Former New England Patriots guard Joe Andruzzi battled some of the toughest, meanest and nastiest defensive lineman in a 10-year NFL career. None came close to the aggressive but treatable form of cancer he is fighting now. Andruzzi, a member of the Patriots’ three Super Bowl championship teams during his five years with the club, was diagnosed in May with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma — cancer of the…
A colt by El Prado out of Favorite Funtime sold for $750,000 on Thursday at the Keeneland September sale. The colt was the highest-price horse of the 257 sold on the day. The session’s gross receipts of over $45 million was a 7.9 percent increase over the same day of last year’s sale. The average price of $175,403 was a 14.6 percent increase over a year ago.
Terry Ryan became one of baseball’s most revered general managers this decade by doing more with less. He didn’t wear a uniform, but he was a major player in Minnesota’s recent success. The demands of the job began to bother him, though, and Ryan became ready for a different role. After 13 years as GM of the Twins, which included four postseason appearances, Ryan announced his resignation Thursday…
Colorado Rockies bench coach Jamie Quirk served a one-game suspension against the Philadelphia Phillies on Thursday night for his actions in a game two days earlier. Quirk engaged in an animated argument with plate umpire Mike DiMuro after a called third strike on Todd Helton, and was ejected in the ninth inning of an 8-2 victory over the Phillies on Tuesday night.
Former major league outfielder Mel Hall was indicted Wednesday on charges that he sexually assaulted two girls — ages 12 and 14 — who played on elite basketball teams he coached in the 1990s. The 46-year-old Hall could face life in prison if convicted, said Tarrant County Assistant District Attorney Kim D’Avignon.
Sidney Crosby surprised some Pittsburgh Penguins fans last week by knocking on their front door and handing them their season tickets. Quite the delivery man, the NHL’s reigning scoring champion and Most Valuable Player. Now that he’s the Penguins’ captain at the grizzled age of 20, Crosby wouldn’t mind being on the receiving end of a handout himself next June.
Amid the dizzying changes that have taken place with the Washington Capitals over the last dozen years — Stanley Cup finals, new arena, new owners, fire sale, lockout, rebuilding, two uniform changes — the unmistakable constant has been Olie the Goalie. Now 37 years old, Olie Kolzig reported to training camp Thursday looking as spry as he did when he was 27.
Sheldon Brown and the Eagles hoped a blitz would rattle Tom Brady. One problem: Every time the Eagles rushed Brady in the Super Bowl, the Patriots nullified the defensive attack with screen passes. Lots of them. On almost every play defensive coordinator Jim Johnson called for a blitz, the Patriots used the short pass to confuse the Eagles.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell visited injured Bills tight end Kevin Everett on Thursday morning, spending 90 minutes with the tight end who sustained a severe spinal cord injury. Goodell flew from New York City to Buffalo to meet with Everett and his mother, Patricia Dugas, in the player’s room at Millard Fillmore Gates Hospital, hospital spokesman Mike Hughes said.
Former New England Patriots guard Joe Andruzzi battled some of the toughest, meanest and nastiest defensive lineman in a 10-year NFL career. None came close to the aggressive but treatable form of cancer he is fighting now. Andruzzi, a member of the Patriots’ three Super Bowl championship teams during his five years with the club, was diagnosed in May with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma — cancer of the…
