The Detroit Tigers’ Miguel Cabrera will be less than 100 percent healthy for tonight’s playoff game, but he will play.
HASTINGS, Mich. — Former major-league outfielder Chad Curtis was sentenced Thursday to seven to 15 years in prison for inappropriately touching teenage girls.
Curtis, formerly of Benson, was sentenced in Michigan by Barry County Circuit Judge Amy McDowell, who called the two-time World Series champion a “predator.”
But Curtis, who this summer was found guilty of six counts of criminal sexual conduct, told McDowell Thursday that the three victims lied.
According to prosecutors, Curtis, 44, sexually assaulted the girls last year when he was a volunteer weight-room strength trainer at a high school in Barry County, situated between Grand Rapids and Lansing. A 16-year-old girl said he touched and kissed her breasts. Two 15-year-old girls said Curtis inappropriately touched their buttocks.
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Tigers’ Cabrera to play
OAKLAND, Çalif. — Tigers manager Jim Leyland says that Miguel Cabrera isn’t 100 percent healthy and won’t be during the playoffs, which start tonight in Game 1 of the American League Division Series against the Oakland Athletics at the O.co Coliseum.
“He’s playable,” Leyland said Thursday before the team’s workout. “He’s not 100 percent. Obviously the medical people feel that he’s not going to do anything to endanger his future and he wants to play.”
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• The Kansas City Royals hired Dale Sveum to handle infield instruction and other coaching duties, three days after he was fired as manager of the Chicago Cubs.
• Braves second baseman Dan Uggla, a three-time All-Star, was “disappointed and upset” to be left off the NL division series roster.Uggla hit only .179 with 22 homers and ranked third in the NL with 171 strikeouts this season.
• Four hundred lots of memorabilia of St. Louis great Stan “The Man” Musial — including his legendary harmonicas — will be auctioned online through Nov. 9.
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