. >>> plus, nobody can accuse the tigers brandon inge of just phoning it in. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> and we'll be dealing with a few unsettled spots for your frimpt what will the weekend hold? that forecast coming up. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. ifyou're just waking up, this is "early today." in sports, new york giants receiver who was a hero in the super bowl two years ago is now anything but a hero. here's nbc fred roggin with an early look at all your sports headlines. >>> it wouldn't have mattered if but how long. how long would plaxico burress in prison for accidentally shooting himself last november. he pleaded guilty to one count of possession of a weapon and accepted a simply bargain with a two-year prison term. to baseball, red sox, after scoring 16 runs in the last two games, boston put up another eight against the blue jays. martinez hit as many in as many days. tigers and mariners, brandon inge, tiger third baseman tracked down the foul ball, went head over heels to make the grab. with total

. >>> plus, nobody can accuse the tigers brandon inge of just phoning it in. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> and we'll be dealing with a ew unsettled spots for your frimpt what will the weekend hold? that f aoming up. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning to you. i'm joe krebs. >> and i'm barbara harrison. straight ahead on "news 4 today," a travel alert for commuters using metro this weekend. the major delays planned and why you need to have a plan. >> plus, the threat of a dangerous disease as college students return to campus. what administrators and the federal government are doing to keep them safe. >> then cuddle parties are the newest rage to kickback and relax, but before >>> good morning. ifyou're just waking up, this is "early today." in sports, new york giants receiver who was a hero in the super bowl two years ago is now anything but a hero. here's nbc fred roggin with an early look at all your sports headlines. >>> it wouldn't haveattered if but how long. how long would plaxico burress in prison for accidental

central-leading tigers facing the orioles, bottom two, brandon inge. goodbye.-run home run for him to left field. his 22nd of the year. his first home run since june 12. orioles are now just 5-15 since the all-star break. rick porcello won his 10th game of the season. he becomes the fifth tigers pitcher with 10 wins in his first big-league season since world war ii. we keep talking about the tight n.l. central? a.l., no joke either. detroit two games up in the a.l. central with the twins 4 1/2 games back. do this shot with b it. the royals beat the mariners 8-2. the story here is bruce chen gets his first win since october of 2005 with baltimore. he said, "i feel like a gorilla with a bunch of kids, maybe a family of five, is off my back. to get this one out of the way is a tremendous relief for me." >> almost forgot what he looked like. >> niners rookie wide receiver michael crabtree is prepared to sit out the entire season re-enter the nfl draft next year. david wells, his cousin and advisor tells our joe schad he believes the niners have made an offer but it

central-leading tigers facing the orioles, bottom two, brandon inge. goodbye.-run home run for him to left field. his 22nd of the year. his first home run since june 12. orioles are now just 5-15 since the all-star break. rick porcello won his 10th game of the season. he becomes the fifth tigers pitcher with 10 wins in his first big-league season since world war ii. we keep talking about the tight n.l. central? a.l., no joke either. detroit two games up in the a.l. central with the twins 4 1/2 games back. do this shot with b it. the royals beat the mariners 8-2. the story here is bruce chen gets his first win since october of 2005 with baltimore. he said, "i feel like a gorilla with a bunch of kids, maybe a family of five, is off my back. to get this one out of the way is a tremendous relief for me." >> almost forgot what he looked like. >> niners rookie wide receiver michael crabtree is prepared to sit out the entire season re-enter the nfl draft next year. david wells, his cousin and advisor tells our joe schad he believes the niners have made an offer but it

central-leading tigers facing the orioles, bottom two, brandon inge. goodbye.for him to left field. his 22nd of the year. his first home run since june 12. orioles now just 5-15 since the all-star break. rick porcello won his 10th game of the season. he becomes the fifth tigers pitcher with 10 wins in his first big-league season since world war ii. we keep talking about the tight n.l. central? a.l. no joke either. detroit two games up in the a.l. central with the twins 4 1/2 games back. >> bruce chen -- the royals beat the mariners 8-2. the story here is bruce chen gets his first win since october of 2005 with baltimore. he said, "i feel like a gorilla with a bunch of kids, maybe a family of five soff my back. to get this one out of the way is a tremendous relief for me." >> almost forgot what he looked like. >> niners rookie wide receiver michael crabtree is prepared to sit out the entire season re-enter the nfl draft next year. david wells, his cousin and advisor says he believes the niners have made an offer but it is not acceptable. he says "michael wants f

. >>> the orioles-tigers, pla cido polanco and brandon inge score.he tigers win. >>> the legg mason tennis classic, and the roddick -- andy roddick on the court. becker served a nice rally. that was a mistake. that was a mistake because this happened. roddick against the winner, winning in straight sets, 6-3, 6-2. at suntrust, we help you manage your money at home. and make it easy when you're away. at suntrust, we help you manage your money at home. and where ever you go, atm fees won't follow. at suntrust, we help you manage get back to what really matters switch to suntrust checking today suntrust. live solid, bank solid. a >>> another day of mild temperatures? >> tomorrow not so bad, made the eighties. it will be beautiful on friday, upper 80's. saturday, near 90 degrees. look at that, 95 sunday and monday. lots of sunshine. if you can head to the beach, a good idea. ocean city, rehoth, temperature around 85 degrees. the water temperature will be around 75. in town, it will be hot. be prepared and stay cool. get your fan ready, you will need it.

the scoring starts with brandon inge smacks a ball over the fence. later in the inning the ball bounces detroit's way, placido polanco hits it. the shortstop has to run over to field it. curtis granderson scores. o's have the worst road record in the american league. and the road trip continues to toronto, and on saturday it's masn on wjz. see the o's and blue jays in a 1:00 p.m. start. i'll be with gary and buck for the broadcast. >>> yankees and red sox. the greatest of all-time was at yankee stadium, muhammad ali honor he'd. miguel cabrera connects, sends this one out of the park. part of an eight-run 4th inning that knocked boston starter john smoltz out of the game. yankees win 13-6. >>> one week from tonight the ravens take on the washington redskins in the first preseason game, but sever mark clayton will it not be playing. in fact, he will be out for awhile. it's an injury to clayton's left hamstring that has the team saying he will miss two or three preseason games and practice time. this time the injury is worse than first thought. >> we're

and brandon inge says thank you for the pitch.our-run second inning for the tigers. bottom of the third, tigers up 4-0. alex avila making his major league debut. he's the son of the tiger's assistant general manager. and how about that, his first major league hit and an r.b.i. to boot. team president dave saddam -- zambrowski said about the hit, "wow." as the tigers get the 7-3 victory. avila2-4 and an r.b.i. not a bad way to get your first game under your belt. rick porcello is the first pitcher in franchise history with double-digit wins at age 20 or younger. >> the angels facing the chi sox. top third, 5-3. vladimir gurrero homering to left off lefty john danks, his first homer since returning from the d.l., fifth of the year, 6-3 angels. top fifth, angels leading by two. bobby abreu homers to left off danks, the solo shot, 250th career. homer for abreu. they go on the win. jeff mathis and erick aybar also went deep for l.a. who improve to 15-5 since the all-star game. they have four jaxx and four stolen bases in the win. angel

it un-raveled for hernandez in the 2nd inning: brandon inge hit this fastball over the fence for a 2-run homer....2-zip tigers. inning. brandon gets the than inning...the ball bounces the fence. it was 2-zip tigers. later that palanco hits it off the 3rd base the ball bounce the to come over to field it....curtis off the third base all the way robert andino had base......7-3 to shortstop to lose 3 all the way from 2nd base. ends up a runs the birds fly to toronto for the the os lose three out of four in reminder- it's masn detroit. they have a series when the o's battle the blue jays saturday afternoon...i'll be the js. this reminder, wjz broadcast...starting at 1. the jays saturday afternoon. i'll be the ravens welcome starting at 1:00 saturday. >>> redskins to town for the pre-season redskins to town for tonight...but we won't see wide receiver mark clayton in that game: the team announced pre-season game. or 3 pre-season games with will be out injured left hamstring. pre-season speaking of injuries-- offensive injured left hamstring. speaking was among the walking wounded in camp t

brandon inge, takes them deep. that ends up being a two-run shot for inge.ex avila with the double to right field, bottom three. inge comes around to score. tigers up by the score of 5-0. they win it 7-3, i mentioned inge. that was his first home run since june 12. tigers improve to 24-14 in day games this season. that is the third best record during the day in the majors. his team leading by two. he puts them up three with a solo shot off john derchgs. his fifth home run of the year. angels up 6-3. top of the fifth. bobby abreu. homers to left off derchgs. it's a solo shot. this is important, because it's abreu's 250th career homer. bobby abreu becomes the fifth player in major league history to do this. 250 home runs,. listen to the other guys. barry bonds, craig biggio, joe morgan, rickey henderson, and willie mayes. angels pick up their a.l. leading 32nd road win. >> twins and indians in cleveland. nick blackburn 4-0 with a 1.63era in his career against the tribe. trevor crow does that. kind of inside out. bottom of the 7th. the double to left center. tr

brandon inge, fly ball to center field. franklin gutierrez will grab it and throw home. carlos guillen is coming in hard and he is safe as the ball gets away. game tied at six. that's clete thomas time. that will find a hole on the right side to bring in miguel cabrera, and the tigers win it 7-6 on thomas' second career walk-off hit. detroit trying the hang on to the a.l. central lead. they're now 27-15 in day games. meanwhile, matt cain and the giants in cincinnati where the reds have lost five straight. this is aaron harang. always had very good stuff. when he's on, he is on. aaron rowand there. one earned run over seven innings. he struck out four. matt cain pitched well, but he gave up a run. that was his biggest mistake. lance nix takes him to center field. ties it at one. no decision for cain. bottom tenth, bob howry off the pole in left field. it's a walk-off shot. stubs' first major league home run. how about that? we'll remember that. five-game losing streak is over and another quality outing from cain is wasted by the giants. he went eight innings, one earned r

. >>> great play to show you from detroit's brandon inge. the foul ball and hits the railing and went flying head over heels to make the grab. with total disregard for his body ended up in the first row but made the play. now, to the ninth. tied game, two down. one on for clayton thomas and lifting a line drive past first and miguel cabrera scored the winning run. to cincinnati where the reds and giants needed extra innings. drew subs playing in his second career game felt nerves but stay focused long enough to hit a walk-off homer. called up just three days ago and already he's a hero. reds won it 2-1 in ten. >>> college basketball now and memphis tigers forced to vacate their wins because of ncaa violations under head coach and infractions include a fraudulent s.a.t. score by derrick rose and more than $2,000 in free travel provided to rose's brother. >>> scrimmage between the saints and texans when de marco riens and jerry shocky agreed to disagrooe. ryan popped shocky and it's on. one of several fights between the two teams who play each

the tigers' brandon inge has struck out at least once now in 11 straight games. >> when mark sanchezeligible for the nfl draft u.s.c. coach pete carroll spoke with the vigor of a leader who had just lost a hard-fought battle. at a quarterbacks news conference to publicize his decision, carroll said, "mark is going against the grain and he knows that." but after sanchez's pro day performance carroll changed his stance and supported his former field general. sanchez has shown that the move seems to have been the right one. sanchez named jets starter over kellen clemens for the season opener at houston. he faces a tough road early in the schedule with new england and tennessee at home in games two and three, but sanchez knows with great power comes great responsibility. >> this comes with a lot of responsibility, so as happy as i am, i know that this is just the beginning and i'm just excited -- really excited to get to play day, january 21st, 2009 issued his open governnt directive to heads of government agencies, meaning everyone in government. what he said in the directi is governmen

brandon ink, that made it 2- 0, tigers. >> did he ever. hernandez just did not have the sharp break on his ball. the fastball wasn't sinking. his curve ball wasn't as sharp. ingee inning, the tigers add a run and polanco literally hits a base and that allows him to score. >> i don't know if wigginton would have had a chance to make the play, but it is always better to be lucky than good. he stays at third base and get as ribby. >> the orioles trailing 7-1 in the sixth. ty wigginton nearly hits it out. >> another good day offensively. he catches a hanging breaking ball just over the out over thomas in left field. he had two hits on the day and drove in the orioles' two runs. >> the orioles lost 7-3 and following the game the orioles talked about anytime the clubhouse. >> losing is not fun. it has never been fun and never will be fun. i guess we're all trying to keep in focus what we're doing here, and what we're -- our -- our end goal is. it is not today, tomorrow, but you still want to win games. >> i was just trying to overthrow, trying to press. and i'll make some pitches. i'd get some quick outs, and for some reason i'd throw 15, 20 more pitches just to get