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KLEE: In response to Helton’s DUI, double standard in effect
DENVER • Consider this old headline and think about your reaction when it happened: Denver star Carmelo Anthony charged with DUI. Remember when Melo messed up? Fans were angry, cracked jokes, stereotyped the Nuggets star as just another out-of-control millionaire athlete. Really, that’s about how it went. Fast forward to a recent headline: Denver star…
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Todd Helton faces surgery, done for season
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Todd Helton’s season is over. The Colorado Rockies’ veteran first baseman will undergo arthroscopic surgery to repair a torn labrum in his right hip. The surgery, to be performed Friday, marks the end of Helton’s…
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Todd Helton faces surgery, done for season
Todd Helton’s season is over. The Colorado Rockies’ veteran first baseman will undergo arthroscopic surgery to repair a torn labrum in his right hip. The surgery, to be performed Friday, marks the end of Helton’s 15th full season in the major leagues. “The recovery time is about six months, so I am doing this now…
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Impact of humidor being discovered; Sky Sox fall to Tucson
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Baseballs aren’t flying over the fences as much. Pitchers sometimes look in control. The humidor has had such a stabilizing effect, the Sky Sox record book might get rewritten. Through the first two months, the…
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Impact of humidor being discovered; Sky Sox fall to Tucson
Baseballs aren’t flying over the fences as much. Pitchers sometimes look in control. The humidor has had such a stabilizing effect, the Sky Sox record book might get rewritten. Through the first two months, the Sky Sox have seen the power sucked out of their bats and their pitchers rejuvenated with confidence – an aberration…
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Rockies’ Alex White may be charged with ‘extreme DUI’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Rockies pitcher Alex White may be charged with “extreme DUI,” Scottsdale Police said today. A breath test administered after White was pulled over Saturday night measured his blood-alcohol level at 0.174, more…
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Rockies’ Alex White may be charged with ‘extreme DUI’
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Rockies pitcher Alex White may be charged with “extreme DUI,” Scottsdale Police said today. A breath test administered after White was pulled over Saturday night measured his blood-alcohol level at 0.174, more than twice the legal limit of 0.08, the arrest report says. If blood tests confirm the results of the road-side…
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Tulo on the Rockies: ‘I really feel like it’s my team’
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Troy Tulowitzki’s voice is coming in loud and clear at last. Entering his sixth full major-league season, the all-star shortstop is prepared to be the Rockies’ leader after a quiet passing of the baton this spring by Todd Helton. “This is the way I have always wanted to express myself, but for…
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Tulo on the Rockies: ‘I really feel like it’s my team’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Troy Tulowitzki’s voice is coming in loud and clear at last. Entering his sixth full major-league season, the all-star shortstop is prepared to be the Rockies’ leader after a quiet passing of…
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Rockies will look to reload for 2010
DENVER • The face of the franchise (Todd Helton) and the future of the franchise (Troy Tulowitzki) will return next season. So will the most reliable arms in Ubaldo Jimenez and Aaron Cook. And steady youngsters Carlos Gonzalez and Dexter Fowler should be back. Expect pitchers Jeff Francis and Taylor Buchholz to rebound from injuries…