From The OC Register:
Three people – including Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart – were killed and another person was seriously injured at an intersection in Fullerton early this morning in a three-vehicle crash that authorities said was caused by a motorist who ran a red light.
The Angels front office confirmed this morning that Adenhart was one of the victims.
03/27/2009 - Japan Unveils First Female Pitcher!
From MLB.com:
Thousands of miles away from any hint of the Major Leagues, history was made in professional baseball on Friday.
That's when Eri Yoshida, a 17-year-old with a wicked sidearm knuckleball, took her 5-foot, 114-pound frame to the mound to become Japan's first female professional pitcher, according to a report by The Associated Press.
The result? Not too bad.Yoshida walked the first batter on four straight pitches, then gave up a stolen base, but struck out the next batter swinging before being taken out, as her club picked up a 5-0 win over the Osaka Gold Villicanes in front of 11,592 at the Osaka Dome, according to AP.
02/11/2009 - Lawsuit Claims that Roberto Alomar Had Unprotected Sex While He Had AIDS
From Fox News:
Ilya Dall, of Queens, alleges in the suit filed in Brooklyn Federal Court that the 12-time All Star tested positive for HIV in 2006 and was later informed by a doctor that he had full-blown AIDS.
Alomar, 41, who retired from baseball in 2005, began dating Dall in 2002, according to the suit, and began having unprotected sex with her a short time later, the Post reported.
Alomar told Dall in 2005 that he was once raped by two Mexican men after playing a ballgame in New Mexico, according to the lawsuit.
Dall's suit does not claim Alomar knew he had AIDS when they were having unprotected sex, but he he had reason to think he was infected since doctors repeatedly advised him to get tested, the Post reports.
02/09/2009 - A-rod's Side of Things - Interview to air today
From the LA Times Online: ESPN's baseball expert Peter Gammons scored the first exclusive interview with Yankees star Alex Rodriguez. It's scheduled to air during "SportsCenter" at 3 p.m. PST
Rodriguez will address the "Sports Illustrated" story from the weekend in which several unidentified sources said Rodriguez had a positive doping test in 2003.
From ESPN.com: View the interview here
Read BaseballChix reaction on the blog...
02/07/2009 - A-rod Really is A-Fraud?
From Yahoo Sports:
Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroids in his MVP season of 2003, according to a report by Sports Illustrated.
The New York Yankees star tested positive for two anabolic steroids, four sources told Sports Illustrated in a story posted Saturday on its Web site.
His name appears on a list of 104 players who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in a 2003 baseball survey, the magazine said. He reportedly tested positive for Primobolan and testosterone while playing for the Texas Rangers.
Rodriguez declined to discuss the tests when approached by SI on Thursday at a gym in Miami, where he lives in the offseason.
“You’ll have to talk to the union,” he told a reporter. Calls from SI to union head Donald Fehr were not returned.
02/05/2009 - Moneyball, The Movie?
From Variety.com
Steven Soderbergh is in talks to direct "Moneyball," the Columbia Pictures adaptation of Michael Lewis' book "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game."
The book focuses on Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics who used a sophisticated computer analysis system to piece together a team that regularly contended for the World Series despite a payroll dramatically lower than such big-market rivals as the New York Yankees.
Brad Pitt, with whom Soderbergh has worked in all of the "Ocean's" films, has been circling "Moneyball" since last year, when Steve Zaillian signed on to adapt the book. "Marley and Me" helmer David Frankel had been attached.
Read the BaseballChix summary of Moneyball
02/04/2009 - Notes on a Scandal
Joe Torre wrote a book about his years with the Yankees, while he was still an active manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, and is taking a considerable amount of heat for it.
Torre's appearance on Letterman
MLB Network on Joe's book
Joe Torre talks with Bob Costas
Derek Jeter discusses Torre's new book