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The Sun Remembers: March 10-16
March 15, 2002: Maryland's march to the NCAA men's basketball championship begins with an 85-70 victory over Siena in the East Regional. Juan Dixon (Calvert Hall), the Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Year, scores 29 for the Terps (27-4). March...
Tags: Maryland Terrapins, Atlantic Coast Conference, National Football League, Football, Baltimore Orioles
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The Sun remembers: Jan. 6-12
Jan. 10, 1991: "We're a better team than we were yesterday," Orioles manager Frank Robinson says after the trade that brings slugging Houston Astros first baseman Glenn Davis to Baltimore in exchange for three young players — pitchers Curt Schilling...
Tags: Steve Finley, Willie Keeler, Art Donovan, NFL Pro Bowl, National Football League
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The Sun remembers: July 15-21
July 21, 2000: Jamal Lewis, the fifth player picked in the NFL draft, agrees to a six-year contract with the Ravens worth in excess of $35 million. "It's important for us as a team, and Jamal as a player, to get started on the right foot," Ravens coach...
Tags: New York Giants, Football, Baltimore Orioles, Super Bowl, Texas Rangers
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TV SPORTS Women's College Basketball-Michigan at Purdue, 5:30 p.m. (Big 10 Network); Penn State at Northwestern, 7:30 p.m. (Big 10 Network); Idaho at Nevada, 10 p.m. (ESPNU) Men's College Basketball-Xavier at Cincinnati, 6 p.m. (ESPN2); Villanova at...Tags: Bowl Championship Series, George Weiss, Rube Foster, Sam Thompson, Waite Hoyt
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Baseball legend Sparky Anderson placed in hospice care
The Fabulous ForumFormer Detroit Tigers and Cincinnati Reds manager Sparky Anderson has been placed in hospice care at his Thousand Oaks home for complications resulting from dementia. Anderson's family said in a statement Wednesday that they appreciate the support and... -
Hall of Fame manager Sparky Anderson dies
The Fabulous ForumHall of Fame manager Sparky Anderson died Thursday from complications of dementia a day after being put in hospice care. He was 76. Anderson led the Cincinnati Reds to back-to-back World Series championships in 1975-76 and won a title in...... -
Former Husky Lincecum Helps Giants to World Series Title
The prize that eluded Willie and Barry
at long last belongs to the San Francisco Giants, thanks to a band
of self-described castoffs and misfits and their shaggy-haired ace.
Tim Lincecum, Edgar Renteria and the Giants won the World Series
on...Tags: San Francisco Giants, Dining and Drinking, History, Arts and Culture, Chicago White Sox
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Hall of Fame Baseball Manager Sparky Anderson Dies At 76
KTLA NewsTHOUSAND OAKS (KTLA) -- Hall of Famer Sparky Anderson, the first manager to win World Series titles in both leagues, has died at the age of 76. Family spokesman Dan Ewald said Anderson, who had been placed under hospice care in Thousand Oaks Wednesday,...Tags: History, National League, Sparky Anderson, Joe Torre, Arts and Culture
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Hall of Fame manager Sparky Anderson dead at 76
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — Hall of Fame manager Sparky Anderson, who directed Cincinnati's Big Red Machine to back-to-back World Series championships and went on to win another title in Detroit, died Thursday. He was 76.
Anderson died from...Tags: Connie Mack, Jr., Sparky Anderson, Human Interest, Family, Athletes
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Old McDonald? Ee i ee i...NO! -- Ted Green
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So let me see if I have this right.
The Dodgers are desperately holding on to what precious little is left of their once healthy nine-game lead. It's August 25, the biggest game of the year to date. The Rockies are white hot, closing to within three games the night before against the Giants on a dramatic walkoff grand slam in the 14th inning. The Rockies have so much "Moe", as in momentum, the Three Stooges are jealous.
Once 15 games behind the Dodgers and dead last in the NL West, here they were, L.A. and Colorado, tied 4-4 in the 10th inning in a big potential momentum-turning type of game.
And Joe Torre brings in...James McDonald?
Old McDonald, as in Ee i ee i...NO?
McDonald isn't old, he's just 24, but he does need to go back to the farm.
He was no more ready for that kind of high-wire moment than Ronald McDonald.
When he came in to start the 10th, I promise this is true, I immediately turned to a colleague here in the sports department and said:
To borrow from Eric Gagne, only in reverse, Game Over.
Base hit to right. Botched fielding play by McDonald on a routine sac bunt. Punchout of a weak hitter. An intentional walk to load the bases. Then first pitch to Troy Tulowitzki...a pearod to left center, walkoff base hit, thanks for coming.
Fifteen pitches and like McDonald's, it was bad food, served quickly as you drive through.
Game Over, alright.
A real Rocky horror show from the Dodger braintrust.
Did Torre really believe this kid who's had already two or three shots at winning a job in the starting rotation and froze each time was up to the challenge of a tie game on the road in the 10th inning of a suddenly tight pennant race?
C'mon Joe, say it ain't so.
I would leave McDonald back at the hotel before I'd bring him in a game with a division title at stake.
In fairness, James McDonald may one day be a bigtime major league pitcher. Or he could turn out to be Edwin Jackson, whom the Dodgers gave up on and now he's finally having a bit of success in Detroit in what has been, to this point, a very ordinary career.
Either Joe has seen the weak schedule ahead, loaded with patsies and he KNOWS the Dodgers are going to win this thing, or he's still resting on his laurels from Yankee days gone by in the 90's, but I'm sorry:
The McDonald move was at least as dumb as his counterpart in the other dugout, Jim Tracy, actually pitching to Manny Ramirez in the ninth inning with the Rockies ahead 4-3 and the tying run on third, just because the so-called "book" of baseball says you never put the potential winning run on base with an intentional walk.
Nice "book" if you're still playing in the Gay 90's or 1950's. But unless you're a baseball dinosaur playing in Jurassic Park, you don't pitch to one of the two preeminent right-handed hitters in the last 50 years when he can hurt you and hurt you badly in the ninth inning.
Manny singled hard to right to tie the game and send it to OT.
No wonder we exiled Tracy to Pittsburgh.
Now he's 55-26 in Colorado, the de facto Manager of the Year and obviously the next John McGraw. But enough about him.
All things considered, I'm so frustrated from watching that managing fiasco I'm thinking of stopping at McDonald's on the way home. Think I'll ask for the Manager's Special. But don't worry about my health. A Big Mac can't hurt me. I'm sick to my stomach already.
Green formerly covered sports for the L.A. Times. He is currently Senior Sports Producer for KTLA Prime News.</article_body>](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-08/48866517-25220333.jpg "<article_body>
So let me see if I have this right.
The Dodgers are desperately holding on to what precious little is left of their once healthy nine-game lead. It's August 25, the biggest game of the year to date. The Rockies are white hot, closing to within three games the night before against the Giants on a dramatic walkoff grand slam in the 14th inning. The Rockies have so much "Moe\", as in momentum, the Three Stooges are jealous.
Once 15 games behind the Dodgers and dead last in the NL West, here they were, L.A. and Colorado, tied 4-4 in the 10th inning in a big potential momentum-turning type of game.
And Joe Torre brings in...James McDonald?
Old McDonald, as in Ee i ee i...NO?
McDonald isn't old, he's just 24, but he does need to go back to the farm.
He was no more ready for that kind of high-wire moment than Ronald McDonald.
When he came in to start the 10th, I promise this is true, I immediately turned to a colleague here in the sports department and said:
To borrow from Eric Gagne, only in reverse, Game Over.
Base hit to right. Botched fielding play by McDonald on a routine sac bunt. Punchout of a weak hitter. An intentional walk to load the bases. Then first pitch to Troy Tulowitzki...a pearod to left center, walkoff base hit, thanks for coming.
Fifteen pitches and like McDonald's, it was bad food, served quickly as you drive through.
Game Over, alright.
A real Rocky horror show from the Dodger braintrust.
Did Torre really believe this kid who's had already two or three shots at winning a job in the starting rotation and froze each time was up to the challenge of a tie game on the road in the 10th inning of a suddenly tight pennant race?
C'mon Joe, say it ain't so.
I would leave McDonald back at the hotel before I'd bring him in a game with a division title at stake.
In fairness, James McDonald may one day be a bigtime major league pitcher. Or he could turn out to be Edwin Jackson, whom the Dodgers gave up on and now he's finally having a bit of success in Detroit in what has been, to this point, a very ordinary career.
Either Joe has seen the weak schedule ahead, loaded with patsies and he KNOWS the Dodgers are going to win this thing, or he's still resting on his laurels from Yankee days gone by in the 90's, but I'm sorry:
The McDonald move was at least as dumb as his counterpart in the other dugout, Jim Tracy, actually pitching to Manny Ramirez in the ninth inning with the Rockies ahead 4-3 and the tying run on third, just because the so-called \"book\" of baseball says you never put the potential winning run on base with an intentional walk.
Nice \"book\" if you're still playing in the Gay 90's or 1950's. But unless you're a baseball dinosaur playing in Jurassic Park, you don't pitch to one of the two preeminent right-handed hitters in the last 50 years when he can hurt you and hurt you badly in the ninth inning.
Manny singled hard to right to tie the game and send it to OT.
No wonder we exiled Tracy to Pittsburgh.
Now he's 55-26 in Colorado, the de facto Manager of the Year and obviously the next John McGraw. But enough about him.
All things considered, I'm so frustrated from watching that managing fiasco I'm thinking of stopping at McDonald's on the way home. Think I'll ask for the Manager's Special. But don't worry about my health. A Big Mac can't hurt me. I'm sick to my stomach already.
Green formerly covered sports for the L.A. Times. He is currently Senior Sports Producer for KTLA Prime News.</article_body>")
KTLA NewsSo let me see if I have this right. The Dodgers are desperately holding on to what precious little is left of their once healthy nine-game lead. It's August 25, the biggest game of the year to date. The Rockies are white hot, closing to within three games...Tags: Death, Ronald McDonald (fictional character), Joe Torre, Manny Ramirez, KTLA
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Finally, I felt the tingle
Sun ReporterIt was a sensation I'd experienced while touring plantations in South Carolina and walking the Forum in Rome, that feeling that because I was standing in a certain place, I was linked intimately with the span of human history. I stared at the bronzed...Tags: History, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Pete Rose, Family, Customs and Tradition
Mar 10, 2013
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Jan 6, 2011
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Nov 3, 2010
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Nov 4, 2010
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Nov 1, 2010
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Nov 4, 2010
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Nov 4, 2010
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Aug 25, 2009
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Jul 22, 2007
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