| San Francisco Giants capture World Series Oct 29th 2012, 04:05  DETROIT (Reuters) - The San Francisco Giants capped a wild post-season ride by beating the Detroit Tigers 4-3 in 10 innings On Sunday to complete a four-game sweep and be crowned World Series champions for the second time in three years. Marco Scutaro, the most valuable player in the National League Championship Series, was again the hero for the Giants, cracking a sharply hit single into shallow center to bring in Ryan Theriot with the winning run. ...
|  | San Francisco Giants capture World Series Oct 29th 2012, 04:05 DETROIT (Reuters) - The San Francisco Giants capped a wild post-season ride by beating the Detroit Tigers 4-3 in 10 innings On Sunday to complete a four-game sweep and be crowned World Series champions for the second time in three years. Marco Scutaro, the most valuable player in the National League Championship Series, was again the hero for the Giants, cracking a sharply hit single into shallow center to bring in Ryan Theriot with the winning run. ... | | Baseball: 2012 World Series collated results Oct 29th 2012, 04:01 DETROIT (Reuters) - Collated results from the 2012 World Series: Oct 24 - San Francisco 8 Detroit 3 (in San Francisco) Oct 25 - San Francisco 2 Detroit 0 (in San Francisco) Oct 27 - San Francisco 2 Detroit 0 (in Detroit) Oct 28 - San Francisco 4 Detroit 3 (in Detroit) (San Francisco wins best-of-seven series 4-0) (Compiled by Julian Linden) | | Baseball: List of World Series winners Oct 29th 2012, 04:01 (Reuters) - List of winners in Major League Baseball's World Series: 2012 - San Francisco Giants 4, Detroit Tigers 0 2011 - St. Louis Cardinals 4, Texas Rangers 3 2010 - San Francisco Giants 4, Texas Rangers 1 2009 - New York Yankees 4, Philadelphia Phillies 2 2008 - Philadelphia Phillies 4, Tampa Bay Rays 1 2007 - Boston Red Sox 4, Colorado Rockies 0 2006 - St. Louis Cardinals 4, Detroit Tigers 1 2005 - Chicago White Sox 4, Houston Astros 0 2004 - Boston Red Sox 4, St. ... | | Factbox: World Series champions San Francisco Giants Oct 29th 2012, 04:01 (Reuters) - Factbox on the San Francisco Giants, who beat the Detroit Tigers on Sunday to win Major League Baseball's World Series. SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS Manager: Bruce Bochy World Series titles: 6 (1905, 1921, 1922, 1933, 1954, 2010, 2012) 2012 regular season record: 94-68 Most home runs in 2012: Buster Posey (24) Most wins by a pitcher in 2012: Matt Cain & Madison Bumgarner (16) How they won the World Series: Clinched National League West division; Beat Cincinnati Reds 3-2 in best-of-five division series; Beat St. ... | | Baseball: Inning by inning of World Series Game Four Oct 29th 2012, 04:01 DETROIT (Reuters) - Pre-game: The San Francisco Giants hold a 3-0 lead in the World Series and if they can win on Sunday in chilly Detroit they will become the 21st team to claim the championship with a sweep. The Giants took the first two games in San Francisco, 8-3 and 2-0, before coming to sold-out Comerica Park and winning Game Three 2-0. This is what the rival managers told reporters just before the game. Jim Leyland (Tigers): "I can paint a rosy picture, but the picture is not rosy right now. Our pitching is set up terrific, but you've got to win a game. ... | | U.S. airlines cancel flights, hotels book up before hurricane Oct 29th 2012, 03:35  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hurricane Sandy will likely cause financial headaches for U.S. airlines that canceled more than 7,000 flights to and from the Northeast corridor on Sunday. Hotels in the region were busy handling cancellations for guests who could not get to destinations in the Northeast, extending stays for guests who could not leave town, and booking rooms for people who left their homes. Airlines started cancelling flights in the U.S. Northeast region Sunday evening as cities from Washington D.C. ...
| | Evacuations, market shutdowns as U.S. braces for storm Oct 29th 2012, 03:30  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hurricane Sandy, which could become the largest storm ever to hit the United States, is set to bring much of the East Coast, including New York and Washington, to a virtual standstill in the next few days with battering winds, flooding and the risk of widespread power outages. About 50 million people are in the path of the massive storm, which has already killed 66 people in the Caribbean and is expected to hit the U.S. Eastern Seaboard on Tuesday morning. ...
| | Evacuations, market shutdowns as U.S. braces for storm Oct 29th 2012, 03:30 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hurricane Sandy, which could become the largest storm ever to hit the United States, is set to bring much of the East Coast, including New York and Washington, to a virtual standstill in the next few days with battering winds, flooding and the risk of widespread power outages. About 50 million people are in the path of the massive storm, which has already killed 66 people in the Caribbean and is expected to hit the U.S. Eastern Seaboard on Tuesday morning. ... | | Undeterred by storm, U.S. top court sticks to schedule Oct 29th 2012, 03:04 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hurricane Sandy may shut down much of the federal government and halt public transport in Washington, D.C., on Monday but it will be business as usual at the U.S. Supreme Court, where justices - appointed for life - pride themselves in all manner of staying power. The country's highest court is keeping to its oral-argument schedule and intends to hear cases through Wednesday, court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said late on Sunday. ... | | Factbox: U.S. Northeast service suspensions due to Hurricane Sandy Oct 29th 2012, 02:27 (Reuters) - As the U.S. Northeast braces for Hurricane Sandy, the following is a list of service suspensions for New York, New Jersey and the District of Columbia area starting on Sunday evening: More than 7,100 flights canceled so far because of the storm, according to flight tracker FlightAware.com Airlines expected to cease flights Sunday night at the five major airports in New York and New Jersey - Port Authority American Airlines, United Airlines, Delta Airlines, JetBlue Airways, USAirways Group Inc to stop flights tonight at NY/NJ airports. ... | | Hurricane forces Obama to balance governing, campaigning Oct 29th 2012, 01:52 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama faced the delicate task on Sunday of balancing his response to a potentially huge natural disaster with his own tough re-election effort as Hurricane Sandy bore down on the U.S. East Coast nine days before Election Day. Trying to demonstrate that he had learned the lessons of White House predecessor George W. Bush's botched handling of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Obama sought to project the image of a president fully engaged in marshaling resources to deal with a looming national emergency. ... | |
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