
Josh Hamilton thought back to the days when his career was derailed by drugs and alcohol.

Hank Steinbrenner has a message as the New York Yankees negotiate to re-sign Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera.
Anti-tax and family advocacy groups are pressuring lawmakers not to breathe new life into the "death tax" — a levy on personal fortunes that was taken off the books this year, but is scheduled to return at a higher rate in 2011.
A jury in Florida on Saturday acquitted former major league baseball player Jim Leyritz of DUI manslaughter in a 2007 crash that killed a mother of two.

Ron Gardenhire has never found a use for an agent. Whenever the time has come for the Minnesota Twins to address his contract, he has simply sat down with his boss to get the deal done.
Bob Watson will retire at the end of the year as baseball's vice president in charge of discipline.
Former big-league baseball player Jim Leyritz was not drunk prior to a 2007 crash that killed a 30-year-old woman despite blood tests showing otherwise, his attorney said Monday, adding that Leyritz had a yellow light rather than a red one seconds before the collision.

Derek Jeter's grandmother has been joking that he doesn't have a job.
Yankees general manager Brian Cashman has traveled to Arkansas to meet with free-agent pitcher Cliff Lee.