Texas rookie Yu Darvish and fellow starters Jake Peavy of the White Sox

The other NL candidates: Arizona second baseman Aaron Hill, Atlanta outfielder Michael Bourn, and St. Louis third baseman David Freese.

The five candidates for the final AL roster spot are all righthanded pitchers: Texas rookie Yu Darvish and fellow starters Jake Peavy of the White Sox and Jason Hammel of Baltimore, and relievers Jonathan Broxton of the Royals and Ernesto Frieri of the Angels.

Third baseman Pablo Sandoval, catcher Buster Posey, and outfielder Melky Cabrera of San Francisco overcame late deficits to win starting spots. Giants ace Matt Cain, who pitched a perfect game in June, made the NL pitching staff.

Prosecutors conceded that Mr. McNamee

Mr. Hardin said again and again that the case should not have been brought because Congress had overstepped its bounds. After the verdict, his defense team spoke with three jurors, who said they believed Mr. Clemens never used drugs, according to Mr. Hardin.

"They believed the whole thing was an abuse of the process," Mr. Hardin said of the jurors.

In the end, the trial became Mr. Clemens's word against that of Mr. McNamee, who claimed he injected Mr. Clemens with performance-enhancing drugs. Mr. Clemens said Mr. McNamee injected him with only vitamin B12 and the painkiller lidocaine.

Prosecutors conceded that Mr. McNamee was a flawed witness but said that they had enough corroboration of his story to elicit a conviction. The defense said he "cooked the books" to set up Mr. Clemens for a fall. 

Heading into Thursday night's regular-season finale

His embarrassingly bad Charlotte Bobcats have one more shot to avoid the title.

Heading into Thursday night's regular-season finale, the Bobcats are teetering on the verge of the worst winning percentage (.106) ever and could clinch the dubious distinction with a loss at home to the New York Knicks in the lockout-shortened season.

Charlotte is a woeful 7-58 and its record-setting futility would eclipse the 39-year-old mark held by the 1972-73 Philadelphia 76ers. That team finished 9-73 (.110) in a full regular season.

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Davis was benched for the fourth quarter in Milwaukee

Baron Davis is playing with neck, back and hamstring injuries and is limited on most nights to 25 minutes or less. His play often erodes as the game wears on, and he has trouble keeping up with younger, quicker guards.

Davis was benched for the fourth quarter in Milwaukee, and he played just 2 minutes 31 seconds in the final period a night earlier, in Chicago. He sat out most of the fourth quarter and overtime against the Bulls on Sunday. With no other alternatives, Woodson is now using the rookie Iman Shumpert, a combination guard, as his de facto point guard during crunch time.

The backup point guard situation is a mess. Toney Douglas seemed to get untracked last week in Orlando, but Woodson used him sparingly in the two games against the Bulls and did not play him at all against the Bucks. Instead, Shumpert played 42 minutes. 

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Jamie McCourt initiated the divorce proceedings

Five years later, Frank fired Jamie (the team's CEO and president) in a termination letter that cited "insubordination, non-responsiveness, failure to follow procedures and inappropriate behavior with a direct subordinate," a reference to an affair he alleged she had with her driver.
When Jamie McCourt initiated the divorce proceedings - one week shy of what would have been the couple's 30th anniversary - she disclosed the details of a lavish lifestyle financed by the couple's only source of revenue: the Dodgers. "Frank and I enjoyed the many perquisites and benefits that come with owning a Major League Baseball team," she wrote in a court declaration.

Woods closed with a 2-under 70

Woods closed with a 2-under 70 and won by five shots over Graeme McDowell.

"I think he really just kind of nailed home his comeback," McDowell said. "Great to have a front-row seat watching maybe the greatest of all time doing what he does best — winning golf tournaments."

Woods had gone 923 days and 27 tour events since he last posed with a trophy, and it showed.

Kneeling to look at his line as he waited his turn to putt on the 18th, Woods tapped his putter on the ground and could barely contain a grin, knowing that the longest PGA Tour drought of his career was about to end. When he tapped in for par, he clenched his fist, screamed out, "Yeah!" and hugged his caddie, Joe LaCava.