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Safety of maple bats raises sticky issue
03.06.2008 00:27
usatoday.com
Pittsburgh Pirates hitting coach Don Long still can't feel part of his upper lip or smile after a broken bat whirled dozens of ...
USA
Baseball
Rays' reversal of fortune extends to draft
03.06.2008 00:27
usatoday.com
Baseball's amateur draft is designed to provide the most help to the weakest teams, but the Tampa Bay Rays could be in first ...
USA
Baseball
Red Sox lose lead, game to Orioles, then lose Ortiz
03.06.2008 00:27
usatoday.com
Adam Jones broke a tie with a three-run double in the eighth inning, and the Baltimore Orioles overcame another home run by Manny ...
USA
Baseball
Red Sox slugger Ortiz gets MRI on ailing wrist
03.06.2008 00:27
usatoday.com
Boston Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz missed a second straight game Monday after undergoing an MRI on his ailing left ...
USA
Baseball
Supreme Court refuses to consider fantasy baseball case
03.06.2008 00:27
usatoday.com
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to step into a dispute between a fantasy sports business and professional baseball. At issue ...
USA
Baseball
Gross' 10th-inning homer lifts amazing Rays past White Sox
03.06.2008 00:27
usatoday.com
Gabe Gross hit a leadoff homer in the bottom of the 10th inning Sunday, giving the AL East-leading Tampa Bay Rays a 4-3 comeback ...
USA
Baseball
Guests get fed up as hotel fees pile up
03.06.2008 00:27
usatoday.com
It's the little and not so little hotel fees that drive frequent traveler Michael Sommer up a wall.
USA
Resorts & Sanatoria
Hotel rooms still available for Beijing Olympics
03.06.2008 00:27
usatoday.com
Only 77% of capacity at Beijing's five-star hotels have been booked during the Aug. 8-24 Olympic Games, and the four-star hotel ...
USA
Resorts & Sanatoria
Nobu to open its first hotel in Manhattan
03.06.2008 00:27
usatoday.com
Nobu, the pricey sushi restaurant chain, is branching out into the hotel business.
USA
Resorts & Sanatoria
Hotels realize that if guests can't snooze, they lose
03.06.2008 00:27
usatoday.com
Counting sheep is so yesterday: In this restless age, sleep aids and enhancement programs are hot amenities at a growing number ...
USA
Resorts & Sanatoria
Immigrants face hurricane dilemma
03.06.2008 00:26
usatoday.com
The possibility that U.S. Border Patrol agents may check the immigration status of hurricane evacuees presents a dilemma for ...
USA
Social Life
Families separated by sect raid reunited
03.06.2008 00:26
usatoday.com
More than 400 children who were taken from a polygamist sect's Texas ranch two months ago began packing Monday to return home ...
USA
Social Life
Gay marriage ban qualifies for Calif. ballot
03.06.2008 00:26
usatoday.com
California's Secretary of State says an initiative that would again outlaw gay marriage in the state has qualified for the November ...
USA
Social Life
Ex-Forest Service worker who started fire freed
03.06.2008 00:26
usatoday.com
A former fire spotter for the U.S. Forest Service has been released from prison after serving a six-year term for starting the ...
USA
Social Life
Newspaper circulation rising globally, down in U.S.
03.06.2008 00:26
usatoday.com
Readership continued to slip in the U.S. and Europe, where traditional dailies face stiff competition from free newspapers and ...
USA
Social Life
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