2011 October at LinesMaker

St. Louis Cardinals Win World Series

Updated Oct 29, 2011 3:01 AM ET ST. LOUIS Albert Pujols thrust both arms high in the air, even before he reached home plate. It was only the first inning, and already it felt as if the St. Louis Car­di­nals were home free. Because after they had over­come so much just to get this far, what could stop them? The Car­di­nals won a remark­able World Series they weren’t even sup­posed to reach, beat­ing the Texas Rangers 6–2 in Game 7 on Fri­day night with another key hit by home­town star David Freese and six gutty innings from Chris Carpenter. Pushed to the brink, the Car­di­nals... 

Texas Rangers Won’t Get Fan Rally

Updated Oct 29, 2011 7:46 PM ET ARLINGTON, Texas There’s no cel­e­bra­tion this year for the Texas Rangers. Last year, a fan rally fol­lowed the Texas Rangers’ first appear­ance in a World Series. This time, hav­ing lost the Fall Clas­sic for the sec­ond straight year, there won’t be one. The Rangers lost to the St. Louis Car­di­nals in seven games after com­ing within one strike of clinch­ing the Series twice in Game 6. Rangers spokesman John Blake told The Asso­ci­ated Press on Sat­ur­day that the team decided before the Series began that no party should be held if they... 

St. Louis Celebrates World-Champion Cardinals

World Series Parade FOX Sports Mid­west will simul­ta­ne­ously stream our broad­cast of the entire parade and sta­dium cer­e­mony begin­ning at 4:00 pm-CT on Sun­day, Octo­ber 30, 2011. How­ever, due to MLB restric­tions we will have a 10–15 minute break in cov­er­age at approx­i­mately 4:45 pm-CT while our tele­vi­sion broad­cast shows MLB footage as the play­ers pre­pare for the sta­dium cer­e­mony. We will resume the stream for the on-field ceremony. You need Player Flash 9.0 World Series Photo Galleries 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 X2 news wire... 

FIA Post-Race Press Conference — India

Repro­duced with kind per­mis­sion of the FIA 1 — Sebas­t­ian Vet­tel (Red Bull); 2 — Jen­son But­ton (McLaren); 3 — Fer­nando Alonso (Ferrari). Q: Sebas­t­ian, pole, you led every lap and set the fastest lap. Was this your most per­fect win of the sea­son do you think?Sebas­t­ian Vet­tel: Obvi­ously it was a very good race for us. I enjoyed the time in the lead very much. I had a lit­tle bit of a fight with Jen­son. It was always around four sec­onds and strangely he kept clos­ing in around the pit-stops. I don’t know, I was push­ing very hard into the box and out... 

Marshall Warns Press Against Spinning ‘Fins-Giants Tilt

Hard to make a case for Sunday’s Dolphins-Giants game as this week’s finest cut of meat, but when a mouthy wide­out from a win­less team shoots off the fol­low­ing warn­ing to the press, well, of course it’s going to catch fire: “To: Media,” Miami’s Bran­don Mar­shall tweeted Thurs­day. “When we win Sun­day please don’t say the Giants didn’t take us serious.” (Thanks for the heads up.) Marshall’s a unique tal­ent on the field, but this is the same fel­low who told Amer­ica his goal was “to get thrown out mid­way through the sec­ond quar­ter” of Miami’s... 

Suh Hoping for Explanation From League Office on Repeated Fines

Detroit Lions defen­sive tackle Ndamukong Suh is sched­uled to meet with NFL Com­mis­sioner Roger Good­ell this week to dis­cuss fines he has received from the league this sea­son, Fox Sports reporter and NFL Net­work con­trib­u­tor Jay Glazer said Sunday. What makes the sit­u­a­tion unique is that Suh requested the meet­ing in New York. Glazer reported that Suh is look­ing for an expla­na­tion of what he’s doing wrong while also plead­ing his case why he shouldn’t be receiv­ing fines. The meet­ing also will include Mer­ton Hanks, who’s in charge of hand­ing out fines... 

No. 6 Clemson Stunned by Georgia Tech

ATLANTA — The Clem­son play­ers strag­gled off the field, try­ing to avoid thou­sands of Geor­gia Tech stu­dents who hopped out of the stands to celebrate. The Tigers’ unbeaten sea­son was over. In all like­li­hood, so were their national title hopes. Tevin Wash­ing­ton rushed for 176 yards– the most ever by a Geor­gia Tech quar­ter­back– and broke the two longest runs of his career, lead­ing a 31–17 upset of No. 6 Clem­son on Sat­ur­day night. Clem­son, which had scored 115 points in its two pre­vi­ous games, turned it over four times. Tajh Boyd threw for 295... 

NHL Brain Trust Juggling Player Gear Debates

CALGARY — The age-old visor debate was re-ignited last week when Chris Pronger took a stick in his unpro­tected eye. And while many won­dered aloud if they should even feel sorry for a player who suf­fers such an injury with­out wear­ing a visor, team, league and NHLPA offi­cials are debat­ing equip­ment issues of their own. Gov­er­nors have seen the pro­to­type shoul­der pads designed by Rob Blake, Math­ieu Schnei­der and Bren­dan Shana­han and are happy with the smaller, form-fitting pads, which fea­ture high-density foam instead of hard-cap plastic. “Both sides want this,”... 

Wimbledon Inks 3-Year Extension With BBC

LONDON — Wim­ble­don will be shown on the BBC in Britain through 2017after the All Eng­land Club signed a three-year exten­sion to its deal with thebroad­caster. The BBC has broad­cast action from the famous ten­nis tour­na­ment on radio andtele­vi­sion since 1927. Wim­ble­don is one of British sport’s “crown jew­els”- a select group ofevents that must be avail­able live on free-to-air television. Bar­bara Slater, direc­tor of BBC Sport, says “the BBC’s first ever livesport broad­cast was from Wim­ble­don and we are proud that our new deal means thelongest part­ner­ship... 

NFLPA Attempts to Explain August 4 Letter Agreement

For a pair of enti­ties that recently found long-term labor peace, the NFL and the NFLPA remain at war on a cou­ple of fronts. Most sig­nif­i­cantly, the NFLPA has declined to pro­ceed with HGH test­ing, despite agree­ing to HGH test­ing in the new CBA. Also lin­ger­ing is a dis­pute between the two par­ties regard­ing the mean­ing of an August 4 let­ter agree­ment regard­ing the appli­ca­tion of the per­sonal con­duct pol­icy dur­ing the lock­out. The agree­ment exempts first-time offend­ers from dis­ci­pline for off-field inci­dents occur­ring dur­ing the lock­out....