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Starting Five: Not a Clean Sweep, but a Sweep The Rangers Will Take

Starting Five is our wrapup of the previous day's baseball action, with a quick nod to what is ahead.You Oughta Know ...That it took a lot of work for the Rangers to climb within two games of the Red Sox in the American League wild-card race.Texas swept a doubleheader at Cleveland, 11-9 and 10-5, and the games took a...

Pirates' Manager John Russell Benches Ryan Doumit Mid-Game

When the Pirates cleaned house before the trade deadline last month, they left their roster mostly with young players trying to get established (Andrew McCutchen, Lastings Milledge) and career fringe guys trying to prove they belong in the big leagues (Delwyn Young, Garrett Jones). The one exception to this is Ryan Doumit;...

Andy LaRoche Is Benched Already

This year was supposed to be different for Andy LaRoche. After a nightmare 2008 in which he began the season as the Dodgers third baseman of the future and ended it with a .458 OPS in 49 games after being banished to Pittsburgh, he worked with Pirates hitting coach Don Long over the winter to try and reclaim his status as...

Beware the Dugouts of March: The Pittsburgh Pirates' 2009 Preview

If you click the "Pirates" tag, you may be surprised to see one or more Dugouts on every page, despite the fact that we almost never do Dugouts about the Pirates. What this means is this: even people who infrequently mention the Pirates do so more than the rest of humanity. I'm going to google "Pirates blog" and get a...

Jamie Moyer Might Pitch Until He's 50

With the Pittsburgh Pirates and Philadelphia Phillies getting together for a few games over the weekend, members of the media asked Pirates manager John Russell for his opinion on the game's oldest player, Jamie Moyer. After all, Russell was Moyer's catcher with the Texas Rangers back in 1990, so he knows a little...

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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.