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Tuesday March 15, 2011
| | Baseball MLB will research baseball's roots NEW YORK (UPI) -- Major League Baseball said Tuesday it will set about trying to determine the origins of the sport and how it evolved into its current form.
Abner Doubleday was once widely credited with inventing modern baseball in Cooperstown, N.Y., home to the sport's Hall of Fame. But there are researchers who say the game's origins appear to be in the 18th-century English games stoolball and "tut-ball," or even further back in 14th-century France where a game called "la soule" was played.
MLB.com reported MLB Commissioner Bud Selig announced the establishment of a Baseball Origins Committee to be headed by newly appointed official historian John Thorn.
Thorn and other experts who will hunt for information about the game's earliest days, and its growth in various communities.
"I am thrilled that John Thorn and our decorated panel will take on this ambitious endeavor," Selig said in a written statement. "In so many ways, our game is a reflection of American history, and I am glad that Major League Baseball can now contribute to the findings and celebrate our unparalleled tradition."
Thorn said baseball's past informs its present state.
"In no sport is the past as important to the present moment as it is in baseball," Thorn said in a written statement. "That's why so much interest attaches to how our great game began -- in America, in communities and in our family histories."
Also on the panel will be award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns, former National League President Len Coleman, Elias Sports Bureau Executive Vice President Steve Hirdt, and baseball authors and historians David Block, James Edward Brunson III, Adrian Burgos Jr., Jane Leavy, Larry McCray and George F. Will.
Copyright 2011 by United Press International
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| | Basketball Sidney Lowe out as Wolfpack coach RALEIGH, N.C. (UPI) -- North Carolina State basketball Coach Sidney Lowe resigned Tuesday.
"I'm thankful for the opportunity," The (Charlotte) News & Observer quoted Lowe as saying.
The Wolfpack went 86-78 in five seasons under Lowe but was just 25-55 in ACC play and never reached the NCAA Tournament. This year, the team went 15-16 overall and 5-11 in conference play.
Lowe, a former NBA coach who was captain of North Carolina State's 1983 national championship team, had two years remaining on his contract.
As for his future, Lowe said he is "going to follow the path the Lord takes me on," the newspaper said.
Lowe announced his decision shortly after meeting with Athletic Director Debbie Yow on campus for about 90 minutes. Yow had yet to make a public statement on Lowe's departure.
The News & Observer said Arizona Coach Sean Miller and Texas A&M Coach Mark Turgeon are expected to be considered for the vacancy.
Copyright 2011 by United Press International
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| | Football Peterson: NFL like 'modern-day slavery' MINNEAPOLIS (UPI) -- NFL owners are subjecting players to "modern-day slavery," Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson said in an interview published Tuesday.
The all-pro made the comments to Yahoo! Sports while reflecting on a lockout imposed this week by team owners after they and the NFL Players Association failed to renegotiate an expiring collective bargaining agreement.
"The players are getting robbed. They are," Peterson told Yahoo. "The owners are making so much money off of us to begin with. I don't know that I want to quote myself on that.
"It's modern-day slavery, you know? People kind of laugh at that, but there are people working at regular jobs who get treated the same way, too," Peterson said.
The Vikings star said he understood that as "business-minded people," owners wanted to generate more revenue, but cautioned that "as players, we have to stand our ground and say, 'Hey, without us, there's no football.'"
Peterson called the owners' refusal to release detailed information about club finances "a rip-off -- not just for the players, but for the people who work at the concession stands and at the stadiums."
Copyright 2011 by United Press International
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| | Other Baker wins Iditarod in record time NOME, Alaska (UPI) -- John Baker won Alaska's grueling Iditarod sled dog race in record time Tuesday, beating the old mark by 4 hours.
Baker finished the 1,150-mile trek from Anchorage to Nome in eight days, 18 hours and 46 minutes. That beat the previous fastest time of eight days, 22 hours and 46 minutes set in 2002 by four-time winner Martin Buser.
It was Baker's first win after finishing in the Top 10 11 times since first entering in 1996. He was fifth last year and came in third in 2002 and 2009.
Copyright 2011 by United Press International
| | Tennis Djokovic reaches 4th round at Indian Wells INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (UPI) -- Serbian Novak Djokovic breezed past Latvian Ernests Gulbis Tuesday to reach the fourth round of the $4.5 million BNP Paribas Masters in California.
Djokovic, seeded third, needed just 54 minutes to oust Gulbis, the 31st seed, 6-0, 6-1 on the hard courts at Indian Wells Tennis Garden.
Djokovic, 23, is 14-0 this year, including wins in the Australian Open and at Dubai. He also helped Serbia to its first Davis Cup title in December.
He won at Indian Wells in 2008.
World No. 1 Rafael Nadal won his third-round match in straight sets Monday but fourth-seeded Robin Soderling was ousted from the ATP Masters tournament.
Nadal lost only five points on serve in a 6-3, 6-1 third-round win over Ryan Sweeting. Nadal finished off four of seven break-point chances and took nearly as many (26-27) points on Sweeting's serve as Sweeting managed.
But it was when serving that Nadal truly dominated, losing only one point when he landed his first serve and winning 86 percent of the points in his eight service games.
No. 32-seeded Philipp Kohlschreiber improved to 4-1 lifetime against Soderling with a 7-6 (10-8), 6-4 win. Kohlschreiber pounded out 14 aces in the match and didn't face a break point in the second set.
Other upsets Monday included Sam Querrey defeating ninth-seeded Fernando Verdasco 7-5, 6-4 and Albert Montanes' 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 win over No. 11 Nicolas Almagro while Juan Martin del Potro won his eighth consecutive match, beating 20th-seeded Alexandr Dolgopolov.
Also Monday, No. 25 Tommy Robredo was a 6-0, 6-4 winner over Donald Young. Ivo Karlovic dumped Gilles Simon, the No. 28 seed, 6-3, 6-3 behind 11 aces and Somdev Devvarman advanced to the fourth round with a 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 (7-5) victory over Xavier Malisse.
Copyright 2011 by United Press International
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