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MINNEAPOLIS -- The Minnesota Twins have hired James Rowson as their hitting coach.Rowson was the minor league hitting coordinator for the New York Yankees for seven of the last nine seasons. Between stints, the 40-year-old Rowson was the hitting coach for the Chicago Cubs for 1+ seasons after a midyear promotion from minor league hitting coordinator. Rowson worked at the minor league levels with the Los Angeles Angels prior to that after a minor league playing career with the Seattle Mariners and Yankees organizations.With the Twins, Rowson will replace Tom Brunansky, who was let go by the clubs new front office leadership after four seasons in the role. Joe Vavra, currently the teams bench coach under Paul Molitor, was the hitting coach for seven years before Brunansky was hired.Also, Minnesota avoided arbitration with infielder Eduardo Escobar by agreeing to a guaranteed $2.6 million, one-year contract. 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General manager Jarmo Kekalainen told Aaron Portzline of The Columbus Dispatch on Friday that he wants to see Gaboriks contributions go beyond the scoresheet before considering a long-term deal for the soon-to-be unrestricted free agent. PHILADELPHIA -- A scheduled game between the Sacramento Kings and Philadelphia 76ers was postponed Wednesday night by the NBA because of condensation on the court at the Wells Fargo Center.The game, which was slated to start at 7 p.m., was called off at 8:03 p.m. A makeup date was not immediately announced.The Philadelphia Flyers hosted an NHL game at the arena Tuesday night and the ice surface remained under the basketball court -- standard procedure at the Wells Fargo Center. However, Wednesday was an unseasonably warm, humid day for late November in Philadelphia, and it likely affected the surface.With our ice surface, sometimes humidity is our biggest opponent when we prepare for a game, said John Page, president of the Wells Fargo Center complex. Weve never had an issue before, but we need to make sure we dont have this issue again.Sacramento center DeMarcus Cousins said players noticed the court was slippery at Wednesday mornings shoot around. By pregame warmups, the problem had worsened.It was pretty bad, Cousins said. Ive never seen anything like that before.Cousins joined the fruitless effort to prepare the court, pushing around a pair of mops during the delay. He entered averaging 35.3 points in his last four games and was disappointed the contest was postponed.Guys go thhrough their ritual, guys prepare for their games and, like that, theyre telling us were not playing; its kind of disappointing, he said.dddddddddddd Im kind of glad it did go this way. Player safety should be considered first. I think they made the right decision.Sacramento announced the postponement on Twitter and razzed the 76ers, saying yall can trust the process but not the floor? Smh (shake my head), (at)Sixers.Fans booed when the postponement was announced. 76ers CEO Scott ONeil said tickets to Wednesdays contest would be valid for the makeup game, and fans in attendance also would get an additional ticket to another game -- either Dec. 5 vs. Denver, Dec. 14 vs. Toronto or Dec. 18 vs. Brooklyn -- plus a rebate on parking.I know this is a tremendous inconvenience to the fans, so I certainly apologize on behalf of the organization, ONeil said.Its the first postponement in the NBA since the league called off two games on Jan. 23 -- Philadelphia at Boston and Utah at Washington -- because of a winter storm. At least one game has been postponed in six of the past seven seasons.UP NEXTKings: At Boston on Friday night.76ers: Host Orlando on Friday night. ' ' 'ere inconclusive about whether the puck had entirely crossed the line or not. You have to give Irish entrepreneurs credit for trying.?Theres a major college football game, the pigskin version, and that means an opportunity to sell some T-shirts. For fans headed to the college football game in Dublin, Ireland, on Saturday, well, lets just say celebrating Boston College against Georgia Tech isnt exactly what you are buying when you get this T-shirt, courtesy of the Atlanta Journal-Constiitutions Ken Sugiura.dddddddddddd?Boston vs. Georgia? How about Chestnut Hill N.A. against Atlanta Engineering? That might be more appropriate and accurate. Also, when did Georgia Tech switch to Penn States helmet?Irish eyes werent the only ones smiling when they saw this T-shirt. ' ' '