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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

A-Rod goes deep for 599th time

BASEBALL: Alex Rodriguez has hit his 599th career home run, leaving him one shy of becoming the seventh major league player to reach 600.

The New York Yankees slugger connected in the seventh inning Thursday night on a 0-2 pitch from Kansas City Royals reliever Robinson Tejeda. The solo shot to right field cleared the fence by a few feet and put the Yankees ahead 6-4 in a back-and-forth game won by New York 10-4. It was his 16th homer of the season.

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Rose’s bat sells for $158,776

BASEBALL: The black Mizuno bat that Pete Rose used to get his final hit has been auctioned for $158,776, less than expected for the 32 ounces of baseball history.

Rose used the bat for hit No. 4,256, a single off San Francisco’s Greg Minton on Aug. 14, 1986. His final hit stands as the major league record.

Lelands.com auctioned the 34-inch, 32-ounce bat online this month. Seven bids were received.

Rose broke Ty Cobb’s record with his 4,192nd hit on Sept. 11, 1985, when he was the Cincinnati Reds’ player-manager. He played for one more season, batting .219 in 52 games. He had 72 hits in 1986, including that final one off Minton.

The record for an auctioned bat is $1.3 million, paid for one that Babe Ruth used to hit his first home run at Yankee Stadium.

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Elway to work with Broncos

NFL: John Elway, the Hall of Fame quarterback who retired in 1999 after winning his second straight Super Bowl in Denver, is planning to attend some of the Broncos’ training camp practices this summer and has agreed to help market the team’s game in London in September.

Elway told the Denver Post recently that he’d also eventually like to own a piece of the Broncos.

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FSN adds two WSU games

Football: Washington State University and FSN Northwest have announced that FSN will broadcast the Cougars’ football games against USC and UCLA this season.

The USC game will be broadcast at noon on Sept. 25 from Pullman. The UCLA game at Los Angeles is set for 12:35 p.m.