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Sunday, March 17, 2013

Colleges track former students to boost degrees

Colleges track former students to boost degrees


Colleges track former students to boost degrees

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 01:54 PM PDT

In this March 30, 2012 photo Allison Mitchell draws blood from Dwight Beeson at Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans' Hospital in Columbia, Mo. Mitchell is one of nearly 300 Columbia College students who earned two-year associate degrees after the school tracked them down once they had left campus. The degree-completion program, known as Project Win-Win, began as a pilot project but has since expanded to more than 60 schools in nine states. (AP Photo/Columbia Daily Tribune, Ryan Henriksen)ST. LOUIS (AP) — Carmen Ricotta knows being a college graduate could mean higher pay and better job opportunities, and it's not like St. Louis Community College hasn't been practically begging her to wrap up her two-year degree.


2 Ohio football players convicted of raping girl

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 01:52 PM PDT

Defense attorney Walter Madison, right, holds his client, 16-year-old Ma'lik Richmond, second from right, while defense attorney Adam Nemann, left, sits with his client Trent Mays, foreground, 17, as Judge Thomas Lipps pronounces them both delinquent on rape and other charges after their trial in juvenile court in Steubenville, Ohio, Sunday, March 17, 2013. Mays and Richmond were accused of raping a 16-year-old West Virginia girl in August 2012. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, Pool)STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Two members of Steubenville's celebrated high school football team were found guilty Sunday of raping a drunken 16-year-old girl, and Ohio's attorney general warned the case isn't over, saying he is investigating whether coaches, parents and other students broke the law, too.


Sharapova wins Indian Wells title over Wozniacki

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 01:44 PM PDT

Maria Sharapova, of Russia, serves against Caroline Wozniacki, of Denmark, during their match at the BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament on Sunday, March 17, 2013, in Indian Wells, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) — Maria Sharapova defeated Caroline Wozniacki 6-2, 6-2 to win her first title of the year at the BNP Paribas Open on Sunday in a final between two former top-ranked players.


Judge finds Ohio high school football players guilty of raping girl

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 01:42 PM PDT

Trent Mays reacts as the verdict is read in the juvenile court in Steubenville, OhioBy Drew Singer STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (Reuters) - Two high school football players from Ohio were found guilty on Sunday of raping a 16-year-old girl at a party last summer while she was in a drunken stupor in a case that gained national exposure through social media. Ohio authorities also promised on Sunday to continue the investigation to determine if other crimes had been committed. ...


Indian police arrest 5 over Swiss tourist's rape

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 01:41 PM PDT

A security officer inspects the site where a Swiss woman was reportedly gang raped by a group of eight men while touring by bicycle with her husband, near Orchcha, in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, Saturday, March 16, 2013. Authorities detained and questioned 13 men in connection with the latest attack, which occurred Friday night as the couple camped out in a forest in Madhya Pradesh state after bicycling from the temple town of Orchha, local police officer R.K. Gurjar said. (AP Photo)NEW DELHI (AP) — Police said they arrested five men Sunday in connection with the gang rape of a Swiss woman who was attacked in central India while on a cycling vacation with her husband.


Egypt vigilantes hang 2 thieves by feet in public

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 01:40 PM PDT

EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT -- Egyptian men surround the bodies of two men who were beaten and hung by vigilantes after being accused of theft in Samanod, about 55 miles (90 kilometers) north of Cairo, Egypt, Sunday March 17, 2013. Egyptian vigilantes beat two men accused of stealing a motorized rickshaw, then stripped them half-naked and hung them still alive in a bus station in a small Nile Delta town on Sunday, according to security officials who said both men died. The killings came a week after the attorney general's office encouraged civilians to arrest lawbreakers and hand them over to police. (AP Photo)CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian vigilantes beat two men accused of stealing a motorized rickshaw on Sunday and then hung them by their feet while some in a watching crowd chanted "kill them!" Both men died, security officials said.


Madonna calls on Boy Scouts to lift ban on gays

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 01:38 PM PDT

Madonna addresses the audience at the 24th Annual GLAAD Media Awards at the Marriott Marquis on Saturday March 16, 2013 in New York. Madonna presented CNN news anchor Anderson Cooper with the Vito Russo Award. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)NEW YORK (AP) — Wearing a replica of one of the organization's uniforms, Madonna called on the Boy Scouts to lift its ban on gays while also calling for a "revolution" to prevent discrimination and abuse of the gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual community.


Kasey Kahne wins 1st career race at Bristol

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 01:37 PM PDT

Denny Hamlin (11) leads driver Kyle Busch (18), driver Kasey Kahne (5) and others during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Food City 500 auto race on Sunday, March 17, 2013, in Bristol, Tenn. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — Kasey Kahne won a Sprint Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway for the first time Sunday after Brad Keselowski struggled on the final restart.


Pope wades into crowds, surprising onlookers

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 01:33 PM PDT

In this photo provided by the Vatican paper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis greets faithful from a side gate of the Vatican, Sunday, March 17, 2013. Pope Francis began his first Sunday as pontiff by making an impromptu appearance to the public from a side gate of the Vatican, startling passersby and prompting cheers, then kept up his simple, spontaneous style by delivering a brief, off-the-cuff homily at the Vatican's tiny parish church. Dressed only in white cassock, Francis waved to the crowd in the street outside St. Anna's Gate and before entering the church, which serves Vatican City State's hundreds of residents, he shook hands of the parishioners and kissed babies. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano)VATICAN CITY (AP) — Walking up to crowds, shaking hands with surprised bystanders in the street, mixing his formal speeches with off-the-cuff remarks, Pope Francis stamped his own style on the papacy Sunday.


Dublin tourists lead icy St. Patrick's Day parade

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 01:32 PM PDT

Children dressed as St Patrick make their way to the St Patrick's Day parade in Limerick, Ireland, Sunday, March 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)DUBLIN (AP) — Never mind the fickle Irish weather. A chilly, damp Dublin celebrated St. Patrick's Day with artistic flair anyway Sunday as the focal point for a weekend of Irish celebrations worldwide.


Obsessed fan who shot player, inspired movie, dies

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 01:29 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 18, 1949 file photo, Ruth Steinhagen, 19, held in the shooting of Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Eddie Waitkus at a Chicago hotel on June 14, 1949, writes notes for her life history in Cook County Jail in Chicago. At the table she has a photograph of Waitkus taken June 17 in the hospital where he was recovering from a bullet wound. Steinhagen died of natural causes at 83 in late December 2012. Her death is the final chapter in one of the most sensational and bizarre criminal cases in Chicago history that made headlines around the country. She was the inspiration for Bernard Malamud's novel CHICAGO (AP) — She inspired a novel and a movie starring Robert Redford when in 1949 she lured a major league ballplayer she'd never met into a hotel room with a cryptic note and shot him, nearly killing him.


Penguins beat Bruins 2-1 to run win streak to 9

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 01:29 PM PDT

Pittsburgh Penguins center Sidney Crosby (87) gets the puck behind Boston Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask (40) and Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara (33) for a goal during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Pittsburgh, Sunday, March 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)PITTSBURGH (AP) — The reigning NHL MVP is out indefinitely with an upper body injury. The league's top-scoring defenseman is out, too, apparently because of a lower body issue.


Palestinians unenthusiastic about Obama visit

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 01:28 PM PDT

FILE-- In this Friday, March. 15, 2013 file photo, a Palestinian woman walks past vandalized posters showing US President Barack Obama, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. When he visits the region next week President Obama will find a disillusioned Palestinian public, skeptical about his commitment to promoting Mideast peace, and who accuse him of unfairly favoring Israel. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — President Barack Obama will find a disillusioned Palestinian public, skeptical about his commitment to promoting Mideast peace, when he visits the region.


Bus crash that killed Pa. coach being investigated

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 01:28 PM PDT

This undated photo provided by Seton Hill University shows women's college lacrosse coach Kristina Quigley. A tour bus carrying the Seton Hill women's lacrosse team to a game went off the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Saturday, March 16, 2013, and crashed into a tree. Authorities said the accident killed the driver and Kristina Quigley, who was about six months pregnant, and sent others to the hospital. (AP Photo/Courtesy Seton Hill University)Police are investigating what caused a bus carrying a college women's lacrosse team to veer off the Pennsylvania Turnpike and crash into a tree, killing a pregnant coach, her unborn child and the driver.


Sheriff: Race crash victim was driver's cousin

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 01:24 PM PDT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California raceway crash killed a 68-year-old race car owner and the 14-year-old cousin of the teenage driver whose vehicle careened off the track and into the pit area, authorities said Sunday.

'Oz' again tops box office with $42.2 million

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 01:23 PM PDT

FILE - This file film image provided by Disney Enterprises shows James Franco, as Oz, left, and the character Finley, voiced by Zach Braff, in a scene from "Oz the Great and Powerful." NEW YORK (AP) — "Oz the Great and Powerful" is living up to its name at the box office.


Palestinian lawmaker, mother of militants, dies

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 01:20 PM PDT

Masked Hamas militants knell next to the flagged-draped body of Hamas member of the Palestinian Parliament Mariam Farhat, 64, who died early Sunday at the Gaza hospital in Gaza City, Sunday, March 17, 2013. Farhat, known as the "mother of martyrs," lost three of her six sons, all three Hamas militants, in fighting with Israel. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A Palestinian lawmaker known as the "mother of martyrs" who praised and supported three of her sons who were killed while carrying out deadly attacks against Israelis died Sunday, a Gaza official said.


Official: Barbra Streisand to perform in Israel

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 01:19 PM PDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli government official says Barbra Streisand is coming to town.

Arpaio to return to work after suffering injury

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 01:13 PM PDT

PHOENIX (AP) — The sheriff for metropolitan Phoenix plans to return to work Monday after spending more than two weeks recuperating from a broken shoulder suffered when he fell while crossing a street on his way to lunch.

Cyprus works on last-minute deal to soften bank levy

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 01:57 PM PDT

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades and European President Martin Schulz give statements to the media at the European Parliament in BrusselsBy Michele Kambas NICOSIA (Reuters) - Cyprus was working on a last-minute proposal to soften the impact on smaller savers of a bank deposit levy after a parliamentary vote on the measure central to a bailout was postponed until Monday, a source said. In a radical departure from previous aid packages, euro zone finance ministers want Cyprus savers to forfeit a portion of their deposits in return for a 10 billion euro ($13 billion) bailout for the island, which has been financially crippled by its exposure to neighboring Greece. ...


Syria opposition to set up interim government

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 01:02 PM PDT

In this citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, anti-Syrian regime protesters raise up their hands as they wave Syrian revolutionary flags during a protest to mark the second anniversary of the their uprising, in Aleppo, Syria, Friday March 15, 2013. The chief of Syria's main, western-backed rebel group marked the second anniversary of the start of the uprising against President Bashar Assad on Friday by pledging to fight until the "criminal" regime is gone. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's main opposition group is launching its most serious attempt yet to form a rival government to President Bashar Assad's regime, convening in Turkey on Monday to choose an interim prime minister for areas the rebels control.


No. 9 Miami beats UNC 87-77 for 1st ACC title

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 01:02 PM PDT

Miami's Shane Larkin (0) passes the ball around North Carolina's Dexter Strickland (1) during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in the championship of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament in Greensboro, N.C., Sunday, March 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Shane Larkin and ninth-ranked Miami now have the program's first Atlantic Coast Conference tournament championship to go with its first regular-season title.


Saint Louis beats VCU 62-56 to win A-10 tourney

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 12:59 PM PDT

Virginia Commonwealth's Darius Theus, center, jumps through Saint Louis defenders Kwamain Mitchell, left, and Mike McCall Jr. during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in the championships of the Atlantic 10 Conference tournament on Sunday, March 17, 2013, in New York.NEW YORK (AP) — Kwamain Mitchell scored 19 points, including a huge 3-pointer with the shot clock winding down, and tournament MVP Dwayne Evans added 16 to lead No. 16 Saint Louis to its first Atlantic 10 tourney title with a 62-56 win over No. 25 VCU on Sunday.


IMF delegation resumes talks with Egypt over loan

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 12:57 PM PDT

An Egyptian bread vendor rides his bicycle in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, March 16, 2013. Owners of state-subsidized bakeries protested Saturday against changes to the distribution system of subsidized wheat. It comes amid economic reforms the government is seeking to implement to boost the economy and ensure subsidized bread reaches millions of poor Egyptians who complain that the bakeries sell the wheat for a profit. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)CAIRO (AP) — A top International Monetary Fund official has begun several more weeks of talks with Egyptian officials over the country's economic reform program to secure a $4.8 billion loan.


Cyprus savers to be compensated by shares, guarantee

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 12:55 PM PDT

NICOSIA (Reuters) - Cyprus's president said on Sunday that savers made to pay a tax on bank deposits as part of a sovereign bailout deal will be compensated by shares in banks guaranteed by future natural gas revenues. In a televised address to the nation, President Nicos Anastasiades said he had to accept a tax on bank deposits in return for international aid, or else the island would have faced bankruptcy. "The solution we concluded upon is not what we wanted, but is the least painful under the circumstances," Anastasiades said. ...

Attempted prison escape ends in Greece

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 12:54 PM PDT

This photo taken by an unnamed prisoner with a cellphone shows hostages, both prison officers and prisoners, being held by Albanian convict Alket Rizaj at Malandrino prison, in central Greece, on Saturday, March 16, 2013. Rizaj is demanding to be allowed to leave the prison, claiming to be heavily armed. Police special forces have deployed outside the prison, while prison officers, Rizaj's lawyer, and a prosecutor try to negotiate with him. (AP Photo)ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Officials say an Albanian inmate who took five people hostage at a Greek prison in an effort to escape has surrendered, ending a 24-hour standoff.


Deaths in Libya from alcohol poison reaches 87

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 12:53 PM PDT

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Libya's health minister says the death toll from drinking homemade alcohol that contained poisonous methanol has risen to 87.

Heat pull away from Raptors, win 22nd straight

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 12:42 PM PDT

Miami Heat's LeBron James scores on Toronto Raptors' Amir Johnson during first half NBA basketball action in Toronto on Sunday, March 17, 2013. (AP Photo/THE CANADIAN PRESS,Chris Young)TORONTO (AP) — The Miami Heat equaled the second-longest winning streak in NBA history, pulling away in the fourth quarter Sunday to beat the Toronto Raptors 108-91 for their 22nd consecutive victory.


Ole Miss upsets No. 13 Florida 66-63 for SEC title

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 01:58 PM PDT

Mississippi guard Marshall Henderson (22) reacts to drawing a foul against Mississippi during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in the final round of the Southeastern Conference tournament, Sunday, March 17, 2013, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Mississippi Rebels now have two very big items on their resume that nobody can take away.


Bills seek end to farm animal abuse videos

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 12:35 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 22, 2010 image from video provided by the United States Humane Society, a Hallmark Meat Packing slaughter plant worker is shown attempting to force a "downed" cow onto its feet by ramming it with the blades of a forklift in Chino, Calif. State legislators across the country are introducing laws making it harder for animal welfare advocates to investigate cruelty and food safety cases. Bills pending in California, Nebraska and Tennessee require that anyone collecting evidence of abuse turn it over to law enforcement within 24 to 48 hours - which advocates say does not allow enough time to document illegal activity under federal humane handling and food safety laws. Critics say the bills are an effort to deny consumers the ability to know how their food is produced. (AP Photo/Humane Society of the United States, file)SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — An undercover video that showed California cows struggling to stand as they were prodded to slaughter by forklifts led to the largest meat recall in U.S. history. In Vermont, a video of veal calves skinned alive and tossed like sacks of potatoes ended with the plant's closure and criminal convictions.


Cyprus president trying to amend bailout plan

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 12:25 PM PDT

An elderly man passes by a cooperative bank in Limassol, Cyprus, Saturday, March 16, 2013. Many rushed to the cooperative banks which are open Saturdays in Cyprus, after learning that the terms of a bailout deal that the cash-strapped country hammered out with international lenders, includes a one-time levy on bank deposits. The move, decided in an extraordinary meeting of the finance ministers of the 17-nation euro zone in the early hours Saturday, is a major departure from established policies. (AP Photo/Pavlos Vrionides)NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus' president says he is trying to amend a detested bailout plan that would tax bank deposits across the country to reduce its effect on small savers.


Japanese architect Toyo Ito wins Pritzker Prize

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 12:16 PM PDT

This publicity photo provided courtesy of Toyo Ito and Associates, Architects, shows Japanese architect Toyo Ito's Main Stadium for The World Games 2009 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Ito has won the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prize's jury announced Sunday, March 17, 2013. Ito, the sixth Japanese architect to receive the prize, is recognized for the libraries, houses, theaters, offices and other buildings he has designed in Japan and beyond. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Toyo Ito and Associates, Architects, Fu Tsu Construction Co., Ltd.)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Japanese architect Toyo Ito, whose buildings have been praised for their fluid beauty and balance between the physical and virtual world, has won the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prize's jury announced Sunday.


Ohio teens guilty of rape, face year-plus in jail

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 12:07 PM PDT

Defense attorney Walter Madison, right, holds his client, 16-year-old Ma'lik Richmond, second from right, while defense attorney Adam Nemann, left, sits with his client Trent Mays, foreground, 17, as Judge Thomas Lipps pronounces them both delinquent on rape and other charges after their trial in juvenile court in Steubenville, Ohio, Sunday, March 17, 2013. Mays and Richmond were accused of raping a 16-year-old West Virginia girl in August 2012. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, Pool)STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Two members of the high school football team that is the pride of Steubenville were found guilty Sunday of raping a drunken 16-year-old girl in a case that bitterly divided the Rust Belt city and led to accusations of a cover-up to protect the community's athletes.


U.S. soldier accused of Afghan killings faces "sanity" review

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 11:59 AM PDT

Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales and Judge Col. Jeffery R. Nance is seen in a courtroom sketch as he is arraigned on 16 counts of premeditated murder, six counts of attempted murder and seven of assault at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WashingtoBy Laura L. Myers SEATTLE (Reuters) - Doctors opened a medical review Sunday on a U.S. soldier charged with killing 16 civilians, most of them women and children, near his Army post in Afghanistan in an effort to determine his state of mind at the time of the killings and ability to stand trial. The review, known in the military as a "sanity board," will be conducted by three doctors at the Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state, and will be completed by May 1, according to a U.S. Army spokesman. ...


Yanks' Teixeira has partially torn tendon sheath

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 11:54 AM PDT

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Mark Teixeira says he has a partially torn tendon sheath in his right wrist and didn't rule out missing up to two months of the regular season.

Cyprus parliament delays vote on bank deposits tax

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 11:54 AM PDT

An elderly man passes by a cooperative bank in Limassol, Cyprus, Saturday, March 16, 2013. Many rushed to the cooperative banks which are open Saturdays in Cyprus, after learning that the terms of a bailout deal that the cash-strapped country hammered out with international lenders, includes a one-time levy on bank deposits. The move, decided in an extraordinary meeting of the finance ministers of the 17-nation euro zone in the early hours Saturday, is a major departure from established policies. (AP Photo/Pavlos Vrionides)NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Frightened savers in Cyprus drained ATMs in a bank run, prompting parliament to postpone a crucial vote Sunday on a levy on all bank deposits, a move creditors had demanded in exchange for €10 billion ($13 billion) in rescue money.


Lawyer: Palestinian ending hunger strike in deal

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 11:51 AM PDT

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A hunger striking Palestinian prisoner has agreed to end his fast under a plea bargain that will confine him to the Gaza Strip for the next 10 years, his lawyer and family said Sunday.

RNC to spend $10 million to reach minorities

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 11:50 AM PDT

In this Sunday, March 17, 2013, photo provided by CBS News, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus speaks on CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington. Priebus says the party will spend $10 million this year to send hundreds of paid staffers into communities to talk with Hispanic, black and Asian voters. He is scheduled to outline his plan for the party on Monday, and said part of that plan will be a nominating convention in June or July instead of August and fewer debates during the primaries. (AP Photo/CBS News, Chris Usher)WASHINGTON (AP) — Reeling from back-to-back presidential losses and struggling to cope with the country's changing racial and ethnic makeup, the Republican National Committee plans to spend $10 million this year to send hundreds of party workers into Hispanic, black and Asian communities to promote its brand among voters who overwhelmingly supported Democrats in 2012.


European women marry, give hope to Samaritans

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 11:45 AM PDT

In this Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013 photo, Ukrainian Alla Evdokimova, 26, who now goes by name Alaa Altif, displays her wedding album at her home at Mount Gerizim, near the West Bank town of Nablus. Alia emigrated to the West Bank and married Samaritan, Azzam Altif. The Samaritans, a rapidly dwindling sect dating to biblical times, have opened their insular community to brides imported from eastern Europe in a desperate quest to preserve their ancient culture. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)MOUNT GERIZIM, West Bank (AP) — The Samaritans, a rapidly dwindling sect dating to biblical times, have opened their insular community to brides imported from eastern Europe in a desperate quest to preserve their ancient culture.


Wright has no regrets about WBC, injury

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 11:41 AM PDT

New York Mets third baseman David Wright stands in the dugout before an exhibition spring training baseball game against the Atlanta Braves Sunday, March 16, 2013, in Port St. Lucie, Fla. Wright recently strained a muscle in his rib cage while working out before a World Baseball Classic game, which could cause him to miss opening day with the injury. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) — David Wright wanted to make it clear that playing in the World Baseball Classic had nothing to do with the rib injury that could cause him to miss opening day for the Mets.


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