Tag: crowd

  • Weaver, Izturis help Angels to 2-0 lead (AP)

    Los Angeles Angels' Erick Aybar(notes) greets Howie Kendrick(notes) after scoring on Maicer Izturis(notes) single during the seventh inning of Game 2 of the American League division baseball series  in Anaheim, Calif., Friday, Oct. 9, 2009.

    Jered Weaver followed in John Lackey's day-old footsteps throughout the night, all the way to his final triumphant walk off the Angel Stadium mound. He even waved his cap at the standing, cheering crowd with nearly the same sweep of his arm. With Weaver picking up right where Lackey left off for the Los Angeles Angels, not even Josh Beckett could keep the Boston Red Sox off the brink of playoff…

  • Derrion’s Mother Speaks

    Posted by: Wavey Willie

    Shortly after a fight near Fenger High School, Albert said her son’s principal called her at her home in Mount Vernon and told her to come immediately.

    “They said he was trying to help another student and kind of got mixed in with the crowd of the fight and he was hit,” Albert said.

    Albert said she moved here briefly last year to take care of her mother. She brought along Derrion and her 11-year-old daughter.

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  • 105,121 watch Cowboys lose on final play (AP)

    New York Giants kicker Lawrence Tynes(notes) (9) and guard Rich Seubert(notes) (69) celebrate Tynes' last-second field goal against the Dallas Cowboys in an NFL football game Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009, in Arlington, Texas. The score gave the Giants a 33-31 win.

    Lawrence Tynes sent home the largest regular-season crowd in NFL history muttering about what might've been. Tynes kicked a 37-yard field goal as time expired, giving the New York Giants a 33-31 victory over the turnover-prone Dallas Cowboys on Sunday night and ruining the debut of their rival's $1.15 billion stadium.