Morning Briefing May 14, 2010
American League
The Kansas City Royals fired manager Trey Hillman immediately after Zack Greinke earned his first win in eight starts, 6-4 over the visiting Cleveland Indians on Thursday.
Alberto Callaspo hit a three-run homer and the Royals snapped a seven-game by giving Greinke (1-4) his most run support of the season.
The 47-year-old Hillman was in his third season with Kansas City and went 152-207. Former Milwaukee Brewers manager Ned Yost, who joined the Royals’ front office in January took over the 12-23 team.
Rangers 2, Athletics 1, 12 inn.: At Arlington, Texas, Vladimir Guerrero delivered an RBI single in the 12th inning and Texas beat Oakland.
Tigers 6, Yankees 0: Justin Verlander pitched shutout ball into the seventh inning, leading host Detroit past New York.
National League
Astros 4, Cardinals 1: Hunter Pence hit a three-run homer and Houston won at St. Louis.
Nationals 14, Rockies 6, 8 inn., rain: At Denver, Ryan Zimmerman hit two homers and drove in six runs, leading Washington past Colorado in a game called after eight innings due to a steady rain.
Padres 1, Giants 0: Mat Latos pitched a one-hitter and drove in the lone run, leading San Diego at San Francisco.
Marlins 2, Mets 1: At Miami, Cody Ross scored from third base on a wild pitch in the ninth and Florida beat New York.
Hockey
Olympic star Sidney Crosby won’t be joining Canada’s team in the world hockey championships at Cologne, Germany.
Crosby, who played in all but one of the Pittsburgh Penguins’ 95 games this season, including playoffs, turned down the invitation after being asked to replace the injured Ryan Smyth (ankle).
Matt Jones eagled the par-5 14th hole and finished with a 6-under 66 to take a one-stroke lead after the first round of the PGA’s Texas Open at San Antonio.
Paul Stankowski opened with a 67, and J.B. Holmes, Matt Weibring, Charley Hoffman and Steve Lowery had 68s.
Azahara Munoz shot a 7-under 65 to take a one-stroke lead over Katherine Hull and Jee Young Lee in the Bell Micro LPGA Classic at Mobile, Ala.
Cristie Kerr, Meena Lee, Janice Moodie and Hye Jung Choi shot 67s, and Suzann Pettersen, Eunjung Yi, Sun Young Yoo and Amanda Blumenherst opened with 68s.
Football
Boise State is headed to Mississippi to open the 2011 season.
The Broncos will play at Ole Miss from the Southeastern Conference in the Sept. 3 season opener, the first meeting between the two teams.
The Broncos have also scheduled four other nonconference games for 2011, including three home games against Wyoming, Tulsa and Utah. The other nonconference game is at Toledo.
The conference portion of the 2011 schedule will be released next year.
Houston Texans linebacker Brian Cushing said he never used any banned substances even though he tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug.
Cushing was suspended for four games without pay last week for violating the NFL’s drug policy. His appeal was denied.
Cushing confirmed he tested positive for HCG, a fertility drug that is on the league’s banned substance list.
He said that after failing the test, he was told HCG can get in your body from injecting it or because of tumors. He said this information led him to believe he had tumors. He did not say what kind of tumors.
Cushing added he is concerned about his health and plans to undergo tests to see “how this got into my body” and to try to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
— The Associated Press