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An $87-million renovation of Iowa's Kinnick Stadium includes the installation of a new scoreboard. The old scoreboard, complete with giant replay screen and controls, is being auctioned off on EBay, the Cedar Rapids Gazette reported. The minimum bid is $10,000. But before you start thinking about putting a scoreboard in the backyard, be advised that, according to the listing, the buyer has to dismantle and remove it.

A new clubhouse, new manager and new league mean nothing to Albert Pujols' attention to being a creature of habit. “I'm keeping the same routine,” the three-time National League MVP said Monday before the Angels played the visiting Dodgers at Diablo Stadium. “It's worked the same for 11 years. No reason to change.” Part of Pujols' program is to “wake up, take shower and get here” to the field, a schedule that makes him one of the first to arrive at the field. “It's not like I have to race be the first here.

A new clubhouse, new manager and new league mean nothing to Albert Pujols' attention to being a creature of habit. “I'm keeping the same routine,” the three-time National League MVP said Monday before the Angels played the visiting Dodgers at Diablo Stadium. “It's worked the same for 11 years. No reason to change.” Part of Pujols' program is to “wake up, take shower and get here” to the field, a schedule that makes him one of the first to arrive at the field. “It's not like I have to race be the first here.

The Anaheim City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to end its legal challenge to the Angels' name change. After losing in an Orange County Superior Court jury trial in 2006 and before a state appellate court panel last month, the city's only recourse would have been to appeal to the California Supreme Court. As expected, the council voted "to take no further legal action" against the baseball team, Mayor Curt Pringle said.

Perhaps the power of a prepositional phrase could have vaulted "New Coke of the Coca-Cola Co." to commercial success. We're kidding. We hope the Angels are too. Let this one roll off your tongue for a while -- the Los Angeles Angels ... of Anaheim. Team officials hope the new moniker will attract more national attention, more TV revenue and more corporate sponsorships by claiming a larger slice of the Los Angeles media market's 16 million people.

A Look at Jobs: Is Los Angeles County's job market falling apart again even as the employment situation improves overall in California? The picture may become clearer on Friday with the release of September employment statistics for both the state and the county. The August figures showed the county's always-volatile jobless rate rising to 8.6%, up from 8.4% in July and the highest level since January's 8.9%.

Player Years Stats Residence Joe Adcock 1964-66 .261 Coushatta, LA Sandy Alomar 1969-74 .243 Salinas Ken Aspromonte 1961 .223 Houston, TX Earl Averill 1961-62 .243 Auburn, WA Julio Becquer 1961 .000 Minneapolis,MN Bobby Bonds 1976-77 .264 San Carlos Ted Bowsfield 1961-62 .137 Seattle, WA Dean Chance 1961-66 74-66 Wooster, OH Tex Clevenger 1961 2-1 Porterville Paul Doyle 1970-72 3-0 Huntington Beach Ryne Duren 1961-62 8-21 Soughton, WI Tom Egan 1965-70, .186 Hacienda Heights 1974-75 .

Leon "Daddy Wags" Wagner, an original member of the Los Angeles Angels who held the franchise home run record for 16 years, has died. He was 69. Wagner died Sunday at his Los Angeles home of natural causes. Known for his easygoing approach to baseball and unique sense of humor, Wagner was an excellent hitter who played three seasons for the Angels, starting with their first season as an expansion team in 1961. Wagner, a native of Chattanooga, Tenn.

Mayor Richard Riordan and the mayor of Split, Croatia, signed an agreement Tuesday formalizing Los Angeles' latest sister city relationship. "Sister cities offer people throughout the world an opportunity to express their common desire for friendship, goodwill and cooperation," Riordan said. City Councilman Rudy Svorinich Jr., a second-generation Croatian American, presided in the council chamber as Riordan and Split Mayor Nikola Grabic signed the accord.

In another defeat for the city of Anaheim, a state appeals court ruled Monday that the Angels can call themselves the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim for the rest of the season. The 4th District Court of Appeal rejected the city's bid for an injunction that would have blocked the Angels from continuing to use the Los Angeles designation.

One in a series of stories marking the Dodgers' 50th anniversary in L.A. -- It was a far different world the night Paul Pettit drove in 10 runs for a team called the Hollywood Stars. This was a minor league town then, with the Stars on one side of it, the original L.A. Angels on the other and oceans of bad blood between them. The Dodgers would bring the major leagues the next year, as if the magic in baseball couldn't come from anywhere else.

In another defeat for the city of Anaheim, a state appeals court ruled Monday that the Angels can call themselves the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim for the rest of the season. The 4th District Court of Appeal rejected the city's bid for an injunction that would have blocked the Angels from continuing to use the Los Angeles designation.

Perhaps the power of a prepositional phrase could have vaulted "New Coke of the Coca-Cola Co." to commercial success. We're kidding. We hope the Angels are too. Let this one roll off your tongue for a while -- the Los Angeles Angels ... of Anaheim. Team officials hope the new moniker will attract more national attention, more TV revenue and more corporate sponsorships by claiming a larger slice of the Los Angeles media market's 16 million people.

Exactly where in Anaheim is Los Angeles? In a quest for dollars, and at the edge of geographic absurdity, the Anaheim Angels -- formerly known as the California Angels and Los Angeles Angels -- said Monday they would now call themselves the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.

An $87-million renovation of Iowa's Kinnick Stadium includes the installation of a new scoreboard. The old scoreboard, complete with giant replay screen and controls, is being auctioned off on EBay, the Cedar Rapids Gazette reported. The minimum bid is $10,000. But before you start thinking about putting a scoreboard in the backyard, be advised that, according to the listing, the buyer has to dismantle and remove it.

The Anaheim City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to sue the Angels immediately if they change their name to the Los Angeles Angels and to consider suing them even if they do not. City officials, concerned that a lawsuit against their baseball team would make the NFL skittish about awarding a football team to Anaheim, extended reassurances to the NFL on Tuesday.

Exactly where in Anaheim is Los Angeles? In a quest for dollars, and at the edge of geographic absurdity, the Anaheim Angels -- formerly known as the California Angels and Los Angeles Angels -- said Monday they would now call themselves the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.

Leon "Daddy Wags" Wagner, an original member of the Los Angeles Angels who held the franchise home run record for 16 years, has died. He was 69. Wagner died Sunday at his Los Angeles home of natural causes. Known for his easygoing approach to baseball and unique sense of humor, Wagner was an excellent hitter who played three seasons for the Angels, starting with their first season as an expansion team in 1961. Wagner, a native of Chattanooga, Tenn.