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Spending quality time in the Angels', and Josh Hamilton's, orbit
PHOENIX — Let me tell you about Josh Hamilton's first rocket ship of spring. It isn't a perfect home run. He gets under it a bit more than he would've liked, so it's towering, corpulent, full of cha-cha. At last sighting, it was in...
Tags: Sports, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Mike Scioscia, Leonard Cohen, Ned Colletti
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Dodgers' Kenley Jansen is a frequent-flyer father
The Dodgers granted reliever Kenley Jansen permission to pitch for the Netherlands in the World Baseball Classic, but only after he pitched in a Cactus League game Friday. So Jansen pitched in Arizona on Friday afternoon, flew to San Francisco on Friday...
Tags: Netherlands, Los Angeles Dodgers, Kenley Jansen, Dominican Republic, World Baseball Classic
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Dodgers' Matt Kemp, Andre Ethier to play in Tucson charity game
PHOENIX – Matt Kemp and Andre Ethier are among the players who will take a two-hour bus ride on Thursday to play in a charity game in Tucson, Manager Don Mattingly announced. The proceeds from the game, which will be against the Chicago Cubs at...
Tags: Nick Punto, Human Interest, Taylor Green, Chicago Cubs, Andre Ethier
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Carl Crawford in Dodgers lineup, set to make Cactus League debut
PHOENIX – Carl Crawford will play his first-ever game for the Dodgers Sunday, as he is in the lineup as their leadoff hitter in their split-squad game against the Milwaukee Brewers at Camelback Ranch. Crawford will be the designated hitter. The...
Tags: Sports, Los Angeles Dodgers, Baseball, Milwaukee Brewers, Carl Crawford
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Zack Greinke throws pain-free bullpen session
PHOENIX -- Zack Greinke returned to the mound and threw a bullpen session on Sunday, six days after he received an injection of platelet-rich plasma to temper inflammation in his right elbow. With pitching coach Rick Honeycutt and Manager Don Mattingly...
Tags: Sports, Inflammation, Baseball, Zack Greinke, Don Mattingly
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Angels' Fernando Cabrera running out of time to impress
PHOENIX -- Right-hander Fernando Cabrera, a nonroster invitee, might have hurt his chances to make the Angels' opening-day roster by choosing to pitch for his native Puerto Rico in the World Baseball Classic. Cabrera pitched only 3 1/3 innings with...
Tags: World Baseball Classic, Don Mattingly, FIFA World Cup
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Donte Stallworth injured in hot-air balloon crash
Donte Stallworth, the free-agent wide receiver who played for the New England Patriots last season, is recovering from severe burns he sustained when a hot-air balloon that was carrying him and two other passengers crashed into power lines in Homestead,...
Tags: Sports, New Orleans Saints, Donte Stallworth, Football, New England Patriots
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Ted Ligety earns sixth World Cup giant slalom victory of season
American Ted Ligety, who had already clinched his fourth World Cup series championship in the giant slalom, won his sixth event of the season Saturday in Lenzerheide, Switzerland. Ligety edged Marcel Hirscher of Austria by 37/100ths of a second to win...
Tags: Sports, Awards and Prizes, Alpine Skiing, Giant Slalom Skiing, FIFA World Cup
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Yasiel Puig is 'a Bo Jackson-type package,' Don Mattingly says
PHOENIX -- A day after Don Mattingly said Yasiel Puig would start the season in the minor leagues, the manager was awed by the 22-year-old Cuban outfielder’s performance in the Dodgers’ 8-1 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Friday night....
Tags: Sports, Aaron Harang, Mat Latos, Minor League Baseball, Andre Ethier
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Review: For Bo Jackson, playing was enough
We're lucky if we have the gift to do one thing well in this life. Even most superheroes just get a single superpower. ("Wait — you're faster than a speeding bullet and you're more powerful than a locomotive? How is that fair?") So there is...
Tags: Sports, College Baseball, Hips, Football, New York Yankees
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Saturday's TV Highlights: '2012 Heisman Trophy Presentation'
Click here to download TV listings for the week Dec. 9 - 15 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES 30 for 30: This new episode profiles Bo Jackson, a two-sport athlete who excelled in the NFL and Major League Baseball (6...
Tags: Politics, Sports, Human Rights, California Interscholastic Federation, Television Industry
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Jack Disney has lived, breathed and written of SoCal's sports icons
An athlete plays 15 or 20 years, retires and there is great fanfare upon his departure. Maybe tears, maybe gifts given, maybe his number hung in honor. Los Angeles' very own Jack Disney calls it a day and he's just gone. Disney is good people. There...
Tags: Sports, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Los Angeles Times Columnists, Horse and Harness Racing, T.J. Simers
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