CHICAGO – After two quarters of Team USA's exhibition against Brazil, Derrick Rose had made only one shot. He'd also missed a wide-open, two-handed dunk. Doubts likely had begun to fill the heads of Chicago Bulls fans. But with 3:34 left in the third quarter, Rose crossed over Brazil's Raul Neto, jumped in the lane off his oft-troubled left knee, switched hands in the air with the ball and scored on a pretty lay-in over Anderson Varejao. The U.S. players on the bench jumped up in excitement....
LOS ANGELES - When it became evident that the Milwaukee Brewers would have to face both Zack Greinke and Clayton Kershaw on consecutive weekends, some wondered if they could survive that pitching-ace gantlet. The Brewers not only survived, they thrived. A night after thumping the Los Angeles...
ST. LOUIS_Two big hits � a bases-loaded triple in the third and a grand slam in the seventh � by the San Diego Padres sunk the St. Louis Cardinals, 9-5, on a rainy Saturday...
ST. LOUIS_In this terribly unpredictable St. Louis Cardinals season, it would stand to reason that their leader in three-base hits at five would be a player who never had had one in 382 big-league at-bats. That could only mean, of course, locomotive MattAdams, whose three-bagger skipped off the...
Considering the night's other possibilities, which included: The Baltimore Ravens' defense flattening Tony Romo like a crabcake; Romo revealing himself to be as slow-moving as canned chili, or an under-practiced Tony, gassed and calling it quits after only a couple of snaps . . . Considering what...
