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An Albany area favorite is back - the local celebrity bobble heads that are given out at the Tri-City ValleyCat's games in Troy! This year we have a stake in this - our own Bruce Jacobs is up for getting his gorgeous face on a spring. 

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Two worlds of excessive facial hair collided Tuesday, as Oakland A's outfielder Josh Reddick accepted a challenge from the WWE's Daniel Bryan for the two men to have a 'beard-off.' Bryan threw down the gauntlet on Twitter and Reddick, a longtime WWE fan with his own championship belt,

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An MLB source says that a few prominent members of the New York Yankees could be facing suspension for using Performance Enhancing Drugs.

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You didn’t have to see ‘BASEketball' to know mixing sports is a horrible, horrible idea.

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Many have said of Zach Wheeler that he is the best pitching prospect in the minor leagues. The hype is huge. The expectations are enormous. And the Mets are cautious.

Wheeler strained his oblique taking batting practice

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From his hipster glasses to his Belichick hoodie to his themed t-shirts, Tampa Bay Rays manager Joe Maddon is a bit of a sports fashion plate. (That's him in gnome form, at left.) In years past, the unconventional Maddon has asked his players to embrace fashion themes on road trips: dress like nerds, don wigs or wear plaid jackets, etc

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Ever since Alex Rodriguez left for Texas in 2001, the Seattle Mariners have been a little thin at shortstop. Nick Franklin is trying to change that.

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Zack Greinke and Josh Hamilton were the big-ticket items in free agency this winter, but the intrigue belonged to Melky Cabrera. How would his dismissal from the World Champion San Francisco Giants, and his suspension for performance enhancing drugs, impact his contract? He would leave money on the table because of his actions, but how much? How much were PEDs contributing to his performance? I'll address some of those questions, but first, some backstory:

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All 133 arbitration-eligible Major League Baseball players settled on contracts with their respective teams this off-season. It's the first time since arbitration began in 1974 that no player who filed went to an arbitration hearing.

Baltimore Orioles relief pitc

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Hopefully, Josh Hamilton is planning on flying into Texas next time he plays there, because his bridges into Dallas-Fort Worth may now be burned. The former Texas Rangers outfielder, who signed a five-year $125 million deal with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim this off-season, told a Dallas-Fort W

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Alex Rodriguez is again implicated with steroid use, and his presence on the Yankees is becoming more of a burden than anything at this point. Here are five reasons to hate the embattled former superstar

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A report late Tuesday said the New York Yankees were investigating ways to potentially void the contract of third baseman Alex Rodriguez if he were to be suspended by Major League Baseball for his alleged involvement with a Miami clinic that dispensed performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs).

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