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ESPN.com:
Leyritz charged with DUI manslaughter in crash — Former Major League Baseball player Jim Leyritz was arrested Friday on charges of driving under the influence and killing another driver after his vehicle crashed into hers. — Leyritz, who turned 44 on Thursday, faces charges of DUI manslaughter …
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Associated Press:
Jim Leyritz charged with DUI manslaughter — Series hero charged with DUI, killing another driver — FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Former major leaguer Jim Leyritz was arrested Friday on charges of driving under the influence and killing a driver after his car crashed into hers.
WPLG-TV:
Former Baseball Player Charged In DUI Death — Jim Leyritz Refused Breathalyzer Test, Police Say — FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A former major league baseball player is in the Broward County Jail after being arrested on suspicion of DUI and vehicular homicide.
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Steroid Nation, Can't Stop The Bleeding, Sliding Into Home, River Ave. Blues and Larry Brown Sports
The Smoking Gun:
Woman Dead After Jim Leyritz Crash — Former Yankee facing DUI manslaughter charge after Florida accident — Former Major Leaguer Jim Leyritz was arrested today on a felony DUI manslaughter charge in connection with an accident that left a second motorist dead.
Fox Sports:
Report: Leyritz charged with DUI homicide — Former major leaguer Jim Leyritz, who played the hero in the Yankees' 1996 World Series run, is in Broward County's Main Jail, charged with DUI homicide after a Friday morning crash in Fort Lauderdale, the Miami Herald reported on its Web site.
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Pinstriped Scranton
Sports Illustrated:
Jon Heyman: Gossage has waited long enough for Hall — Enshrinement in Cooperstown shouldn't be about numbers. If anyone thinks so, let's trash tradition and have a computer select the honorees. — The Hall of Fame should be about who starred and who dominated. And about who made an impact.
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Steve Henson / Yahoo! Sports:
Boston Red Sox — Predicting the top five MLB teams for 2008 is an all-American enterprise. ... Team Injuries — Player — Status — Injury — B. Donnelly RP — 60-day — Right elbow surgery - out for season — Red Sox Community — Latest Team Photos — view image
Neil Best / Watchdog:
LaTroy Hawkins is cool with hitters juicing up — New Yankee LaTroy Hawkins appeared on Sirius Satellite Radio and had an interesting take on the steroids saga in MLB: — Host Jason Page: “You're stepping into this Yankee fray. It's going to be kind of an awkward time.
New York Post:
BOSTON'S MARKET — BOSOX STILL LEAD IN JOHAN RACE — JOHAN Santana remains available. The New York teams remain interested. Yet, according to multiple executives spoken to yesterday, the Red Sox remain the strong favorite to obtain the star lefty if - and probably more likely, when - he is traded in the new year.
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Sports Scope, SOX & Dawgs, Scott Proctor's Arm, Depressed Fan, MetsBlog.com, MY BASEBALL BIAS and MetsNetwork.com
Fox Sports:
Managers burdened by big expectations in '08 — For the better part of five years, Clint Hurdle was looking up at .500, surviving as manager of the Colorado Rockies because of an ownership commitment to patience and player development. — A year ahead of schedule, the Rockies won their first NL pennant ever in 2007.
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Ya Gotta Believe
Mike Fish / ESPN:
Clubhouse culture led ex-Mariner to steroids and greenies … There is something different about this. Most big-leaguers and recent baseball retirees have been scrambling to distance themselves from the Mitchell Report, or they've called on their agent or a neatly crafted statement to explain away their performance-enhancing drug use.
