Stairs is a swing away from record book

By Jeff Passan, Yahoo! Sports
Mar 12, 6:59 pm EST

PrintPEORIA, Ariz. – Matt Stairs(notes) is fairly certain this will be his last season playing professional baseball. Check that. He’s only sort of sure. And truth be told, he can totally see himself playing next year and furthering the record he’s about to set.

“Every year around this time I say this is it, I’m done,” he said. “Then I come back. I thought Toronto was the last place I was going to be playing. That was two teams ago.”

Nebraska's Hickman takes rare pass on invitation from 'The League'
By Matt Hinton

SYDNEY (AFP) – An Australian schoolgirl bidding to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world hit the home stretch Wednesday, passing South Africa's Cape of Good Hope for her final Indian Ocean leg.

Jessica Watson passed the Cape, a rocky headland near the point where the Atlantic and Indian Oceans meet, shortly after midnight GMT, marking the last landmark of her journey before she returns to Australia.

"I'm really thrilled to have another Cape down and to be in the Indian Ocean. Next target is Australia," Watson, 16, wrote on her blog.

St. Vincent's hospital in New York has a little bit of a debt problem -- about $700 million worth, according to the New York Post. They also owed New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning(notes) over $500,000 for marketing work he's done for them, but Eli, aware of their debt problems, told them no thanks. He wants them to keep their money. He'll continue doing fund-raising work for the hospital for free, too.

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