Detroit Tigers minor-leaguer Spenser Watkins suspended 50 games

Edit Detroit Free Press 19 Apr 2016
Pitcher banned under baseball's minor league drug program following second positive tests for drugs of abuse ... ....

Tigers Minor Leaguer Watkins suspended 50 games (Detroit Tigers)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Apr 2016
'The Detroit Tigers recognize the suspension of Spenser Watkins for violating Major League Baseball's Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program as a measure taken in the best interest of the game, and the ballclub continues to fully support this policy,' the team said in a statement....

2 minor-league pitchers suspended

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 19 Apr 2016
Tampa Bay pitcher Damion Carroll and Detroit pitcher Spenser Watkins have been suspended for 50 games each under baseball’s minor-league drug program following second positive tests for drugs of abuse. There have been 34 suspensions this year for violations of the minor league program ... The 26-year-old figured to be the starter in place of Jhonny Peralta, who is recovering from surgery to repair a torn ligament in his left thumb ... ....

Skipping the Surf

Edit The Atlantic 19 Apr 2016
Spenser Harrison. One of our submission guidelines reads, “Low-flying planes or other craft, from which you can see details on the ground, are ideal”—which this reader really took to heart.. I love your America by Air series. Here’s a low pass over a breaking wave from a helicopter in Malibu, California ... How about a crop-duster? ... ....

Major League Baseball suspends pair of minor league players 50 games

Edit The Examiner 19 Apr 2016
Two minor league players have been suspended by Major League Baseball for violations of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program, it was announced today. Pitchers Damion Carroll and Spenser Watkins were given 50 games each ... Both suspensions are effective immediately ... ....

Tigers aim to get off to good start against Royals

Edit Detroit news 19 Apr 2016
Houston — When your season is 162 games and stretches from April-October, you can’t get overwrought by any single series, nor is it wise to expand your focus much further than the game at hand ... “But on a day-to-day basis, no game is more important than another.” ... West Michigan right-hander Spenser Watkins has been suspended for 50 games under baseball’s minor league drug program following a second positive test for drugs of abuse ... ....

Tuesday’s best TV: Horrible Histories Specials; The Tiny Tots Talent Agency; Fierce

Edit The Guardian 19 Apr 2016
The HH team gather their best bard jokes; behind the scenes at a model agency for children; naturalist Steve Backshall goes to Indonesia. Plus. Jools Holland’s Later Live returns ... 4.30pm, CBBC ... “It had to be, there wasn’t any telly.” Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe and Gabriel Spenser delight as bad-boy rappers, while a Gene Kelly-spoofing turn from Miles Jupp centres on an era when people emptied chamber pots out of upstairs windows ... ....

Tigers minor-leaguer Spenser Watkins banned 50 games

Edit Detroit Free Press 18 Apr 2016
Pitcher banned under baseball's minor league drug program following second positive tests for drugs of abuse ... ....

Bed tricks and broken women: Shakespeare's guide to love

Edit The Guardian 18 Apr 2016
Every romance is also a bromance, you go to bed never knowing who you’ll wake up with, and the strongest marriage is the Macbeths’ … Shakespeare’s tangled take on love. Illustration. Matthew Richardson. by Jeanette Winterson. Shakespeare’s Guide to Love. what would be in there? ... Twitter ... Elizabeth, hailed as Gloriana in Spenser’s epic poem The Faery Queen, was more than a monarch – even at a time when monarchy really meant something ... ....

Duquesne acquires rare work

Edit Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 16 Apr 2016
To win an English monarch’s favor, Edmund Spenser dedicated his epic poem, “The Faerie Queene,” to Elizabeth I and read some of it to her in 1589. (Reading poetry aloud was hip back in the era of B.C. — before cable.)  ... ....

Andy Bisek named 2015 USA Wrestling Greco-Roman Wrestler of the Year (USA Wrestling)

Edit Public Technologies 16 Apr 2016
(Source. USA Wrestling). Print. By Gary Abbott, USA Wrestling . April 16, 2016, 1.07 p.m. (ET) Andy Bisek, second from left, receives the Greco-Roman Wrestler of the Year Award from USA Wrestling president James Ravannack, wrestling legend Dan Gable and USA Wrestling Executive Director Rich Bender in Iowa City, Iowa. Photo by Tony Rotundo, Wrestlers Are Warriors ... in September ... in June ... 2013 - Spenser Mango, Colorado Springs, Colo., U.S ... Army....

English Renaissance Poetry review – a manual on how to write verse

Edit The Guardian 13 Apr 2016
Shakespeare, Donne and Jonson are all represented in this punchy and sinuous anthology, chosen by Stoner author John Williams. The American author and academic John Williams wrote three acclaimed novels (he let his first be quietly forgotten) ... Poetry was in the air ... Not all of it was first rate ... It helps that the poems are short – barring those of Edmund Spenser who, unless writing a sonnet, couldn’t be short if he tried ... ....
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