Baseball equipment lays on the field as Houston Astros pitcher Wesley Wright throws a ball during spring training baseball, Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012, in Kissimmee, Fla. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
BY JIM GAZZOLO / AMERICAN PRESS
If ever a team needed a fresh start, the Houston Astros are it.
Unfortunately for them and their fans, it won’t happen fast enough.
The Astros enter spring training like everybody else, with fresh hope.
Well, not like everybody else. There is no realistic hope of a championship run. A .500 ...
VIERA, Fla. (AP) — Stephen Strasburg will follow
the same path as Washington Nationals teammate Jordan Zimmermann in his
comeback
from elbow-ligament replacement surgery.
Nationals manager Davey Johnson said Monday that Strasburg will be limited to 150-160 innings this season. Zimmermann t ...
KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — In 113 major league at-bats, Houston pitcher Bud Norris has never hit a home run.
Now he feels like he's running out of time.
"I've got one year to get it done," Norris said. "Hopefully I can just get one and say I did it."
Norris and the Astros are entering their fin ...
HOUSTON (AP) — Baseball Hall of Fame broadcaster Milo Hamilton, who had the memorable call on Henry Aaron's 715th home run, will retire as the radio voice of the Houston Astros after the 2012 season.This will be the 84-year-old Hamilton's 28th year with the Astros and 59th year overall calling ...
BRIAN MAHONEY // American Press
AP Basketball Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — NBA owners and players resumed talks aimed at ending the lockout Wednesday, less than a week after three intense days of mediation didn't produce a new labor deal.The sides got back to the table with a small group meeting. Talks broke down last Thursday when players said owners ...
LAFAYETTE (AP) — Sometimes there are glaring problems that continue to eat at a coach.Sometimes the week of preparation was poor and the subpar performance on the weekend is just a byproduct of that approach.Junior wide receiver Harry Peoples did reveal he had concerns about the team's focus.B ...
BY JIM GAZZOLO / AMERICAN PRESS
When word of Dan Wheldon’s death circulated several days ago, it was like a bad dream being relived.
Wheldon was young, just 33, and only beginning to make a real name for himself in the sport he loved.
His future was bright.
But on that fateful day in Las Vegas two Sundays ago, Wheldon d ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Phillies have declined the 2012 options for pitchers Roy Oswalt and Brad Lidge.Oswalt gets a $2 million buyout instead of $16 million next season. Lidge receives a $1.5 million buyout instead of $12.5 million next year.Oswalt was 9-10 with a 3.69 ERA in 23 starts for th ...
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — It will cost the University of North Dakota about $750,000 to retire the Fighting Sioux nickname and logo, President Robert Kelley says.Kelley sent the cost estimate last week to a budget analyst and auditor with the North Dakota Legislative Council. The biggest chunk ...
BY JIM GAZZOLO / AMERICAN PRESS
This has turned into a simple case of labor pains.
While the rest of us await the birth of a new pro basketball season, players and owners fight over several issues that really center around one thing — control.
Yes, money is always an issue, but everybody agrees there is more than enough to ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A person familiar with the decision says Tulane head coach Bob Toledo has resigned.The person spoke to The Associated Press of Toledo's decision on condition of anonymity because the university was not planning to announce the move until later Tuesday.Toledo, a former head c ...
