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MLB exploring spring training in Italy

2010-06-12T00:23:51Z

Major League Baseball exploring sending teams to Italy for spring training games

Major League Baseball hopes to have two teams trade hot dogs and apple pie for pasta and gelato.

MLB is exploring the possibility of sending a pair of clubs to Italy for a few spring training games next year or in 2012.

Some Chicago residents hope to watch 2016 Summer Olympics _ on TV from Rio, Madrid or Tokyo

The mayor, the president and Oprah Winfrey m...

Sports officials respond calmly to terror warnings

2010-04-16T10:11:22Z

Sports officials respond in low-key manner to federal terror warnings about stadiums, arenas

Sports officials are confident that adequate security measures are in place to thwart any potential terrorist attacks on stadiums around the country.

Responding in a low-key manner to security warnings that terrorists would like to attack stadiums, several sports officials said Tuesday that they have already boosted precautions so much the latest alerts won't make mu...

Struck out: Softball, baseball no go in 2016 Games

2010-04-16T10:50:56Z

Struck out, still swinging: Softball, baseball lose bid to return to Olympic, vow to fight on

On a day when her sport lost another bid to get back into the Olympics, U.S. softball star Jennie Finch vowed to fight on.

A two-time Olympian, Finch called Thursday a heartbreaking day, particularly for young players around the world who dreamed of playing at the sport's highest level.

Softball was added...

THE INFLUENCE GAME: Baseball pitches diplomats

2010-04-16T12:11:24Z

THE INFLUENCE GAME: Diplomats get night at ballpark and pitch for Olympic baseball

Not many fans get to go on the field for batting practice the first time they attend a baseball game. Nor do they get to schmooze with players or take away autographed baseballs and other goodies.

But this wasn't your typical collection of first-time fans watching the Washington Nationals and the

First US swine flu victim was born to wealth

2010-04-16T12:54:43Z

Mexican toddler who died of swine flu in US was born into a wealthy family

While some of Mexico's swine flu fatalities were poor and had uncertain access to health care, the toddler who became the first U.S. death from the outbreak was born into one of Mexico's wealthiest families.

His father is a well-known architect. His grandfather is a Mexican media mogu...

Russia IOC Sochi

2010-10-14T02:31:51Z

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, third right, and International Olympic Committee officials check the progress of Olympic construction in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, southern Russia, Wednesday, Oct. 13...

IOC DOW Sponsorship Olympic

2010-07-16T14:30:29Z

The Dow Chemical Company chairman and CEO Andrew Liveris, left, and International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Dr. Jacques Rogge shake hands during a news conference, Friday, July 16, 2010, announcing th...

Switzerland IOC Meeting

2010-06-23T09:00:49Z

Belgian Jacques Rogge, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), speaks during the opening of the executive board's meeting at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, Tuesday, June 22, 2010. (AP Photo/ Keystone/Dominic Favre...

Landis Doping Cycling

2010-05-22T19:15:23Z

FILE - This May 19, 2007, file photo shows 2006 Tour de France cycling champion Floyd Landis being sworn in during an arbitration hearing on the doping allegations against him, at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif...

Brazil Rio 2016

2010-05-19T12:00:43Z

Journalists film and take pictures of Carlos Arthur Nuzman, Brazil's Olympic Committee President, second right, Nawal El Moutawakel, head of the International Olympic Committee, IOC's,