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The Kansas City Royals signed free agent outfielder Rick Ankiel Friday to a one-year contract.

Stephen Brunt All Saints’ Day New Orleans Saints fans cheer last Saturday when their team downed the Arizona Cardinals in the NFC divisional playoffs New Orleans.

Point guard Lewis Jackson could be on-target for a return to the court next month.

Dustin Brown , the hard-hitting left wing of the Kings who treats a 200-by-85-foot sheet of ice as his own personal bumper car party, has grown into his role during Year Two of his reign as captain.

Jaroslav Halak gave up an early goal Friday and then got the best of Martin Brodeur in leading Montreal to a 3-1 victory over New Jersey.

Los Angeles Lakers forward Pau Gasol was one of 10 NBA players donating $1,000 for every point he scored Friday night to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund.

Man-management is as much about telling people what they want, and need, to hear as it is about the deployment of talent and wily old fox Craig Brown proved as much last weekend following Motherwell’s 3-0 victory at Kilmarnock.

Stuart Condie London - Published on Friday, Jan. 22, 2010 9:04PM EST W ith its rivals in FA Cup action this weekend, Manchester United has the opportunity to address its recent disappointing form and retake the Premier League lead.

By Nick Talbot Killeen Daily Herald The scars are slowly fading away. It has been two years almost to the day that they were carved into me, curving up my abdomen and down my side.

WOODCLIFF LAKE,A N.J. Eisai and Pfizer announced that the Food and Drug Administration has accepted for review Eisai’s new drug application for its Alzheimer’s disease treatment.

… of what it would cost him in the Rogue Valley. “They told me it would cost $50,000 here,” said Krois, who lost his health insurance in 2008 when he was laid off from his job as a photographer with the Grants Pass Daily Courier. “It will cost $12,000 …

The Saudi health minister says five people have died from the H1N1 flu virus during the annual hajj.

A clutch of major emerging economies including China and India have forged a united front to put pressure on developed countries at next month’s climate change negotiations in Copenhagen.

… PEPFAR is reconsidering this approach, according to Steve Mills, who directs the Vietnam operations of Family Health International. The North Carolina-based nonprofit organization runs the Tinh Bien clinic and other programs in Vietnam and Cambodia, …

Griffey returning for 22nd season Ken Griffey has agreed to a one-year contract with the Seattle Mariners for the 2010 season, which will be his 22nd as a major leaguer.

Andy persuades an organ network to give a former drug addict a new heart, but the patient disappears just before the surgery is to take place.

It was going to happen eventually. Not the Penguins’ two goals in the third period on Friday night to set up a 3-2 victory in the shootout over the Florida Panthers at Mellon Arena - though those goals did seem inevitable as they closed the final 40 minutes with a 29-16 shots advantage.

Jimmie Johnson finally wasn’t flawless at Martinsville. The points leader and winner in five of the past six NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races on the smallest, tightest oval in the series qualified 15th Friday.

CC Sabathia , in a start that had meaning only because the lefthander had a chance to record the first 20-win season of his nine-year career, was shelled in the Yankees’ 13-4 loss to the Rays.

“It is a time to address this imbalance. It is time to light the Olympic cauldron in a tropical country.” - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, speaking to the International Olympic Committee before the committee chose Rio de Janeiro as the site of the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Homecoming was a happy occasion for Abilene High as the No. 9 Eagles did pretty much everything they wanted Friday in a 66-0 victory over Fort Worth Paschal at Shotwell Stadium.

The moment of truth may arrive tonight, soon after kickoff. A year ago, the Ventura College football team allowed the impact of a dramatic, last-moment loss to Cerritos College to fester into a season-spoiling four-game losing streak and a team that peaked at No.

WOMEN’S SOCCER: The Wolverines fell 2-0 to Portland State on Friday afternoon at Clyde Field in Orem in the team’s final tuneup before Great West Conference play begins next week.

Landon Donovan scored in the 42nd minute and Donovan Ricketts made four saves for his seventh shutout in the Los Angeles Galaxy’s 1-0 victory over the Chicago Fire on Friday night.

Ricky Ponting’s Australia maintained their domination over England last night with a crushing nine-wicket victory in the semi-final of the Champions Trophy.

Well, that was one of the nastier brawls we’ve seen at Yankee Stadium in quite some time.

O’FALLON — O’Fallon High took the first step Tuesday in what it hopes will end with a Southwestern Conference championship.

Zach Montgomery made the most out a slim opportunity on Tuesday at Belleville East High School.

… last year. Trainer Brian Lawrence told how promoter Frank Maloney had arranged a session for Darren with a leading sports psychologist on Monday night. But the rising star was found dead at his apartment in Bromley, south London, a few hours before …

… for Chicago, Torres has compiled a 6.75 earned run, yielding seven runs and nine hits over 9 1/3 innings