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 Twins Announce Puckett Ceremony |
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Thursday, March 09 2006 @ 09:04 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
 The Minnesota Twins needed a big building for a tribute to Kirby Puckett. It was only natural they’d choose the Metrodome, where Puckett won the hearts of so many fans.
The Twins announced plans to honor Puckett in a free public ceremony Sunday evening at the stadium, with testimonials from family, friends, and current and former Twins, along with video highlights of his life and career. The family plans a private ceremony earlier that day.
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| NFL Reaches Deal |
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Thursday, March 09 2006 @ 09:02 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
 NFL owners and players agreed to a six-year extension of their collective bargaining agreement on Wednesday, ending weeks of tense negotiations and the threat of free agent chaos.
Media reports said owners voted overwhelming 30-2 to accept the players' union's latest proposals, restoring order to one of North America's most successful and profitable sporting leagues.
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| Culpepper Wants to Part Ways |
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Thursday, March 09 2006 @ 09:00 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
 Quarterback Daunte Culpepper has asked the Minnesota Vikings to trade him or release him from his contract.
"If a trade does not happen, then I am asking the Vikings to terminate my contract as soon as possible," Culpepper wrote in an e-mail to reporters.
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| NFL Owners to Vote Today |
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Tuesday, March 07 2006 @ 08:56 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
 The extension of the NFL’s labor agreement is now up to the owners. That’s exactly what the players have been expecting all along.
The owners meet Tuesday at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport to vote whether to accept the latest proposal given them by the NFL Players Association. But to make it financially acceptable, they will have to agree first among themselves on expanded revenue sharing, just what Gene Upshaw, the union’s executive director, has been saying in more than a year’s worth of talks.
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| Kirby Puckett Dies From Stroke |
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Tuesday, March 07 2006 @ 08:52 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
 Former Minnesota Twins baseball ace and Hall of Famer Kirby Puckett died on Monday, a day after suffering a stroke at his Arizona home, the Twins said.
Puckett, 45, was a 10-time All-Star outfielder who helped the Twins to two World Series in 1987 and 1991 and became one of the team's most popular players. Puckett retired in 1996 due to vision problems associated with glaucoma.
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| NFL Labor Talks Break Off |
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Wednesday, March 01 2006 @ 09:57 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
 NFL labor talks broke off three days before the start of free agency, leaving teams and players in a quandary about negotiating new contracts.
Gene Upshaw, executive director of the NFL Players Association, spent the last three days meeting in New York and Washington with commissioner Paul Tagliabue.
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| Clemens' Pitches Son Inside |
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Tuesday, February 28 2006 @ 02:47 PM CST 0 comments Post a comment
 Roger Clemens’ son took dad deep on the Rocket’s first pitch of spring training, crushing a trademark fastball over the left-field fence Monday.
“That was probably one of the harder fastballs I cut loose,” Roger Clemens said after throwing to Koby and other Houston Astros minor-leaguers. “He got my attention.”
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| First Woman in Hall of Fame |
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Tuesday, February 28 2006 @ 02:42 PM CST 0 comments Post a comment
 Effa Manley was a baseball pioneer who used the sport to help advance civil rights causes.
The former Negro League team co-owner is now the first woman elected to the baseball Hall of Fame.
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| White Sox GM Calls Thomas Idiot |
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Monday, February 27 2006 @ 11:06 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
 Angry and disgusted with the latest comments from former slugger Frank Thomas, Chicago White Sox general manager Kenny Williams fired back Sunday, calling the two-time MVP "an idiot."
"He's an idiot. He's selfish. That's why we don't miss him," Williams said, responding to a Thomas interview that appeared in The Daily Southtown, a newspaper in the Chicago suburb of Tinley Park, Ill.
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| Garnett Ejected for Hitting Fan |
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Monday, February 27 2006 @ 11:04 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
 Minnesota Timberwolves all-star forward
Kevin Garnett was ejected from an NBA game in Minneapolis after a ball he tossed into the stands hit a fan.
Garnett could face a suspension from the league.
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| Cavaliers Fans Boo King James |
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Saturday, February 25 2006 @ 09:38 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
 Gilbert Arenas has had nights like the one LeBron James had against Washington.
Arenas scored 26 points, and the Wizards shut down James in the second half in a 102-94 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Friday night.
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| US Skier Expelled for Fight |
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Saturday, February 25 2006 @ 09:33 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
 U.S. freestyle skier Jeret Peterson has been expelled from the Winter Olympics after getting into a fight, U.S. officials said on Saturday.
Peterson, who finished seventh in the freestyle skiing aerials on Thursday despite completing one of the most difficult jumps, was sent home early after "an altercation with an acquaintance from the United States," the U.S. Olympic Committee said in a statement.
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| Steve Franchise |
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Thursday, February 23 2006 @ 10:51 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
 After the New York Knicks acquired Steve Francis, they played as if they were trying to justify the need for him.
The Knicks had 13 assists and 16 turnovers in their 103-83 loss to the Miami Heat on Wednesday night. So it shouldn’t take much for Francis to crack New York’s lineup.
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| Young Won't Perform at NFL Combine |
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Tuesday, February 21 2006 @ 12:51 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
 Young, the two-time Rose Bowl MVP expected to be among the top three picks in the NFL draft, received the Davey O’Brien Award that goes to the nation’s best quarterback. He was named the O’Brien winner in December, weeks before his Texas Longhorns beat Southern California and 2004 Heisman Trophy winner Matt Leinart for the national championship.
Next up is the NFL’s scouting combine in Indianapolis later this week, but Young isn’t planning to throw or run there.
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| Brees Becomes Free Agent |
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Tuesday, February 21 2006 @ 12:48 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
 After getting injured on a play he should have been on the sidelines, San Diego general manager A.J. Smith said Monday the team has declined to designate Brees as its franchise or transition player. The deadline for designating a player with either tag is Thursday.
If the Chargers had slapped either of the tags on Brees, he would be guaranteed nearly $10 million in a one-year salary next season. That’s too rich for the Chargers, considering Brees was injured in the team’s season finale, tearing the labrum in his throwing shoulder while trying to recover a fumble.
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| Ricky Appealing Claims He Didn't Toke |
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Tuesday, February 21 2006 @ 12:43 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
 As mentioned yesterday, Ricky Williams failed yet another drug test. Williams is said to be appealing the positive drug test which may force the Miami Dolphins star to sit out the 2006 season, a person familiar with the case said Monday.
f the positive test result is upheld, it would be Williams’ fourth violation of the NFL’s substance-abuse policy, meaning at least a one-year suspension.
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| Bettis Joins NBC Studio Team |
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Monday, February 20 2006 @ 09:51 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
 Jerome Bettis joined NBC on Sunday as a studio analyst for Sunday night football games.
“I am looking forward to this new opportunity and to still be involved in the game I love,” Bettis said.
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| Ricky Takes Another Toke |
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Monday, February 20 2006 @ 09:49 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
 Miami Dolphins running back Ricky Williams apparently is in trouble with the NFL again.
The Miami Herald reported on its Web site Sunday night that Williams faces at least a one-year suspension from the NFL after testing positive for drug use a fourth time under the league’s substance abuse policy.
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| Gretzky Won't Be Charged |
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Thursday, February 16 2006 @ 10:15 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
 Janet Jones, wife of hockey legend Wayne Gretzky, probably will not be charged with a crime in connection with an illegal gambling ring allegedly financed by Phoenix Coyotes assistant Rick Tocchet and a New Jersey state trooper, ESPN reported Wednesday.
A spokesman for the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice told ESPN that it is unlikely that additional people will be charged in connection to the gambling ring.
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Lindsey Jacobellis had the Olympic women’s snowboardcross won, and then — incredibly, inexcusably — she made one last move on the next-to-last jump and fell.
