Baseball Feature: Shortstop gains confidence with strong summer play (The Bona Venture)

While most other St. Bonaventure students worked their average summer jobs, sophomore shortstop Jesse Bosnik worked as a member of the Brockport Riverbats in the New York Collegiate Baseball League. The NYCBL, founded in 1978, is a summer wood bat development league for professional baseball.

Morning Rush: Dealing with adversity (Yahoo! Sports)

Tom Brady's injury in Week 1 is an example of how quickly things can change in the NFL.

Disappointing job numbers dash hope for economy (Houston Chronicle)

Businesses slashed jobs and the nation's unemployment rate hit a five-year high in August, the government reported Friday, dashing hopes that the economy might stabilize in the second half of the year and showing that trouble has spread far beyond the housing and financial sectors.

Desormeaux will not face death penalty in slaying of Summer Borque (Beaumont Enterprise)

A Port Arthur ex-con for now will not face a possible date with the deadly needle in the strangulation killing of 24-year-old Summer Bourque. Video footage of Joseph Desormeaux and Summer Borque leaving Dylan's Bar & Grill

Desormeaux indicted for murder of Summer Borque; death penalty not in offiing (Beaumont Enterprise)

A Port Arthur ex-con for now will not face a possible date with the deadly needle in the strangulation killing of 24-year-old Summer Bourque.