The Ultimate Minor League Baseball Road Trip: A Fan's Guide to AAA, AA, A, and Independent League Stadiums
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
Federal authorities in New Hampshire say a former employee of the company that built the minor league baseball stadium in Manchester has been sentenced to 30 months in prison following his conviction for wire fraud.
The Triangle Business Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
The new professional soccer league formed earlier this month by the Carolina RailHawks and a handful of other franchises unveiled its new name Monday – the North American Soccer League.
The Sports Economist (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
The job of a sports agent is to get the best contract terms for his/her client. The best/most notorious is Scott Boras , famous for his reputation of being a tough negotiator for baseball players. His newly-drafted clients have no qualms about saying "no," even if that means sitting out an entire season of minor league baseball. The willingness and ability to say "no" is one of...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
After a 1-4 start, no one at Sacramento City College talked much of reaching a bowl game. Survival was more like it. The Panthers closed out their turnaround football season Saturday by winning five of six games, winning the Mid-Empire League championship and capping it with a 40-17 rout of Laney College in the Laney Eagles Bowl in Oakland. Cody Allen passed for 320 yards and four touchdowns to earn...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Art Savage, president and CEO of the Sacramento River Cats, waves to the crowd during the team's inaugural game May 15, 2000. Arthur Lynn Savage, the man who changed summer evenings in Sacramento and gave baseball fans a home team to brag about, died Saturday at his East Sacramento home. Mr. Savage, who with his wife, Susan, owned the Sacramento River Cats, one of the nation's most successful minor...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Art Savage, majority owner of West Sacramento's River Cats minor league baseball team, died suddenly at home on Saturday morning. Savage had recently recovered from a long battle with lung cancer and was considered to be in remission. His was 58. "He had a clean bill of health," said his son, Jeff Savage. "We were all very optimistic, so as you can imagine, this came as kind of a shock."...
Baseball Prospectus: Unfiltered (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Among the many reasons to visit your local minor-league ballpark (the charm, the ridiculously cheap seats behind home plate, etc.) is the possibility of witnessing future greatness. Over the years, I have been fortunate enough to catch several big-league stars in action before most people had heard of them: Jay Buhner, Jake Peavy, Carlos Quentin, [...]
MLB (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
A's Lieppman wins 'Chief' Bender Award
Redleg Nation (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
From Baseball America: Top-10 Prospects: 1. Todd Frazier, of/2b/3b 2. Yonder Alonso, 1b 3. Mike Leake, rhp 4. Chris Heisey, of 5. Juan Francisco, 3b 6. Yorman Rodriguez, of 7. Travis Wood, lhp 8. Matt Maloney, lhp 9. Brad Boxberger, rhp 10. Zack Cozart, ss My only problem with this list is that Leake and Boxberger’s professional experience is a total of 28 1/3 innings. I wouldn’t [...]...
The Triangle Business Journal (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Duke University’s baseball team has struck a deal to play its Atlantic Coast Conference home games and some non-conference series in the Durham Bulls Athletic Park, says George Habel, vice president of Capitol Broadcasting Co.
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Rent It THE FILM A mild character drama, "The Open Road" pairs the established, celebrated, legendary acting chops of Jeff Bridges with the pipsqueak stance of Justin Timberlake. The match-up isn't as hilariously one-sided as feared, but "Open Road" isn't the most convincing domestic drama on the market, only truly enlivened by Bridges and his direct hit of foggy parental reluctance....
Reality TV Magazine (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Just when I thought TLC was really stretching, tonight they hit rock bottom. The two episodes of Jon & Kate Plus 8 featured yet more previously unaired footage. It all started when Kate took the eight kids shopping for gymnastics. Before they got there, Kate promised a surprise if they were well behaved. Their surprise was [...] Related posts: Jon & Kate: Boarding The Battleship Jon & Kate:...
Entertainment Tonight (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
ET has a sneak peek at tonight's " Jon & Kate Plus 8," including never-before-seen footage. In the new episode titled "Gymnastics & Baseball," the adorable Gosselin kids prepare for sports season. Kate enrolls all the kids in gymnastics classes and the tumbling begins, while Jon takes the kids to a local minor league baseball game. Also featured in the episode, Kate reviews...
Electronic Cerebrectomy (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
The best thing about this book right now is that it almost feels like we're stampeding towards a climax. This is a long, pointless book, and it's made even longer by the fact that I'm reading it at the pace of a chapter a week instead of in the two or so hours it might take on a slow afternoon. This whole thing is drivel. All that happens in this chapter is that the Cullens rally together to protect...
SI.com (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Bryon Russell wasn't joking when he challenged Michael Jordan to a game of one-on-one after being called out in Jordan's Hall of Fame induction speech. But Russell is beginning to think that Jordan was kidding when he agreed to play.
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