Frank McCourt agreed Tuesday to sell the Dodgers, abruptly surrendering the team after fighting to retain it over two years and in two courts.

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Tonight on Raw, John Laurinaitis allowed John Cena to choose his partner at Survivor Series, to face the team of The Miz and R-Truth. Cena chose The Rock.

While it had previously been announced by WWE that the two would team up in a traditional Survivor Series tag team elimination match, it appears as if the match is now just a 4 man tag team match.

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PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – Chase Utley was struck by a pitch in the head on Wednesday and a possible concussion means he will miss at least a couple of games for the Major League-best Philadelphia Phillies.

The 32-year-old second baseman was hit in the back of his batting helmet by Atlanta reliever Eric O’Flaherty in the sixth inning of the Phillies’ 2-1 win, and he eventually exited in the eighth after developing a headache.

The Phillies will wait a couple of days before evaluating Utley with a concussion test, and he will not fly with the team to Milwaukee where Philadelphia (91-48) begins a four-game series with the Brewers on Thursday.

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TAMPA BAY (Reuters) – Lee Roy Selmon, the former Tampa Bay Buccaneers Hall of Fame defensive lineman, died on Sunday two days after suffering a stroke at the age of 56.

Widely recognized as the greatest Buccaneers player of all time, Selmon was one of the franchise’s pioneer players and a fierce defensive presence.

The Glazer family, who own the Buccaneers, released a statement on the team’s website (buccaneers.com).

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ARLINGTON, Texas — A male fan fell on a stairwell near the home plate gate while leaving Rangers Ballpark.

After Texas’ 8-4 loss to the Los Angeles Angels on Saturday night, the team said in a statement that it was monitoring reports of the man’s condition. The adult fan got immediate attention at the stadium before being taken to a hospital, the team said.

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FENNVILLE, Mich. – A Michigan high school’s star basketball player collapsed on the court and later died after making a game-winning layup in overtime to cap his team’s perfect season.

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Flashing his dimples, and looking even younger than his 20 years, Trevor Bayne grinned broadly, laughed and fidgeted as he conducted his first news conference as the youngest Daytona 500 winner in history.

One day after celebrating his 20th birthday Bayne drove the legendary No. 21 Wood Brothers Racing Ford to victory Sunday in NASCAR‘s biggest race — sharing the honor with the team’s previous Daytona 500 winning drivers, A.J. Foyt, Cale Yarborough, Tiny Lund and David Pearson. Bayne wasn’t even born when Pearson claimed the Wood Brothers’ last Daytona 500 trophy in 1976.

Explaining how grateful he was for the opportunity, thankful for his good fortune and appreciative of his team’s efforts, the good-looking, well-spoken Bayne sounded as mature and poised behind the microphone as he was behind the steering wheel in holding off three series champions and a handful of other veterans on the last two laps of Sunday’s race.

The Knoxville, Tenn., native’s biggest smile, however, seemed to come when he found out that his Twitter account expanded from 6,000 followers to 16,000 by the end of the race. And, he modestly conceded, he was going to need a friend to drive his Ford truck home. Seems that while most of Bayne’s competitors flew in private jets to the race, he drove his Ford F150 pickup truck from Tennessee to Florida.

“I never expected to be sitting in here,” Bayne said during the winner’s interview in the infield media center, “So I’m sorry to be all bouncing around while I’m giving you my answers, but I figure it’s just a dream anyway.”

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Two NBA teams on wildly divergent trajectories midway through the season crossed paths on Monday night. While the Miami Heat continue their push to catch up with the Boston Celtics for the Eastern Conference lead, the Cleveland Cavaliers remain the NBA’s worst team in the standings.

While their first visit to Miami ended in a loss 101-95 back in mid-December, their squad was at full strength and the team managed to keep it competitive to the end. This time the large margin of defeat was yet another indication of how the team has regressed since then. Cavs guard Anthony Parker (pictured, right, guarding LeBron James) didn’t want to give excuses, yet the reality of their situation is what it is.

“I think we’re looking at as we’ve come through a very tough time, schedule-wise,” he said after the deflating loss to the Heat, their 21st in a row and 24th consecutive road loss. “Then you add the injuries on top of that.

“The schedule turns for us, we’re going to have some opportunities and we have a homestand coming up. From here on out we need to focus game to game trying to get wins and get better.”

Injuries have cast aside several important players and they’ve played the most road games of any other team. They went winless in 15 games in January with only four games at home; that stretch included tough opponents on the road like the Los Angeles Lakers, Utah Jazz, Chicago Bulls, Boston Celtics, and the Orlando Magic.

“That’s the NBA,” noted Ramon Sessions, who struggled from the field but did contribute seven assists against the Heat. “We can be at any arena on any given night, win or loss. Those are tough teams but its wins that we think we can get no matter who we’re playing. We come out every night prepared to win but we just haven’t been able to get it so far lately.”

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Filed under: Predators , Western Nashville Predators’ forward Jordin Tootoo has been cleared by the NHL and the NHLPA to practice with the team after completing the first part of his rehabilitation process in the Substance Abuse and Behavioral Health Program.

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