CC Sabathia has decided to sign with the Yankees, CBSSports.com has confirmed. Sabathia, the top free agent on this winter’s market, will get a seven-year deal for approximately $160 million, a source familiar with the deal said this morning. That’s a year and $20 million more than the Yankees’ original offer, made last month, and [...]
Simon Gagne credited Mike Richards with making a great pass to set up his game-winning goal that helped the Philadelphia Flyers inch closer to the top of the Atlantic Division. Gagne scored the tiebreaker on a power-play with less than nine minutes left to lead the Flyers to a 4-3 victory against the New York [...]
Jimmie Johnson coolly entered an Irish bar jammed with NASCAR fans and promptly ordered a round of beer for everyone. Pint glass raised, he toasted the rowdy crowd. Johnson clearly came to New York this year ready to party. And why not? His third consecutive NASCAR championship this season tied Cale Yarborough’s 30-year-old record, and [...]
Petty Enterprises released at least three dozen employees Monday as the team continues to search for either a merger or a miracle that would keep the famed organization operating in 2009. The latest round of layoffs pushed the total to almost 70 employees. Petty Enterprises released 30 employees the day after the Nov. 18 season [...]
Randy Wittman was fired as coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves on Monday, two days after an embarrassing 23-point loss at home to the last-place Los Angeles Clippers. Kevin McHale took over as coach, leaving his job as the club’s vice president of basketball operations. The young team is 4-15 and has not responded to Wittman’s [...]
Texas quarterback Colt McCoy confirmed that he’ll return to the Longhorns for his senior season in 2009. McCoy has led No. 3 Texas (11-1) to a Fiesta Bowl matchup against Ohio State with 3,445 yards passing and 32 touchdowns, both team records. He’s also the team’s leading rusher with 576 yards and is expected to [...]
Wake Forest senior Aaron Curry has won the Butkus Award honoring the nation’s top college linebacker. Curry received 63 points in voting, finishing seven ahead of USC’s Rey Maualuga. James Laurinaitis from Ohio State, USC’s Brian Cushing and Boston College’s Mark Herzlich rounded out the top five. Curry finished the regular season with 101 tackles, [...]
After a short face-to-face meeting with CC Sabathia’s representatives, Brewers general manager Doug Melvin didn’t hesitate when asked whether Milwaukee was still in the running for the free agent left-hander. “Yes,” Melvin said after a 30-minute sit-down that Sabathia did not attend. “Until we’re told we’re no longer involved, then I take it as we [...]
There were no surprises for the Brewers on Sunday, when free-agent pitchers CC Sabathia, Ben Sheets and Brian Shouse all declined the club’s offer of arbitration. The decisions leave the Brewers positioned to receive as many as five extra selections in the 2009 First-Year Player Draft if all three players sign with other teams. Milwaukee [...]
The Brewers closed the deal with free-agent third baseman Mike Lamb on Tuesday morning, inking the veteran to a one-year contract that had been in the works for several days. Lamb, 33, finished the 2007 regular season with Milwaukee after he was released by the Twins five months into a two-year, $6.6 million contract. The [...]
