Oakland Athletics’ Nomar Garciaparra coming along slowly

Nomar Garciaparra won’t come off Oakland’s disabled list when he’s eligible Monday.
Garciaparra is on the DL for the second time this season with a strained right calf.

Nomar Garciaparra won’t come off Oakland’s disabled list when he’s eligible Monday.
Garciaparra is on the DL for the second time this season with a strained right calf.

Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cesar Izturis is going on the disabled list after undergoing an appendectomy.
The football footage is passable, not polished.
But a newspaper’s decision to do a live Webcast of a playoff game — and three others — in Wisconsin has led to a federal court case. It may be left to a judge to decide who owns the rights to high school athletics.
By ¿ Jeff Zrebiec
Jeremy Guthrie managed to get just two outs in his team’s 9-1 loss Friday night, the shortest outing of his career and shortest for an Orioles starter since Victor Zambrano retired just two Toronto Blue Jays on Sept. 26, 2007. There was injury added to insult when Guthrie took a liner from Jason Giambi off his right forearm, but he expects to make his next start.