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D’backs 3 – Yankees 2 PHOENIX – This time the late-game magic showed up in the Diamondbacks’ dugout and it tore the heart out of the Yankees. Asked to protect a one-run lead in the ninth, his second inning, Mariano Rivera failed because of an errant throw to second by him and giving up three hits, including a bases-loaded bloop single to left by Luis Gonzalez that carried the Diamondbacks to a pulsating, 3-2, victory in front of 49,589 delirious fans at The BOB. Rivera, who entered the game in the eighth after Roger Clemens and Mike Stanton held the...

Tuesday wasn’t Curt Schilling’s day to be elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame and the Boston Red Sox former great believes his politics are one reason he fell short of the necessary number of votes. Schilling’s former teammate, Pedro Martinez, was elected, along with Randy Johnson, John Smoltz and Craig Biggio. Although he and Smoltz have similar stats, Schilling fell 240 votes short.

On this day in history, Randy Johnson won his 300th game.

Sen. Tom Lee and Rep. Randy Johnson disagree about how to attract private insurers back to the state. By DALE WHITE dale.white@heraldtribune.com Two Republican contenders to be Florida's next chief financial officer disagree about how to attract private insurers back into a state where millions of home and business owners are scrambling to find adequate, affordable coverage. Senate President Tom Lee of Brandon calls for expanding state support to insure businesses that can't get coverage. Ultimately, he wants to get the state out of the policy-writing business and make it a source of the reinsurance that the private sector can't...

SENTINEL SPECIAL REPORT Tax-funded sports chief's pay tops $230,000 A veteran Central Florida lawmaker has built his day job running a nonprofit agency into a publicly subsidized post that has paid him more than $230,000 a year. State Rep. Randy Johnson, R-Celebration, a candidate for the position of chief financial officer in the state Cabinet, has been president of the Central Florida Sports Commission since 1995. The commission was created two years earlier to recruit everything from rural bass-fishing tourneys to bicycle races to the region. An Orlando Sentinel review of 13 years of commission finances shows that by 2003,...

New York Yankees pitcher Randy Johnson is suing former girlfriend Laurel Roszell for $97,000 for child-care payments he made for Heather, a 16-year-old child he fathered but kept secret, the New York Daily News and New York Post reported Tuesday.

Randy Johnson is in town for his physical, but things got a little out of hand when a CBS 2 camera caught up with the future Yankee on the way to the doctor's office. Monday morning, in midtown on Madison Avenue between 58th and 59th streets, CBS2 cameraman Vinny Everett shot some video of Johnson, a standard procedure with a big-name athlete coming to town. The security representative with Johnson put his hand on our camera, and swiped it away. He and Johnson then both yelled at Everett, saying, "Don't get in my face.....don't talk back to me!"

PHOENIX, AZ--The Diamondbacks’ Randy Johnson announced plans today to whine...

NEW YORK (AP) - The Dodgers withdrew Tuesday from the proposed three-team, 10-player trade that would have sent Randy Johnson from the Arizona Diamondbacks to the New York Yankees, who then criticized Los Angeles for "reneging" on the deal. "As we sit here right now, the deal is no more," Dodgers general manager Paul DePodesta said during a conference call. "I've been saying all along that we weren't going to do the deal unless it made sense for this club in 2005, and that was not the case." Los Angeles would've received right-hander Javier Vazquez from the Yankees along with...

Randy just did it.

ARIZONA'S RANDY Johnson became the oldest pitcher in major-league history to throw a perfect game, retiring all 27 hitters to lead the Diamondbacks over the Atlanta Braves 2-0 last night. The 40-year-old left-hander struck out 13 and went to three balls on just one hitter -- Johnny Estrada in the second inning. Estrada fouled off three consecutive 3-2 pitches before going down swinging. "A game like this was pretty special," the five-time Cy Young Award winner said. "It doesn't come along very often." It was the 17th perfect game in major-league history, the 15th since the modern era began in...