Reigning NFL MVP LaDainian Tomlinson was one of 40 members of the San Diego Chargers’ organization who were forced to evacuate their homes as wildfires burned in San Diego County, and the team will spend the rest of the week practicing in Arizona. The Chargers, who had just returned from their bye weekend, canceled practice Monday due to poor air quality and so the players could take care of their…
Josh Smith and Marvin Williams scored 24 points apiece, leading the Atlanta Hawks to another preseason win, 103-99 over the Washington Wizards on Monday night.
Zach Randolph scored 23 points, Nate Robinson added 20 and the New York Knicks shut out Boston’s Big Three in the fourth quarter of a 94-87 victory Monday night.
Baseball fans trying to snap up Colorado Rockies World Series tickets overwhelmed computers set up for the online-only sale on Monday, forcing the club to temporarily suspend transactions. “Right now we’re shutting the system down,” club spokesman Jay Alves announced outside Coors Field, drawing boos from fans.
The Mariners overhauled their coaching staff Monday, hiring Mel Stottlemyre, Jim Riggleman and Norm Charlton. Stottlemyre, a former pitching coach with the Yankees and Mets, took the same position in Seattle. Riggleman, an ex-manager in the majors, will be the bench coach. And Charlton, who spent 13 seasons as a relief pitcher in the big leagues, is the bullpen coach.
Joe Girardi spoke with George Steinbrenner and they quickly found common ground: Northwestern football. “I talked to him about their 5-3 record and that they were one game from bowl eligibility and that was big for Northwestern, so we had some laughs about that,” Girardi said. Girardi is a Northwestern alumnus and from his days as a catcher for the New York Yankees, he knew the owner is a former…
Baseball investigator George Mitchell, also a director for the AL champion Boston Red Sox, denied Monday providing information for a story that Cleveland Indians pitcher Paul Byrd used human growth hormone. Before Game 7 on Sunday, Byrd acknowledged using HGH after the San Francisco Chronicle reported he spent nearly $25,000 on the drug and syringes from 2002-05 — before HGH was banned by Major…
Major League Baseball and Fox Sports executives don’t have to wonder about the ratings a World Series between small-market teams from Cleveland and Colorado would have drawn. Instead, they can bask in strong viewership numbers for the American League championship series won by the Red Sox, a club from a big market with a large national following.
Fenway Park was quiet, the Red Sox clubhouse was dry and Jonathan Papelbon was done with his Irish step dance. The jubilation of Boston’s pennant-clinching comeback was over. There was still one more opponent to face, one that fashioned an incredible streak to reach the World Series for the first time.
Sometime in the future, once the biting sting of defeat eases, the Cleveland Indians will look back on a 2007 season that began in falling snow and ended with a stunning collapse. They’ll savor all the good moments. Not just yet. “Maybe in a week or so I’ll be able to reflect back and be like, ‘Wow, we had a pretty good season for a team that’s come a long way,”‘ Indians pitcher C.C.
