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The Rangers are back in the World Series for the second straight season after losing in five games to the San Francisco Giants last year in their first- ever appearance. After their second straight AL West title and a franchise-record 96 wins this past season, the Rangers disposed of the Tampa Bay Rays in the [...]

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Friday, July 8, 2011 A year and a day after a fan fell from the second deck at Rangers Ballpark  and was severely injured, a man sitting in the front row of the left-field seats  plunged 20 feet from his seat to the field level behind a scoreboard on the  left-field wall and later died [...]

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Fri Jun 24 09:26pm EDT When the NCAA mandated that metal bats perform more like wood bats in college baseball this season, what happened Friday afternoon at the College World Series may not have been what it had in mind. During the eighth inning of the Florida-Vanderbilt game, Gators sophomore catcher Mike Zunino snapped his [...]

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Fri Jun 24 09:26pm EDT When the NCAA mandated that metal bats perform more like wood bats in college baseball this season, what happened Friday afternoon at the College World Series may not have been what it had in mind. During the eighth inning of the Florida-Vanderbilt game, Gators sophomore catcher Mike Zunino snapped his [...]

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June 23rd, 2011  05:17 PM ET Jim Riggleman has resigned as manager of the Washington Nationals over contract issues, the team said Thursday on its website. Quoting Riggleman’s manager Burt Rocks, the team said Riggleman was upset the ballclub “didn’t pick up the option year in his contract.” Riggleman’s departure marks the second time this [...]

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03:06 PM/ET, 06/16/2011 Catching Hell Über-documentarian Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer) turns from politics to sports in his newest film,           Catching Hell.  The film looks back at what happened to Steve Bartman, the man who  became Chicago’s least favorite person when he [...]

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Tue Jun 21, 2011  01:17am EDT David Roth vowed he would not miss another chance to watch his son pitch for South Carolina at the College World Series if the Gamecocks returned to Omaha after winning the national championship in 2010. But when his son’s team made it back, David Roth found himself in a [...]

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