NEW YORK (AP) -- Testimony was called off Tuesday as lawyers tried to complete a $6,355,000, four-year contract between third baseman Pedro Alvarez and the Pittsburgh Pirates and a settlement of a grievance filed by the players' union.
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The Pittsburgh Pirates are nearing agreement on a $6.4 million, four-year contract with their top draft pick that would end a contentious two-month dispute that led the players' union to file a grievance against the commissioner's office.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Southeastern Conference needs to find another pushover.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A 3-0 start has Vanderbilt knocking on the door of its first national ranking in 24 years.
Diabetics who tightly control their blood sugar -- even if only for the first decade after their condition is diagnosed -- have lower risks of heart attack, death and other complications 10 or more years later, a large follow-up study has found.
Diabetics who tightly control their blood sugar -- even if only for the first decade after they are diagnosed -- have lower risks of heart attack, death and other complications 10 or more years later
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Steve Spurrier's newest strategy for No. 2 Georgia? Two quarterbacks and a bunch of young receivers.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- No, really. Vanderbilt is going to keep up the momentum after beating a ranked team this time.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Testimony was called off Tuesday as lawyers tried to complete a $6,355,000, four-year contract between third baseman Pedro Alvarez and the Pittsburgh Pirates and a settlement of a grievance filed by the players' union.
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The Pittsburgh Pirates are nearing agreement on a $6.4 million, four-year contract with their top draft pick that would end a contentious two-month dispute that led the players' union to file a grievance against the commissioner's office.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Southeastern Conference needs to find another pushover.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A 3-0 start has Vanderbilt knocking on the door of its first national ranking in 24 years.
Diabetics who tightly control their blood sugar -- even if only for the first decade after their condition is diagnosed -- have lower risks of heart attack, death and other complications 10 or more years later, a large follow-up study has found.
Diabetics who tightly control their blood sugar -- even if only for the first decade after they are diagnosed -- have lower risks of heart attack, death and other complications 10 or more years later
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Steve Spurrier's newest strategy for No. 2 Georgia? Two quarterbacks and a bunch of young receivers.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- No, really. Vanderbilt is going to keep up the momentum after beating a ranked team this time.
Antibodies are a tricky thing. Some confer protection for years, some a lifetime. To help explain, Eric Altschuler discusses new findings about the 1918 pandemic flu virus
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NEW YORK -- There are times when the Alvarez family wishes they'd taken the money. Just cashed the $775,000 signing bonus the Boston Red Sox offered their then 18-year-old son, Pedro, when he was drafted in the 14th round three years ago, and then maybe his father wouldn't still be sliding behind the wheel of his rented black Lincoln Town Car every morning at 5 a.m. to begin his 12-hour shift in one of the city's most dangerous professions -- giving rides to strangers in his livery cab. Nor would Pedro, a junior third baseman at Vanderbilt, be taking his third of three exams in a single day. But those moments of regret are few and fleeting because for the Alvarezes, telling the Red Sox, thanks, but no, your offer is not enough, wasn't so much a question of greed but a matter of worth.
These 10 draft prospects are the most big-league ready -- so don't be surprised to see them wearing a major league uniform soon.
Steve King and I couldn't get connected in time to include his perspective in Tuesday's story about early basketball commitments, but we had a long chat Wednesday. King is uniquely qualified to speak on this subject. His son, Taylor, committed to UCLA shortly before starting ninth grade in 2003. Taylor's commitment didn't last; he ultimately signed with Duke and has since transferred to Villanova.
Busy by day as a ball boy at the U.S. Open last August, Lance Goulbourne, a five-year veteran ball-fetcher, honed his return game at night, calling back Vanderbilt basketball coach Kevin Stallings.
Five things we learned while having our laptop crash and spending the wee hours at the amazingly cool 24-hour Mac store next to Central Park:
Underrated: Siena. If you watched the Saints wallop a very good Rider team in the MAAC championship game, you know how dangerous this team can be. Siena has very little size (no starters taller than 6-foot-7) and experience (only one senior), yet it has four different players who are capable of scoring 20 or more points. Since they play a five-out, none-in style offense, they can lose to anyone when their threes aren't falling, but you could say that about a lot of teams -- including their first-round opponent, Vanderbilt.
For the past few weeks, we've been hearing about what a wide-open bubble picture we were going to have this year. Well, that picture got a little bit smaller this week, with two teams with at-large profiles from mid-major conferences -- Gonzaga in the West Coast Conference and South Alabama in the Sun Belt -- lost in their conference tournaments. The bubble picture got a little bit smaller, and it will continue to shrink as the week goes on.
Sports Illustrated came out with five regional rivalry covers for the college basketball preview back in November; in retrospect, we probably would have been fine printing just one: Memphis-Tennessee. In 2007-08, no regular-season game has mattered -- or will matter -- as much as the one that will take place on Saturday night at FedEx Forum.
The rankings for this week, straight up.
I love reading bracket projections as much as the next hoops geek, but even the folks who do them would concede that it is still very early. With so much basketball left, we're a good three weeks from being able to see what will be revealed on Selection Sunday.
On the morning after the longest game of the year -- 226 points, 106 free-throw attempts, 210-plus minutes of real time, 65 minutes of clock -- we keep it short and sweet. Sixteen teams. And Baylor is one of them.
Poetry in motion. That's what Patrick (Patty) Mills says he and Andrew Ogilvy created as they ran the court together at the Australian Institute of Sport last year. Mills would push the ball on a break, whistle to Ogilvy and loft an alley-oop pass toward the rim. With perfect, practiced timing, Ogilvy would appear on the wing: step, catch, dunk.
When Chris Lofton releases a three-pointer in Thompson-Boling Arena of late, the tension in the crowd is palpable: 20,799 fans, simultaneously holding their breath, desperately wanting to explode with emotion. "They are willing every one of his shots to go in," says Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl. But willpower alone cannot overcome the worst of slumps, and Lofton is mired in a hellacious one.
College hoops rankings sans a Bluegrass-state team or a subversive agenda ...
College hoops turns the corner into the conference home-stretch this evening, and as much as we think we've learned from the first two months of the season, it's not enough. The final Associated Press poll of December 2006 is evidence of just how worthless early-season assessments can be. No one considered that Top 25 to be a total abomination at the time, and yet there was one future NIT team (Alabama) in the top 10 and three more (Oklahoma State, Air Force and Clemson) scattered below.
When Gail Goestenkors left Duke for Texas last spring, it was only natural that former assistant Joanne Boyle fill her spot. An East Coast kid and one of the rising stars in the coaching ranks, Boyle simply had to say yes when the AD offered her the gig.
Rankings to devour if you're not busy confronting Bob Knight -- with a bad video camera in hand -- for firing shotgun pellets into your swimming pool...
ATHENS, Ga. -- Knowshon Moreno stood in the end zone with his hands on his hips and turned toward the black-clad Sanford Stadium crowd, his head vigorously bobbing up and down.
Fatal laptop issues and a business trip to Nicaragua (yes, I know there's no college football in Nicaragua) have conspired to produce an abridged Heisman Watch this week. Some of you may think it's an improvement.
As anyone who follows college football knows, parity has struck the nation this season like no other. Upsets have been rampant and the New World Order of the college football landscape gets flipped seemingly every week.
Midnight Madness Day is upon us, and it's time to choose what combination we value most in a preseason No. 1 team in the Power Rankings. We're presented with five options:
Suspended Auburn running back Brad Lester has been cleared by the NCAA to return to the field for the Vanderbilt game on Oct. 6.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Both Mississippi quarterback Seth Adams and coach Ed Orgeron believe the senior will be in the starting lineup Saturday when the Rebels host No. 3 Florida in Oxford.
It is unavoidable, almost suffocating, but it is one of the realities of playing quarterback for the Denver Broncos: being compared with John Elway for as long as you have the job. Though he retired eight years ago after leading the team to back-to-back Super Bowl triumphs, Elway is still very much a presence in Denver -- as the former baron of an auto dealership chain, co-owner and CEO of the Arena league's Colorado Crush, and co-owner of the hottest steak house in town (Elway's, of course). But second-year pro Jay Cutler, who has great respect for Elway's lifetime achievements, isn't trying to make people forget the most famous athlete in Colorado. "I'm not John Elway," says Cutler, who became the starting passer with five games remaining in his rookie year, "and I'm not going to be the next John Elway."
The 1993 NCAA women's basketball Final Four, held in Atlanta, was notable for a number of reasons: It was the last year of the 48-team tournament format; the first year the Final Four sold out in advance and the first time a Vegas bookie issued a betting line on the games. He made Vanderbilt a four-point favorite in the semifinal against Texas Tech, which showed how little he and, by extension, most people outside the Southwest Conference knew about Sheryl Swoopes, the senior forward for Texas Tech.
With college sports on summer hiatus, SIOC took some time to answer reader questions.
So how has David Price, Baseball America's No. 1 prospect and the ace of the top-ranked Commodores, spent his mornings over the past month now that Vanderbilt's spring semester is over?
On the list of desirable sports jobs, "Vanderbilt baseball ticket scalper" has historically ranked pretty low, usually somewhere down around "Rick Majerus's personal trainer" and "Pete Rose's accountant." But last Friday the hawkers were out in front of Hawkins Field, where the Commodores were hosting an NCAA regional, asking $50 for a $10 ticket. Yes, these are heady days at Vandy, and not just because the baseball team -- which not long ago considered 200 people a good draw -- was pulling in SRO crowds of 3,500 over the weekend. Vanderbilt is enjoying unprecedented success in every sport, a run made all the more remarkable by the fact that four years ago it eliminated its athletic department.
With only a week until the Major League draft and three weeks until the College World Series in Omaha, college baseball is heating up in a big way. Last week, the NCAA selection committee announced the 64 teams that made the postseason tournament, playing in 16 regionals across the country. These regionals, hosted by a home university in each instance, will send one university to the next round after playing a double elimination weekend tournament. The 16 regionals are below, with my picks for each regional along with the skinny on every team involved.
The Bush administration and the leadership of the Democratic Party are preparing to take another legislative leap at imposing a massive illegal alien amnesty on American citizens.
What was your welcome-to-the-big-leagues moment?
March madness finally came to Sacramento on Saturday. After a mostly sleep-inducing quartet of first-round games in which the margins of victory were 13, 16, 28 and 33 points, respectively, Washington State and Vanderbilt played an edge-of-your-seat double-overtime thriller that featured everything from clutch three-point shooting to game-saving blocked shots. Vanderbilt won it, 78-74, but the real winners were the spectators in Arco Arena who will tell you that they saw the game of the tournament so far.
1. The NCAA selection committee unveiled the brackets on Sunday evening. As of press time, the exclusion of mid-major stalwart Drexel still had Billy Packer inconsolable.
Underrated: Texas The fourth-seeded 'Horns are as formidable as all the No. 3s -- and even a couple of No. 2s -- in the bracket. Skinny wunderkind Kevin Durant (25.6 points, 11.3 rebounds per game, unlimited entertainment) strikes fear into the hearts of opposing defenders. Durant will be on a chest-thumping scoring mission in his one-and-done farewell tour; he and freshman point guard D.J. Augustin lead a free-wheeling, Phoenix Suns-style offense that ranks fourth nationally in adjusted offensive efficiency. UT is glaringly inexperienced, starting four freshmen and one sophomore, but the green-Horns play fearlessly, and that's what makes them dangerous.
When Melanie Balcomb signed her first recruiting class at Vanderbilt four years ago, she said just what you'd expect of a coach who had just landed a six-player class that would be rated nation's best. She talked about the program's great tradition and the national title this group was going to add to it.
It's a Mata-Matta world -- in that order -- at the top of the regular season's final Power Rankings.
In the search for a new No. 1, now that Florida and Wisconsin have fallen, the logical thing to do -- if you subscribe to the Coaches' poll's logic of "bumping" teams up the ranks -- would be to grant the throne to Ohio State. The Buckeyes are the coaches' current No. 1 and the AP's No. 2, yet I have reservations about bumping them up to my top spot.
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Research into smelly feet, a study on the sound of fingernails on a blackboard and a device that repels teenagers with an annoying high-pitched hum. It must be the IgNobel Prize.
These five companies are changing the way private-sector hospitals serve patients, following the lead of the VA's technological innovations.
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Excavations at a little-known Mayan ruin in Guatemala indicate it was once one of the largest and most sophisticated cities in the preclassic Mayan world.
Recently, professors at Vanderbilt and the University of Colorado determined that car lovers use their brains differently than the rest of us. When they see an unfamiliar car, their brains process...
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Ever get a sneaking suspicion that the only difference between you and an economic pundit is that the pundit has all the facts and figures, and you don't? Like maybe the world economy could be your...
What accounts for the widening inequality of wages in the U.S. over the past two decades? The question delights Democrats and populists, who blame the Reagan era and its putative greed, and worries...
-- In the ''information richness'' studies that Vanderbilt professor Richard Daft conducts, employees invariably say that face-to-face communication with management and fellow employees is preferab...
Does this sound like success to you? As an absolute monarch you rule the most powerful company in the most powerful communication medium in the most powerful country on earth. Your business enriche...
SCIENCE HAS CREATED few things with as many potential uses as the laser. This eerie beam of light, needle-thin and purer than anything found in nature, can be made to glow hotter than the surface o...
Women cry more frequently than men in the office. That was . . .the conclusion of a 1983 study by a Minnesota researcher, who found that women in general cried four times as frequently as men . . ....
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