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    Former Boston Red Sox shortstop Nomar Garciaparra, who signed a one-day minor league baseball contract with the Red Sox , throws out the ceremonial first pitch before a spring training baseball game at City of Palms Park, in Fort Myers, Fla., Wednesday, March 10, 2010.  Garciaparra signed the contract to retire as a member of the team. The Red Sox played the Tampa Bay Rays Wednesday.

    Six years after he was traded away for the final pieces of Boston’s World Series puzzle, Nomar Garciaparra finally got a friendly farewell from the Red Sox. The rookie of the year, batting champion and All-Star whose trade began a bitter back-and-forth in Boston and, for Garciaparra, an inglorious slide into irrelevance, signed a ceremonial one-day contract with the Red Sox on Wednesday for…

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    FILE - This Feb. 28, 2010, file photo shows Canada's Sidney Crosby leaping in the air after making the game-winning goal in the overtime period of the men's gold medal ice hockey game against team USA at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia. Crosby's missing Olympic stick and glove have been found. Hockey Canada said Wednesday, March 10, 2010,  that Crosby's missing equipment was misplaced rather than stolen after the frenzy following Crosby's overtime goal against the United States in the gold-medal game on Feb. 28.

    The stick and glove Sidney Crosby used to give Canada its Olympic gold medal are back where they belong. Crosby’s missing gear was on its way to the Pittsburgh Penguins star on Wednesday. Hockey Canada says the gear was misplaced rather than stolen, with both items ending up in the wrong place in the process of packing and shipping equipment after the Olympic final.

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    Los Angeles Angels center fielder Torii Hunter insists he meant no harm toward Latino players when he referred to them as “impostors” while discussing the number of African-Americans in the major leagues. Hunter’s original comments were made two weeks ago in one of a series of USA Today roundtables about baseball and published in Wednesday’s editions.

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    Brandon Richardson scored 19 points and No. 12 seed Nebraska took command with an early 16-1 run and shocked No. 5 seed Missouri 75-60 Wednesday in an opening-round upset at the Big 12 tournament. The underdog Cornhuskers (15-17), who had won just two of 16 Big 12 regular-season games, outrebounded, outshot and outhustled the team that had easily beaten them twice this year.

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    Marion Jones hasn’t lost much of her swagger. The disgraced sprinter once called the world’s fastest woman was introduced Wednesday as the newest member of the WNBA’s Tulsa Shock and she offered no apologies for her steroids use or her time in federal prison. She was poised and ready for questions about her troubled past.

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    LaDainian Tomlinson is coming to Minnesota for a visit, and the Vikings believe he could be a good fit. Tomlinson is scheduled to meet with coach Brad Childress and other members of the organization on Thursday. The 2006 NFL MVP was released by the San Diego Chargers last month after the least-productive season of his prolific nine-year career.

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    In a photo provided by the New York Racing Association, Understatement, with jockey David Cohen, captures the Stymie horse race at Aqueduct on Sunday, March 7, 2010, in New York.

    Ampart Ridge romped to a 7 3/4 -length victory over Autumnlady on Wednesday in the $43,000 allowance feature for fillies and mares at Aqueduct. The 4-year-old has never finished out of the money in 10 starts, improving to 4-3-3. Ampart Ridge, the 6-5 favorite ridden by Jorge Chavez and trained by Gary Contessa, completed the mile in 1:39.68 on a fast track.

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    Cubs general manager Jim Hendry says Milton Bradley should stop blaming the team, manager and fans for his failure to produce during his tumultuous season in Chicago. “I think it’s time maybe Milton looked himself in the mirror,” an agitated Hendry said Wednesday in response to Bradley’s latest charges that he was mistreated by the Cubs.

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    On his first day as Dodgers interim manager, hitting coach Don Mattingly said Wednesday that the team has made overtures about him eventually becoming Joe Torre’s permanent replacement. With Torre en route to Taiwan to manage a Dodgers split squad for three exhibition games, Mattingly is in charge of the team in Arizona and will work at least five games as manager.

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    LeBron James is expected to return to the Cleveland Cavaliers’ lineup against the Philadelphia 76ers on Friday, while Antawn Jamison will be a game-time decision. They were just two of six players to miss practice Wednesday for the Cavaliers, who took advantage of a break in the schedule to rest all five of their regular starters.

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