Posts Tagged ‘Dodgers’

Recent Sports News:Remembering Jackie Robinson: The Greatest Man In Sports History

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Find Latest Sports News, Cricket, Hockey, Football, Tennis, Golf, Sports Scores Online. Cusci.com offer daily sports news, tennis, hockey news, cricket News, live Sports Scores online.On this date in 1947, a young, muscular African American and former UCLA athlete from Pasadena’s John Muir High School named Jack Roosevelt Robinson stepped onto the baseball diamond at Ebbets Field, in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City.
He was wearing the home whites

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Latest Sport News:Five’s for Fighting: Fifth Starter Slot Up For Grabs

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Latest sports news, online sport scores and breaking news articles on recreational and competitive sports.The fifth starter slot: a place in the pitching rotation always in flux.  Most clubs don’t feel the need to go out and stabilize the last necessary spot, opting instead to use strategically placed off-days or low-end starters to make ends meet.  The Dodgers have a very wide-open

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Sports News:Reed Between the Lines: Johnson’s Arrival Spells Confusion at 2B

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The independent alternative for sports coverage offering breaking news, exclusive interviews, no holds barred columnists and original features.Reed Johnson is now a Dodger.  The outfielder will fill a fourth-outfielder role after Juan Pierre was traded to the White Sox.  Johnson is a good addition; he plays stellar defense in left-field, where he will presumably see most of his innings, and he has a decent bat.  However,

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Sports News Online:Dodgers Add Belliard, Ausmus to Bench

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Latest sports news, online sport scores and breaking news articles on recreational and competitive sports.The Dodgers did their best to shore up the bench, resigning utility-man Ronnie Belliard and catcher Brad Ausmus to one-year deals.  Belliard came from Washington in a waiver deal, and proceeded to tear apart opponents.  He had a line of .351/.398/.636 while with LA, and supplanted

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Sports News:Dodgers Resign Padilla, Return to Hole

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Latest breaking news and headlines on sports such as cricket, football, hockey, golf, tennis, athletics and other sports.The offseason’s over for the Dodgers.  Sure, they might sign a minor-leaguer here or there, maybe someone to fill up the bench.  But with the signing of Vicente Padilla to a one-year, .025 million contract, the Dodgers are done.  Unless someone falls into their lap, like

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Online Sports News:Mission Accomplished: Dodgers Settle Remaining Arbitration Cases

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Latest breaking news and headlines on sports such as cricket, football, hockey, golf, tennis, athletics and other sports.The Dodgers finished their most important task this offseason: locking up all arbitration-eligible players.  First it was Matt Kemp and Chad Billingsley.  Now, the six others fell in line with them.  LA came to terms with James Loney, Jonathan Broxton, George Sherrill, Andre Ethier,

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Recent Sports News:Dodgers Reach Agreements with Kemp, Billingsley

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Latest breaking news and headlines on sports such as cricket, football, hockey, golf, tennis, athletics and other sports.The Dodgers and Matt Kemp agreed to a two-year deal worth .95 million plus incentives, locking the center-fielder up for two arbitration years.  Kemp won a Silver Slugger and a Gold Glove last year after a season in which he batted .297 while hitting 26 home runs and stealing

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Latest Sport News:The Decade: A Brief Look at What The 00’s Gave the Dodgers

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Latest sports news, online sport scores and breaking news articles on recreational and competitive sports.With the unofficial decade coming to an end, a close look should be given to the Dodgers’ work. After all, it’s not every day that ownership changes, a team that hadn’t won a playoff series in 20 years sweeps the NLDS in consecutive years, and the team achieves a

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Sports News:Dodgers Awaken From Slumber, Trade Pierre to ChiSox

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The independent alternative for sports coverage offering breaking news, exclusive interviews, no holds barred columnists and original features.Juan Pierre is a Dodger no more. The speedy outfielder was sent to the Chicago White Sox in exchange for two players to be named later, though the speculation is that John Ely and Jon Link will be shipped to Los Angeles.
Pierre signed a five-year deal in the offseason of ‘06-’07

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Latest Sport News:Why No Arbitration is Bad (& Bad Sign) for Dodgers

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The independent alternative for sports coverage offering breaking news, exclusive interviews, no holds barred columnists and original features.Tuesday was the deadline to offer arbitration to eligible players, and most of the time the process is just a formality.  A free-agent gets arbitration from a team that wants draft-pick compensation if the player signs elsewhere, and the free-agent usually declines to test the market. 

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