ATLANTA Outside of his game-winning hit against them, the Oakland Athletics couldn't help but be happy for Mark Kotsay when they were in town this past weekend. Getting a closer look at their former teammate and the new home he's made for himself in Atlanta, they saw a player who has put his back problems behind him and established himself not only in center field but at the top of the Braves order.
ATLANTA — Jorge Campillo had too much time to reflect on his first major league start. Campillo made one start for Seattle in 2005 and got only four outs before leaving with an injured right elbow that led to season-ending Tommy John surgery.
BOSTON — Jon Lester can now add pitching a no-hitter to his already amazing list of accomplishments. The 24-year-old lefty, who survived cancer to pitch the World Series clincher for the Boston Red Sox last fall, shut down Kansas City 7-0 Monday night for the first no-hitter in the majors this season.
NEW ORLEANS — Manu Ginobili scored 26 points, hitting four free throws in the final minute, sending the Spurs to the Western Conference finals with a 91-82 victory over the New Orleans Hornets on Monday night in Game 7 of their second-round series.
Charles Barkley said Monday he will stop gambling, at least for now, less than a week after acknowledging he owed a $400,000 debt to a Las Vegas Strip casino.
CINCINNATI — Less than a month after the NFL reinstated Odell Thurman from his two-year suspension, the troubled linebacker is out of a job.
Alex Rodriguez is set to rejoin the slumping New York Yankees tonight after finishing his rehabilitation of a strained right quadriceps.
JACKSONVILLE — The most-anticipated transfer in Jacksonville State's Division I football history arrived in town Sunday night eager to make the most of what he's calling a fresh start.
JACKSONVILLE — Jacksonville State women's basketball coach Becky Geyer has reduced her coach staff by one, but hired two former Division I coaches to make it work.
Will Boubacar Sylla develop from the raw, 7-foot-1, 275-pound body Auburn basketball fans saw briefly last season into a productive college center? If he does, he'll do it at Wyoming.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida State receiver Preston Parker will have to sit out the first two games of the 2008 season after pleading guilty Monday to two misdemeanor charges.
You'll have to pardon me if you see me in the streets and I look a little flushed. At the conclusion of this past weekend's state softball tournament at Lagoon Park in Montgomery, it hit me. I realized it that high school sports season, well official games anyway, was over with until football cranks up in the fall.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — It was a matchup NASCAR could only dream of: Melanie Troxel and Ashley Force going head-to-head in the first all-female Funny Car elimination round.
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