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Minnesota Twins' Pedro Florimon beats the tag by Kansas City Royals first baseman Eric Hosmer during an attempted pick off during the seventh inning of a baseball game at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., yesterday.
Pitching helps Royals beat Twins in home opener, 3-1
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Ervin Santana pitched eight strong innings, Alcides Escobar doubled home the go-ahead run and the Kansas City Royals rallied to beat the Minnesota Twins 3-1 on Monday in their home opener.
Santana (1-1), acquired from the Los Angeles Angels on Oct. 31 for minor league left-hander Brandon Sisk, gave up a run and eight singles. He struck out seven, walked one and hit a batter. Santana allowed only four hits after the first inning, when the Twins scored their lone run.
Twins right-hander Kevin Correia (0-1) limited the Royals to five players and no runs the first seven innings before Lorenzo Cain doubled to right.
center to lead off the three-run eighth. After Chris Getz's sacrifice fint moved Cain to third, Alex Gordon singled him home to tie the score.
Escobar's double scored Gordon and knocked Correia out of the game. Jared Burton replaced Correia and gave up a run-scoring single to Billy Butler, who tied a club record with seven RBs Sunday at Philadelphia.
Aaron Crow worked the ninth to earn his first save of the season and only the third of his career — two coming against the Twins. His previous save came July 21 against Minnesota. The Royals, who have come from behind to win three straight games, have three saves from three different pitchers this season.
with one out, but coaxed Brian Dozier to bounce into a game-ending double play.
Joe Mauer scored on Ryan Doumit's two-out single in the first for the only Minnesota run. It was the first game this season in which the Twins got scored first after being outscored 9-1 in the first two innings in their first six games.
Crow walked Chris Parmelee
The Twins bunched four singles in the first inning, but managed just the one run after Doumit ended the inning by being thrown out scrambling to get back to second base after Justin Morneau stopped at third on Trevor Ploufeu's single.
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Cincinnati Reds' Chris Heisey, bottom, is tagged out at home by St. Louis Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina while trying to score during the fourth inning of a baseball game westered in St. Louis.
ST. LOUIS — Brandon Phillips kick-started a nine-run ninth inning with a tiebringing bloop double and Shin-Soo Choo made amends for two botched fly balls with a three-run double, and the Cincinnati Reds spoiled the St. Louis Cardinals' home opener with a 13-4 victory on Monday.
Mitchell Boggs (0-1), the stand-in closer for St. Louis, yielded six runs while getting only one out and the Cardinals needed four more pitchers to get out of the inning. Only a few thousand fans remained of the largest regular-season crowd of 47,375 for the bottom of the ninth in 8-year-old Busch Stadium history.
The defending NL. Central champions Cardinals held a tribute for Stan Musial before the game.
Phillips added his 150th career homer for the Reds, who have won six of seven since losing in extra innings to the Angels on opening day and totaled 11 or more hits the last four games. Jay Bruce had four hits and Chris Heisey doubled twice with an RBL.
Sam LeCure (1-0) pitched an inning for the win.
Cardinals lefty Jamie Garcia matched his career best with 10 strikeouts in 6 2-3 innings and left with a 4-3 lead, Yadier Molina hit both of the fly balls dropped by Choo in the first and sixth, and
Pinch-hitter Xavier Paul tied it in the eighth with an RBI single off Trevor Rosenthal before the Reds took off in the ninth with six hits, five walks and an error. The Cardinals last surrendered nine runs in the ninth in a 12-9 loss at Colorado July 6, 2010.
added an RBI single.
Prior to the game, Musial's four children unveiled an oversized red No. 6, the Hall of Famer's retired jersey number, on the wall in left-center. The decal matches memorial patches worn on the team's uniform sleeves.
Choo entered the season with 652 games of outfield experience but only 10 in center, and all 155 games with the Indians last year as the right fielder. Two runs scored in the first when Choo twice juggled Molina's fly ball after backtracking, and Matt Holliday scored from first to put the Cardinals up 4-2 in the sixth when the ball popped on Choo, perhaps fighting the sun.
Reds players stood on the top dugout steps as the Cardinals paraded around the warning track
in flat-bed trucks, and manager Dusty Baker gave a hug to Hall of Famer Ozzie Smith.
Reds starter Mat Latos allowed one earned run in six innings, shaving his ERA to 10.23 in five career starts at Busch to 10.23.
JUNEAU, Alaska — Two Juneau football coaches have been placed on administrative leave while police and state officials investigate whether a coach punched a player and knocked him unconscious during a boxing match held last year during an out-of-state football camp.
was posted on YouTube but has since been removed by the website as a violation of its anti-bullying policy.
One piece of evidence police are looking at is grainy video that appears to show the incident. It
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The video showed a boxing match with two people wearing gloves. The smaller boxer
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"We are deeply concerned about these allegations and the details that are emerging..."
"I think that what we have is a set of allegations that, if true, are very disturbing and that would not meet our expectations," Gelbrich told the Empire. "But what we have to do is we have to establish what the facts are. We certainly have been told how people characterize what went on there and, if that is true, than obviously we are very disturbed by that."
"We are deeply concerned about these allegations and the details that are emerging regarding this incident," Superintendent Glenn Gelbrieth said in a statement. "We are concernedfurther
was hit in the face. After turning away, the smaller boxer was punched from behind and floored as those watching cheered. It's not clear who shot the video.
Services.
Thunder Mountain head football coach Bill Byouer was on the Oregon trip but said he was not aware of any video. He heard about it, he said, from a Juneau Empire reporter.
The boy's father tells the Juneau Empire he was provided a copy of the video by Juneau police after he learned of its existence from Thunder Mountain principal Dan Larson. The Associated Press is not identifying anyone the father
The school district has not identified the coaches on leave.
"It is true and it ais being investigated." Burke told the newspaper. "It is currently an active investigation. Once we have all of our interviews down and completed everything, and documented our facts, if there is a violation of the law, then we will make a recommendation to either the district attorney and/or the city attorney depending on what charges or what level of charges are appropriate."
that this incident went unreported for nearly nine months. The Juneau School District has higher expectations of our staff and coaches who we entrust with our students."?
Juneau Police Department Sgt. Chris Burke told the Empire that school administrators filed a complaint with the department and made them aware of the video.
He didn't immediately return calls from the AP on Monday.
or son because the boy is a minor who might be the victim of a crime. Attempts to reach the father Monday were not immediately successful.
Gelbrich said once school officials have established the facts in the case, "we'll take the appropriate action. If these things are true than obviously we have some pretty serious work to do."
Juneau School District administrators on Sunday said they just found out about the incident that occurred last summer when the team traveled to Oregon for a football camp. They said they have turned the matter over to the Juneau Police Department and filed a court with the Office of Children's
TRENTON, N.J. — Rutgers officials are scrutinizing practice videos of all sports to see if any coach engaged in behavior like the type that cost men's basketball coach Mike Rice his job, the university president announced Monday. The inquiry into Rice and how university officials responded is also going deeper as the school announced that it plans to hire a consultant to conduct an independent review.
University President Robert Barchi, speaking Monday during a town hall meeting on the school's Newark campus, said that he wants any instances of bullying or homophobic language to be reported immediately.
Rice's departure brings forth more Rutgers investigations
Rice — whom Gov. Chris Christie on Monday called an "animal" — shoved players and called them gay slurs when it first surfaced in November, saying he would have fired Rice then.
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He also reiterated that he wished he had viewed the video where
Rice was fired
Rice was the last week only after the video became public. Athletic Director Tim Pernett, an assistant basketball coach and the university's top lawyer also resigned last week, while some Rutgers faculty members and others called for Barchi to step down, too.
Meanwhile, Christie on Monday defended Barchi's performance while blasting Rice's behavior. He also criticized the reaction of those who knew about it and did not fire the coach months ago, when the video was given to university officials and viewed by — at least Athletic Director Tim Pernett, university interim counsel John Wolf and Mark Hershhorn, the chairman of the university Board of Governors' athletics committee.
"What parents would let this animal back into their living room to try to recruit their son after this video?"
"They were wrong not to come to the conclusion that Coach Rice needed to be fired immediately," Christie said at a news conference.
fired after he saw the video in December, she said, declining to say where he made the recommendation.
He said he viewed the video not only as a governor but as the father of a college athlete. His son Andrew plays baseball at Princeton.
While the governor had issued statements previously, it was the first time Christie took questions about the scandal at the state's flagship public university. The Republican governor added that he been aware of the issues earlier he would have used his "power of persuasion" to try to get Rice fired then.
Hersherson's lawyer, Jennifer Joseph, said the governor is wrong about Hersherson. Hersherson immediately called for Rice to be
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"You're talking about kids being miserably treated by the guy who determined whether they keep their scholarship or not," Christie said. He said the video
"What par- would let this animal back into their living room to try to recruit their son after
cost the coach his credibility with young athletes and their families.
this video?" he said.
Christie said it was a mistake for Barchi, who took office in September, not to watch the video last year when he first was told about it. But he said leaders of large organizations must delegate some matters and that the mistake was not a firing offense.
It was Pernetti's job to know what the coach was doing, Christie said. According to a settlement the university provided to The Associated Press on Monday, Pernetti is receiving $1.25 million as he departs, along with perks ranging from health insurance for more than two years to a $12,000 annual car allowance until next year and his university issued iPad
Rutgers announced Monday that it was commissioning an independent review of Rice's conduct and the way the university responded to it. The board of governors will meet Thursday to discuss that.
Also Monday, board chairman Ralph Izzo said that one board member — Hershhorn — had seen the video in December and
that it was not shown to other members. The topic of the coach's conduct was discussed at a committee meeting in December, but it was not discussed at the wholeboard meeting that month.
Joseph, Hershorn's lawyer, said he voiced his concerns about what he believed was "abusive and demeaning" behavior "quickly, responsibly and diligently."
Before hearing Hershorn's account, state Senate President Stephen Sweeney called on the board member to resign. "Any trustee or member of the board of governors who witnessed the tape at any point before it was publicly aired, and took no action, should be removed or resign immediately," he said in a statement.
The scandal has prompted the FBI to investigate whether a former Rutgers basketball employee asked for money from Rutgers in exchange for not taking the videos public, a person familiar with the investigation told The Associated Press on Sunday.
Asked about the FBI inquiry on Monday, Barchi said the agency wasn't called but came "on their own."
As the investigations mount, Christie said he did not believe that state lawmakers should have an inquiry of their own, saying Rutgers is investigating and that holding hearings would "continue reputational damage" to the school.
Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver, who has called for hearings said "the taxpayers, students, faculty, administrators, parents, alumni and other constituents" deserve to know what happened.
Meanwhile, Rutgers is turning to former dean Carl Kirschner to run its athletic department on an interim basis while it conducts a search for someone to take the job permanently.
It's the second time that Kirscher will run the program. He took over at the start of 2009 after Robert Mulcahy was fired, and held the role for four months, stepping down when Penettio took over.