Five Cuts from a Father’s Day edition of interleague play:
Archive for: June 17th, 2012
Joe Lemire: Yankees clicking, more no-no flirtation on interleague weekend
Chris Mannix: Heat pull out victory in Game 3 as Durant, Thunder fade in fourth
MIAMI — Five thoughts from the Heat’s 91-85 win over Oklahoma City …
Dale Earnhardt Jr. wins Quicken Loans 400
BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) — After four years and 143 races — the agonizing near-misses and all those questions about when he might finally win again — Dale Earnhardt Jr. was alone in his car, comfortably ahead of the field and only a few minutes from victory.
Bernard Pollard works on cleaning up his language
Football and foul language routinely mix. Count Ravens safety Bernard Pollard among the small minority of men who manage to play the game without cursing a blue streak. Or, in Pollard’s case, try. Pollard recently explained to the team’s official website (via Ray Frager of CSNBaltimore.com) that Pollard has been doing his best to eradicate…
Lions’ Cunningham says Fairley, Leshoure need time and patience
Two young Detroit Lions, Nick Fairley and Mikel Leshoure, have been arrested twice each this offseason. But Lions defensive coordinator Gunther Cunningham says that doesn’t indicate that the Lions drafted a couple of players with character problems. Instead, Cunningham says those arrests illustrate something that he once heard the late Raiders owner Al Davis say:…
Germany disposes of Denmark to win Group B
LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Germany advanced to the European Championship quarterfinals without playing brilliantly.
Bruce Martin: Five things we learned at Michigan International Speedway
It was a day many NASCAR fans have awaited since 2008 as the sport’s most popular driver — Dale Earnhardt Jr. — finally made it to Victory Lane in a Sprint Cup race. Fittingly, it came at Michigan International Speedway in the Quicken Loans 400 — the same race he won on June 15, 2008.
Portugal holds back Netherlands
KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo’s smile and swagger were back, and so was his scoring touch.
IOC probes black market Olympic ticket scandal
LONDON (AP) — International Olympic officials have opened a high-level investigation into allegations that authorized representatives in more than 50 countries – including a national Olympic committee – were involved in selling London Olympics tickets on the black market for profit.
Plaintiff in Pacman suit: “If he makes a dime, we’re going after it”
Tommy Urbanski, the former Las Vegas strip club employee who has been in a wheelchair since he was shot in 2007, was recently awarded $9.6 million in a lawsuit against Bengals cornerback Adam “Pacman” Jones. And although Jones’s lawyer says he doesn’t have that kind of money, Urbanski says he’ll take whatever money Jones has.…
