By | Associated Press – Wed, Jul 18, 2012
Associated Press/Phil Sears, file - FILE - In this file photo made June 8, 2012, Stanford pitcher and first-round draft pick Mark Appel throws during a NCAA college baseball tournament super regional game against
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NEW YORK (AP) — Spending by teams in baseball's amateur draft dropped by 11 percent in the first year of restrictions imposed under the new labor contract.
Teams allocated $207.7 million to draft picks, down from $233.6 million last year, according to figures compiled by Major League Baseball. That's still the second-highest annual total.
Under the latest labor deal, two aims were to slow spending on prospects through the draft and to get picks to sign sooner.
As part of perhaps the most spectacular walk-of-shame ever, an underwear-clad lover escaped from a third floor bedroom as the returning husband confronted his cheating wife on a balcony.
If you watched the London Olympics last summer, you saw a parade of top athletes touting the nutritional qualities of their favorite eatery: Subway. Watching Apolo Ohno or Robert Griffin III bite into a veggie footlong with avocado or hearing that Subway is “the official training restaurant of athletes everywhere,” you might get the idea that the food served at the chain isn’t that bad for you—that it’s even healthy.
It involved a stun gun.
MOORE, Okla. (AP) — Several children have been pulled out of the rubble alive at a school in an Oklahoma City suburb.
Taylor Swift, 23, wants Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez to get a room.
New research says Rasberry crazy ants are displacing established populations of fire ants all over the Gulf Coast
The frenzy for last minute tickets is over. The numbers have been picked out. Somewhere, a single person is $590.5 million richer. Last night's record Powerball jackpot has a winner but we have no idea who that person is yet.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — So you have a lottery ticket worth $590.5 million. Now what?
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