State/National Sports
(The Associated Press)
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The Atlanta Braves lost a game they badly needed to win. Even worse, they lost to a Pirates team whose only apparent goal appears to be avoiding the franchise’s worst season in nearly 50 years.
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Japan’s players weren’t about to leave the Lamade Stadium field without some important souvenirs.
Still wearing their bright red caps and white uniforms, they leaned down on the mound to scoop u...
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Brian McCann stood at second base, convinced he had just hit a game-winning homer.
His teammates gathered along the first-base line, ready to celebrate.
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Hawaii is still alive at the Little League World Series after a 7-4 win Thursday night over Columbus, Ga.
Justice Nakagawa hit a pinch-hit, three-run homer in the third and Noah Shackles struck ...
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When A.J. Green soars for one of those amazing catches — you know, the ones where the Georgia receiver seems to defy gravity — he’ll stroll back to the huddle like it’s no big deal.
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Georgia coach Mark Richt did his best to make his team’s last scrimmage of the preseason feel like a real game.
There were Southeastern Conference officials on the Sanford Stadium field. There w...
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Maybe early in the season, Colorado manager Jim Tracy pulls his starters and puts in a pitcher for mop-up duty.
Not now, not with the Rockies trying to stay in the playoff race.
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The head of the U.S. Olympic Committee on Tuesday blamed scheduling conflicts for the Americans’woeful performance in the inaugural Youth Olympics, where their gold medal tally is less than Hungary...
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An Oregon State University offensive lineman has been dismissed from the team after police say they found him naked and intoxicated in a stranger's home and had to use stun guns to take him into cu...
Mike Shanahan says Albert Haynesworth will be with the Washington Redskins when they open the season Sunday.Wed Sep 08 16:09:06 -0500 2010
Reggie Bush says whether he is stripped of his Heisman Trophy is out of his hands and that his play on the field in college speaks for itself.Wed Sep 08 16:17:57 -0500 2010
Tom Brady deflected questions about whether he is close to a contract extension with the Patriots.Wed Sep 08 15:50:32 -0500 2010