SALT LAKE CITY (AP) He was booed on draft day, still gets teased about his Justin Bieber hair and recently endured the strangest, most expensive ”Wet Willy” ever. Utah Jazz swingman Gordon Hayward , however, has managed to rise above it all, finally living up to the expectations Jazz brass had when they made him a lottery pick in 2010

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NEW YORK (AP) Major League Soccer would implement goal-line technology quickly if it’s approved in July by the sport’s rules-making body.

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Blackhawks star Marian Hossa was hospitalized by a dangerous illegal headshot of the kind the NHL has been trying to eliminate, not a fight or a clean, hard check. (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images) What threatens to become the NHL’s Spring of Shame continued on Day 7 of the Stanley Cup playoffs when Marian Hossa was stretchered off in the first period of the Coyotes-Blackhawks game on Tuesday night, the result of a clearly illegal but unpenalized hit by multiple offender Raffi Torres. It was the lasting image on another compelling night of playoff hockey and it overshadowed all else, just as each daily episode of brutal play has done

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By PETE IACOBELLI | Associated Press  –  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Serena Williams has plenty to keep her busy. There’s college classes, a relaunch of her clothing line and a possible move to Paris.

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By DOUG FERGUSON | Associated Press  –  AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Tiger Woods couldn’t see the green through the trees, though that was only a minor obstacle. He choked up on a 5-wood and played a sweeping draw around the pines, over the water and onto the back of the green

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By KEN THOMAS | Associated Press  –  WASHINGTON (AP) — Basketball fan-in-chief President Barack Obama is giving British Prime Minister David Cameron a front-row seat to March Madness, taking his European partner to an NCAA tournament basketball game in Ohio , an election swing state. Obama and Cameron are attending a “First Four” matchup in Dayton, Ohio, between Mississippi Valley State and Western Kentucky on Tuesday night, a gesture of goodwill during Cameron’s official visit to the United States and a way for an incumbent president to reach sports fans in an election year. The White House said the trip to the NCAA tournament game was intended to showcase the special relationship between the two key allies during Cameron’s three-day visit

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LOS ANGELES, March 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — From Now and Then Reader , the digital publisher of original nonfiction books and essays, comes the new e-single Don’t Kill the Umpire: How Baseball Escaped Its Violent Past, by renowned baseball historian Peter Morris.  The 28-page digital single provides a fascinating history of violence in and around our national pastime. A far cry from the safeguarded game of today, baseball once featured reckless, aggressive play in front of ballpark fans who seethed with intimidation toward opposing players and umpires.  Don’t Kill the Umpire guides us through baseball’s fascinating and violent past. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120312/CG69001) While modern baseball still has incidents of violence, Morris explains, the game is serene when compared with its earliest days

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LOS ANGELES, March 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — From Now and Then Reader , the digital publisher of original nonfiction books and essays, comes the new e-single Don’t Kill the Umpire: How Baseball Escaped Its Violent Past, by renowned baseball historian Peter Morris.  The 28-page digital single provides a fascinating history of violence in and around our national pastime. A far cry from the safeguarded game of today, baseball once featured reckless, aggressive play in front of ballpark fans who seethed with intimidation toward opposing players and umpires.  Don’t Kill the Umpire guides us through baseball’s fascinating and violent past. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120312/CG69001) While modern baseball still has incidents of violence, Morris explains, the game is serene when compared with its earliest days.

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By Genevra Pittman | Reuters  –  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – More Major League Baseball players are being sidelined with abdominal muscle strains, according to a new study that suggests there may be too much focus on building strength and not enough on stretching and flexibility in the pros. The injuries, also known as side strains, typically occur with twisting or pivoting — such as during a pitcher’s throwing motion or a batter’s swing — and are also common in tennis and golf. “Part of this is just, you’re doing something that’s not a natural motion..

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February 15, 2012, 9:07 am       This did not occur to me when it should have, which is not unusual, but watching Jeremy Lin up his own ante yet again Tuesday night in Toronto caused the small Christmas-tree-sized bulb signifying a freshly-hatched half-formed idea to illuminate itself overhead late last night. Football has The Tebow

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CSN: Has baseball found its own Linsanity?