BASEBALL STRIKE REPRIEVE?
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Japan&#39;s baseball players are likely to decide not to strike again with club representatives set to accept their demand to allow a new league team from next season.
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Theyâve gotta stop meeting like this? Donât tell Yanks, Sox; theyâll do battle for 46th time in 17 months. Who will the 2004 ALCS and in how many games?
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If you play baseball, or care about anyone who plays baseball, it is the bane of all existence. It can impact the happiness of entire households for days or even weeks at a time. And there is almost nothing you can do to change things. Other than wait. And hope for a little good luck.
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Those of you with the Rockies in four are out of the pool. It was a nice thought, I suppose. With 21 of 22 and seven straight in the postseason, why not run the table? But there had to be some sort of shelf life on karma, right? Four or five days, max, I'd say.
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Q: Is there anything Major League Baseball can do right now as far as punishing Bonds and Jason Giambi for admitting they used steroids in their grand jury testimony?
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Linda Cropp. What are you thinking? What could your motivation possibly have been to issue your 11th-hour amendment to the Nationalsâ stadium deal that would require Major League Baseball to pay half of the bill?
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Bob Davidson is among three umpires who will be rehired by major league baseball as part of a settlement of the nasty dispute that cost 22 umps their jobs in 1999. Six more will split &#36;2.3 million in severance pay.
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Transport strike keeps broad-based incomes talks at standstill The deadline for a broad-based incomes agreement is being pushed back by the ongoing transport strike.
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The United Auto Workers union has set an 11 a.m. ET strike deadline for its 73,000 members at General Motors, although talks between the union and the company are still ongoing. The company said in a statement that it was still hopeful of avoiding a shutdown.
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With a tentative deal reached in the writer's strike, it's all over but the voting. Guild members can return to work immediately after the vote, but that process could take days
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The Oakland Athletics are baffled by their late-season collapse. It's so completely out of character. The A's are headed home for an even longer winter this year thanks to their problematic pitching in crunch time and a sputtering offense that caused this club to miss the playoffs for the first time in five years.
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First, Marco Scutaro. Now, Manny Ram&#xED;rez. It's not supposed to work this way. A starting pitcher is not supposed to pitch seven or eight innings and give up one solo home run -- and take the loss. It's certainly not supposed to happen two starts in a row.
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The NHL and the players' association are taking another shot at saving the hockey season, which has been on the brink of cancellation for weeks. A two-day meeting last week produced no tangible progress toward a labor agreement. The league and the union will meet again Wednesday in Toronto, but no formal proposal will be presented by the league.
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Nomo improved to 5-5 in his career against Arizona in his 297th career start...Giovanni Carrara retired the side in the seventh for the Dodgers...The Diamondbacks activated pitcher Scott Service from the 15-day disabled list and recalled pitchers Randy
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ALLIANCE, Neb. - Talk about extra innings. A baseball game that began at 10 a.m. on Saturday in Alliance ended Sunday at 4:05 p.m.  That's 30 hours and five minutes between the first pitch and the final out.
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Judiciary Committee grants file swipers a reprieve.
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Baseball fans wanting to take their minds off a playoff not involving the Yankees can still find an October classic in the sky. The last total lunar eclipse in North America until March 2007