The next stop on Jon Garland's tour of Southern California's big league teams is San Diego and spacious Petco Park. The durable right-hander agreed to a $5.3 million, one-year contract with the San Diego Padres on Tuesday. "A place like San Diego was so appealing ...

Outfielder Matt Stairs and the San Diego Padres have agreed to a minor league deal. Stairs, who turns 42 in February, has spent last year and the final month of the 2008 season with Philadelphia, serving primarily as a pinch-hitter.

Cable TV companies will no longer be able to use a federal loophole to withhold sports networks and other popular programming that they own from satellite providers and other rivals. The Federal Communications Commission voted 4-to-1 on Wednesday to close the so-called "terrestrial loophole" in a ...

The San Diego Padres have acquired two Hairston brothers in three days. Jerry Hairston Jr., a utilityman who was with the New York Yankees when they won the World Series, agreed Monday to a $2,125,000, one-year deal. The move likely was hastened after the Padres ...