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Mets Stingy With Cash as They Eye Future

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Just down the street from the Mets' spring training facility, QVC operates a call center. There is no truth to the rumor that the Mets did all their offseason shopping there. An analysis of data from the MLB Trade Rumors website shows that the Mets spent $6.6 million on major league contracts to...

MLB Players' Union Expects Mets to Meet Financial Obligations

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) -- Union head Michael Weiner says the players' association is not worried about the lawsuit filed against New York Mets owners and its impact on the club's financial stability. Trustee Irving H. Picard, trying to recover money for victims of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme, sued the Wilpon family...

J.J. Putz Part of D'backs' Culture Shift

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- It was no great joy to be a member of the 2010 Arizona Diamondbacks -- not during a season which saw the manager fired, the general manager fired and the owner, who pulled the trigger on both moves, saying "this isn't a complete makeover." The Diamondbacks of 2011 are looking to change the culture in...

K-Rod Arrives at Mets Camp, Discusses Anger Management Treatment

Francisco Rodriguez arrived at Mets camp Wednesday and wasn't shy in discussing his anger management sessions. In fact, if you believe him, he's a changed man. "One second, one decision can change pretty much your whole life. It already happened to me in a bad way," K-Rod told ESPN New York. "When you have a lot of...

MLB 2010 in Review: Best of the Rest

All this week, the FanHouse staff is looking back at the most significant baseball storylines of 2010. Our top stories are linked below, but there were many more high and low points... Hot Streaks • Troy Tulowitzki hit four home runs in 40 games between June 7 and Sept. 2, missing nearly six weeks during that span...

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05/22/12 Giants' 14th-inning homer beats Brewers Source: Oconto County Reporter - Oconto WI Madison Bumgarner gave up three runs and five hits in 7 2-3 innings for the Giants, with a season-high 10 strikeouts.
05/22/12 Andy Baggot: UW provides test cases for transfer rule... Source: Wisconsin State Journal - Madison WI NCAA president Mark Emmert believes something needs to be done to make transfer rules less onerous for Division I student-athletes, an attitude that likely puts him in conflict with most, if not all, coaches regardless of sport.
05/17/12 CUBA Same-Sex Couples Want to Be Counted Source: IPS Inter Press Service Communist Party militant, gay rights activist, journalist and blogger Francisco RodrÃguez has triggered an online debate in Cuba by calling for sexual diversity to be identified in the next census, due in September 2012.
05/16/12 Police beat: May 16, 2012 MUG SHOTS Source: Naples Daily News - Naples FL Xian Wang, 56, of the 3300 block of Duchess Drive, East Naples, was arrested Wednesday by Florida Highway Patrol troopers at Evergreen Boulevard and Kings Lake Boulevard.
05/11/12 OCEANSIDE: MiraCosta overrun by scores of middle... Source: North County Times Skylar Ziegler spent part of his Friday learning in a nursing class at MiraCosta College.