■ Mizzou is featured in UnderArmour's throwback baseball uniforms look like flannel without sacrificing performance (ESPN.com Page 2), including a great composite shot of Brett Nicholas that I'm sure he (and his family) will be saving and setting as their desktop wallpaper.
This all might seem like a lot of fuss over a gray fabric, but Missouri baseball coach Tim Jamieson says people have noticed. "Very seldom do you have other coaches comment on your uniforms, but each coach we've played has said something about this one," he says. "They want to feel it, they want to see what it's all about. It's amazing, because from a distance it looks like my old Little League uniform, or what major league teams wore in the 1960s."MU in the Majors>Minors
■ Tigers demote struggling Max Scherzer (Detroit News)
The Tigers made two rather surprising moves following Saturday night's 7-6, 12-inning victory over the Red Sox: Starting pitcher Max Scherzer and second baseman Scott Sizemore were demoted to Triple-A Toledo.
Both figured to be big keys to the Tigers this season, and both have struggled mightily.
Scherzer, the hard-throwing right-hander acquired in the December trade with the Diamondbacks, is 1-4 with a 7.29 ERA and has been absolutely rocked in his last four starts.
■ Tigers' coaches go to work on Max Scherzer's faulty arm (Detroit News)
A.J. Sager, the Toledo pitching coach, as well as Jon Matlack, the Tigers' roving minor-league pitching coach, will try in step with the Tigers' staff to fix Scherzer's arm slot, put more velocity on his fastball, and develop a slider that can be something other than Scherzer's third pitch.
That's at first blush a heavy project. What works in the Tigers' and Scherzer's favor is that his arm is so strong. But you wonder how rapidly Scherzer can glue together so many necessary pieces.
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