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Rivers, Manning Forever Linked by Draft
By Kevin Acee
SAN DIEGO — For all Philip Rivers and Eli Manning have been mentioned together, they have hardly ever met.
So much time has passed, and the whole thing never was personal between them anyway. And they don't really play against …Read more.
Left-Hander Lee Masterful in Shutting Down Yankees
By Tim Sullivan
NEW YORK — The ball left Robinson Cano's bat on a path that closely paralleled its trip to home plate. This caught Cliff Lee slightly out of position on the pitcher's mound, but not nearly out of tricks.
Philadelphia's …Read more.
Sabathia Leaving Angels Batters Feeling CC-Sick
By Tim Sullivan
ANAHEIM — Carsten Charles Sabathia prefers that his initials are not interrupted by punctuation. Thus he goes by CC, not C.C.
But the man himself is a double-wide exclamation point, big enough for a billboard. Big enough for …Read more.
NFL Should Give Limbaugh the Bum's Rush
By Tim Sullivan
Rush Limbaugh has as much right to invest in the National Football League as does anyone else.
Which is, to be exact, none at all.
Repeat: None.
Despite keen public interest and significant taxpayer subsidies, the NFL is a private …Read more.
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Hard Times Evident Across the Board for RacingIn case you hadn't noticed — and how could you not? — these are not good times for motor sports. Yes, those were empty seats you saw Sunday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and television ratings for the Indy 500 reached record lows. Plus, it also rained on NASCAR's day, figuratively and literally. And who knows where all the problems in the auto industry will leave NASCAR at the end of this season. But off-road racing has been hit particularly hard in recent years, staggered by the 1-2 combination of the economy (particularly in the construction industry, which is the backbone of most off-road teams) and violence in Mexico. With its 41st Baja 500 less than two weeks away (June 6 with start-finish in Ensenada, Mexico), SCORE is denying rumors that it might move the Baja 500 and Baja 1000 out of Baja California due to the violence issue. And seven-time national Supercross/motocross champion Rick Johnson is bringing his infant The Off-Road Championship Series to Perris (Calif.) Auto Speedway today and Saturday night, hoping to relaunch closed-course off-road racing in the wake of the economy-driven collapse of the CORR Series. First, let's address the SCORE rumors. "The only thing that would keep SCORE from racing in Baja California is that if there was no racing in Baja California," said veteran SCORE spokesman Dominic Clark, who admitted SCORE President Sal Fish has been approached about staging a race in Sonora in mainland Mexico. SCORE is having problems. Fifty of those entries represent Mexican teams with participation from United States teams being down. And because of the economy, the course is the same as 2008 in hopes that cash-strapped teams wouldn't need to spend as much time and money pre-running. But the biggest problem facing the Baja races is the violence south of the border, which has reduced the number of drivers and spectators. "The Mexican government recognizes the importance of our races to the economy of Baja California and has been doing everything it can," said Clark. "Security last year was the strongest I've ever seen." As for CORR, the series founded by developer Jim Baldwin and anchored by two annual races at The Quarry in east Chula Vista, is shut down, although Baldwin is trying to reorganize. Johnson, with the backing of abandoned CORR drivers and off-road industry sponsors, put together the first TORC series on Jan. 6 and stages his second race of the season (eight two-day meets are planned) at the PAS. Bill Center covers motor sports for The San Diego Union-Tribune. Contact him at bill.center@uniontrib.com. COPYRIGHT 2009 THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE.
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