This week in sports
Published: November 17, 2006Section: Sports
Baseball
Boston Red Sox bid $51.1 million to negotiate with pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka.
NY Yankees trade OF Gary Sheffield to the Detroit Tigers for three prospects.
Washington Nationals hire Manny Acta as manager.
Florida Marlins SS Hanley Ramirez and Detroit Tigers P Justin Verlander win NL and AL Rookie of the Year .
Arizona P Brandon Webb wins NL Cy Young Award.
Jim Leyland and Joe Girardi named AL and NL Manager of the Year.
Football
Redskins will start Jason Campbell at QB against Tampa bay.
Redskins RB Clinton Portis out for the season.
Chiefs QB Trent Green will start against Oakland.
St. Louis Rams T Orlando Pace out for the season.
Sen. Diane Feinstein considering to introduce legislation to keep the 49ers in San Francisco. The team plans to move to Santa Clara.
Basketball
Nuggets F Kenyon Martin is out for the season with a knee injury.
Hockey
Bruins trade for Anaheim LW Stanislav Chistov.
Extra
Former RB Emmitt Smith wins Dances With The Stars competition.
OJ Simpson will release a book and an interview detailing how he “hypothetically” killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. The book is titled “If I Did It.”