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Sophomore hurler tops all-county baseball teamFriday, July 15, 2011 @ 9:46AMConner Rooney, 16, didn't start playing sports until he picked up a baseball five years ago. "My friends played, so I tried it," said Rooney, a sophomore hurler for the Fernandina Beach High School Pirates and the all-Nassau County baseball team's most valuable player for the 2011 season.

Hubby-snatcher to fork out R100kWednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 9:14AMA local fireman’s charms cost his mistress R100 000 after his ex-wife turned to the courts to help mend her broken heart. The jilted ex-wife emerged victorious yesterday when her former best friend was ordered by the civil section of the East London Magistrate’s Court to pay up for her infidelities.

Tampa Bay Rays: First-Half ReviewTuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 10:57AMA mid-season review of the Tampa Bay Rays 2011 season. For more Rays coverage, please visit DRaysBay Major League Baseball will play the mid-summer classic tonight marking the official mid-point of the 2011 Baseball season. Today is a good chance for us to take a moment and look back at the first-half-that-was for the Tampa Bay Rays. There have been ups and downs, we've had surprise performances ...

FANTASY BASEBALL: WHAT'S THE CALLMonday, July 11, 2011 @ 5:16PMTake a look at the Top Three picks of this Fantasy Baseball season: Albert Pujols , Hanley Ramirez and Carl Crawford . At the beginning of the season, you couldn’t trade for these players unless you backed the truck up and unloaded a haul. For all intents and purposes, they were untouchable.

Ibanez's 6-RBI day backs Hamels versus BravesSunday, July 10, 2011 @ 4:36PM- recap from game played on July 10, 2011

Not Diggity Dog! Hanley Ramirez tops 2011 All-Wiener TeamSaturday, July 9, 2011 @ 12:16PMBeef, pork, mechanically separated turkey, water, corn syrup cubes, hydrolyzed beef stock, sodium phosphates, questionable "flavorings," bat shards, broken dreams and extractives of suck — these are ingredients that comprise baseball's biggest wieners. Coming off stellar 2010 campaigns, this year's saured class of tubed meats were expected to exceed or at least meet last year's totals. Acquire ...

Dear Mr. Fantasy: Considering your optionsThursday, July 7, 2011 @ 6:29PMYou've likely been patting yourself on the back for sticking it out with Jordan Zimmermann. But with an innings count in place, now might be the time to move him. Scott White provides some answers in this week's Dear Mr. Fantasy.

Patterson Jays swing into summerWednesday, July 6, 2011 @ 2:28PMAs summertime rolls in, baseball is beginning to heat up again around town. The Patterson Jays adult baseball team — headed by player-coaches Bubba Marroquin, Zack Wheeland and Leo Barragan — recently began its first season playing in the Mexican-American Baseball League.

Unpaid teacher stages sit-inWednesday, July 6, 2011 @ 8:45AMA PORT Elizabeth substitute teacher, accompanied by former Public Works MEC Christian Martin, staged a silent protest in the office of Education MEC Mandla Makupula over the non-payment of her salary.