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Mike Fiers pitched well for the third consecutive game, and the Oakland Athletics supported their new pitcher with a four-homer, four-double assault on Texas Rangers pitching in an 9-0 romp Monday night in the opener on a three-game series in Oakland, Calif. Ramon Laureano hit his first two career home

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Caption Close Editor's Note: This season preview is the sixth in a series looking at the seven high schools within the Observer's boundaries — including Humble,Atascocita, Summer Creek, Kingwood, Kingwood Park, Crosby and Huffman. The Crosby Cougar football team has won 53 games over the past

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After being released by the Indianapolis Colts on Saturday, free agent defensive tackle Caraun Reid is signing with the Dallas Cowboys, per agent Mike McCartney. Reid was a fifth-round pick of the Detroit Lions in 2014 and spent parts of three total seasons with the Lions. After two years in Detroit,

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The Philadelphia Phillies and the Washington Nationals fumbled opportunities to gain ground on the Atlanta Braves this weekend. The situation isn't nearly as dire for the Phillies, who find themselves tied with Braves, but the Nationals are 7 1/2 games back and may have used up all of their mulligans

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The Dallas Cowboys are working out former Seattle Seahawks and Washington Redskins safety Jeron Johnson on Tuesday, according to Todd Archer of ESPN.com. Johnson spent five total seasons playing for Cowboys defensive passing game coordinator Kris Richard in Seattle when he served as secondary coach and

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CBS Sports polled the 129 active FBS college football head coaches and received responses from about one-fifth of them for an anonymous series on a variety of issues related to the sport. The most recent item of note: Coaches were asked to identify among their peers the most underrated and overrated

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To make Kawhi Leonard feel more comfortable, Toronto is hiring his longtime friend Jeremy Castleberry from the San Antonio Spurs.

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The league thinks those files must remain confidential, as does the players' union. They are right.

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Rod Beard and Dave Goricki preview the 2018 high school football season Eric Coughlin of The Detroit News previews the Michigan Metro Athletic Conference football season. Teams listed in predicted order of finish. RED DIVISION ECORSE (7-3) Junior tight end/wide receiver D'Andre Gaines will factor

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Cornerback Jalen Ramsey and defensive end Dante Fowler are back from suspension, but neither is talking about what got them banned for a week or how they spent their time away. The team said both players will answer questions following Jacksonville's preseason game against the Atlanta Falcons on

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