Doug Mientkiewicz

|TODAY| |HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING|  Flandreau Quadrangular |HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS’ BASKETBALL|  Aberdeen Central at Watertown, 7:30 p.m.  Aberdeen Christian vs. Hitchcock-Tulare at Tulare, 6:30 p.m.  Aberdeen Roncalli vs. Mobridge-Pollock at...

Almost two months remain in the season andA.J. Pierzynskialready has a career high in home runs. Does that surprise you? Pierzynski insists he's not surprised. He says he called this shot during a spring training conversation with former Twins...

ST. PETERSBURG — If you read the programming note blog below this one, you saw where yours truly didn't make the trip to Omaha, Neb. with the Florida State Seminoles for this year's College World Series. (We do have two people there representing the...

1987 -- Ipswich's Shelly Gisi set a new record in the Class A 1,600-meter run and ran on a pair of record-setting relay teams to earn Athlete of the Meet honors at the Watoma Relays in Watertown. Gisi clipped more than two seconds off the 1,600-meter...

1986 - Mike Cutler had four hits, including two home runs and a double, to lead Claremont to a 13-8 amateur baseball victory over Aberdeen's Dahme Construction. 1991 - Scott Kusler will return as head boys' basketball coach at Aberdeen Roncalli. He...

Tony Jackson of ESPN.com/LA has a story on four free-agent candidates to be the Dodgers' fourth outfielder: Garret Anderson, Brian Giles, Gabe Gross and Reed Johnson. None of them really appeal to me a whole lot, not because Xavier Paul......

If the Dodgers are about to sign Reed Johnson as their No. 4 outfielder, as Ken Rosenthal of FoxSports.com says is the case, I think you can firm up what we speculated about earlier this week: Ronnie Belliard will start......

Sources close to defending champion Jeff Feldman tell WatchDog he is planning to defend his title Thursday in the Sports Spelling Bee at the Times Square ESPN Zone. You might recall that last May Feldman, originally from Old Westbury,......

Of late ... St. Louis is 1-4 and 6-10. Philadelphia is 2-3 and 5-6.Los Angeles is 1-4 and 6-6. None of this speaks to how well the teams will play next week.. And anyway, each of these teams has recovered......

Two themes dominate the Dodgers' first postseason challenge of 2009: the Cardinals' 1-2 1-2 punches of Albert Pujols-Matt Holliday and Chris Carpenter-Adam Wainwright, and St. Louis' relative dominance of the Dodgers in recent years. It's heavy stuff,...

A merit firing, if you will, isn't something to be upset about. But when half a dozen Dodger employees are fired apparently because the person who hired them fell out of favor ... well, it's not like I know any......

Below is a list of the months and dates of most of the Dodgers' newsworthy off-season acquisitions this decade. The reasons for the list: 1) To show that the off-season doesn't die with the end of the winter meetings. Some......