Myrtle Beach Pelicans manager Rocket Wheeler coached Chris Vines in 2005 at the lower level of Class A baseball in Rome, Ga. He's starting to see the pitcher he remembers three years ago when he threw a strong 129 innings.
MYRTLE BEACHThe Pelicans rolled back onto the Grand Strand in the early morning sunlight Friday, glad as always to have the road in their rear-view mirror and a little home cooking on the front burner.
Interact with Al Blondin in his new blog, Green Reading.
The next four episodes of the Golf Channel's "Road Trip: Myrtle Beach" reality-type show are scheduled to be filmed Monday through Friday.
With Kyle Busch's dominant car getting crunched, Matt Crafton survived a wild finish to win his first Craftsman Truck Series race.
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The Cleveland Cavaliers packed for a weekend stay in Beantown - not a few weeks on Cape Cod. They've got at least one more game left, and in the NBA, it's as big as they ever get. Game 7. On Sunday. In Boston.
Kobe Bryant scored 34 points and Los Angeles held off a furious rally by the Utah Jazz for a 108-105 victory Friday night, putting the Lakers in the Western Conference finals for the first time in four years.
After two straight top-10 finishes at the AT&T Classic, Jonathan Byrd is poised to win the suburban Atlanta tournament.
Rick Dutrow Jr. is nearly as confident that undefeated Big Brown will win the Preakness on Saturday as he was before the colt's dominating win in the Kentucky Derby.
Alexei Ramirez hit his first major league homer, a two-run shot in the seventh inning that sent the Chicago White Sox to a 2-0 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Friday night.
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