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The novelty has worn off for fans, and die-hard traditionalists like me can't stand it.Players don't care for it either because they feel it adds unnecessary travel to an already grueling season and unfairly impacts playoff races.So why doesn't Major League Baseball dump interleague play?Unlike most major sports, which have two conferences under one league banner whose teams play each other all the time, MLB consists of two separate leagues, National and American, that play with different...
Asheville (N.C.) Tourists manager Joe Mikulik's blowup Sunday night would have done some of the biggest names in sports history proud.Mikulik, manager of the Colorado Rockies' Class A South Atlantic League affiliate, picked up second base and threw it into the outfield during the fifth inning of a 5-2 loss to the Lexington (Ky.) Legends Sunday night. He chucked the rosin bag from the pitcher's mound into the bullpen. He kicked dirt on umpires, covered up home plate and later...
Joe Mikulik may never reach the major leagues as a manager — at least not after the on-field meltdown he had Sunday night.But if his antics in the TV clip Channel 29 showed on Monday night's 6 p.m. newscast are any indication, his status as one of the biggest hotheads in sports history is pretty much cemented.Mikulik, the manager of the Class A Asheville (N.C.) Tourists of the South Atlantic League, went to heretofore unprecedented lengths to express his displeasure with umpires in the...
The U.S. men's soccer team was eliminated from the World Cup Thursday with a 2-1 loss to Ghana in Nuremburg, Germany. Truthfully, no one expected the United States to win the whole tournament — in fact, considering our side (that's what teams are called in soccer, for those of you just learning about the "beautiful game") had two of the top 15 teams in the world in its group (No. 2 Czech Republic and No. 13 Italy), we Americans would have been considered lucky to get past the...
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