The A’s will be playing game two of their spring training series against the Brewers today, at 12:05pm, and or very own Diamond Dallas Braden, the king of the screwball, will be throwing pitches for the green and gold crew.
Braden has been in and out of the Majors over the last two years, but it […]

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Play ball!The A’s agreed to contracts with six players on one-year deals for the
2008 season: catchers Bowen and Powell; infielders Kevin Melillo,
Donnie Murphy and Gregorio Petit; and pitcher Dan Meyer.
The Oakland Athletics kick off their spring training games in the Arizona Cactus League today with a game against the Chicago Cubs at 1:05pm Milwaukee Brewers […]

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A few years back, I got off a bus in the middle of downtown Memphis Tennessee. I had about an hour to kill before the Greyhound would be refueled and headed off on the next part of my LA to Cincinnati trip, so I decided to give the bus station breakfast a miss and snoop […]

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If you watched the Roger Clemens steroid hearings that came out of the US Congress last week, three things should have jumped right out at you.
1) Congressional Chair Henry Waxman looks like a Hanna Barbera cartoon.
2) Clemens threw his wife under the bus for using roids, but still claims they never entered his own system, […]

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UBC Thunderbirds baseball coach Terry McKaig often sends out notes to the media outlining results, highlights, notable players, etc, throughout the season, and generally they’re interesting reads. The most recent note, however, was somewhat… well… light on details:
Lost 17-3 to St. Martins.  No real highlights to speak of
obviously.

I’m sorry, I feel bad for the ‘Birds […]

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The New York Post found something going on in Nicaragua last week that they felt was worth documenting in photos. The Boston Globe? Not so keen to follow suit.
The event was the handing out of free T-shirts to developing-world children by the World Vision organization.
So what?
Look closer. "New England Patriots, Superbowl Champions, 19-0."
See, the Patriots […]

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In the 2007 MLB Draft, the Oakland A’s made a questionable draftee choice, drafting Jonathan Johnston, a Catcher out of Navy (well, sort of).
Here is what Oz wrote about the former Patriot League standout last June:
When you see the words ‘no school’ listed after a draft pick’s name, it really does spark your interest. What […]

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