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Talks to end NBA lockout resume: reports

AFP 11/23/2011
Talks to end NBA lockout resume: reports

Negotiations aimed at ending the NBA lockout that reached it's 146th day on Wednesday have resumed with the goal of ending the money squabble in time to play games on December 25, according to reports.

Both sides claim victory in new five-year baseball deal

Ken Davidoff Montreal Gazette 11/23/2011

NBA Cancels First Two Weeks of Season Over Contract

Katie Kindelan ABC News 10/10/2011
Both sides claim victory in new five-year baseball deal

Bud Selig called it "another historic agreement," and Players Association head Michael Weiner described it as "a good day for baseball, not just because of what we avoided, but because of what we actually achieved."

NBA Cancels First Two Weeks of Season Over Contract

The Dallas Mavericks’ defense of their 2011 NBA Championship title will have to wait, indefinitely. NBA Commissioner David Stern canceled the first two weeks of the NBA season Monday after owners and players failed to reach agreement on a labor dispute despite 13 hours of negotiations over two days.

Boy hit in face by line drive at Marlins-Mets game

The Wall Street Journal 08/29/2011

Vuvuzela craze spreads to baseball

Reuters Canada 06/20/2010
Boy hit in face by line drive at Marlins-Mets game

A young fan was hurt when he was hit in the face with a line drive during the first game of a doubleheader between the Florida Marlins and New York Mets on Monday.

Vuvuzela craze spreads to baseball

Get your ear plugs ready, the Vuvuzela is going global.The Florida Marlins baseball team handed out free horns to the first 15,000 fans through the gate for their game with the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday.

Senator calls for boycott of Arizona All Star game

Sen. Robert Menendez is urging the Major League Baseball Players Association to boycott next year's All Star Game in Phoenix over the recently passed Arizona law to crack down on illegal immigrants.

(AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Paint the town in pinstripes! Nearly a decade after their dynasty ended on a blooper in the desert, the New York Yankees are baseball's best again.

Sosa linked to positive drug test

Michael S. Schmidt CharlotteObserver.com 06/17/2009
Baseball legend Mays: So proud when Obama elected that he cried

Baseball legend Willie Mays says he was so proud the night Barack Obama was elected president that he "cried for most of the night."

Sosa linked to positive drug test

Sammy Sosa, who joined with Mark McGwire in 1998 in a celebrated pursuit of baseball's season home run record, is among the players who tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug during 2003, according to lawyers with knowledge of drug-testing results from that year.


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