Bo Jackson

Dodgers option Yasiel Puig to double-A affiliate

2013-03-26 21:53:00

PHOENIX — Shortly after the Dodgers announced they had optioned Yasiel Puig to their double-A affiliate in Chattanooga, Tenn., Manager Don Mattingly was jokingly asked if he knew what ever happened to the high school basketball coach who cut Michael...

Spending quality time in the Angels', and Josh Hamilton's, orbit

2013-03-12 16:45:00

PHOENIX — Let me tell you about Josh Hamilton's first rocket ship of spring. It isn't a perfect home run. He gets under it a bit more than he would've liked, so it's towering, corpulent, full of cha-cha. At last sighting, it was in...

Dodgers' Kenley Jansen is a frequent-flyer father

2013-03-18 16:07:00

The Dodgers granted reliever Kenley Jansen permission to pitch for the Netherlands in the World Baseball Classic, but only after he pitched in a Cactus League game�Friday. So Jansen pitched in Arizona on Friday afternoon, flew to San Francisco on Friday...

Dodgers' Matt Kemp, Andre Ethier to play in Tucson charity game

2013-03-18 12:08:00

PHOENIX – Matt Kemp and Andre Ethier are among the players who will take a two-hour bus ride on Thursday to play in a charity game in Tucson, Manager Don Mattingly announced. The proceeds from the game, which will be against the Chicago Cubs at...

Carl Crawford in Dodgers lineup, set to make Cactus League debut

2013-03-17 09:59:00

PHOENIX – Carl Crawford will play his first-ever game for the Dodgers Sunday, as he is in the lineup as their leadoff hitter in their split-squad game against the Milwaukee Brewers at Camelback Ranch. Crawford will be the designated hitter. The...

Zack Greinke throws pain-free bullpen session

2013-03-17 11:40:00

PHOENIX -- Zack Greinke returned to the mound and threw a bullpen session on Sunday, six days after he received an injection of platelet-rich plasma to temper inflammation in his right elbow. With pitching coach Rick Honeycutt and Manager Don Mattingly...

Angels' Fernando Cabrera running out of time to impress

2013-03-16 13:51:00

PHOENIX -- Right-hander Fernando Cabrera, a nonroster invitee, might have hurt his chances to make the Angels' opening-day roster by choosing to pitch for his native Puerto Rico in the World Baseball Classic. Cabrera pitched only 3 1/3 innings with...

Donte Stallworth injured in hot-air balloon crash

2013-03-16 14:55:00

Donte Stallworth, the free-agent wide receiver who played for the New England Patriots last season, is recovering from severe burns he sustained when a hot-air balloon that was carrying him and two other passengers crashed into power lines in Homestead,...

Ted Ligety earns sixth World Cup giant slalom victory of season

2013-03-16 13:23:00

American Ted Ligety, who had already clinched his fourth World Cup series championship in the giant slalom, won his sixth event of the season Saturday in Lenzerheide, Switzerland. Ligety edged Marcel Hirscher of Austria by 37/100ths of a second to win...

Yasiel Puig is 'a Bo Jackson-type package,' Don Mattingly says

2013-03-16 08:11:00

PHOENIX -- A day after Don Mattingly said Yasiel Puig would start the season in the minor leagues, the manager was awed by the 22-year-old Cuban outfielder’s performance in the Dodgers’ 8-1 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Friday night....

Review: For Bo Jackson, playing was enough

2012-12-07 18:22:00

We're lucky if we have the gift to do one thing well in this life. Even most superheroes just get a single superpower. ("Wait — you're faster than a speeding bullet and you're more powerful than a locomotive? How is that fair?") So there is...

Saturday's TV Highlights: '2012 Heisman Trophy Presentation'

2012-12-07 20:00:00

Click here to download TV listings for the week Dec. 9 - 15 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- � SERIES 30 for 30:� This new episode profiles Bo Jackson, a two-sport athlete who excelled in the NFL and Major League Baseball (6...

The former Rangers slugger agreed to a three-year, $39 million contract with the Red Sox in December, but a degenerative hip condition -- the same one that ended Bo Jackson's career -- led to the sides actually signing a one-year, $5 million pact.

2013-03-01 00:00:00

When RedEye asked to submit our favorite memories of Jordan, my brain went, "Hey, remember 'ProStars,' that terrible cartoon with him, Bo Jackson and Wayne Gretzky?" That's how ubiquitous MJ was when I was a kid; from basketball to clothes to Saturday morning, he was there.

2013-02-14 13:04:00

Former two-sport athlete Bo Jackson 'knowshe turns 47 today. (Photo by Rich Pilling/MLB Photos via Getty Images)

2012-11-14 18:41:00