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Oh Bay-by, Boston does it

BOSTON -- The Boston Red Sox brushed aside the 100-win Angels in four games, dismissing their best-in-baseball regular season as last month's news. Updated 2:50 AM

1. Hockey

   Expansion to Europe pure idiocy

   So the National Hockey League plays a couple exhibition games in Stockholm and Prague and inevitably there's speculation about expansion to Europe. Updated 2:50 AM

2. Baumgartner is Mr. Big on blue-line

   Nolan Baumgartner was viewed as the missing piece of the puzzle last season and when the Manitoba Moose acquired him the blue-line got a lot more stable. Updated 2:50 AM

3. Top pick Stamkos likes spotlight, looks to Lecavlier for guidance

   THE bar is set high for Steven Stamkos. Updated 2:50 AM

4. Football

   Blue need a quarter back

   A collective brain fart. Updated 2:50 AM

5. Maybe Einstein behind edict the victim of helmet-to-helmet hit

   There may have been something salvageable, in my mind at least, to come out of our loss to the Eskimos on Saturday besides the first, third, and fourth quarters where we held them to only five points. Updated 2:50 AM

6. Burress catches some Z's after suspension

   EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- An unapologetic Plaxico Burress rejoined the New York Giants on Monday, noting he didn't lose any sleep after the Super Bowl champions suspended him for a game. Updated 9:07 AM

7. LaBatte still possible

   Head coach Doug Berry says he's still hoping guard Brendon LaBatte will be able to play Friday night but if he can't, it's likely veteran Bobby Singh will get on the roster and either he, Matt O'Meara or Obby Khan will start vs. the Toronto Argonauts. Updated 9:07 AM

8. Stamps' alleged run-in with official sparks probe

   TORONTO -- The Canadian Football League is looking into an alleged confrontation involving members of the Calgary Stampeders and an official after Friday night's game in Regina. Updated 2:50 AM

9. Baseball

   No longer bedevilled, now Ray-markable

   CHICAGO -- They rushed toward the mound, these remarkable Rays, and immediately formed a circle. Jumping together like fraternity brothers, they resembled party regulars in the post-season. Updated 2:50 AM

10. Curling

    New Stoughton team comes up 1 win short

    JEFF Stoughton's new foursome came up a game short in their bid to win their first bonspiel. Updated 2:50 AM

11. Lawes among Manitoba elite

    As the reigning 2008 Canadian junior women's curling champion, there was never much doubt that Winnipeg's Kaitlyn Lawes was going to be regarded as the premier junior women's skip in this province this winter. Updated 2:50 AM

12. Golf

    Weir's whiskers vanish in Tiger's video game

    CANADIAN Mike Weir was working on his "playoff beard" when developers from Electronic Arts' Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 caught up with him to capture his new in-game face. Updated 2:50 AM

13. Ballesteros hospitalized in Spain after fainting

    MADRID, Spain -- Five-time major winner Seve Ballesteros was admitted to a Madrid hospital Monday after feeling dizzy and fainting. Updated 2:50 AM

14. Auto Racing

    Crash caused headaches but Hamlin out of hospital

    TALLADEGA, Ala. -- Denny Hamlin was released from hospital Monday, a day after a tire failure led to a hard crash at Talladega Superspeedway. Updated 2:50 AM

15. Amateur Sports

    Leger thrown for a loop at judo competition

    MICHAEL LEGER, a bronze medalist at the U.S. Open Senior judo international championships in Colorado Springs recently, had a tougher go of it over the weekend at the Rendez Vous Canada tournament in Montreal. Updated 9:06 AM

16. Volleyball virtuosos are top Wesmen players

    ARIEL SMITH and John Swanepoel are the University of Winnipeg Wesmen Gondola Pizza Players of the Week. Updated 2:50 AM

17. Soccer sides shooting for national honours

    TEN Manitoba championship teams will be shooting for national soccer honours starting Wednesday at the Club National Competitions, at various locations across Canada. Updated 2:50 AM

18. Lutz should ring up goals playing with Prairie Fire

    MANITOBA'S Prairie Fire of the National Ringette League wasted no time snapping up 21-year-old forward Ashley Lutz when the Manitoba Jets passed on her after picking her up in the supplemental draft. Updated 2:50 AM

19. Other Sports

    Feds almost threw book at daredevil in 1970s

    MIAMI -- Evel Knievel never denied his scrapes with the law -- the late motorcycle daredevil often revelled in them. Updated 2:50 AM

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