The Red Sox have four of the top 40 selections in the 2011 MLB draft, allowing them to replenish the farm with high-quality prospects early and often, despite its recent success in the field. Although the project is designed to reward teams with poor academic performance, to enable the first crack at the best baseball players potential high school and college has to offer, the compensation system in the Free agency allows teams like the Red Sox stock picks when players leave. Because of...
Never forget. June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a stretch of 50 miles of the heavily fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which "we will accept nothing less than complete victory." More than 5,000 ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and at the end of the day on June 6, the Allies gained a foot - hold in Normandy. The D-Day cost was high, more than 9,000...
Plaxico Burress plans to play in the NFL again, but before the former star of the New York Giants want to spend time with his family, including a daughter who was born during the two years he spent in jail on a charge of firearms. "I just want to thank God for bringing me through one of the most difficult moments in my life," Burress said to reporters after being released from Oneida Correctional Facility in downtown New York on Monday morning. "It's a beautiful day. It's a beautiful day to...
