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Tigers designate slumping OF Jones; Sheffield goes to left field — DETROIT — Jacque Jones was cut Monday by the Detroit Tigers, who had promised a lineup shakeup going into a homestand against the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees. — Detroit designated Jones for assignment and has 10 days …
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Ken Davidoff / Newsday:
Rocket that's crashed and burned — Roger Clemens told the Houston Chronicle he's apologized to his family for “mistakes” in his personal life, but denied allegations of steorid use and of an affair with country singer Mindy McCready. (Getty Images Photo)
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Clemens apologizes to family, fans — NEW YORK - Roger Clemens apologized today for unspecified mistakes in his personal life but denied having an affair with a 15-year-old. — The Daily News reported last week Clemens had a decade-long relationship with country star Mindy McCready that began when she was 15 and an aspiring singer.
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Associated Press:
Woman charged in killing after Yanks-BoSox spat — NASHUA, N.H. — A woman accused of running down a man in her car after a Red Sox-Yankees argument in a bar never hit her brakes as she accelerated toward the small group he was in, a prosecutor said Monday.
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David Abel / Boston Globe:
Red Sox-Yankees spat cited in N.H. killing — Ticked off by an earlier scuffle and taunted by anti-Yankees chants, a 43-year-old mother pulled out of a New Hampshire parking lot last week and rammed into one of the Red Sox fans taunting her, prosecutors said today.
Joe Cowley / Chicago Sun Times:
Another Juan to forget — TORONTO — A four-day weekend up in Canada with the boys, some drinking, a few heads getting shaved and, of course, blow-up dolls — well, that's usually nothing more than a good time. — Leave it to the White Sox to make a train wreck out of it.
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Jeff Passan / Yahoo! Sports:
Weak attendance could be a National emergency — WASHINGTON - Stan Kasten's two families converged this week. Down south, his daughter graduated from the University of Florida. And here, where he's president of the Washington Nationals, his baby turned a month old.
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Dejan Kovacevic / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Worth the wait: Inside the McLouth breakout — Gifted with patience at the plate and all through his career, the Pirates' ‘Mighty Mouse’ is baseball's most productive center fielder — WASHINGTON — Remember those fat, orange bats from childhood? — Nate McLouth had one at age 4 and …
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Bob Klapisch / ESPN:
Yankees, Mets still faced with plenty of questions — NEW YORK — “It's an endless summer” is what baseball's rational thinkers like to say. But try telling that to the army of New York hard cores, who watched the Yankees and Mets slog through April at a .500 clip and treated it like the apocalypse.
Mark Sheldon / MLB.com:
Weathers upset by Reds announcer — Veteran pitcher defends team against critical comments — CINCINNATI — You never know who might be listening to a ballgame on the radio. — On Sunday, as the Reds dropped their fifth straight game by a 14-7 score, David Weathers was one of the Reds on Radio listeners on WLW-AM.
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Tom Haudricourt / Brewers Blog:
No plans to remove Gagne — I just spoke with Brewers general manager Doug Melvin via telephone and he told me there are no plans to remove Eric Gagne as the club's closer despite the veteran right-handers off-and-on struggles this season. — Melvin is in Brevard County, Fla., watching the team's Class A club there.
The Big Lead:
An Interview with Buzz Bissinger — Award-winning author Buzz Bissinger voiced his displeasure about blogs on last week's Bob Costas HBO special. In a contrite and fairly candid interview with us, he sums up his television performance thusly: “I am a man of passion, and my passion got the better of me.”
