Prince Fielder is expected to have neck surgery next week and miss the rest of the season. Fielder has been out with a herniated disk in his neck, and surgery was recommended after a follow-up exam and another scan Thursday with Dr. Drew Dossett. General manager Jon Daniels said the team would get second opinion about surgery, but were "expecting that to be confirmed." Daniels said Dossett was tentatively scheduled to do a cervical fusion Tuesday. That operation has a typical recovery time of three to four months, and the GM said he anticipated Fielder being able to be fully recovered before spring training next year. The Rangers already have a majors-high 13 players on the disabled list. Fielder will become the 14th when that move is made Friday. Fielder had played in 547 consecutive games, then the longest active streak in the majors, before receiving a nerve root block injection Saturday to treat his neck. He had played all 162 games four of the past five seasons, and missed only one game in 2010. Before that, the durable first baseman that turned 30 earlier this month hadnt missed a game since Sept. 14, 2010. The last time he had missed consecutive games was Aug. 24-25, 2007, while with Milwaukee. Texas acquired Fielder last winter from Detroit in a trade for second baseman Ian Kinsler. Fielder is signed through 2020, the rest of the nine-year deal he signed with the Tigers after going there as a free agent for the 2012 season. After the injection, Fielder took a couple of days off before an exam Monday. Daniels said the sluggers strength tested normal then and that his symptoms had largely gone away, so he was given clearance to resume baseball activity. Fielder was initially listed in the lineup Tuesday night against Seattle, but was scratched more than three hours before the game after feeling weakness in his arm while taking swings in the batting cage. And he felt no better Wednesday. "His symptoms have gotten worse," Daniels said Thursday, describing Fielder as frustrated for not feeling like himself and being able to help the team. Daniels said he wasnt surprised by the news he got from Dossett on Thursday. "Talking to (Fielder) and seeing him, you knew this was something that was bothering him," Daniels said. "We were hoping the injection could get him through the season, and sometimes you have that kind of response. The initial response was positive. But when he had the setback on Tuesday, we kind of felt this is where it was headed." Daniels said there is a very high success rate for the kind of surgery Fielder will have. "Were looking forward to seeing this guy healthy and doing what he can do," Daniels said. "Its more of a 2015 thing. Were going to miss him this year." Fielder has hit .247 with three home runs and 16 RBIs in 42 games this season. The only time he has played fewer games was 39 as a rookie in 2005. .Two San Francisco radio stations say they wont play the song during the duration of the World Series. A Kansas City, Missouri, station responded with plans to play the Grammy-winning track every hour from 7 a. .A. Happ is coming off his first start of the year, a win at Philadelphia Monday. The former Phillie allowed three hits in five scoreless frames of a 3-0 triumph.
http://www.authenticbasketballshopheat. ... ersey/.com) - The Los Angeles Kings peppered Ryan Miller with shot after shot. . Watch the game live on TSN and TSN GO at 9pm et/6pm pt. Serge Ibaka returned to the Thunder lineup from a calf injury that was supposed to sideline him for the remainder of the postseason and the results were sparkling. . Next years tournament is also within sight for Bosnia-Herzegovina, which has never played in a World Cup, but Cristiano Ronaldo looks destined for the playoffs with Portugal after a night when the qualifying picture in the nine groups became much clearer.Flushing Meadows, NY - Novak Djokovic raced into his 22nd straight Grand Slam quarterfinal, where hell meet Andy Murray in a rematch of the 2012 mens final at the U.S. Open. The world No. 1 stalwart and seven-time major champion Djokovic thwarted 22nd- seeded German Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-1, 7-5, 6-4 in just over two hours at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Labor Day in the United States. The last time Djokovic lost before the quarterfinals in a Grand Slam event was five years ago against Kohlschreiber in Paris. The Serb has now reached eight straight U.S. Open quarterfinals and won his last 11 Grand Slam matches overall. Djokovic captured his lone U.S. Open title in 2011 and is a four-time runner- up in Flushing, including last year against Rafael Nadal and 2012 versus Murray. The Serb has appeared in the last four finals in New York. The Wimbledon champions round-of-eight opponent will be the eighth-seeded Murray, who took care of ninth-seeded Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7-5, 7-5, 6-4 in 2 hours, 35 minutes on Day 8 of this fortniight.dddddddddddd This marked Murrays first victory over a top-10 player since capturing the Wimbledon title last year. The two-time major champion Murray, who was also a U.S. Open runner-up in 2008, will now appear in his fifth quarterfinal in New York. Djokovic and Murray will meet for a 21st time at the ATP level, with the Serb leading the all-time series 12-8. Djokovic is 3-2 in their Grand Slam meetings, but Murray is 1-0 versus Djokovic at the U.S. Open. Australian Open champion Stan Wawrinka secured his spot in the quarterfinals with a 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (9-7), 6-2 victory over 16th-seeded Tommy Robredo of Spain. After splitting the first two sets, the third-seeded Swiss trailed 6-4 in the third-set tiebreaker but battled back to win 9-7 and closed out the victory in the fourth set. Wawrinka also defeated Robredo in the Round of 16 earlier this year at the Australian Open. Robredo fell to 6-3 lifetime against Wawrinka. Wawrinka will play either fifth-seeded Canadian Milos Raonic or 10th-seeded Kei Nishikori of Japan in the quarters. ' ' '
