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  • Nicasio lifts Rockies to 5-0 win over Giants

    Juan Nicasio scattered three hits over six innings, Carlos Gonzalez and Troy Tulowitzki each drove in two runs and the Colorado Rockies won their first series over San Francisco in two years, beating the Giants 5-0 on Sunday.Dexter Fowler tied a career high with four hits to help the Rockies take three of four from the reigning World Series champions. Jordan Pacheco also drove in a run as ...

  • Blanks Venable Alonso homer in Padres 13-4 win

    Andrew Cashner pitched 6 2-3 strong innings and Kyle Blanks and Will Venable homered off Dan Haren to lead the San Diego Padres to a 13-4 victory against the Washington Nationals on Sunday and a split of their four-game series.Cashner (3-2) allowed three runs and seven hits, struck out six and walked one. The Padres tied their season high in runs and their 15 hits off four Nationals pitchers ...

  • Tornadoes tear through Kansas Oklahoma Iowa

    A large "violent and extremely dangerous" tornado was spotted on the southwest side of Wichita, Kansas, moving northeast at about 30 miles per hour, the National Weather Service ...

  • Brewers end tough trip with 4-2 loss to Cardinals

    St. Louis Cardinals third baseman David Freese, right, tags Milwaukee Brewers' Norichika Aoki out at home after Aoki was caught stealing home during the first inning of a baseball game on Sunday, May 19, 2013, in St. ...

  • Braves rally with 4-run 8th to sweep Dodgers

    ATLANTA - Ramiro Pena had a tiebreaking sacrifice fly in a four-run eighth inning, Jordan Schafer drove in two runs and the Atlanta Braves rallied against the Los Angeles Dodgers' beleaguered bullpen for a 5-2 victory on a rain-soaked Sunday.Kenley Jansen (1-3) was the loser for the second straight game, this time allowing one hit, two runs and a walk while getting just one out in a game ...

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After.Life [Blu-Ray]

After.Life [Blu-Ray]

Like last years Orphan, Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloos directorial debut After.Life is a twisty horror-thriller that banks heavily on the audiences tendency to bite right into a genre clich and then willingly question that clich. The difference, though, is that Orphans eve ... ...

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  • Howard set for precautionary MRI on left knee

    Email PHILADELPHIA -- Ryan Howard will have a precautionary MRI on Monday to take a look at his sore left knee. The power-hitting first baseman was held out of the Phillies' lineup Sunday against the Reds, and he said his knee was bothering him more than usual. Howard did not travel with the team to Miami on Sunday evening, but he was scheduled to join the Phillies on Monday after getting ...

  • Wandy goes for fourth straight quality start

    Chicago right-hander Matt Garza insists he's not nervous. He said that the jitters from pitching his way back to the Majors hit him during his first rehab start with Double-A Tennessee and that his return to a big league mound at PNC Park on Tuesday is more about excitement than nerves. Garza last toed a Major League rubber exactly 10 months prior to Tuesday's series opener in ...

  • Struggling Hamels to meet Sanabia Marlins in Miami

    Something has to give at Marlins Park on Monday. Philadelphia is 1-8 when southpaw Cole Hamels toes the rubber. Hamels has already matched his loss total from last year, when he went 17-6 with a 3.05 ERA. Through nine starts this season, the 29-year-old has compiled a 1-6 record and 4.61 ERA. Hamels is averaging 3.8 walks per nine innings, up from 2.2 last year and 1.8 in 2011. He said a ...

  • Officer who mistakenly shot Hofstra student faced harrowing choice expert says

    The police officer who accidentally killed a Long Island college student along with an armed intruder faced perhaps the most harrowing decision of a law enforcement career: choosing the split-second moment when the risk is so high that you must act to save a ...

  • Jennifer Johnson wins Mobile Bay LPGA Classic for 1st title finishing with back-to-back 65s

    MOBILE, Ala. - Jennifer Johnson won the Mobile Bay LPGA Classic on Sunday for her first tour title, birdieing four of the final six holes for a one-stroke victory over Jessica Korda and Pornagong Phatlum. The 21-year-old American closed with her second straight 7-under 65 for a tournament-record 21-under 267 total on The Crossings course at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail's Magnolia ...

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