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2010's Managerial Exodus Will Give Dugouts Different Look Next Spring

All this week, the FanHouse staff will look back at the most significant baseball storylines of 2010. When the 2010 baseball season started, four of the top 14 managers all-time in terms of win total were at the helm of big league teams. When 2011 starts, only one of those four, St. Louis' Tony La Russa, will still be...

Pirates Fire Manager John Russell

The Pirates have been around 124 years, but the 2010 season easily qualified as one of their worst. The 57-105 debacle cost manager John Russell his job Monday. The move was expected, as the Pirates had seen their record get worse in each season of Russell's tenure. He compiled a 186-299 mark overall. "We decided that...

Report: John Russell Likely to Be Fired by Pirates; Neal Huntington to Remain

John Russell is likely to be let go as Pirates manager in the next few days, according to a report in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The report, citing several "internal sources," states that Russell, who had a contract option for 2011 picked up by the team over the winter, will be fired early next week, the decisions...

With Carousel Heating Up, Remember Why Managers Are So Important

There are some who believe that managers don't really impact a team during the course of the season. They believe that Manager A is no different than Manager B. They think anyone with half a brain can write a lineup and bring the closer in for the ninth inning. I am not one of those people. Now, I actually think that...

Pirates Coaches Walked Plank Because of Disloyalty to Manager

When the Pirates fired pitching coach Joe Kerrigan and bench coach Gary Varsho on Sunday, there was immediately speculation that personality conflicts with manager John Russell contributed to the decision. Some confirmation of that came on Monday. Dejan Kovacevic of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that "several...

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05/24/12 Jeff Bank plans to drop its Nasdaq listing June 1 Source: Times Herald-Record - Middletown NY Jeffersonville Bancorp will delist from Nasdaq early next month and stop reporting to the Securities and Exchange Commission weeks later.
05/23/12 West Memphis Man Helps Uncover Abandoned Cemetery Source: CBS - WREG NewsChannel 3 - Memphis TN (West Memphis, AR) People living in a West Memphis neighborhood had no idea an old abandoned cemetery was at end of their street.
05/22/12 Master Mariner John Russell lived life to the fullest,... Source: The Globe and Mail - Toronto ON - Canada A man whose working life including teaching, sealing, sailing and unloading 100-pound sacks of cement, and who personally remembered the start of the First World War, might be expected, around the century mark or so, to complain about feeling tired.
05/22/12 Lawyer says soldier doesn't remember Iraq killings Source: Broadcast Newsroom SEATTLE (AP) ' The lawyer for a sergeant charged with killing four other soldiers and a Navy officer in May 2009 at a mental health clinic in Iraq says it should not be a death penalty case.
05/21/12 Army: Soldier To Stand Trial In Killings Of 5 Comrades... Source: WIBW Channel 13 - Topeka KS A sergeant accused of killing five comrades at a combat stress clinic at a U.S. base in Iraq more than three years ago is mentally fit to stand trial on charges of premeditated murder, the Army said.