It would be awfully difficult to confuse Joe Cowley, a White Sox beat writer for the Chicago Sun-Times, with Joe Cowley, the erstwhile White Sox pitcher.
In the biggest game in K-State baseball history, the Wildcats defeated Baylor 3-2 on Saturday night in the Big 12 tournament at AT&T Bricktown Ballpark. Today, though, now replaces what happened Saturday as the most important game K-State has played.
Those attending the banquet of the Hamburg Schools Foundation on Thursday night, April 3, heard an entertaining and inspiring presentation from Keith Jackson, a former NFL football player and now the founder and leader of P. A. R. K., (Positive Attitudes Reaching Kids), a program in Little Rock for at-risk children.
The week that was saw a no hitter, a never-ending contest and one of the game's legendary relievers add to his already Hall of Fame quality dossier. Those and more in this post-Memorial Day edition of Diamond Digits.
Josh Hamilton is at peace now, at peace even when he sleeps. "I used to have dreams all the time," he says. "They were so real, I'd wake up and take a real deep breath in, like I was hitting the crack pipe."
Marriage License ApplicationsIvan Jamar Alexander, 24, Tuscaloosa, and Adrienne Akina Spencer, 23, Tuscaloosa, May 16.Percy K. Bates Jr., 46, Tuscaloosa, and Mary F. Bailey, 53, Tuscaloosa, May 23.Jon Douglas Billings, 25, Northport, and Erin Mele Gregg, 24, Northport, May 20.
OAKLAND, Calif. - Jon Lester was expected to see his father, John, last night for the first time since learning his dad had been diagnosed with lymphoma. The elder Lester lives in Puyallup, Wash., not far from Seattle, where the Red Sox flew last night for the start of a three-game series tonight.