Ridiculous Upside (Free subscription) | yesterday
Morris Almond Coming Back to the D-League The Salt Lake Tribune is reporting that former Utah Jazz and Flash player Morris Almond will be joining the Springfield Armor. Almond played for one of the Armor's NBA affiliates, the New York Knicks, during this year's Summer League and went to training camp with the Orlando Magic.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Robert Rodriguez, an outfielder who hit .176 in 52 games for the Mariners' Dominican Summer League team in 2009, has been suspended for 50 games.
sennett9463d | yesterday
WASHINGTON – After years of working with national teams, Davey Johnson is returning to the Nationals. The longtime major league manager joined the front office of the Washington Nationals on Wednesday. The 66-year-old Johnson will work as a senior adviser to general manager Mike Rizzo. Johnson has managed and coached several U.S. teams in recent years. He was a coach under manager Buck
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
... steered the England senior team to their first European Championship final in 25 years last summer and Mo Marley's England Under‑19 side won the European trophy. On the domestic front, life has been no less quiet, with planning ongoing for the new women's summer league, in operation from 2011, and applications from clubs wanting to sign up pouring in already. But, Powell...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 56 minutes ago
... starting at shooting guard actually wasn't a new thing as a King. He started Sacramento's final Summer League game in July at shooting guard. Greene had no experience in the backcourt before that. And with the Kings having so many backcourt players to start training camp, there wasn't a reason to believe Greene's playing time would come at guard. Greene, however, enjoyed playing guard...
River Ave. Blues (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ivan Nova | RHP Background Nova was born and raised in San Cristobal, Dominican Republic, which also produced notable big league pitchers Jose Rijo, Ervin Santana, and Francisco Liriano. Yankee scout Carlos Rios, who was later fired as part of the bonus skimming scandal involving Kelvin DeLeon, signed Nova as an 18-year-old in 2005. Pro Career After signing, Nova [...] Post from: River Ave....
It is High, It is Far, It is ... ca (Free subscription) | yesterday
... days, with this latest and worst single swipe of the pen, when everyone judges the Yankee minor league system to be, " that vast pinstriped void where 33 year old never were's and has beens compete for the title in the Staten Island summer league." Brian has recreated, virtually overnight, a minor league organization stocked only with some 32 year old cans...
RaysProspects (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Jim has been keeping us up-to-date on the Venezuelan Winter League, which is made up of current and former major leaguers and upper-level minor league players. But there is another winter league in Venezuela for younger, lower-level players called the Liga Paralela. Tampa Bay has a team in the league made up of players from their Venezuelan Summer League...
Larry Brown Sports (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
... overall pick. I said then that Durant was the special player who could be a 30 and 10 guy in the league. Now he’s in his third year and he’s averaging 28ppg and 7rpg. While it sucks that Oden is done for the year, there is some upside; the colorful personality will have more time for karaoke videos , filming commercials , and updating his Yardbarker blog . Furthermore, don’t feel badly for...
The FanHouse - NBA (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
... professionally in Italy instead of on ESPN and CBS in the NCAA last year, first blew up at Vegas Summer League in July, after the draft damage had been done. Walsh explained his reaction to said explosion to Sports Illustrated 's Ian Thomsen . When I saw him play in Vegas, I did go to our scouts and I told them, 'Look, if you knew he was that good you should have come to me every...
SI.com (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
NEW YORK -- Brandon Jennings could have helped the Knicks, as president Donnie Walsh realized last July while watching the 6-foot-1 rookie attack the Las Vegas Summer League.
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... try to tone down the flashiness of my game." That was the message to Greene during the NBA Summer League and training camp. But the coaching staff didn't see the adjustments to Greene's game immediately. But in recent weeks they have. "Donté seems to have had the light bulb come on about a month ago and I haven't seen any of that stuff in his game since then,"...
