6 Jan 2009 at 11:44pm Scott Boras client Mark Teixeira donned his pinstripes on Tuesday. Now the agent turns his attention to the National League side of New York. (Kathy Willens/AP) While wondering what it must have felt like to be Mark Teixeira just for one afternoon ...
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6 Jan 2009 at 4:17am In saying they won't let Roland Burris fill the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama, Democrats controlling the Senate said Burris would be ?plagued by questions of impropriety? if they let his appointment stand. That reeks more of political ...
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2 Jan 2009 at 5:58pm Born in Newhall, Iowa, he was the son of the late Bert and Cad Black. He was also preceded in death by his brother, Robert Black of Newhall, Iowa, and sisters, Naomi Haines of Davis Junction, Ill., and Jerry Howard Black of Southfield, Mich. He moved ...
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1 Jan 2009 at 5:59pm It was a Key West moment that was enough to shock this San Franciscan. I entered the 801Bourbon Bar on a Sunday afternoon. It was during my first day on the island at the southernmost tip of the continental US. I followed in the wake of another man ...
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1 Jan 2009 at 2:46pm Who will be 2009's David Price and the Rays, who went from last place to the Fall Classic in 2008? (AP) Anything is possible. If we can take anything out of 2008 into 2009, that's it. Walls are merely hurdles to be cleared, holes simply lairs to jump ...
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31 Dec 2008 at 10:58am L enny Lyles is not a bitter man. In fact, it pains him to tell this story. He hesitates, knowing how it will sound. He was a different man in 1960, frustrated and angry, and it was a very different time in America. But the guilt hasn't totally faded ...
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30 Dec 2008 at 5:54pm For several months, I lived next to an infamous San Francisco strip club. I was about 10 years old then, and I've tried to steer clear of strip clubs ever since. So I figured it was kind of odd that I ended up at a Las Vegas fitness studio in a pole ...
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