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Bobby Valentine's Sports Academy will be running Summer Camps for New Canaan Baseball at Mead Park all summer long. There are many options including full-day and half day.

GreenJackets to Play Eight Straight at Home

Augusta, GA - The Augusta GreenJackets return home to open their first eight-game homestand since Memorial Day. They'll play host to the Greensboro Grasshoppers for the first time this season and welcome the Hickory Crawdads back to town for their second trip of the year.

Ready for some football?

In 2008, construction began on the improvements to Jacksonville State Universitys Paul Snow Stadium. Now, the improvements are nearing completion and JSUs first home game against the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga on Sept. 11 will take place at the new Paul Snow Stadium.

Andy Roddick and James Blake: Requiem for two American heavyweights

They've been the standard bearers for American tennis for years, but their time may be just about up.

How James Meredith Beat the Racists

Ed itors Note: Sometimes it is considered unpatriotic to discuss the unpleasant chapters of American history. For politicians, journalists and even historians, it often makes more career sense to sugar-coat the bitter moments that challenge the notion of the United States as a model democracy.