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October 4, 2009

Tigers and Twins Win to Force a Tuesday Playoff

For the second consecutive season, a tie breaker will decide the American League Central title. The Tigers and Twins both won Sunday and will play Tuesday at the Metrodome.

via bats.blogs.nytimes.com

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October 4, 2009

Sources: Bobby Valentine, Florida Marlins talking about job

At a time when Bobby Valentine has begun the process of pursing a possible return as a manager in Major League Baseball and is in communication with the Marlins and other teams about a possible job, sources said, Florida president David Samson would not specifically guarantee that current Marlins manager Fredi Gonzalez is going to be retained.

via sports.espn.go.com

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October 4, 2009

LIVE: AL Central Showdown

Ace Justin Verlander and the Tigers get one more chance to clinch the AL Central title – but so do the Twins. 

via sports.yahoo.com

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October 3, 2009

Sources: Padres fire GM Towers

SAN DIEGO -- Kevin Towers, the longest-tenured general manager in the major leagues, has been fired by the San Diego Padres, sources confirmed Friday night to ESPN The Magazine senior writer Buster Olney.

via ESPN.com

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October 3, 2009

Blue Jays fire GM Ricciardi 8-year tenure

TORONTO -- The Toronto Blue Jays fired general manager J.P. Ricciardi on Saturday, ending an eight-year tenure marked by an inability to get past the Yankees and Red Sox and into the playoffs.

via sportingnews.com

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October 2, 2009

Ted Williams' head abused at facility

Ted Williams, who spent his entire career with the Red Sox, died in 2002 at the age of 83.

Workers at an Arizona cryonics facility mutilated the frozen head of baseball legend Ted Williams - even using it for a bizarre batting practice, a new tell-all book claims.

via nydailynews.com

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October 1, 2009

Dodgers wrestle with inability to clinch the West

Not that the Dodgers aren't starting to get a wee bit desperate, but confronted with another clinch situation Wednesday night, they changed sports. Baseball wasn't working, so they tried wrestling.

via latimes.com

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September 30, 2009

Yankee Bowl will start in 2010

The creation of the new Yankee Bowl will be announced at a press conference Wednesday morning at Yankee Stadium. The new game is expected to pit the No. 4 team from the Big East against the No. 7 team from the Big 12 beginning in 2010.
via sports.espn.go.com

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September 29, 2009

Angels clinch AL West, remember Adenhart

Angels soaked the jersey in beer, champagne and tears, holding Nick Adenhart’s No. 34 high in the middle of the celebration he missed.

The Los Angeles Angels mob the field after clinching the AL West title with an 11-0 win over the Texas Rangers in an MLB baseball game in Anaheim, Calif., Monday, Sept. 28, 2009.

via Yahoo!

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September 28, 2009

Steroids disguised as dietary supplements

"There are certain steroids and other drugs being masqueraded as dietary supplements," said U.S. Anti-Doping Agency CEO Travis Tygart, one of four experts called to testify. "We're seeing the migration from clandestine labs where designer steroids were being produced for the elite-level athlete to these being distributed to the mainstream where high school and junior high school athletes have access to them."

via USA Today

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