Hall of Fame MLB catcher Gary Carter died today after losing his battle with brain cancer.  He was 57 years old. Carter played in the big leagues for 19 seasons and was elected to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown in 2003, his sixth year on the ballot. Carter posted a .262 batting average over [...]

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MLB home run king Barry Bonds has just been sentenced to two years’ probation along with 30 days of home detention and a $4,000 fine for giving evasive testimony to a federal grand jury eight years ago during an investigation into steroid usage in professional sports. Bonds, 47, was hit with several charges of perjury [...]

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Here are your top stories for this Thursday, October 13, 2011: – Underwear bomber pleads guilty – Clinton: Plot a dangerous escalation by Iran – Beaten Giants fan now out of the hospital and in rehab – Antelope hits biker during race

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Ah, to be young again.  Just take a look at the little boy below. He went to see his favorite team, the San Francisco Giants, play ball against the Los Angeles Dodgers with his dad.  What’s more, he almost wound up catching a foul ball…almost. The ball came up just a bit short and the [...]

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You know it’s a red-letter day when Brian Wilson shows up somewhere and people are talking about something other than “the beard”. The San Francisco Giants’ closer attended last night’s ESPY Awards wearing a one-piece, skin-tight, spandex tuxedo. Wilson called it a “onesie.” He also completed the ensemble with a walking stick, white gloves, and [...]

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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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See that, O’s fans?  It’s not all bad.  The Baltimore Orioles are limping into the All-Star break on a 7-game losing streak, but the O’s are Major League Baseball’s 13th most popular team, according to a new poll by Harris Interactive. Last year, the Orioles ranked 20th in the survey…that’s a 7-spot jump, the biggest [...]

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Suffice it to say that Brian Wilson was a wee bit pissed off. The San Francisco Giants closer melted down during Friday night’s game against the Detroit Tigers after giving up a game-tying, RBI single in the eighth inning followed by another run in the ninth. Even though the Giants had a 4-1 lead going [...]

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WARNING: The video below is graphic and may not be suitable for all audiences. Buster Posey got destroyed. The San Francisco Giants catcher has a broken left ankle bone thanks to a monster, 12th-inning collision at the plate with Scott Cousins of the Florida Marlins. Cousins scored the winning run on the play in Florida’s [...]

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It’s pretty clear that Brian Wilson, the closer for the world champion San Francisco Giants, is a bizarre character, but any doubts were eliminated with his appearance on The Tonight Show last night. Wilson entered carrying the World Series trophy, which Jay Leno abruptly put on his floor for Pete’s sake. From there, the two [...]

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San Francisco is taking last night’s World Series victory very well, if you consider rioting and looting to be a good thing, that is. At one point, things were so bad that social media users were joking about riot hashtags on Twitter (#SFRiot, #SFRiots).  There was even a Foursquare “SFRiot” check-in.  Cute. Many were listening [...]

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The San Francisco Giants have done it. With his three-run homer in the top of the 7th inning, Edgar Renteria pushed the San Francisco Giants to their first World Series title since 1954. This is the team’s first world championship since it relocated to California, having reached baseball’s Big Dance four times. The Giants won [...]

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