Vickers still day dreaming (The Express-Times)
Vickers still day dreaming (The Express-Times)
BETHLEHEM | The baseball dream died slowly, painfully, completely. Then came the college football dream. Then Lee Vickers awoke and found himself in the NFL, trying out for two positions he never played before in a sport he never imagined himself being involved in past childhood.
Weekly Royals Minor League Report (The Morning News)
The 2007 Major League Baseball First-Year Player draft is now in the books. However, different from NBA and NFL drafts, you won’t see any well-suited experts on ESPN debating which teams had the best draft. It’s another of the beautiful elements of baseball. Being drafted brings only one guarantee; the battle to reach the major leagues is just beginning.
Colorado’s MVP candidate Holliday born to hit, ‘has no ceiling’ (USA Today)
Matt Holliday can’t name a family member that doesn’t like baseball. He himself chose it over football, and it seems to have been a wise decision. Holliday ranks among the top 10 in the NL in average (.332), runs (68), hits (137), home runs (20) and RBI (84), and has become an MVP candidate.
Baseball: A weekend for the good guys (International Herald Tribune)
Commissioner Bud Selig had something to smile about over the weekend: The induction of Cal Ripken and Tony Gwynn into the Hall of Fame.
Study: Major League Baseball Gives Underdogs a Break (LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News)
The 162-game major league baseball season may give underdogs a leg up in getting to the playoffs, say a pair of physicists.
Mideast breakthrough: U.S. ambassador returns to Israel as baseball commish (Slam! Sports)
PETAH TIKVA, Israel (AP) - As the U.S. ambassador to Israel, Dan Kurtzer spent years trying to negotiate peace between Israelis and Palestinians. These days, the retired diplomat is keeping the peace on a different field, as commissioner of Israel’s new professional baseball league.
Sanders?s Opinion Is Limited by N.F.L. (New York Times)
The NFL Network cited contract language to demand that Deion Sanders, their employee, stop publishing his thoughts about football in The Fort Myers News-Press.
Ripken says ‘game of baseball is alive and well’ (Charleston Daily Mail)
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Sports fans haven’t had much to cheer about recently, but a ray of sunshine broke through the sports world’s dark clouds yesterday as two of the finest baseball players were inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Thanks to Halifax Pelham Canadians senior baseball manager Cecil Wright for joining our panel this week. Jody Jewers is … (The Halifax Daily News)
1 Should the Tour de France be scrapped because of endless doping scandals? 2 Which NFL training camp should provide the most entertainment this year?