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Daily Report: General Assignment

Hollywood's 'Moneyball' downplays steroid use

October 25, 2011, 12:05 AM
From 2000 to 2004, the Oakland Athletics were the greatest baseball team that never won the pennant. Film fans can get that idea from “Moneyball,” the new Brad Pitt movie about Billy Beane, the club’s computer-genius general manager. In that stretch, the A’s won 98... + read more
Daily Report: General Assignment

Memories fade of former Oakland baseball owner Charles Finley

September 19, 2011, 12:05 AM
Charles O. Finley moved the A’s to Oakland and won the World Series three years in a row, from 1972 to 1974. He spearheaded changes that transformed the sport – the designated hitter rule, night World Series games – and pushed for others that didn’t get any traction,... + read more
Daily Report: Health and Welfare

Little League baseball uniform belts tainted with lead

April 4, 2011, 12:05 AM
Little League baseball uniform belts sold at several retailers have high levels of lead, according to independent lab tests commissioned by an environmental watchdog group. The four brightly colored belts contained as much as 8.5 percent lead, more than 280 times the legal limit. The... + read more
Brent Musburger
Daily Report: Health and Welfare

Legalize sports steroids, Brent Musburger tells students

October 11, 2010, 12:18 AM
Who knew that sportscaster Brent Musburger’s views on sports steroids are nearly as permissive as those of Victor Conte, the mastermind of the BALCO drug scandal? Musburger, whom ESPN calls “one of the most recognized and prominent voices in the history of sports television,... + read more
Barry Bonds
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Extra innings for Barry Bonds perjury trial

January 2, 2010, 11:50 AM
Mark your calendars: The last act of the long-running BALCO sports steroids scandal – the perjury trial of baseball Home Run King Barry Bonds – should get underway sometime in late 2010, more than seven years after it began.  That’s the best guess of BALCO legal... + read more
Baseball
Daily Report: General Assignment

Don't think - play

January 2, 2010, 9:30 AM
In the ninth inning of Game 4 of the 1969 World Series, Mets right fielder Ron Swoboda made a daring, diving, foolhardy catch of a fly ball off the bat of Orioles hitter Brooks Robinson.  There was only one out, so Frank Robinson, the O's runner on third, was going to score the tying run... + read more
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