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*Baseball is finally here! This is the first part of our breakdown – taking a look at the league, division-by-division. Next week, we’ll pick the MVPs, Cy Youngs, Rookies-of-the-Year and give a World Series pick. So, in the words of The Joker … here … we … go: The American League East is the toughest [...]
*The Jackie Robinson biopic “42,” about Major League Baseball’s first African American player, would not be opening in theaters next month if it weren’t for the blessing of his widow. And she had some concerns. Rachel Robinson, who owns the rights to her late husband’s story, questioned director Brian Helgeland’s vision of the biopic, which would span [...]
*The first trailer for “42,” the long in limbo biopic of legendary second baseman Jackie Robinson, has finally been released by Warner Bros. ahead of its Spring 2013 release in theaters. Chadwick Boseman plays the barrier-breaking legend, who in 1947 became the first black Major League ballplayer and eventually hit and fielded his way into [...]
*Brian Banks, the young hopeful who was exonerated after serving five years in prison for a rape he didn’t commit, has a job offer if his dream of an NFL career doesn’t work out. Last week, the Arizona Diamondbacks offered him a position. However, in what capacity isn’t known at the present time. After checking [...]
*T.R. Knight, the Emmy-nominated “Grey’s Anatomy” actor at the center of the Isaiah Washington drama, has joined the cast of “42,” Legendary Pictures’ Jackie Robinson biopic. Chadwick Boseman is portraying Robinson, the baseball legend who broke the color barrier, while Harrison Ford is playing Branch Rickey, the man who signed Robinson. Knight will play Harold [...]
*Many sites love to focus on the hot players in basketball and football, but what about the hottest baseball stars. Are you a fan of EURweb? Like us on Facebook or Follow us on Twitter. These guys not only have to deal with the sun, sand and grass year round, but they also have to [...]
*Sure, we’re all in a bit of a lull after football season ends. February and March is kind of a transition period in America sport, coming down from the all-out craziness that is the NFL playoffs to the youthful, boisterous spectacle of March Madness. Luckily, we do have another thing to look forward to – [...]
*It’s natural to stare in wonder at our greatest athletes and wonder how they’d do in other sports, particularly after a generation raised on the astonishing athletic exploits of Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders – Jackson especially. It’s been over two decades since that devastating hip injury destroyed Jackson’s career, but we forget just how [...]
*He tried to fight it, but the judgment is just going to have to stick. Barry Bonds attempted to get his conviction on obstruction of justice overturned, but the judge just wasn’t hearing it. According to CNN, San Francisco Judge Susan Illston issued a 20-page order denying a new trial. In 2003, the slugger got [...]
*They say that dogs are man’s best friend, but there have been some new and quite interesting recent developments showing that the relationship can actually bring out the human in the dog. You won’t be a believer until you see it for yourself. The dog you are going to see actually talks to his man-friend and his man-friend [...]
*In Los Angeles, police are searching for two Dodgers fans responsible for assaulting and critically injuring a man wearing San Francisco Giants apparel following Thursday night’s season opener. “The man suffered a serious head injury during the assault after the game,” said LAPD Sgt. Sanford Rosenberg, watch commander at the Northeast Station. Rosenberg said the [...]
*On Thursday a federal judge refused to allow the jury at Barry Bonds’ perjury trial to listen to angry voicemails he left with his mistress during a stormy nine-year relationship. Prosecutors wanted to introduce the voicemails to show that Bonds was experiencing so-called “roid rage” when he left the messages demanding to know the whereabouts [...]
*Federal prosecutors have cut the number of felony charges Barry Bonds faces from 11 to five. In a court filing Thursday, prosecutors filed their third revised indictment against Bonds, who is scheduled to stand trial March 21. In the new indictment, they reduced from nine to three the number of charges alleging Bonds lied under [...]
*Ford Motor Company settled a Mississippi lawsuit over a 2001 accident in which New York Mets prospect Brian Cole (pictured above) was killed when his SUV crashed in the Florida Panhandle, a lawyer for the player’s family said. The settlement came shortly after the jury in Jasper County, Mississippi had awarded $131 million in actual [...]
*Not that anybody in Los Angeles cares anymore, but Manny Ramirez will be sent to the Chicago White Sox on a waiver deal Monday, according to a baseball source who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The Dodgers aren’t expected to get any players in return, but are likely to unburden themselves of the $4 [...]
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