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Pitchers, catchers…and signers report: a Founding Fathers baseball dream team
By Michael Simzak | National Constitution Center – Baseball Ah, Pitchers and Catchers Report: those four simple but beautiful words that alert us to the oncoming baseball season and bring with them thoughts of warm, lazy days spent at the ballpark. This year is also the 225th anniversary of the Constitution. In celebration of this most wonderful time of the year and most wonderful anniversary, the Constitution Daily sports desk assembled a crack team of historians, analysts, scholars, writers, statisticians and pundits to answer a question that has vexed constitutional historians and baseball fans for generations: If the framers of the Constitution were a baseball team, who would they be and what position would they play
Bill Mardo, Writer Who Pushed Baseball to Integrate, Dies at 88
By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN Published: January 24, 2012 Bill Mardo, a sportswriter for the Communist Party newspaper The Daily Worker who fought major league baseball’s color barrier in the 1940s when the mainstream American news media was largely silent on the subject, died Friday in Manhattan. He was 88
Ex-Rockets C Yao enters Chinese politics (AP)
SHANGHAI (AP)—Retired NBA star Yao Ming has added another line to his post-basketball resume—politician—becoming a member of an advisory body to Shanghai’s legislature. Since the 31-year-old Yao announced last July that injuries had ended his career with the Houston Rockets, he has become a university student and set up a wine business to go with owning a professional basketball team in China
Penn State hires Bill O’Brien as football coach (AP)
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – Penn State has hired New England Patriots offensive coordinator Bill O’Brien as its head coach, the first change in leadership for the storied football program in nearly a half-century. The announcement caps a turbulent two-month period that began with the firing of Hall of Famer Joe Paterno on Nov
Senna Documentary is a Must-See for Formula 1 Fans
As a relatively new fan to Formula 1 racing, I’m hungry for racing history and to learn more about how the sport developed. I knew the name Ayrton Senna as a racecar driver and F1 champion, who died in a wreck during a race, but that’s about it. Movie poster for the documentary “Senna” Universal Pictures/press kit I finally watched “Senna,” the wonderfully crafted documentary about the life of Brazilian three-time F1 champion Ayrton Senna
Baseball-research society now calling Valley its home
by Peter Corbett – Jan. 1, 2012 09:15 PM The Arizona Republic It’s a long way from their origin at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., four decades ago, but the Society for American Baseball Research has found a home in Arizona. The society of more than 6,000 members moved in April from Cleveland to the Valley, packing along its collective historical wisdom and an umpirelike neutrality on baseball politics and the game’s record books
Steven Hirsch: 2011: Baseball for the Ages
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Blatter to meet Brazil leader over WCup concerns (AP)
TOKYO (AP)—FIFA President Sepp Blatter plans to meet with Brazil’s head of state to discuss concerns over the country’s preparations for the 2014 World Cup. FIFA officials have repeatedly said preparations for Brazil 2014 are behind schedule. FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke has told Brazilian lawmakers that the pace had to be stepped up, saying “we are late, we can’t lose a day.” Blatter expressed his concerns on Saturday following a meeting of FIFA’s Executive Committee on the sidelines of the 2011 Club World Cup
Browns’ McCoy sits, Wallace may start (AP)
BEREA, Ohio (AP)— Seneca Wallace doesn’t walk so much as glide. And as the Browns’ backup quarterback saunters into the locker room following practice he looks and acts every bit like Cleveland’s starter.
Prokhorov to run for Russian presidency (AP)
MOSCOW (AP)—After a week of surprising challenges to his authority, Vladimir Putin faces a new one from one of Russia’s richest and most glamorous figures: The billionaire owner of the New Jersey Nets says he will run against him in March’s presidential election. The announcement Monday by Mikhail Prokhorov underlines the extent of the discontent with Putin, who has dominated Russian politics for a dozen years— first as president, then as prime minister.