Goodman Tries to Lure Baseball to Vegas
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Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman crashed baseball's winter meetings on Saturday with some shiny baubles and proposed to the sport in a manner befitting Britney Spears more than Bud Selig: Let's go to Vegas and get married.
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Steve Swindal, a managing general partner of the Yankees, has other business interests outside of baseball. Thatâs where the slot machines come in.
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Major League Baseball player Rick Helling, right, talks with an unidentified Player&#39;s Association representative as he arrives to attend meetings Monday, Dec. 6, 2004, at the Royal Palms Resort in Phoenix.
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No longer the Montreal Expos, not quite the Washington Nationals, baseball&#39;s sad, homeless ballclub-in-limbo ought to hit the road and barnstorm through the season.
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There's a method to spotting tomorrow's home runs.
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There's a method to finding tomorrow's home runs.
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Craig Biggio says he's more than ready to reach 3,000 hits. To do it in Milwaukee, he'll need to have a very productive game on Tuesday.
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Prior to the Houston Astros&#39; game with the travel-weary Colorado Rockies on Friday, a member of the media asked manager Phil Garner if he had a backup plan should Pete Munro get knocked out of the game early.
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General manager Mark Shapiro had set his sights on three pitchers who were free agents, and Shapiro has taken called strikes on each of them.
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DENVER - Trips to Boston serve as fitting bookends to the story that is Aaron Cook . Last week he joined the Rockies at Fenway Park for Games 1 and 2 of the World Series, and certainly that visit was a reward for the perseverance he has shown in his career.
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From McMansion rentals to designated drivers, locals advertise their services, hoping to hook football fans headed to the big game.
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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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Few of the thousands of Cardinal fans who will travel across the Bay this weekend are aware of the intense planning required to make Big Game a reality.
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Major League Baseball asks to meet with Rick Ankiel and Troy Glaus after the pair are accused of receiving performance-enhancing drugs from a Florida pharmacy.
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In the locker room late yesterday afternoon, Colorado reliever Matt Herges was saying how it used to be that nobody would embrace the chance to pitch at Coors Field, with its high altitude and reputation as a launching pad.
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By now, almost everyone has heard the rumors that the Chicago Cubs and parent owner the Tribune Company would like to move Sammy Sosa to greener pastures.
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They play a mile high and keep their baseballs in a humidor. They were tossing snowballs during practice this week. Their entire payroll is not much more than what the Red Sox paid for the privilege of eating sushi with Daisuke Matsuzaka. And they're on an odds-defying run that would have made a billionaire out of a Vegas dice-roller.