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Phillips taking advantage of Morgans presence

Email CINCINNATI -- Joe Morgan still has a locker in the Cincinnati clubhouse. It sits immediately next to the locker of Brandon Phillips, and the current Reds second baseman has been sure to use that convenient location to his benefit. "I look up to him," Phillips said of Morgan. "He's my locker partner. He helps me out with many things, and I pick his brain." Morgan ...
Baker extolls virtues of practicing defense

Email CINCINNATI -- Almost a third of the way through the season, the Reds have proven to be one of the best defensive teams in baseball by committing just 20 errors -- the third lowest mark in the National League -- entering Saturday. That, manager Dusty Baker said, is no accident. "We work on it," Baker said. "Every good team I've had catches the ball. I tell guys, ...
Heisey progressing after re-injuring hamstring

Email CINCINNATI -- Chris Heisey, who is recovering from a strained right hamstring for the second time, said he doesn't know yet when he'll be able to join the Reds again, but he expects it to be sooner rather than later. "It won't be a month, but it won't be three or four days," Heisey said. "Maybe a week or two. It's tough to say at this point." ...
MLB Boston 7 Cleveland 4

Dustin Pedroia delivered a go-ahead RBI double during a big eighth inning that rallied the Boston Red Sox over Cleveland 7-4 Saturday. Trailing 4-3 entering the eighth, the Red Sox erupted for four runs and went on to notch a second straight win over Cleveland. Pedro Ciriaco (3-for-4) ignited the rally with a one-out double against Vinnie Pestano (1-1) and scored the tying run when the next ...
Baseball thanks veterans for their service

Marine Corporal Chad Ohmer, a Purple Heart recipient, was recognized Friday as the Reds' Hometown Hero. (MLB.com) Baseball and veterans: two of the most American institutions in the country. And, now more than ever, they're closely linked to one another. Across Major League Baseball, players and coaches ...

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Remember the Titans

Remember the Titans uses the sports movie formula to tell the true story of forced integration in an Alexandria, Virginia, high school in 1971. The script by first-time writer Gregory Allen Howard pulls out all the cliches of both the sports movie and the race-related social drama, but somehow director Boaz Yakin (A Price Above Rubies) makes it work. It's an updated combination of < ... ...

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Virgin Mary Apparition In Ohio Ghostly Figure Appears In Photo Behind Erin Potter Child Battling Leukemia

A ghostly figure has stunned one family, in Kirtland, Ohio, appearing in a family photograph behind their daughter, who had been battling leukemia at the time. That ...
Former Ohio officer gets 9.5 years in bank robbery

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- A former longtime detective has been sentenced to 9 1/2 years in prison for robbing an eastern Ohio bank and triggering the evacuation of several downtown Cambridge blocks by telling police he had an explosive ...
Francona thinks adding a fifth umpire could help

Email BOSTON -- Indians manager Terry Francona does not have all the answers for solving the ongoing discussion about umpiring and the use of instant replay in Major League Baseball. Francona does, however, have an idea. Francona believes having a fifth umpire at the ballpark could address several issues. "I'm not a proponent of slowing the game down," Francona said. "And I ...
Despite slump Giambi still valuable to Indians

Email BOSTON -- The Indians are not overly concerned that veteran Jason Giambi is mired in one of the worst slumps of his storied career. The aging slugger was not brought in to compete for a batting title. He is on the roster to offer experience, advice and the occasional clutch hit. Indians manager Terry Francona has stressed that point since the start of Spring Training. "Before he ...
Francona grateful Antonetti made trip to Boston

Email BOSTON -- Indians general manager Chris Antonetti did not have to make the trip to Boston this week. Cleveland manager Terry Francona is glad he did. Antonetti spent much of Thursday and Friday at Francona's side at Fenway Park, offering support in the manager's return to Boston. Francona managed the Red Sox for eight seasons, won a pair of World Series titles, but had an ugly ...

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Smallest known plant-eating dinosaur found in Canada

A team of paleontologists from the University of Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum, Cleveland Museum of Natural History and University of Calgary have identified a new dinosaur, the smallest plant-eating dinosaur species known from Canada.

Albertadromeus syntarsus was identified from a partial hind leg, and other skeletal elements, that indicate it was a speedy runner. Approximately 1.6 m (5 ft) long, it weighed about 16 kg (30 lbs), comparable to a large turkey.

Albertadromeus lived in what is now southern Alberta in the Late Cretaceous, about 77 million years ago.

Albertadromeus syntarsus means "Alberta runner with fused foot bones". Unlike its much larger ornithopod cousins, the duckbilled dinosaurs, its two fused lower leg bones would have made it a fast, agile two-legged runner. This animal is the smallest known plant-eating dinosaur in its ecosystem, and researchers hypothesize that it used its speed to avoid predation by the many species of meat-eating dinosaurs that lived at the same time.

Albertadromeus was discovered in 2009 by study co-author David Evans of the Royal Ontario Museum as part an on-going collaboration with Michael Ryan of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History to investigate the evolution of dinosaurs in the Late Cretaceous of North America. ...