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Lowell comes out swinging, routs Stuart Hall

By: Jeremy Balan 02/28/12 12:02 AM
While defending Academic Athletic Association baseball champion Washington High School has limped through its first four games, Lowell is looking like the prime candidate to supplant the Eagles. The Cardinals followed a 13-0 win over International in their opener on Saturday with a 12-3 rout of Stuart Hall in the second round of the Dick Murray tournament on Monday at Silver Terrace Playground. Read More

Braun case shows baseball in need of radical changes to drug policy

By: Glenn Dickey 02/27/12 10:23 PM
Major League Baseball has gone from one extreme to another on performance-enhancing drugs, but still doesn’t have a realistic approach, as the botched Ryan Braun case shows. At first, Commissioner Bud Selig was quite happy to ignore the issue because steroids helped produce the great home run race between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa in 1998, with McGwire setting a then-record with 70 home runs. Read More

Oakland A's GM Billy Beane an expert at shaking things up

By: Art Spander 02/21/12 11:57 PM
The A’s? “Team Irrelevant”? Grabbing supposedly the best Cuban baseball playing defector available, Yoenis Cespedes, for $36 million? Then signing Manny Ramirez? The A’s? Welcome to the New World of Moneyball. No longer when a journalist asks GM Billy Beane whether we’ll recognize any members of the A’s will he be able to respond, if tongue in cheek, “Do you ever?” Read More

El Camino baseball team scores nine runs in final two innings of rout against Washington

By: Jeremy Balan 02/21/12 12:10 AM
The Washington High School baseball team may be the defending Academic Athletic Association champion with a key core of seniors returning, but its first two games of the season have shown it has plenty of room for improvement. The Eagles were in contention for most of their nonleague game on the road against El Camino and held a 2-1 lead in the fifth inning, but gave up nine unanswered runs in two innings to lose 10-2. Read More

El Camino baseball team scores nine runs in final two innings of rout against Washington

By: Jeremy Balan 02/21/12 12:10 AM
The Washington High School baseball team may be the defending Academic Athletic Association champion with a key core of seniors returning, but its first two games of the season have shown it has plenty of room for improvement. The Eagles were in contention for most of their nonleague game on the road against El Camino and held a 2-1 lead in the fifth inning, but gave up nine unanswered runs in two innings to lose 10-2. Read More

A's FanFest links players, salutes 20-game streak

By: Staff report 01/26/12 9:23 PM
Coco Crisp
With spring training less than a month away, Oakland fans can get a chance to meet players and coaches before they head out to the Cactus League at A’s FanFest on Sunday. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and will be held at Oracle Arena. Close to 30 players are expected to be in attendance, including Coco Crisp, Jemile Weeks, Dallas Braden and new additions Josh Reddick and Seth Smith. Read More

Texas formally introduces Japanese pitcher Darvish

By: STEPHEN HAWKINS 01/20/12 6:23 PM
Yu Darvish
Yu Darvish leaned over and looked at his name and the No. 11 on the back of his Texas Rangers jersey. Then he looked up and smiled. "Excited, that's all I feel right now," Darvish said through a translator. "Just excited going forward." Read More

Cherington: Red Sox eager for 2012 to start

By: JIMMY GOLEN 01/19/12 2:56 PM
Boston Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington says his players are looking forward to spring training to erase the memory of last September's collapse. Cherington says he's ready to go, too, for his first spring training as GM. Cherington spoke before the annual dinner of the Boston chapter of the BBWAA. Read More

Darvish, Texas agree to $60M, 6-yr deadline deal

By: STEPHEN HAWKINS 01/18/12 3:02 PM
Yu Darvish
Yu Darvish is coming to America to pitch. Japan's best pitcher and the Texas Rangers agreed before Wednesday's deadline to a $60 million, six-year contract. In addition to the salary, the Rangers will pay a posting fee of $51,703,411 to the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters of Japan's Pacific League. Read More

Selig's contract extended through the 2014 season

By: BOB BAUM 01/12/12 12:15 PM
Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig has been given a two-year contract extension through the 2014 season. Selig has held the position since 1992, first as acting commissioner and then as commissioner since 1998. He will turn 80 in July 2014. If he stays until September 2016, he would surpass Kenesaw Mountain Landis (1920-44) as the longest-serving baseball commissioner. Selig's contract had been due to expire this Dec. 31. Read More
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