Posted by uspostSportsWednesday, November 17th, 2010
Philadelphia Phillies ace Roy Halladay has been traveling in Mexico, purportedly on vacation and golfing with baseball buddies. Skeptical batters might have wondered whether he was seeking a new league to conquer. After making life miserable for American League hitters for the better part of a decade, Halladay was recognized for doing the same to [...]
Posted by uspostSportsSaturday, October 16th, 2010
The New York Yankees erupted for five runs in the eighth inning as they overcame a 5-0 deficit to beat the Texas Rangers 6-5 in Friday’s opening game of the American League Championship Series. The fight-back by the World Series champion Yankees stunned a red-clad capacity crowd of nearly 56,000 and gave New York a [...]
Hurricane Igor pounded Bermuda early on Monday as it moved north over the Atlantic, skirting the U.S. East Coast, which should suffer only rough surf and a stiff breezes. The U.S. National Hurricane Centre said the core of the “very large” category 1 hurricane, packing maximum sustained winds near to 75 miles per hour (120 [...]
Hurricane Earl battered tiny islands across the northeastern Caribbean with heavy rain and roof-ripping winds Monday, rapidly intensifying into a major Category 4 storm on a path projected to menace the United States
Skip Schumaker, No. 55 at right, hit his first career grand slam during St. Louis’ biggest inning of the season Monday night, supplying enough runs for right-hander Chris Carpenter to beat Cincinnati for the ninth time in a row. It was a lopsided start to the teams’ showdown for first place in the NL Central, [...]