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20-minute stretching breaks about every four hours, and has to lift himself off his wheelchair for about a minute every half hour to avoid developing sores.
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• NEW YORK (AP) -- Alex Rodriguez vowed to fight.
• Everth Cabrera cried.
• Nelson Cruz apologized to his Texas teammates.
• Jhonny Peralta admitted to a "terrible mistake." Antonio Bastardo confessed to "significant errors in judgment."
• On a day filled with recrimination, regret and refrain, 13 players were penalized as a result of Major League Baseball's six-month-plus investigation of Biogenesis of America, a Florida anti-aging clinic accused of distributing banned performance-enhancing drugs.
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• Amazon founder Jeff Bezos buying Washington Post for $250M
• LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Jeff Bezos, the Amazon.com founder who helped bring books into the digital age, is going after another pillar of "old media": The Washington Post.
• Bezos, 49, struck a deal announced Monday to buy the venerable Washington broadsheet and other newspapers for $250 million. It was a startling demonstration of how the Internet has created winners and losers and transformed the media landscape.
• Bezos pioneered online shopping, first by selling books out of his Seattle garage in 1995, then with just about everything else. In doing so, he has amassed a $25 billion personal fortune, based on the most recent estimates by Forbes magazine.
• Meanwhile The Washington Post, like most newspapers, has been losing readers and advertisers to the Internet while watching its value plummet.
• The newspaper, celebrated a generation ago for breaking the Watergate scandal, has been forced in recent years to scale back its ambitions, cut its newsroom staff repeatedly and close several bureaus.
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