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Former All-Stars Jake Westbrook, Ted Lilly, Ryan Ludwick and Kerry Wood were traded Saturday as pennant contenders played a game of beat-the-clock.  

The Department of Defense said two soldiers from New Hampshire and Texas have been killed in Afghanistan. The Defense Department said in a news release Saturday that Staff Sgt. Kyle R. Warren, of Manchester, N.H., and Capt. Jason E. Holbrook of Burnet, Texas, were killed when an improvised explosive device hit their military vehicle. Both were 28.  

Texas Rangers' Sammy Sosa smiles as he responds to questions from reporters following the baseball game against the Chicago Cubs in Arlington, Texas, Wednesday, June 20, 2007. Sosa became the fifth member of the 600-homer club Wednesday night when he connected against his former team.  

The last sports camp of the summer was held this week as the second and final session of the annual Indian Tennis Camp was staged at the Jacksonville High School Tennis Complex. The Rusk Marlins, playing in the Texas Teenage Baseball Association Junior Boys Baseball State Tournament in Eastland, Texas, rebounded from an opening-round loss to topple the Brownwood Rangers, 16-5, on Wednesday night. First the good news.  

Norman Terry took First Place on Lake Palestine in July by landing five bass totaling 18.30 pounds during the Jacksonville Bass Club's monthly tournament. Terry said, "This was the first time that I fished the bass club this year. I decided to fish Ledbetter Creek. I had a Zoom, watermelon Finesse worm tied on a Texas rig with a 1/0 hook. After fishing three boat houses I caught a 6.75 pound bass. It was about 4:15 a.m. I said, 'Lookee here, the day is starting off right!' After that I fished all the oth  

With the pain of New Jersey-born Giussepe Rossi's decision to play for Italy, and subsequently score two goals against the United States in last summer's Confederations Cup, still stinging, the fans of the United States Men's National Team could feel a sense of Deja Vu as another top prospect born in the United States seems to be leaning away from ever representing the USA. Born and raised in California, Michael Hoyos attended Santa Margarita Catholic High School before moving with his mother and younger  

Jarrod Saltalamacchia's time with the Rangers has come to an end. The Rangers traded their Opening Day catcher to the Red Sox on Saturday for right-handed pitcher Roman Mendez, first baseman Chris McGuiness, a player to be named and cash considerations. Mendez has been assigned to short-season Class A Spokane in the Northwest League, with McGuiness going to Class A Bakersfield in the California League.  

One of the stations he owned, KPAN in Hereford, announced the death in a statement on its website. Formby began broadcasting daily commentary as the "Day by Day Philosopher" in October 1955 and was featured on NBC's "Today Show" in 2007 for hosting more than 16,000 episodes of the six-day-a-week program without missing any. He eventually reached 17,000 episodes, according to KPAN, and was billed as having "the longest running consecutive radio broadcast by an individual in the United States."  

LeBron is gone, and Indian fever has turned toxic. A region turns its lonely eyes to the football team, hoping against hope that magic can be pulled from a flattened hat — the record was 9-23 the last two years. The Browns began keeping track of training camp attendance numbers in 2005.