Local sports digest: US eights boat earns a trip to London Olympics San Jose Mercury News US Rowing, the sport's national governing body, asked Cal coach Mike Teti to take over the team. The eights program relocated to the East Bay where Teti trained 19 rowers and three coxswain since November. He recently picked a team that included former ...
Post Sports Live: Closer by committee for Nationals? Washington Post 22, 2012 - The Post Sports Live gang discuss the prospect of a closer-by-committee approach for Davey Johnson and the Nationals after another erratic performance from reliever Henry Rodriguez on Monday night in Philadelphia.
Parents weigh risks of youth football amid concussion debate USA TODAY Tom Brady Sr., who held his son out of football until he was 14, told Yahoo Sports he'd be "very hesitant" these days in deciding if his son would play. "This head thing is frightening for little kids," Brady Sr. said. "I think Kurt Warner is 100% ...
Will 2012 mark return of the American winner at Indy 500? USA TODAY "The American talent vying for the win here is as tough as all the other threats combined," Ryan Hunter-Reay, an IndyCar veteran from Florida who will start on the front row, told USA TODAY Sports. "It's the best chance Americans have had to win this ...
Medical beat: Anatomy of a failed drug test USA TODAY By Dr. Johnny Benjamin, MMAjunkie.com All sports - and currently combat sports - have a learning curve when it comes to transitioning to the heightened scrutiny of random independent drug monitoring, including urine and blood samples.
Mazda Says It Will Jointly Build Sports Car With Italy's Fiat Bloomberg (7261), Japan's least profitable carmaker, said it's agreed to jointly develop a sports car with Fiat SpA (F) as part of a broader partnership. Production of the vehicle may begin in 2015, the Hiroshima, Japan-based carmaker said in a statement today.