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Baseball Card Artist a Real Cut-Up

(April 8) -- Some folks will do anything in the name of art -- even cut up valuable baseball cards. That's the vision of San Diego-based artist LaVern Brock, who is, so far, the only known artist specializing in the medium of cut-up baseball cards. Brock, 43, takes old baseball cards and cuts them up into collage...

Court Date Set in Dodgers' Ownerhip/Divorce Battle

LOS ANGELES -- The question of who really owns the Los Angeles Dodgers will drag into the 2010 season, as a judge Tuesday set a late May trial date for the divorce case between Frank and Jamie McCourt. Trial on the ownership issue will take place between May 24 and June 3. Frank McCourt's lawyers say Jamie is trying to...

Rapper Jay-Z Is Down With Juan Pierre

It wasn't until I read Troy Renck's Denver Post All Things Rockies blog that I found out Jay-Z gave a shout out to Juan Pierre in a song. In the opening lyrics to Beyonce's Deja Vu, the first track in her latest album, B'Day, Jay-Z is featured and breaks out with this I used to run base like Juan PierreNow I run the bass...

Jason Schmidt Was Worried About Cancer

When Dodgers ace Jason Schmidt returned to the Bay Area this weekend for the Dodgers/Giants series, he took a lot of heat from the San Fran fans. I've already noted the extremes some of them have taken. One of the other criticisms was that Schmidt was a hypochondriac. Well Schmidt revealed to the LA Times on Monday that he...

Luis Gonzalez Sticks it to the LA Media

Who were so critical of him during his tumultuous first week of play as a Dodger. After being unable to make plays on routine fly balls, allowing hitters to turn singles into doubles, and going hitless in his first seven at-bats, many people were calling for Gonzo to be benched. There were even some people (that shall...