US President George W. Bush left Monday on a three-nation trip to Asia during which he will attend the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony clouded by concerns over China’s human rights record.
On the way to Seoul, he will transit at Eilson military base in Alaska to address US troops, thanking them for their service to the [...]
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Chinese counterpart held talks Monday on President George W. Bush’s trip to the Olympics in Beijing and international issues, the State Department said.
Rice met with Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi at her office in the afternoon before a working dinner, officials said.
They “discussed the president’s upcoming trip to [...]
National League starting pitcher Ben Sheets wants a piece of Yankee Stadium for an All-Star keepsake, but he’s not going to scoop dirt from the mound.
“I’m going to keep my cleats, and hopefully they’ll have something there,” the Milwaukee Brewers right-hander said Monday.
For the 12 NL All-Stars who have never played a game at Yankee [...]
The New York Mets will begin a six-game road trip tonight with manager Willie Randolph, but whether or not he returns with the team is anyone’s guess.
Randolph’s crew continues its interleague slate this evening with the first of three games against the AL West-leading Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim at Angel Stadium.
With their manager’s job [...]
The Dodgers have struggled away from Los Angeles this year, but got their current nine-game road trip off to a good start. The club resumes that swing and a three-game series with the San Diego Padres tonight at Petco Park.
The Dodgers defeated the Padres, 7-2, on Tuesday for just their second win in their last [...]
For almost two months, Sidney Crosby has trudged to a podium to talk to reporters at least once a day, twice on game days. But after the Pittsburgh Penguins were denied in their last-second bid to tie Game 6, losing 3-2 to the Detroit Red Wings, Crosby remained slumped in his dressing room stall.
That Crosby [...]
The cruellest corner of rugby’s lexicon is dedicated to damnation by faint praise, and it can surely hold no more withering euphemism than the ‘journeyman’ tag that is routinely applied to decent but clearly limited players.
Just ask Matt Mustchin, the 31-year-old Edinburgh forward to whom the term has had a limpet-like attachment for most of [...]
The New York Mets hope to close a disappointing road trip in winning fashion this afternoon when the play the rubber match of their three- game set with the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field.
After winning the first two games of the trip against the Yankees, the Mets lost the next five games of the trek, [...]
Reliever Chad Fox injured his right elbow while playing catch with Scott Eyre before Thursday’s game and will be placed on the 15-day disabled list Tuesday.
Fox’s inflamed ulnar nerve could take anywhere from a week to a couple of months to heal. The Cubs will bring up Iowa right-hander Jose Ascanio, who was acquired from [...]
Certainly, there would have been questions as to whether their scuffling offense was the primary factor in the two-hit, eight-inning masterpiece thrown by Royals right-hander Brian Bannister.
After winning three straight against Kansas City to give themselves a chance to even up a challenging 10-game road trip on its final day, the Orioles viewed yesterday’s loss [...]
