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07/20/11 Four bustouts within the first hour at the World Series of Poker on Tuesday left the main event with its final two tables, and four more eliminations soon after put the tournament close to determining ...
07/20/11 The final nine players in the World Series of Poker main event, as determined Tuesday night after an eighth session of no-limit Texas Hold `em at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. The finalists emerged from a field of 6,865 players and will compete Nov. 5-7 for the tournament's top prize of $8.71 million.
07/19/11 Calgary's Khoa Nguyen remained in the hunt for a place at the final table at the World Series of Poker -- and its top prize of US$8.7 million.
07/19/11 The southeastern qualifying tournament for the RBI World Series will be Thursday through Sunday at the Vero Beach Sports Village.
07/19/11 City leaders in Laurel are hoping to bring the Dixie Youth World Series back to their community.
07/19/11 Being inducted in the players category is former Toronto Blue Jays All-Star second baseman Roberto Alomar. Staying with Toronto, the architect of the Jays' 1992 and 1993 World Series winning teams Pat Gillick will join the hall as a builder.
07/19/11 The Virginia Cardinals, a 12-and-younger baseball team from Martinsville, Henry and Patrick counties, won the USSSA World Series championship Sunday in Knoxville, Tenn. The team outscored its eight opponents by an aggregate total of 76-28.
07/18/11 For the first time in the 65-year history of the Little League Baseball World Series, a team from Africa will be in the field. Rev. John Foundation Little League from Kampala, Uganda, won the Middle East and Africa Region Tournament today with a 6-4 victory over 17-time World Series qualifier since 1991, Arabian American Little League from Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
07/18/11 CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa --- The Heat Baseball Club of Waterloo's U11 AAA team won the recent USSSA state championship and qualified to compete in the Little League World Series in their age division.
07/18/11 One baseball team will make their dream of qualifying for the Little League World Series closer to a reality this month in Leesburg. The 2011 Virginia Little League Baseball State Championship is set for July 22 through July 27 at Freedom Park.
07/18/11 Monday's MLB news briefs: President Barack Obama will open the White House to the team in honor of its 2010 defeat of the Texas Rangers in Game 5 of the World Series last fall. It's the first World Series title for the Giants in more than 50 years.
07/18/11 LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A 26-year-old New Orleans man nursed a chip lead at the World Series of Poker main event on Monday, then found another big stack across the table after a Brazilian professional was moved and quickly picked up big pots.
07/18/11 We're just under two weeks away from the July 31 MLB trade deadline, and one of the funnest parts of this time of year is that we get to ruminate, speculate and pontificate on which teams might be making big moves in the near future. Nearly every team in baseball has an area in which they can improve their team and by extension, their chances at a World Series championship. The teams that are ...
07/18/11 BY OSKAR GARCIA The Associated Press LAS VEGAS -- A summer of legal turmoil in the online poker industry has amplified a simple truth for the World Series of Poker -- lots of folks really like to play cards. And the series' tournament director says he thinks a year of growth in Sin City might...
07/17/11 For the past several seasons there has been a debate amongst fans and those within the game regarding how to shorten the length of the Major League season to keep World Series games from being played into November. In October of last year, CBS Los Angeles reported that Bud Selig would consider shortening the schedule, perhaps back to the 154-game schedule that used to be played prior to 1961 ...
07/16/11 These Columbia County girls will represent Lake City, Columbia County and Florida in Richmond. The Lake City Sliders 16 and under Babe Ruth Girls Softball Team have made it to the Regionals, an honor the Sliders have never achieved before. The next stop could be the World Series.
07/16/11 LAS VEGAS -- For 693 players, Friday was a good day at the World Series of Poker Main Event. It was the day they began to win money.
07/16/11 LAS VEGAS -- For 693 players, Friday was a good day at the World Series of Poker Main Event. It was the day they began to win money. Friday's Day 4 action began with 852 players remaining from an original field of 6,865. But the $10,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em tournament is only awarding money to players that finish 693rd or better, so 159 players were going home today without winning any cash.
07/16/11 37 of the best six-year-old baseball teams in the southeast converged are in Rome this week for the Dizzy Dean World Series which started on Friday. The teams arrived on Thursday for opening ceremo...
07/15/11 Pat Gillick's acquisition of outfielder Joe Carter and slick infielder Robbie Alomar in 1990 is regarded as the blockbuster move that turned the Toronto Blue Jays into legitimate World Series contenders.
07/15/11 The hallmark of success for the Atlanta Braves in the 1990s has been a star-studded starting rotation that carried the team to 14 straight division titles (excluding the 1994 strike-shortened season). The Braves burst onto the scene in 1991, moving from three straight last-place finishes from 1988-90 to the World Series the very next year. The good times in Georgia's capital city began when John ... | 
