinals are in the World Series against the Boston Red Sox. (How did that happen?). Having been a Cardinals
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Baseball&#39;s Next Big Thing stands 6-foot-1 and weighs 190 pounds, human dimensions for a sport that used to be more human than most.
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Can you believe these baseball games of late? They are tension-filled, comeback-laden, back-and-forth, down-to-the-last-out sporting gems. And they are unwatchable.
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NEW YORK -- Seventh games are postseason baseball&#39;s mother lode. When you hit on one of those babies, you&#39;ve hit on something big.
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After a pennant race and postseason dotted with reversed rulings, baseball will get another chance to see who else wants to give replay a look. The topic is on the agenda for Thursday at the GM meetings. And there seems to be growing support among teams to join the NFL, NBA and NHL in using instant replay on calls such as fair or foul and homer or not, but definitely not balls and strikes.
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WASHINGTON - This has been quite an offseason for the game of baseball. Two weeks ago, the scourge of steroids finally and inevitably caught up with the sport, leaving the reputation of the game&#39;s biggest star in tatters.
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Baseballâs mass migration to Arizona for spring training is a development that would have been someoneâs spring fantasy a couple of decades ago.
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(Boston-AP, Oct. 21, 2004) _ Whether the Saint Louis Cardinals or Houston Astros play Boston in the first game of the World Series, they&#39;ll be dealing with a knuckleball.
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The Red Sox appear to be the center of the baseball universe.
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Be honest. One of the most exciting things the National League had going for it the past few years was Barry Bonds. His pursuit of the home run record - and the steroid controversy that followed him everywhere - made for entertaining days and nights across America. With that gone, what does the National League have left?
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Baseball&#39;s most star-crossed franchise is either on the verge of purging its demons or setting this town up for the ultimate tease and fall.
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With the new season in full swing, the NBA copes with its first controversy: a new synthetic ball thatâs driving its players batty.