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Penguins take control vs. Senators behind Crosby
Dan Bylsma has spent more than four years watching Sidney Crosby be Sidney Crosby.The Pittsburgh Penguins coach doesn't think his captain has ever been better than he was during a 4-3 victory over Ottawa on Friday night that put Pittsburgh in firm control of the Eastern Conference semifinals.Recording his second career playoff hat trick on a dazzling rush, a somewhat fortunate bounce and a ...
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Mistakes cost Giants in 10-9 loss to Rockies
Madison Bumgarner, the steadiest pitcher in the San Francisco Giants' rotation so far this season, finally had an off night and it was a doozy.Bumgarner botched a potential double play with an errant throw and gave up the first grand slam of his big league career in San Francisco's 10-9 loss to the Colorado Rockies on Friday night.The Giants had a season-high four errors in losing to ...
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Illinois Class 3A sectionals
Teams from the Metro East had to travel farther than the other schools at the Class 3A Rock Island boys track Sectional on Friday in the Quad ...
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Investigator Top US Treasury officials told of tax probe in June of campaign year 2012
WASHINGTON - The ousted head of the U.S. tax agency apologized to Congress for his agency's tougher treatment of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, including during last year's presidential election, saying it resulted from a misguided effort to handle a flood of applications, not political bias. Lawmakers from both parties harshly criticized the Internal Revenue Service ...
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Orb is on center stage at the Preakness
Everything's a go for Orb.The Kentucky Derby winner was in a playful mood Friday, making faces for photographers between nibbles of grass outside his stall at Pimlico Race Course."He's really settled in well. He seems to be energetic about what he's doing so I couldn't be more pleased," trainer Shug McGaughey said Friday morning. "We're excited about ...
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Alexander defends welterweight title in Atlantic City
Maybe someday, a gigantic payday for Devon Alexander awaits if he were to get boxing's holy grail, a fight with Floyd Mayweather. But first, there are other fights, like his defense of his IBF welterweight title against Lee Purdy of England today in Atlantic City, N.J., which will air on Showtime.Even Mayweather has mentioned the young St. Louis boxer as a potential opponent down the line. ...
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Mitchell keeps faith in basketball skills
CHICAGO o As it turned out, Tony Mitchell's college detour didn't cause irreparable harm to his future.The former Mizzou recruit, who never was able to gain entrance, is projected as a first-round pick in next month's NBA draft and said after his workout at the pre-draft combine that he's hoping to go as high as No. 20.Two seasons at North Texas were far from perfect, but the ...
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Impressive start has Sato thinking big about Indy
When Takuma Sato strolls into his garage at Indianapolis, he gets a quick glimpse into the two distinct paths that have defined these past 12 months.There's the wall that features front pages from two Japanese newspapers with his arms raised in victory. Back home, he's a national hero.A few feet away, on another wall, is a poster of team owner A.J. Foyt wearing an Indianapolis 500 ...
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St. Louisans dream of $600 million Powerball jackpot
Tracy Laufer, 52, (left) and his father, Bud Laufer, 78, of Sunset Hills, talk about wow they would spend their Powerball winnings. (Video by Joel Currier / ...
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Tracys HR in 10th lifts Nats over Padres 6-5
Adam LaRoche hit two towering home runs and Chad Tracy's solo shot in the 10th inning lifted the Washington Nationals to a 6-5 victory over the San Diego Padres on Friday ...
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Rangers offense falls short in 2-1 loss to Tigers
ARLINGTON, Texas — With a little help from slugger Miguel Cabrera, Rick Porcello and the Detroit Tigers slowed down the Texas Rangers. Cabrera went 3 for 4 with a go-ahead double in the fifth inning to back Porcello and lift the Tigers over the Rangers 2-1 Friday night in a matchup of division leaders. Texas had scored 51 runs in its past eight games, going 7-1 in that stretch. Porcello ...
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Bills DE Williams fails to mediate ring dispute
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Bills defensive end Mario Williams isn't any closer to getting back his $785,000 diamond engagement ring from his former fiancee, Erin Marzouki. And Marzouki's attorney, Tony Buzbee, upped the ante on Friday by releasing a series of text messages he said were between his client and Williams that indicate how despondent the player was over their breakup in ...
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Twins pen loses lead in 3-2 loss to Red Sox in 10
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - For the second time in two weeks, the Minnesota Twins scored enough to win against Boston’s unbeaten ace, Clay ...
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People can will themselves to be happier upbeat music helps
People can successfully change their moods and try to be happier. Elijah Wood (L) and Robin Williams, cast members in the animated motion picture comedy "Happy Feet Two", attend the premiere of the film at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on November 13, 2011. UPI/Jim ...
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Mujica continues dominance in ninth
Less than two months removed from a time when he felt the bullpen was going to be a pillar for the team, Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak described this week how when Jason Motte's elbow gave way there was a "domino effect" in the bullpen.When the closer fell, others tumbled too.It turns out the opposite may also be true. A rising closer lifts all arms.Edward Mujica, ...
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Why are the Blues so easily satisfied
, and that's why it was so disappointing to hear them trying to rationalize the team's first-round playoff loss to Los Angeles.The hard work from the GM and the coach was reminiscent of the Blues' series against LA: lots of spinning but a failure to score. Like their players, Armstrong and Hitchcock fired and missed the net.Hitchcock seemed offended by the post-series criticism of ...
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Bradley keeps lead at Nelson Championship
IRVING, Texas o Keegan Bradley again bogeyed Nos. 1 and 18 in the second round of the Byron Nelson Championship.Unlike the first round, Bradley didn't set a course record. But he still finished with a three-stroke lead.Bradley started and ended his round Friday with those bogeys, part of a 1-under 69 that got him to 11-under 129, the lowest 36-hole total at the Nelson since ...
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Everything points to Andretti camp
Speedway, Ind. o Everything seems to be lining up for Michael Andretti this May.His five drivers have taken turns atop the practice speed charts all week and, when series officials gave the engines a boost Friday, E.J. Viso and Marco Andretti were still on top.The team owner has the defending series champ, the only two-time IndyCar winner this season, a hot-shot rookie who has been among the ...
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Westbrook has more elbow discomfort
Sports Illustrated has had a writer and photographer in town the last few days to do a potential cover story on the Cardinals' rotation, which has had by far the best earned run average in the majors (2.38 before Friday) although one member of that rotation, veteran righthander Jake Westbrook, isn't part of it now and may not be for a while.Westbrook, already on the 15-day disabled ...
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Man City-Chelsea match hits home in St. Louis
The soccer match between English clubs Chelsea and Manchester City on Thursday ultimately means nothing. The English season ends Sunday (with one tiny asterisk), the standings will be set, and the teams will fly to America for two games, one here and one in New York, that are, in soccer parlance, friendlies.But for some people, the game means a lot. A chance to see a favorite team or a favorite ...
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Porter emerges once again to earn draft hype
CHICAGO o Even with an expanded field of seven players, Otto Porter Jr. was not able to find his way onto the Big East All-Rookie team in 2012.His absence was noted as an oversight on many fronts, but it nevertheless mirrored Porter's self-evaluation entering his sophomore season. He had yet to make a splash."I didn't enter the year thinking I could be in the NBA," he said at ...
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Vianney sweeps Westminster for record 17th state title
o Since sophomore Grant Carder wasn't listed in the program, some people didn't know the name of the Vianney player who was tearing it up in the Class 3 boys title match on Friday at Maryville University.They surely knew who he was by the time it was over, though.The 6-foot-3 outside hitter chalked up a match-high 13 kills to help lead the Golden Griffins to a 27-25, 25-20 win over ...
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Missouri Baptist wins endurance test
In his 22nd season of coaching college baseball, Missouri Baptist's Eddie Uschold has never seen anything like it.Then again, few have.The Spartans, playing with their season on the line early this week in Kingsport, Tenn., outlasted defending national champion Tennessee Wesleyan 4-3 in 19 innings to earn Missouri Baptist's first trip to the NAIA World Series.The 10-team ...
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Rockies end 10-game skid vs Giants with 10-9 win
Jordan Pacheco hit a tiebreaking grand slam in the fifth and Carlos Gonzalez added a solo homer, helping the Colorado Rockies hold on for a 10-9 win over San Francisco on Friday night that snapped a 10-game skid against the Giants.Pacheco laced his first homer of the season to left on a hanging slider from Madison Bumgarner (4-2), who failed to protect an early four-run lead.Jorge De La Rosa ...
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Mariners downed by Indians Kipnis 6-3 in 10
Eric Wedge got the lefty-on-lefty matchup that he wanted in the 10th inning, but not the result.Jason Kipnis belted a two-out, three-run homer off Seattle reliever Lucas Luetge, giving the streaking Cleveland Indians a 6-3 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Friday night.Luetge (0-1) left an 0-1 slider over the plate, which fellow left-hander Kipnis hammered 365 feet over the wall in right ...
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St Louis high-speed rail link to Chicago breaks ground
St Louis, Chicago and the state governments of Missouri and Illinois have taken the first step in constructing the Mid West Hub of high-speed rail connections with the building of a high-speed line between the two cities which will quadruple capacity and spur economic development, according to proponents of the high-speed rail line.
Work on the high-speed rail link between St Louis and Chicago has begun, signalling the first step of a mammoth project that is intended to ultimately see Chicago become the hub of a national high-speed railway network that will change the nature of overland transport in the country. Read more
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