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Bargain DeJesus Signing a Good Start for Epstein in Chicago

Bar­gain DeJe­sus sign­ing a good start for Epstein in Chicago Matthew Pouliot Nov 30, 2011, 6:30 PM EST 2 Comments This isn’t the first time Theo Epstein tried to land David DeJesus. As Boston’s gen­eral man­ager, Epstein attempted to pick up DeJe­sus from the Roy­als both before the 2010 trade dead­line and again after the sea­son. Epstein missed out both times, though, and DeJe­sus was instead dealt to Oak­land, where he turned in his most dis­ap­point­ing sea­son to date as the A’s pri­mary right fielder. Of course, Epstein didn’t let that series of events... 

Chocolate Al Shirts to Raise Money for Danny Miller Foundation

A writer at Cage Potato’s daugh­ter drew a pic­ture of her father meet­ing “Choco­late Al” at an MMA sem­i­nar. (Say it out loud … maybe one more time … there it is!) CP took that adorable story and turned it into a t-shirt. Not only is it cool, but every shirt sold will raise between $ 14 and $ 17 for Danny Miller, the infant son of UFC fighter Dan Miller who needs help get­ting a life-saving surgery. It comes in three col­ors. Buy it here for $ 23. BetLM's sports betting news features unique sports betting articles as well as current sports news compiled from leading wire services. This arti­cle was dis­trib­uted by Syn­di­cated Sports news wire and aggre­ga­tion ser­vice, For more UFC... 

Von Miller Has Thumb Surgery, Could Miss Vikings Game

Von Miller has thumb surgery, could miss Vikings game Posted by Josh Alper on Novem­ber 30, 2011, 4:56 PM EST The Bron­cos could be forced to con­tinue their play­off push with­out their star rookie linebacker. Lind­say Jones of the Den­ver Post reports that Miller had thumb surgery Tues­day to repair torn lig­a­ments in his thumb. He was hurt some­time in the fourth quar­ter of the 16–13 win over the Charg­ers, but insisted on return­ing to the game after get­ting the thumb taped. Miller dropped Ryan Math­ews for a loss on a key third down play in over­time, set­ting up... 

Giants WR Cruz Misses Practice With Hip Injury

Wide receiver Vic­tor Cruz was added to the Giants’ prac­tice report on Wednes­day with a hip issue, accord­ing to the Star-Ledger. Cruz, the team’s lead­ing receiver with 55 catches, scored two touch­downs in the Giants’ 49–24 loss loss the the New Orleans Saints on Mon­day night. The Giants will face the unde­feated Green Bay Pack­ers on Sunday. The team placed offen­sive tackle Will Beatty (eye) on injured reserve Wednes­day, accord­ing to Newsday. Beatty under­went surgery on Thurs­day to repair a detached retina. He sat out the team’s loss to the Saints as left guard... 

Leach to Become Washington State Coach

SPOKANE, Wash. — Mike Leach has reached an agree­ment to be the new foot­ball coach at Wash­ing­ton State. An offi­cial within the ath­letic depart­ment told The Asso­ci­ated Press on Wednes­day that Leach has reached a ver­bal agree­ment to replace Paul Wulff, but has not signed a con­tract. The offi­cial spoke on con­di­tion of anonymity because he was not autho­rized to com­ment pub­licly on the matter. Leach posted an 84–43 record at Texas Tech, tak­ing the Red Raiders to nine bowl appear­ances in 10 sea­sons. He was fired in 2009 over an inci­dent in which a player... 

Valentine Brings Circus to Boston

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Nine 2012 Driver Slots Open on FIA Entry List

For­mula One racing’s gov­ern­ing body, the FIA, has pub­lished the cur­rent 2012 cham­pi­onship entry list. As already con­firmed, three con­struc­tors change their names next sea­son — Renault become Lotus, Lotus become Cater­ham, and Vir­gin become Marussia. Five teams have yet to finalise their dri­ver line-ups, with Marussia’s Charles Pic the only rookie con­firmed so far. Despite hav­ing been announced by HRT, Span­ish vet­eran Pedro de la Rosa is absent from the list, and the team — who ran Cos­worth power this year and last — have no engine sup­plier listed. Red... 

Ron Wilson Deserves Contract Extension

If Ron Wil­son had the per­son­al­ity of a Barry Trotz or Kirk Muller there would prob­a­bly be a sig­nif­i­cant clam­our in Leafs Nation for GM Brian Burke to offer him a con­tract extension. But Wilson’s not always the warmest guy on the planet and he tends to rub some peo­ple the wrong way, so there has not been a lot of exter­nal sup­port for a new deal for Wil­son. But by all accounts, Wil­son deserves an exten­sion, and it appears as though Burke is going to give him one. As Big Burkie points out on his Twit­ter account, the Leafs are 32–17-8 since last year’s all-star... 

No, ‘Golf’ Does Not Stand for ‘Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden’

Does golf have urban leg­ends? Given that it’s golf, we should prob­a­bly call them sub­ur­ban leg­ends. But yes, golf has them — those myths, half-truths and untruths that just won’t go away no mat­ter how many times they are bat­ted down. Prob­a­bly the most per­sis­tent is the myth that the word “golf” is an acronym that stands for “gen­tle­men only, ladies for­bid­den.” It’s not and it doesn’t. This sub­ur­ban leg­end reg­u­larly makes the rounds on Twit­ter these days. But no mat­ter how many folks repeat it, it’s still not true. See:FAQ: What is... 

Texans Bring in Delhomme to Back Up New Starting QB Yates

Vet­eran quar­ter­back Jake Del­homme signed with the Hous­ton Tex­ans, his agent told The Asso­ci­ated Press on Tues­day, shortly after a league source had con­firmed the move to NFL Net­work insider Jason La Canfora. Bar­win joins ‘Cover Two Podcast’ Tex­ans coach Gary Kubiak later shared his excite­ment about adding Del­homme, telling the Hous­ton Chron­i­cle that the quar­ter­back will “fit in per­fectly with what we were look­ing for.” “He’s a leader and a good per­son,” Kubiak said. “He’s played in big games. He’s got West Coast (offense) ver­biage...