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NEW YORK, N.Y. - Major League Baseball won't change its schedule to boost the sport's chances of getting back into the Olympics. Baseball was an Olympic medal sport from 1992-2008, then was dropped for last year's London Games.

There's a new star free agent in the men's curling game. John Morris is out after a successful seven-year run as a third on Kevin Martin's rink. They won national, world and Olympic titles together but decided to go their separate ways this week.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - From his very first pitch, Hyun-Jin Ryu heard the fans cheering for him. A lot of them, anyway.

HOUSTON - Houston point guard Jeremy Lin is listed as day to day with a bruised right chest muscle he sustained in a Game 2 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Nine years ago, Sara McMann wept during the presentation of her Olympic wrestling medal. They were not tears of joy. At the time, the Athens silver medal was more a symbol of failure than success.

VANDERBIJLPARK, South Africa - The magistrate in Carl Pistorius' culpable homicide trial took the entire court to a rural road to measure distances and check evidence Thursday, an unexpected twist to a case that already intrigues many because of the

ST. PAUL, Minn. - The time on the scoreboard was ticking toward zero. The Minnesota Wild were clinging to a one-goal lead the Los Angeles Kings weren't ready to give up on.

ANAHEIM, Calif. - On paper, it was a mismatch — Yu Darvish against a rookie making his first big league start out of the bullpen in an emergency role. It turned out to be a mismatch on the field as well.

ANAHEIM, Calif. - Yu Darvish is tough enough to handle when he's not getting any run support. When the Texas Rangers are hitting the way they did for him Wednesday night, it's almost a fait accompli.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Ted Lilly looked good in his return to the mound and Matt Kemp ended that home run drought. So it was shaping up as a positive night for the Los Angeles Dodgers — until the ninth inning.