Boosters hope ‘baseball diplomacy’ can help thaw US-Cuba relations
Can baseball help bring US and Cuba together? Tiger Woods and Michelle Wie make pitch for Olympic golf ahead of IOC vote in CopenhagenTiger Woods and Michelle Wie are making a pitch for golf to enter the program for the 2016 Rid de Janeiro Olympics. Police seize car from Conn. motel where Yale killing suspect was arrestedNEW HAVEN, Conn. — Police investigating the murder of a Yale graduate student are still collecting evidence, including a car they towed from the motel where the suspected killer was arrested. Police chief tells AP motive for Yale graduate student’s killing may never be knownNEW HAVEN, Conn. — Without a confession from a Yale University technician charged with killing a graduate student and bride-to-be in the medical school lab where they worked, authorities may never know the motive, the police chief said. On day Yale student’s body was found, suspect was playing shortstop in softball gameNEW HAVEN, Conn. — The lab tech suspected of killing a Yale student was playing softball the day the victim’s body was found. Only other officer in black scholar’s house during arrest says cops followed protocolBOSTON — The second Cambridge, Mass., police officer who was inside the home of renowned black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. during his arrest says he and the arresting officer “followed protocols.” Friends, supporters defend Mass. police officer who arrested black Harvard scholarCAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Supporters say the white policeman who arrested renowned black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his home is a principled police officer and family man who is being unfairly described as racist. AP News in Brief more images Some Little Leagues feeling recession’s pinch with drop in donations and sponsorshipsLittle League baseball has always been as much about fundraisers and concession stands as balls and strikes. This year, teams expect a scramble to get a sponsor’s name on the back of their jerseys. From Alabama to New York, swine flu prompts cancellations and rescheduling of sports eventsMONTGOMERY, Ala. — The swine flu outbreak has forced the cancellation or postponement of sporting events across the country, affecting everything from prep contests in Texas and Alabama to a college baseball road trip in Delaware. What’s the No. 1 jock school? By one calculation, it’s MIT, but budget cuts threaten thatName the college that sponsored 41 varsity sports this year, tying with Harvard for most in the country. |
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