Pin ItemailprintTalk about a mammoth deal. First baseman Prince Fielder has agreed to a nine-year, $214 million contract with the Detroit Tigers, according to league sources. Chalk up another landmark deal for agent Scott Boras. It’s an interesting move given that Tigers first baseman Miguel Cabrera is guaranteed $86 million over the next four seasons. [...]
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Ryan Braun, who was just named 2011 National League MVP and who last season led the Milwaukee Brewers to their first division title in almost thirty years, has tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug. He now faces a 50-game suspension from MLB if the initial finding is upheld. A spokesman for Braun confirmed the positive [...]
Ryan Braun of the Milwaukee Brewers has just been named the 2011 National League Most Valuable Player by the Baseball Writers Association of America. Braun, 28, received 20 of 32 first-place votes from the Association. His 388 total points eked out Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp, who got 10 first-place votes and 332 total [...]
Here are your top stories for this Monday, October 31, 2011: – Early East Coast snowstorm causes problems – Three people killed in grain elevator blast – Qantas preparing to fly again – Milwaukee Brewers’ John Axford wins mustache contest
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The St Louis Cardinals have won the National League Championship Series to earn themselves a spot in the 2011 World Series. Yesterday, the Cardinals defeated the Milwaukee Brewers 12-6 to win the NLCS four games to two. They’ll now take on the American League Championship Series winning Texas Rangers in the World Series, which begins [...]
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Watch below as FBC graduate Max Ashton throws a perfect strike to get the crowd psyched as the Arizona Diamondbacks swept the Milwaukee Brewers at home to force a do-or-die game Game 5 in Milwaukee on October 7. Max throws this ball better than most people who can see! Check it out below. Watch more [...]
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Albert Pujols usually does enough damage at Miller Park, but he certainly didn’t endear himself to any Milwaukee fans in last night’s 2-1, 10-inning Cardinals victory. After Pujols chased down a foul ball along the first base line and managed to make a fantastic catch, an older-looking Brewers fan appealed to him for the ball [...]
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It’s time for the mid-summer classic, the Major League Baseball All-Star Game. The game will be played tonight at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona with coverage beginning at 8 p.m. EDT on Fox. Will good pitching beat good hitting? It will probably be pretty hard to shut down these powerful lineups for very long. Taking [...]
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Justin Verlander has done it again. Taking a perfect game into the 8th inning against the Toronto Blue Jays this afternoon at Rogers Centre, the Detroit Tigers pitcher threw the second no-hitter of his career and the second MLB no-hitter of the season. Verlander managed an infield pop-up, a grounder to second, and a strikeout [...]
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One Milwaukee Brewers fan came up with a creative way to get Ryan Braun‘s attention. “Robin” put her cell phone number on a sign that read, “Marry Me Ryan”, and proudly displayed it at Friday night’s game at Miller Park. Unfortunately, however, FOX Sports Wisconsin decided to show the sign during their broadcast coverage of [...]
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Chad Jones, a rookie who was recently drafted by the New York Giants, had surgery on Friday for a broken left leg and ankle sustained in an early morning crash in which the SUV he was driving smashed into a pole. The surgery took place at LSU Public Hospital in New Orleans. Jones, a 21-year-old [...]
It was pretty obvious what Torii Hunter thought of Milwaukee Brewers slugger Prince Fielder’s walk-off home run celebration on Sunday against the San Francisco Giants even before the Angels center fielder opened his mouth. When asked for his reaction to Fielder leaping on home plate and the shockwave knocking over his teammates, Hunter shook his [...]
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