Jazil, winner of the 2006 Belmont Stakes, was retired and will stand at stud at Dubai Sheik Hamdan’s Shadwell Farm. A half-brother to this year’s Belmont winner Rags to Riches, Jazil won just two of 11 races but stepped up in the biggest race of his career to give trainer Kiaran McLaughlin his first win in a Triple Crown race.
Houston Rockets swingman Justin Reed was released from jail Wednesday after his arrest on a marijuana charge. Reed was arrested Tuesday night in Jackson. He was released from the Hinds County jail after posting a $500 bond early Wednesday, said Capt. Ken Magee of the Hinds County Sheriff’s Department. Reed was charged with misdemeanor possession of less than an ounce of marijuana, which carries a…
The trial for Indiana Pacers’ Jamaal Tinsley and Marquis Daniels, who face charges stemming from a bar fight, has been rescheduled to December. The trial was originally scheduled for Monday, but a defense lawyer at a hearing Wednesday asked Marion Superior Court Judge Lisa Borges for a delay. Borges set a Dec.
The Minnesota Twins’ reign atop the AL Central is all but over. After being swept twice by Cleveland in the last 10 games, they’re making way for the new kids in town. Victor Martinez had two hits and two RBIs to back a quality start from Fausto Carmona, and the surging Indians beat Minnesota 6-2 on Wednesday for their seventh straight win over the defending division champs.
Carl Crawford of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays was suspended for two games and fined by the commissioner’s office Wednesday after he was ejected earlier this week. The All-Star left fielder planned to appeal the penalty, making him eligible to play until a hearing is held. “I knew I probably was going to be suspended,” said Crawford, who was in the starting lineup for Wednesday night’s game against…
At first, Brandon Phillips didn’t know why he was going into the Cincinnati Reds record book. Phillips broke the Reds’ single-season record for homers by a second baseman Wednesday, hitting a two-run shot during a 7-0 victory that ended the New York Mets’ five-game winning streak. Phillips’ 28th homer in the first inning off John Maine (14-9) surpassed Hall of Famer Joe Morgan’s previous club mark.
Artose Pinner did a double-take when he first saw Warrick Dunn out of uniform. Pinner, a running back who signed with the Atlanta Falcons on Monday, said he had seen Dunn on TV and in live games but never without football pads. “I knew he was a smaller back, but I didn’t know he was that small,” said Pinner, who will play behind Dunn and Jerious Norwood when the Falcons play at Minnesota on Sunday.
David Garrard’s last game against Tennessee was memorable for all the wrong reasons. He threw three interceptions and fumbled once, a turnover-filled performance that prompted Jacksonville to give Byron Leftwich another chance at the starting job. Now, after a surprising turn of events, Garrard gets another shot at the Titans.
A knotted rope dangles from the ceiling just inside the glass front doors of Cleveland’s team headquarters, a symbolic reminder for the Browns to hang on tightly as they climb together. Romeo Crennel better grip it with both hands. And feet. Just 10-22 in his first two seasons as Cleveland’s coach, Crennel, who came to the Browns with a handful of Super Bowl rings he won as a defensive assistant, is…
After years under state and federal investigation, the New York Racing Association is in line for a state bailout from near bankruptcy to again run the New York thoroughbred racing tracks it has long claimed to own. It was the specter of a long, costly court battle over that disputed claim to the Aqueduct, Belmont and Saratoga tracks that helped NYRA gain Gov.
