OAKLAND, Calif. – Baltimore manager Buck Showalter had a meeting with his coaches to decide whether to start catcher Matt Wieters in Sunday’s series finale.
LOS ANGELES – The Dodgers had the St. Louis Cardinals in their ballpark for four days. All they have to show for it is a split, which leaves them in the same position they were in when the defending World Series champions came to Los Angeles – a game behind St. Louis for the second National League wild-card berth.
Too many bettors took the bait with the Dallas Cowboys, thinking the Tony Romo on display in the opener would be the same hot-handed quarterback to show up for the season’s second Sunday. Think again.
SAN FRANCISCO – Two weeks in, the San Francisco 49ers are playing like one of the NFL’s best – and you can shake on that.
PHOENIX – As the summer season wraps up, deaths are down at Grand Canyon National Park in northern Arizona in 2012, with officials reporting that eight people have died at the park so far this year.
FRESNO, Calif. – When 17-year-old Alondra Esquivel needs to get from her rural central California home to classes at Fresno State University 20 miles away, she must rely on rides from her relatives or her boyfriend.
When Tilman Fertitta bought the Golden Nugget Las Vegas in 2005, the factoids that stuck with me were that he was a cousin of local boys Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta and he owned Landry’s Seafood restaurants.
After three years of modest gains, the number of Moapa dace has shot up in recent months, giving new hope to the legion of researchers and regulators trying to save the endangered fish from extinction.