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MLB Takes Over Operation of Los Angeles Dodgers
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- Major League Baseball is taking the extraordinary step of assuming control of the Los Angeles Dodgers, a team increasingly paralyzed by its owners' bitter divorce. Once among baseball's glamour franchises, the Dodgers have been consumed by infighting since Jamie McCourt filed for divorce after 30 years of marriage in October 2009, one week after her husband fired her as the team's chief executive. Frank McCourt accused Jamie of having an affair with her bodyguard-driver and performing poorly at work. Lenny Ignelzi, AP Los Angeles Dodgers' Aaron Miles high-fives with ...
Drivers Donate $61,000 for Giants Fan Beaten Into a Coma at Dodger Stadium
By not in system - AOL NewsMotorists driving by Dodger Stadium on Monday donated $61,000 to help San Francisco paramedic Bryan Stow, the Giants fan who was beaten into a coma last month by two men. It was the second time in less than a month that the parking lot hosted a fundraiser -- on March 14, passing drivers and pedestrians helped victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. Stow was severely beaten March 31 at the stadium by two men wearing Dodgers clothes and remains in a coma. No arrest has been made in connection with the attack. Donations were accepted between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. with the final ...
Ramirez Avoids Drug Ban, at Ease With Retirement
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- Unwilling to face another drug ban, Manny Ramirez is leaving baseball and at peace with his decision while the sport confronts the specter of steroids again. "I'm at ease," Ramirez told ESPNdeportes.com by phone from his home in Miami. "God knows what's best (for me). I'm now an officially retired baseball player. I'll be going away on a trip to Spain with my old man." One of the game's great sluggers, Ramirez tested positive for a performance-enhancing substance and wasted little time in saying he was done with the game. Some in baseball were baffled that he would get ...
Rays Slugger Manny Ramirez Announces His Retirement
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- Tampa Bay Rays slugger Manny Ramirez told Major League Baseball on Friday that he is retiring after being notified of an issue that arose under MLB's drug policy. The commissioner's office announced Ramirez's decision in a statement, but did not say whether he tested positive for a banned substance. Ramirez previously served a 50-game suspension for violating the drug policy while he was with the Los Angeles Dodgers. "Major League Baseball recently notified Manny Ramirez of an issue under Major League Baseball's Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program," the statement said. ...
From the Ball Field to the Library of Congress [VIDEO]
By not in system - AOL NewsThe original 1908 recording of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," the song that launched a million seventh-inning stretches, is now an official inductee into the National Recording Registry. ...
Giants Fan in Induced Coma as Cops Chase Down Numerous Leads
By Tori Richards - AOL NewsLOS ANGELES -- A San Francisco Giants baseball fan who was beaten nearly to death at the Dodgers season opener last week remains hospitalized in critical condition today while detectives sort through dozens of leads in an effort to track down the attackers. Bryan Stow, 42, from Santa Cruz, Calif., has signs of brain damage and today he had seizures, cousin John Stow told AOL News. Bryan Stow remains in a medically induced coma with half his skull removed to allow his injured brain to swell. He was slammed to the ground while walking through the Dodger parking lot, then repeatedly kicked in ...
Will Weather Play (Snow) Ball for Major League Openers?
By Paul Yeager - AOL NewsMajor League Baseball was fortunate enough last season to go further into the season without its first postponement than it had in the previous 25 years. That's unlikely to be repeated this year, given the current stormy weather pattern, and it will be a close call for a few cities on opening day this Thursday and Friday. Predicting baseball postponements is even more difficult than forecasting the weather, since different clubs and umpiring crews have different standards about what playing conditions are acceptable. However, a complex storm along the Eastern Seaboard poses the greatest ...
Major League Baseball Sends Relief to Japan
By Susanna Baird - AOL NewsBaseball players from Japan are leading a major-league push to send relief to their disaster-ravaged country. After the earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the northeast coast of Japan on Friday, Japanese players from around Major League Baseball frantically tried to reach family members. Charles Krupa, AP Boston Red Sox pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka accepts donations from fans for the Japanese earthquake and tsunami relief efforts before Boston's spring training baseball game Monday against the New York Yankees in Fort Myers, Fla. Seattle Mariners hitter Ichiro Suzuki failed to ...
Mike Kekich: 5 Facts on the Former Yankee Who Swapped His Wife
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsIn 1972, New York Yankees pitcher Mike Kekich swapped wives -- and then lives -- with teammate Fritz Peterson, a fellow pitcher. The two men took up with each other's spouses, and even traded kids and pets. Sound like a movie plot? That's what Ben Affleck and Matt Damon thought. The stars, with help from Ben's brother Casey, are developing a script called "The Trade" based on Kekich and Peterson's true story. Kekich is reportedly hoping the film won't happen, and not just because he knows Affleck and Damon are Red Sox fans. Here are more details about the Yankee whose life off the field ...
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