Monday, April 05, 2010

The sports beat

What a fun opening day to the baseball season. It was an auspicious one indeed for new Chicago Cubs owner Tom Ricketts. The Sun-Times published a story this morning with the headline "Signs pointing to lasting changes in Cubs culture." The afternoon ended in Atlanta with Ricketts watching his club give up 16 runs to the Braves.

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Day 1, Mark McGwire as Cardinals hitting coach:

12 hits, 11 runs, 4 home runs, 4 walks, 5 strikeouts

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Fans react to Joe Mauer's new $184 million deal with the Twins last week.

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If you're like me, you've been wondering for a while about whatever became of fictional hoopster Jimmy Chitwood. Well, wonder no more.

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Despite dissimilarly successful team histories, Duke and Butler were thought to be very evenly matched for tonight's NCAA Men's Basketball Championship. The school names haven't been this lopsided, though, since Nobleman took on Pool Boy.

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