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Major League Baseball Sends Relief to Japan

Baseball players from Japan are leading a major-league push to send relief to their disaster-ravaged country. After the earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the northeast coast of Japan on Friday, Japanese players from around Major League Baseball frantically tried to reach family members. Charles Krupa,...

Dodgers May Not Win World Series, but They're Shoo-Ins for 'The Smiley'

GLENDALE Ariz. -- Every team in the National League West except the Dodgers owns a league pennant from the last 13 years, two claiming the World Series, most recently the Giants last fall. The Dodgers have gone nearly twice as long without a league flag. In that time, all four expansion teams from the 1990s cracked the...

Report: Joe Torre to Be Named to MLB Post by Bud Selig

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) -- A person with knowledge of the appointment says Joe Torre has been hired as Major League Baseball's executive vice president of baseball operations. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Friday because commissioner Bud Selig isn't expected to formally introduce Torre...

Report: Bud Selig Vetoes Proposed $200M FOX Loan to Frank McCourt, Dodgers

Bud Selig vetoed a proposed loan of about $200 million from FOX to Dodgers owner Frank McCourt, the Los Angeles Times reports. Selig made the decision several weeks ago, according to the Times, denying McCourt a much-needed source of financing as he continues to struggle through a messy divorce and attempts to maintain...

Bud Selig Reportedly Meets With Mets' Owners Amid Financial Woes

NEW YORK (AP) -- The New York Mets' owners have met with Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig to discuss the team's finances. A person familiar with the meeting says it involved owner Fred Wilpon, team president Saul Katz and chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon and took place at the commissioner's office. The person spoke on...

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Will The A's Actually Leave Oakland?

Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig says it's up to Lew Wolff to decide whether to consider additional sites for a new ballpark for the Athletics, and the Oakland owner maintains he's focused on San Jose rather than a move outside the Bay Area.

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05/24/12 Bud Selig Has Little Interest in Expanding Instant... Source: The Big Lead Bud Selig spoke at a sport and society conference on Wednesday at St. Norbert College in the facially expressive commissioner's home state of Wisconsin.
05/24/12 MLB Commissioner Bud Selig Intent On '14 Retirement Source: Sports Business Journal MLB Commissioner Bud Selig was "emphatic Wednesday about his intention to step away from [his] job at the end of the 2014 season," according to Bob Wolfley of the MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL.
05/24/12 Teixeira still struggling Source: The LoHud Yankees Blog Now Genius Tex thinks he should be trying for homers more than he has been.
05/24/12 Wednesday's Sports in Brief Source: The Garden Island - Lihu'e HI The players union claimed Wednesday that the NFL imposed a secret salary cap during the uncapped 2010 season that cost the players at least $1 billion.
05/23/12 Around the Nation: Ohio State to begin giving athletes... Source: Record-Courier - Ravenna OH Ohio State's department of athletics will begin providing its student-athletes with iPads this fall.