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...events, she replied dismissively, "As opposed to standing outside Fenway Park? In the cold?" - a reference to one of Brown's online videos. If that weren't enough to alienate Red Sox Nation, she probably finished the job when she suggested in an interview that the team's legendary pitcher Curt Schilling (a Brown supporter) was a Yankees fan. (See TIME's Swampland blog on the election...
...Angeles Angels head into the American League playoffs, they will be remembering a lost teammate: pitcher Nick Adenhart, 22, who died on April 9, only four days into the season, after pitching six scoreless innings in his season debut. He and two friends were killed after their car was hit by a van that ran a red light. The team paid tribute to Adenhart when they clinched their division championship last week. But the team was also aware of another, quieter triumph, perhaps a miracle. Indeed, Jon Wilhite, the fourth person in Adenhart's car, shouldn't be alive...
...minivan slammed into the foursome just as they were about to arrive at a Fullerton dance club to celebrate Adenhart's hard-won success. A promising pitching prospect, Adenhart had come back from a severe elbow injury that required Tommy John surgery, named after the former Los Angeles Dodger pitcher who first successfully underwent the operation for ligament reconstruction...
...initials when he threw out the ceremonial first pitch at the August Angels-Athletics game. When the Angels clinched the American League West Championship on Monday, Adenhart was on the players' minds. "There isn't a guy in this locker room who isn't playing for his memory," relief pitcher Jason Bulger told the Los Angeles Times. A large photo of Adenhart is on the center-field wall at Angel Stadium in Anaheim. Wilhite, a lifelong Los Angeles Dodgers fan, says, "I am pulling for the Angels this year. I hope they...
Favre is certainly not the first athlete to flip-flop (twice) on saying farewell to his game. Pitcher Roger Clemens remains the reigning king of comebacks: he retired a total of three times, in 2003, 2006 and 2007. Lance Armstrong left cycling in 1996 to battle cancer but returned two years later, going on to win seven consecutive Tour de France titles...