One more loss for Melvin
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Within a 90-minute period Monday, he was fired as the manager of the Seattle Mariners and recommended for the same job with the Arizona Diamondbacks - and both by the same man, Mariners general manager Bill Bavasi.
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Randy Moss had an excused absence this time. The star receiver was mistakenly pulled off the field for a fake field goal, and the Minnesota Vikings misfired when it counted most on Sunday, squandering their chance to play in the NFC championship game with a 27-14 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles.
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SEATTLE -- Bob Melvin has been fired as manager of the Seattle Mariners, team spokesman Tim Hevly said Monday. Melvin said recently that he expected to return next season but wasn&#39;t sure if the front office had decided to keep him.
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Losers of four of five, the Gophersâ losses have been highlighted by a lack of rushing. Along with the rest of Minnesotaâs football team, the last five weeks have been especially hard on Laurence Maroney and Marion Barber III.
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PHOENIX -- Red Sox third baseman Mike Lowell was charged with his 11th error yesterday when he couldn't handle Carlos Quentin's ground ball in the fourth. The ball caromed off Lowell's glove to shortstop Julio Lugo , but he didn't have a play, the error allowing the Diamondbacks to load the bases. Daisuke Matsuzaka avoided calamity by striking out the ...
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ATHENS -- With Mardy Fish leading two sets to one against an opponent who seemed to be weakening and perhaps coming up lame, the gold medal match was his to lose yesterday.
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Midway through the fourth quarter of the Jets&#39; 22-17 loss in Buffalo on Sunday, Chad Pennington went up to Herman Edwards on the sidelines.
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Iowa State makes a slew of late-game errors and falls to Missouri, 17-14, in overtime. The loss sends Colorado to the Big 12 title game against Oklahoma.
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The Chicago White Sox won a game they needed. They're hoping they didn't lose a key player in the process. Jim Thome limped off the field in the second inning with a hamstring injury in a 7-5 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Wednesday night.
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This one hurt much more than the blowout losses to Washington and Baltimore. This one, No. 8 in the Giants&#39; latest string of defeats, was one they could have won, should have
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Marc Bulger can't get healthy fast enough for the St. Louis Rams. One day after missing a 20-7 loss to the Panthers with a sprained shoulder, Bulger resumed light throwing on Monday.
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Melvin just completed his second season at the helm of the  Mariners. Seattle finished last in the AL West this year with a  63-99 record after posting a 93-69 mark in 2003.
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Losers of four straight games, including Sunday&#39;s home defeat to the San Diego Chargers, the Panthers found out Monday that they have lost tailback DeShaun Foster for the balance of the season.
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Kevin Everettâs encouraging progress this week was not enough to lift his Buffalo Bills teammates against the Pittsburgh Steelers at Heinz Field on Sunday.
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The Diamondbacks will replace Wally Backman as manager, The Sporting News has confirmed, and his replacement will be Bob Melvin, according to the East Valley Tribune.
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WAYLAND -- Mike White's lips were bloodstained from a match earlier in the MIAA Division 3 wrestling tournament. He had the flu during last year's tournament, and he had already lost to his opponent, Zach Bates of Pioneer, in the championship round of the Lowell tournament.
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Pedro Mart&#xED;nez struggled in his first start in more than a month and the New York Mets missed a chance to clinch the National League East, losing to the Pittsburgh Pirates, 5-3, last night.