O's Win Marathon; Nats Slash Pirates
Adam Jones homered with one out in the 15th inning, lifting the Baltimore Orioles to a 4-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals. Jones was hitless in 6 at bats before connecting for his team leading 12th home run. Keving Gregg pitched 2 hitless innings to get the win. Jim Johnson earned his 13th save.
Adam LaRoche broke open a tight game with a 3 run double for his
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Scores and Schedules
MLB---NATIONAL LEAGUE
Washington 7 Pittsburgh 4
San Diego 4 Los Angeles 2
Cincinnati 6 New York 3
Miami 8 Atlanta 4
Houston 8 Milwaukee 3
Philadelphia 9 Chicago 2
Colorado 6 Arizona 1
St. Louis 4 San Francisco 1
AMERICAN
Baltimore 4 Kansas City 3, 15 innings
Minnesota 11 Detroit 7
Cleveland 9
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VCU Says Bye Bye To CAA
Virginia Commonwealth President Michael Rao says the University is leaving the Coloinial Athletic Association and will join the Atlantic 10. Rao says the switch will take effect in all sports on July first.
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O's Top Yanks; Nats Fall
Wei-Yin Chen pitched 7 innings of 4 hit ball, Adam Jones homered, and the Baltimore Orioles beat CC Sabathia and the New York Yankees 5-2. J.J. Hardy drove in 2 runs for the Orioles, who earned a split of the 2 game series. Chen allowed 2 runs, struck out 4, and walked 2 in a solid performance.
Stephen Strasburg's performance was not too good---he lasted only 4 innings as the
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Busch Fined
NASCAR has fined Kurt Busch $50,000 for reckless driving on pit road at Darlington and a post race altercation with Ryan Newman's crew members. Busch was placed on probation through July 25th for his actions Saturday night. NASCAR also fined Busch crew member Craig Strickler $5,000 for interfering with a member of Fox's broadcast team. Newman crew chief Tony
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Scores and Schedules
MLB---AMERICAN LEAGUE
Baltimore 5 New York 2
Cleveland 5 Minnesota 0
Detroit 10 Chicago 8
Boston 5 Seattle 0
Los Angeles 4 Oakland 0
Tampa Bay 4 Toronto 3
Kansas City 7 Texas 4
NATIONAL LEAGUE
San Diego 6 Washington 1
Philadelphia 4 Houston 3, 10 innings
St. Louis 7 Chicago 6
Atlanta 6 Cincinnati
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Nats Win; O's Lose
Bryce Harper hit his first big league homer, and Chad Tracy and Xavier Nady each connected in the 8th inning, leading the Washington Nationals over the San Diego Padres 8-5 last night. Harper became the youngest major leaguer to homer since 1998. Craig Stammen got the win in relief.
Mark Teixeira hit a tiebreaking 2 run homer in the 7th inning, Curtis Granderson also connected,
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Hunter Steps Down
Dale Hunter has stepped down as coach of the Washington Capitals, telling the team he wants to return to his family in Canada. The development comes 2 days after the Caps were eliminated from the playoffs by the Rangers in 7 games. Hunter was hired in November to replace the fired Bruce Boudreau and went 30-23-7 during the remainder of the regular season, helping Washington squeeze
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VCU Gone?
CAA Commissioner Tom Yeager says he has not been contacted by Virginia Commonwealth with any news that the Rams are leaving the conference. CBS Sports.com reported Monday that industry sources told them that VCU will join the Atlantic 10 in 2013. VCU has acknowledged considering a change in conference affiliation , as has Old Dominion, whose executive committee of the Board of
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Scores and Schedules
MLB---NATIONAL LEAGUE
Washington 8 San Diego 5
Chicago 6 St. Louis 4
Philadelphia 5 Houston 1
Cincinnati 3 Atlanta 1
New York 3 Milwaukee 1
Pittsburgh 3 Miami 2
Los Angeles 3 Arizona 1
San Francisco 3 Colorado 2
AMERICAN
New York 8 Baltimore 5
Tampa Bay 7 Toronto 1
Boston 6 Seattle 1
Kansas
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Votto Slams Nats; O's Lose
Joey Votto hit a grand slam in the 9th inning for his third home run of the game, rallying the Cincinnati Reds to a rain-delayed 9-6 victory over the Washington Nationals Sunday. Votto's slam came against closer Henry Rodriguez, who had trouble with his control on the wet mound.
Meanwhile Nats catcher Wilson Ramos tore his ACL Saturday night---he's out for the
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Scores and Schedules
MLB---NATIONAL LEAGUE
Cincinnati 9 Washington 6
Miami 8 New York 4
Pittsburgh 3 Houston 2, 12 innings
Philadelphia 3 San Diego 2
Chicago 8 Milwaukee 2
Atlanta 7 St. Louis 4
Los Angeles 11 Colorado 5
San Francisco 7 Arizona 3
AMERICAN
Tampa Bay 9 Baltimore 8
Seattle 6 New York 2
Boston 12
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Caps Beat Rangers
The Washington Capitals have forced a seventh game in the NHL's Eastern Conference series by outlasting the New York Rangers 2-1. Alex Ovechkin put the Caps ahead to stay just 88 seconds into the game. Jason Chimera doubled the lead in the second period. Rookie Braden Holtby turned back 30 shots.
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Coaching Carousel
JMU women's basketball coach Kenny Brooks has gotten a one year contrach extension and a $20,000 raise.
Day two of the Marist lawsuit against former coach, and current JMU basketball coach, Matt Brady focused on missing files. The Poughkeepsie Journal reports that Marist says Brady took files on potential recruits with him to JMU---that constitutes a breach of
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Basketball Everywhere!
Dorian Finney-Smith scored 17 points, including the winning tip-in with 1.8 seconds left, and Virginia Tech overcame a 6 point deficit with 1:14 to go to beat Boston College 66-65. Finney-Smith hit 7 of 10 from the floor and grabbed 8 rebounds to pace the Hokies. Ryan Anderson led Boston College with 17.
Tarik Hislop's 12 foot jumper with 1:09 left lifted the JMU women to a
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Greer Hearing Postponed
Another postponement for an Elkton for a former area police officer accused of swiping merchandise from a grocery store.
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JMU Women Win; Cavs Fall
JMU ran its home winning streak to 17 with a 64-43 win over VCU at the Convo last night. The Dukes are now 10-3 overall and 1-1 in the CAA. The Rams shot only 24% from the field, and Nikki Newman held the Rams leading scorer, Courtney Hurt, to just 8 points. JMU was led by Jasmine Gill with 15, while Lauren Whitehurst had 11 points and 7 rebounds, and Kirby Burkholder added 11
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JMU, BC, EMU Women Win
Senior forward Lauren Whitehurst scored a career high 18 points to lead JMU to a 56-49 win over Duquense at the Convo last night. The Dukes won their 16th consecutive home game to improve to 9-3 overall in their final non-conference game of the season. Duquense is now 12-3. Whitehurst scored 11 of JMU's final 19 points as the Dukes outscored the Dukes 19-10 in the final 8:11 to
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Redskins Lose It Late
Mark Sanchez hit Santonio Holmes for a 30 yard touchdown pass with 4:49 to play, Shonn Greene added a pair of insurance scores, and the New York Jets rallied to beat the Washington Redskins 34-19. The win improves the Jets to 7-5 and keeps them in the wild card hunt in the AFC. The Redskins are now 4-8 and it looks like the news will get worse today---SI.com is reporting that left
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Scores and Schedules
NFL
New York Jets 34 Washington 19
Houston 17 Atlanta 10
Carolina 38 Tampa Bay 19
Pittsburgh 35 Cincinnati 7
Denver 35 Minnesota 32
New England 31 Indianapolis 24
Kansas City 10 Chicago 3
Miami 34 Oakland 14
Tennessee 23 Buffalo 17
Baltimore 24 Cleveland 10
Arizona 19 Dallas 14, OT
Green Bay
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