Yahoo! Sports The 37-year-old outfielder hit two of the Cubs' season high five home runs and Travis Wood earned his first win in nearly six weeks in Chicago's 7- 2 vict...
Fox News Pittsburgh managed just three hits in a 2 -1 loss to the Oakland Athletics and has scored only six runs total during a four-game losing streak that has drained some of the momentum out of the team that had the best record in baseball a week ago. "I just ...
Los Angeles Times CHICAGO — Sending Joe Blanton to the mound with a stiff breeze blowing out on a steamy Tuesday evening in Wrigley Field was akin to dropping a match onto a pile of charcoal briquettes doused in lighter fluid. A combustible mix, it was. So it was no ...
Reuters NEW YORK | Wed Jul 10, 2013 7:08am EDT. NEW YORK (Reuters) - An unrelenting surge in interest rates for U.S. home mortgages pushed borrowing costs to their highest level in two years last week, stymieing demand from potential homeowners, data from ... and more »
USA TODAY HARRISON, N.J. (AP) — Kenwyne Jones scored in the 72nd minute to give Trinidad and Tobago a 2 - 2 draw with El Salvador in the first round of the CONCACAF Gold Cup on Monday night. Jones got in the box and beat Dagoberto Portillo with a crossed shot ...
The Guardian In the second part of an exclusive interview with Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden contemplates the reaction from the US government to his revelations of top-secret documents regarding its spying operations on ...
USA TODAY CHICAGO (AP) — Tribune Co. says it wants to split its broadcasting and publishing businesses into two companies. Tribune says the move will let one company takes advantage of growth in broadcasting while the other focuses on newspapers, where ... and more »
Yahoo! Sports PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Dan Straily knew before he went to work on Tuesday night his next start wouldn't be in the majors. The All-Star break and a quirk in the Oakland Athletics' schedule means the AL West leaders won't need a fifth starter for a couple of ...
USA TODAY HAVANA (AP) — The U.K. Embassy's spokesman in Havana says that two British businessmen who were tried in recent weeks on corruption charges have been freed. The men are Amado Fakhre, who was executive director of the Coral Capital company, ...
Yahoo! Sports ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- Gerrit Cole wasn't nervous about making his first major league road start in his backyard until he heard ''Calling All Angels,'' the syrupy Train ballad played before every game at Angel Stadium. ''I've probably been listening ...