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You can still count on two hands how many players walked away from a pro football career with more good days likely ahead of them than behind.

LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — Many Major League Baseball teams at spring training followed their annual tradition of wearing green jerseys and hats at spring training for St. Patrick's Day. The Detroi…

LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — The head of the Major League Baseball Players Association says he'd "love" to see Pete Rose reinstated.

You can still count on two hands how many players walked away from a pro football career with more good days likely ahead of them than behind.

BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — Chris Carter was 3 for 3 with two doubles and four RBIs to break out of a spring-training slump and lift the Houston Astros over the Pittsburgh Pirates 13-7 Tuesday.

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Clay Buchholz allowed four runs in four innings, and Boston's defense committed four of the game's seven errors in an 11-3 loss by the Red Sox to the Atlanta Braves on Tuesday.

SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — Matt Wieters returned to catching exactly six months after Tommy John surgery and played six innings in the Baltimore Orioles' 10-9 loss to the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The PGA Tour hasn't seen this kind of parity in two decades.

JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — Jhonny Peralta had three hits, including his first homer of spring training, leading the St. Louis Cardinals over a Miami Marlins' split squad 7-1 Tuesday.

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Roy Halladay, Cliff Lee and Cole Hamels were in the ballpark together one more time, each guy going a different direction.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Thunder forward Serge Ibaka could miss the rest of the season after having an arthroscopic procedure on his right knee Tuesday.

SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) — Yu Darvish had his season-ending elbow surgery Tuesday, when the torn ligament from the Texas Rangers ace's right arm was replaced with a tendon from his forearm.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — UAB fans finally have something to celebrate.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Butler is heading back to the NCAA Tournament with a new resume and an old mantra.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Bobby Portis was in college before he was finally comfortable enough to tell his mother why he didn't want to be at home as a teenager.

IRVING, Texas (AP) — The Dallas Cowboys met with free agent defensive end Greg Hardy on Tuesday as they explore ways to improve a shaky pass rush from last season.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The last remaining Tennessee players to suit up for former Lady Vols coach Pat Summitt want to end their careers by getting the program back to what they believe is its…

The former Badgers linebacker is giving up the game at age 24 because of the potential for neurological diseases.

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) — This wasn't how Dillon Gee wanted to regain a spot in the New York Mets' rotation.