
Sports year: Sad sagas the story of 2012
Jerry Sandusky will spend the rest of his life in prison, Penn State football played under NCAA sanctions and Joe Paterno passed away. Lance Armstrong ...

AP photographers captured the year in sports
From London to Los Angeles, Miami to Medinah and just about everywhere else imaginable, Associated Press photographers captured countless images from ...

Tigers invest $80 million in RHP Anibal Sanchez
Anibal Sanchez hadn't gone anywhere, really, and yet here he was getting a big "welcome back" from Detroit Tigers president and general manager Dave ...

Tigers, OF Torii Hunter finalize 2-year, $26M deal
Torii Hunter has reached the postseason six times in his career, but he's never played in a World Series. Now he's joining forces with the defending ...

Miguel Cabrera, Buster Posey win MVP awards
Miguel Cabrera has a Most Valuable Player award to go with his Triple Crown. And Buster Posey has an MVP prize to put alongside his second World ...

R.A. Dickey, David Price win Cy Young awards
R.A. Dickey languished in the minors for 14 years, bouncing from one team to another before finally perfecting that perplexing knuckleball that made ...
Cabrera a fan favorite in Venezuela
Even before Miguel Cabrera made the major leagues, coaches and scouts in Venezuela were predicting he would be a big star. They were proven right in ...

AP source: Hunter agrees with Tigers
Free agent outfielder Torii Hunter has agreed to a $26 million, two-year deal with Detroit, giving the Tigers a capable corner outfielder coming off ...

Trout, Harper voted Rookies of the Year
Mike Trout and Bryce Harper were teammates on the Scottsdale Scorpions last fall. The outfielders arrived in the major leagues on the same April day ...
BBWAA announces finalist for baseball awards
Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera is one of five finalists for the AL MVP award in voting by the Baseball Writers Association of America. The Detroit ...

Miguel Cabrera voted top player by big leaguers
Miguel Cabrera is waiting for the crown that was presented to him at the World Series to arrive at his home. He'll give it a prominent spot in his ...

How sweep it is: Giants finish off Tigers
Kung Fu Panda, The Freak, The Beard and all their seed-throwing buddies are on top of baseball — again. They may be under the radar, unappreciated and ...

Detroit stars were no match for Giants in sweep
They entered the World Series a collection of stars rivaling any team in baseball. Then one by one, Justin Verlander, Prince Fielder and Miguel ...

Column: Surprising Giants win 2nd title in 3 years
It ended exactly the way it should have, with the Triple Crown winner frozen at the plate. Miguel Cabrera was so focused on a slider that his bat ...

Giants beat Tigers 4-3 in 10 innings for sweep
Smart pitching. Clutch hitting. Sharp fielding. Plus an MVP Panda. All the right elements for a sweet World Series sweep for the San Francisco Giants.

Giants complete sweep, World Series champions
Sergio Romo closes it out by throwing a called third strike past Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera. The final score is Giants 4, Tigers 3 in 10 ...

Giants, Tigers pitched their way to the top
When the San Francisco Giants scored twice off Detroit's Anibal Sanchez in the second inning of Game 3 of the World Series, Tigers fans at Comerica ...

Baseball talent flows like oil in Venezuela
On a ragged baseball diamond, its grass tall and infield dirt pockmarked, nearly 200 boys practice for hours every day. Many of them are inspired by ...

Giants beat Tigers 2-0 for 3-0 World Series lead
OK, so even Bruce Bochy has to grudgingly admit that his San Francisco Giants are on a World Series roll. "I'll say this: The club is playing well," ...

Giants beat Tigers 2-0, take 3-0 lead in WS
That's it. The final score is Giants 2, Tigers 0 for the second consecutive game in this World Series. On the strength of nearly flawless pitching, ...

Giants aim to boost Series edge at chilly Comerica
Frost coming off their breath, Pablo Sandoval and the San Francisco Giants finished their workout at Comerica Park, headed back to the clubhouse and ...

Vogelsong took long journey to World Series start
Ryan Vogelsong stood on the cut grass at AT&T Park in his crisp San Francisco Giants uniform, giving an interview for Japanese broadcaster NHK in ...

Tigers hope bats warm up in World Series chill
Toting his tiny aluminum bat, 5-year-old Gage Brookens wandered toward the cage and watched Austin Jackson, Omar Infante and a few other Tigers take ...

Column: Big ball, small ball, Giants have it all
The bunt just wouldn't go foul, despite the best efforts of the Detroit players who gathered around it and tried to will it across the chalk down the ...

Doug Fister takes hard liner off head and loss
The bump on Doug Fister's head from a hard line drive was much less of a concern for the Detroit Tigers' pitcher than the 2-0 hole his team needs to ...