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BASEBALL Pivotal players


DeCourcy: Those who’ll Feelin’ swamped
play key roles Three reasons Saturday’s
in college hoops this season game at No. 1 Florida might
Page 31 be rough on Tennessee QB
Jonathan Crompton:

1. The Gators have


not yet allowed a
touchdown.
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2. The Gators
rank ninth
nationally in pass
BEN MARGOT / AP
VOLUME 2 ISSUE 56 efficiency defense.
Led by Pablo Sandoval, right, the WADE PAYNE / AP
Giants beat Colorado 10-2 Tuesday.
They still might be Giants
3. Crompton threw three
interceptions against
UCLA, which ranked 71st in
In need of a three-game sweep NFL total defense last season.
to stay within striking distance of

Who will rebound and who is on the


Week 1 stinkers
the N.L. wild card-leading Rockies, Crompton, Vols feel
San Francisco made it 2-for-2 on the heat, Page 13
Tuesday night behind Barry Zito’s
sharp seven innings. The Giants
have trimmed Colorado’s lead to 2
way down after lousy opening outings Lane Kiffin likes
Gators’ D, Page 12
1/2 games heading into tonight’s
final meeting of the season. Page 5
BY CLIFTON BROWN | cliftonbrown@sportingnews.com
STAY CALM
Scoreboard Week 2 is too early to panic. Or is it? Some NFL players already are New additions
Baseball
in danger of having disappointing seasons, but others who struggled Jay Cutler, QB, Bears. Throwing
four interceptions in the opener
to the QB club
in Week 1 seem far more likely to bounce back.
American League will not change his approach. This college season so far has
Boston 4, L.A. Angels 1 TIME TO PANIC Cutler had a three-interception lived up to its billing as the year
game last season and responded of the QB. However, unexpected
Kansas City 11, Detroit 1 names are creeping into the QB
Baltimore 10, Tampa Bay 5 Jake Delhomme, QB, Panthers. If he with a 447-yard performance the
picture:
keeps sticking the football in following week. With linebacker
Toronto 10, N.Y. Yankees 4 Jarrett Brown, West
opponents’ chests, no way the Brian Urlacher out for the season, Virginia senior: Brown sat
Minnesota 5, Cleveland 4
Panthers can stick with him as their more responsibility will fall on behind Pat White since arriving,
Oakland 6, Texas 1 starter. Sunday’s game at Atlanta Cutler and the offense. and East Carolina coach Skip
Chicago White Sox 6, Seattle 3 might be Delhomme’s last chance. Is “One loss isn’t the end of the Holtz said he’d rather prepare to
Delhomme’s confidence shaken after season,” Cutler said. “There were face White because of Brown’s
National League having 11 turnovers in his last seven some miscommunications. I can’t passing ability. Brown is 43 of 57
Philadelphia 5, Washington 0 quarters of action? CHUCK BURTON / AP put those guys in that position.” for 577 yards, four TDs and no
Cincinnati 5, Houston 4 “They have a right to ask, and the Panthers QB Jake Delhomme interceptions. He’s also rushed
way I played it looked like that,” Jake Long, LT, Dolphins. Long was for 157 yards.
Atlanta 6, N.Y. Mets 0 Aaron Opelt, Toledo senior:
Florida 2, St. Louis 1 Delhomme said. “But I don’t feel like mance Sunday. beaten for two sacks in Week 1 by
Has 742 passing and 132 rushing
that.” “Nobody really played well on Falcons DE John Abraham. How JIM PRISCHING / AP
Chicago Cubs 13, Milwaukee 7 yards against two BCS opponents.
offense,” Edwards said. rare was that? Long only gave up Bears QB Jay Cutler Greg Alexander, Hawaii
Arizona 4, San Diego 2
Braylon Edwards, WR, Browns. He is 2½ sacks all of last season as a senior: Thrown for 757 yards,
San Francisco 10, Colorado 2 playing on a bad team with an Steven Jackson, RB, Rams. They were rookie. Colts DE Dwight Freeney is Sunday against the Jets (nine including 453 vs. Washington State.
L.A. Dodgers 5, Pittsburgh 4, 13 innings inexperienced quarterback in Brady shut out in Week 1, and Jackson was up next, though. carries, 17 yards). With Ryan in the Jacory Harris, Miami
Quinn. Two seasons ago, Edwards shut down. In ’06, he led the NFL in rearview mirror, look for Slaton to sophomore: Only one game, but
NHL caught 80 passes for 1,289 yards and yards from scrimmage. But the Steve Slaton, RB, Texans. Slaton’s two bust loose. one heck of a game (21 of 34 for
Preseason 16 TDs. He won’t approach those rebuilding Rams often will have to worst games have come against 386 yards in win over Florida State).
Results, schedule, Page 29 numbers after a one-catch perfor- abandon the run and play catch up. Rex Ryan defenses, including Campbell confounds ‘Skins, Page 10 — Derek Samson
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Tune In Today
A quick look at the best sports on TV Wade wants lawsuits settled before season
OFF THE FIELD

— all times Eastern


Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade’s legal team hopes
BASEBALL that talks beginning today help him resolve legal
disputes that could otherwise be an off-court dis-
Angels at Red Sox traction if they drag into the season.
7 p.m., ESPN The mediation session could ultimately result in
Thank goodness for the wild card, huh Red Sox Nation? Boston could settlement of several lawsuits claiming he wrongly
finish with the second-best best record in all of Major League Baseball and walked away from outside business ventures.
still find itself buried behind the A.L. East-leading Yankees. In the second
Without a quick resolution to the legal proceed-
game of what is looking more and more like an ALDS preview, Los Angeles
will turn to lefthander Joe Saunders, who has won his past four starts and ings—or their postponement until after the sea-
lowered his ERA from 5.33 to 4.81 in the process. son—the team argues Wade could be risking
— Chris Bahr injury by focusing on them instead of training.
BASEBALL Wade and his lawyers are set to begin talks with
former partners suing him over a failed chain of
Rockies at Giants sports memorabilia restaurants and a charter NAM Y. HUH / AP
10 p.m., ESPN school operation for inner-city kids that opened Lawsuits claim combined maximum damages against
Most of the nation will join this critical N.L. wild-card matchup in progress Dwyane Wade of about $150 million.
because the Red Sox play three-hour games about as often as the Giants’
successfully despite Wade’s absence. The lawsuits
offense erupts for 20 runs. Despite the comforts of home, San Francisco claim combined maximum damages against Wade
might wish this game were being played at Coors Field. That’s because Matt in the neighborhood of $150 million. Raymond star will be the focus of its new reality
Cain, tonight’s starter, is 0-1 with a 6.75 ERA against Colorado at AT&T Park With the NBA season around the corner, it’s series, The Haney Project. The series follows Tiger
this season. At Coors Field this season, Cain is 2-0 with a 0.69 ERA. clear the Heat want to avoid legal distractions for Woods’ swing coach Hank Haney as he tries to
— Chris Bahr
Wade, their franchise player and last year’s lead- improve the game of a celebrity. The first season
GENERAL
ing NBA scorer. In the schools case, the Heat say of The Haney Project with former NBA player
Live with Regis and Kelly Wade won’t be able to stay in shape if he’s tied up
in legal proceedings for weeks during the season.
Charles Barkley was the second-highest rated pro-
gram in the network’s history.
Interview with Serena Williams
Check local listings Group: Redskins offensive Baltimore center Matt Birk, Seattle linebacker
In the aftermath of her meltdown in Saturday’s U.S. Open semifinals A group of American Indians who find the Lofa Tatupu and Arizona receiver Sean Morey are the
in which she berated a line judge and busted a racket, Serena Williams Washington Redskins name offensive wants the first active NFL players to “make plans to donate
goes about repairing her image on what might be the safest of talk Supreme Court to take up the matter. their brains after death” according to Boston Uni-
shows. Certainly, the hosts figure to refrain from being bulldogs a la The group on Monday asked the justices to versity’s Center for the Study of Traumatic
Jon Stewart and his famous grilling of CNBC’s Jim Cramer about the
nation’s financial crisis six months ago. Williams already has apologized review a lower court decision that favored the Encephalopathy. They join more than 150 former
on her own website to the line judge and her fans, but it will be better NFL team on a legal technicality. athletes, including 40 football players, in the dona-
to see it on camera. The seven Native Americans have been work- tion program, The Baltimore Sun reported.
— Roger Kuznia ing through the court system since 1992 to have
the Redskins trademarks declared invalid. A U.S. NCAA Football is awarding 100 grants to youth
GUIDE MIXED MARTIAL ARTS WNBA BASKETBALL Patent and Trademark Office panel ruled in their football teams nationwide through its youth initiative.
9 p.m. 8 p.m. favor in 1999. But they’ve been handed a series of The grants, valued at $150,000, will provide each
MAJOR LEAGUE SPIKE—UFC, ESPN2—Playoffs, defeats from judges who ruled that the plaintiffs team with NCAA Football collegiate youth jerseys
BASEBALL welterweights, Jake Eastern Conference
Ellenberger (21-4-0) vs. semifinals, game 1,
waited too long to bring their suit in the first place. and pants from the team of their choice through Rus-
7 p.m. A lawyer for the group says he’d like to see the sell Athletic, and recipients also will be considered for
ESPN—L.A. Angels at Carlos Condit (22-5-0); Atlanta at Detroit
Boston lightweights, Roger 10 p.m. highest court decide whether the Redskins free footballs from the official ball provider of NCAA
10 p.m. Huerta (22-2-1) vs. ESPN2—Playoffs, name defames Native Americans. Football, Wilson Sporting Goods.
ESPN—Colorado at Gray Maynard (8-0-1); Western Conference
lightweights, Nate semifinals, game 1,
San Francisco
Diaz (10-4-0) vs. Melvin Seattle at Los Angeles
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Nation’s top fullback Zwinak


chooses Paterno, Penn State
TOP 25 RECRUITS
Penn State and coach Joe Paterno
1. Marcus Lattimore, RB
6-0/207,
Byrnes (Duncan, S.C.)
8. Jackson Jeffcoat, DL
6-4/233,
Plano West Senior
14. Xavier Grimble, TE
6-5/245,
Bishop Gorman (Las Vegas)
continue to haul in some of the best Considering: North Committed to: USC
(Plano, Texas)
players east of the Mississippi. Carolina, Oregon, South Considering: USC, Texas,
After a busy June and July, the Nit- Carolina, Penn State,
tany Lions had a quiet August, but
they got some good news early this
Auburn
Oklahoma, Arizona State,
Houston 15. Jake Heaps, QB
6-2/195,
Skyline (Sammamish, Wash.) COURTESY OF CHRISTIAN JONES
week.
Linganore (Frederick, Md.) FB 2. Lache Seastrunk, RB
5-10/183,
Temple (Texas)
9. Demarco Cobbs, WR
6-2/200
Committed to: BYU Christian Jones

Zach Zwinak has committed to the


Nittany Lions, The Frederick News-
Post in Maryland reported. He
Considering: Auburn,
Florida, LSU, Oklahoma, Texas,
Tulsa Central (Tulsa, Okla.)
Committed to: Tennessee 16. Christian Jones, LB
6-4/215,
Lake Howell (Winter Park, Fla.)
21. Eduardo Clements, RB
5-11/185,
Booker T. Washington (Miami)
USC
picked Penn State over Virginia
Tech. 10. Trey Hopkins, OL
6-4/260,
Considering: Florida State,
Alabama, Florida, USC
Considering: Miami,
Georgia, Michigan
North Carolina, Maryland, Pitt, 3. Seantrel Henderson, OL
6-8/301,
North Shore
West Virginia, Michigan, Stanford,
California, Boston College and Rut- CAROLYN KASTER / AP
Cretin-Derham Hall
(St. Paul, Minn.)
(Galena Park, Texas)
Committed to: Texas 17. Chris Martin, DL
6-4/222,
The Hun School
22. Lamarcus Joyner, DB
5-9/162,
St. Thomas Aquinas
gers also had extended scholarship Zach Zwinak said calling Joe Paterno and committing to PSU is something he won’t forget. Considering: Florida, Ohio
offers to Zwinak.
The phone call to Paterno was for loss, five sacks, seven forced this season. They said if I played
State, USC, Oklahoma, Notre
Dame, Minnesota 11. Malcolm Jones, RB/LB
6-0/210,
Oaks Christian
(Princeton, N.J.)
Committed to: Notre
Dame
(Fort Lauderdale, Fla.)
Considering: Florida State,
Ohio State, Florida
one Zwinak said he will never fumbles and 53 tackles. like I did last season they would
(Westlake Village, Calif.)
forget.
“He told me congratulations on
my decision and we’re happy to
Rivals.com rates him the nation’s
top fullback and a four-star
prospect.
offer me after the season.
“I would say I’m 90 percent sure
no matter who offers I’m going to
4. Matt Elam, DB
6-1/205,
Dwyer (Palm Beach
Considering: Stanford,
UCLA 18. Brennan Clay, RB
6-0/190, 23. Devin Gardner, QB
6-4/196,
Scripps Ranch (San Diego) Inkster (Mich.)
have you up here,” Zwinak told the “No doubt about it, Zach has Arkansas.” Gardens, Fla.)
newspaper. “It’s exciting. When earned it,” Linganore coach Rick Con-
ner said. “He has worked his butt off
Committed to: Florida
12. Michael Dyer, RB
5-10/195,
Committed to: Oklahoma Committed to: Michigan

you think of his legacy and every-


thing that he is, having the chance
to tell him something on the phone
for everything he’s done. Zach just
loves the game like not many kids
Loyola (Los Angeles) athlete
Anthony Barr, a member of the Sporting
News Top 100, had surgery for a bro- 5. Justin McCay, WR
6-4/200,
Little Rock Christian
Academy (Little Rock, Ark.)
Considering: Arkansas,
19. Phillip Sims, QB
6-2/215,
Oscar Smith
24. Jamel Turner, DE
6-2/205,
Ursuline (Youngstown, Ohio)
is unbelievable.” (love it).” ken ankle and will miss the rest of his Bishop Miege Auburn, Oklahoma, Notre (Chesapeake, Va.) Committed to: Ohio State
The decision to bypass Virginia senior season, his high school coach, (Shawnee Mission, Kan.) Dame Committed to: Alabama
Committed to: Oklahoma
Tech, where his father once played, Port St. Joe (Fla.) S Darrell Smith Jeff Kearin, told the Los Angeles Times.
was a tough one.
“I don’t know. It just felt right,” he
said. “Tech is a great school. My
(6-2, 185) has committed to Arkan-
sas, Rivals.com reported. He
reported only one other scholarship
Barr, who plays running back for
his high school team, was injured
last week in Loyola’s game against
6. Corey Nelson, LB
6-1/200,
13. Zack McCray, DL
6-4/235,
Brookville (Lynchburg, Va.)
20. Erik Kohler, OL
6-5/265,
Oaks Christian
25. Blake Bell, QB
6-6/215,
Bishop Carroll
Skyline (Dallas) Committed to: Virginia
dad played there. I grew up rooting offer—from Toledo. He said Duke, Mission Viejo, Calif. He likely will Committed to: Texas A&M (Westlake Village, Calif.) (Wichita, Kan.)
Tech Committed to: Committed to: Oklahoma
for them. That was my team for Tulane and Western Kentucky had need 2-3 months of rehabilitation.
Washington
years. I couldn’t even tell you what shown interest in him. Barr (6-4, 230) is scheduled to
my deciding factor was. There was
just something about (Penn State).”
“It seems like I will fit in with
(Arkansas) football team,” Smith
take an official visit to Notre Dame
in early October, and he also lists
7. Gabe King, DL/LB
6-5/260,
Northern Guilford
— Brian McLaughlin

Zwinak (6-2, 230) rushed for told Rivals.com. “... Auburn has California, Michigan, UCLA and (Greensboro, N.C.)
1,447 yards and 19 touchdowns as a talked about offering. Some others USC in his top five. Considering: Alabama, MORE COVERAGE from sportingnews.com
junior. On defense, he had 11 tackles said they wanted to see how I played — Brian McLaughlin California, Oregon, Tennessee Top 100 recruits: sportingnews.com/blog/TheRecruitnik/tag/160168/sn100
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Dodgers 5, Pirates 4, 13 innings
BASEBALL / NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
A.McCutchen cf 6 1 1 0 0 1 .269
San Francisco 10, Colorado 2 Giants 10, Rockies 2 L.A. Dodgers 5, An.LaRoche 3b 4 0 1 0 1
G.Jones rf 5 0 0 0 1
0
1
.248
.297
Colorado AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Pittsburgh 4, 13 innings Doumit c 5 0 2 1 1 3 .239

Giants riding revitalized Zito


E.Young 2b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .295
C.Gonzalez lf 3 0 1 1 0 0 .284 Milledge lf 5 1 0 0 1 2 .272
Pearce 1b 6 1 1 2 0 3 .222
Helton 1b
Quintanilla 3b
Tulowitzki ss
3 0
1 0
3 1
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
3
0
1
.321
.170
.282
Walkoff Cedeno ss
L.Cruz 2b
5 1 1 0 0
5 0 1 0 0
0
0
.287
.194

SAN FRANCISCO—Barry Zito is pitching a


c-Barmes ph-ss 1 0
G.Atkins 3b-1b 4 0
Spilborghs rf 4 0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
.241
.223
.245
specialist Duke p
J.Chavez p
Capps p
3 0 1 1 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
2
0
0
.231
.000
---
lot like his old self and the San Francisco
Giants are finally backing him with
Torrealba c
P.Phillips c
3 0
0 0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
.276
.326 Ethier hits HR Moss ph
Hanrahan p
R.Vazquez ph
1 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
1 0 0 0 0
1
0
0
.240
.000
.246
plenty of runs. And they’re right back in Fowler cf 3 1 2 0 1 0 .268
Jimenez p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .245 S.Jackson p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
the playoff chase. Belisle p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 LOS ANGELES—Andre Ethier hit Bootcheck p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
a-Murton ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .245 Dumatrait p 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
Zito struck out a season-high nine in a two-run homer in the 13th Totals 46 4 8 4 4 13
Fogg p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .111
his biggest win yet as a Giant, Juan Uribe b-McCoy ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 inning—his major league-lead-
Herges p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- Los Angeles AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
drove in three runs and San Francisco ing sixth walkoff hit of the sea- Furcal ss 5 1 1 0 1 0 .255
Totals 31 2 5 2 2 9
shaved another game off Colorado’s hold son—giving the Los Angeles R.Martin c 6 0 1 0 0 2 .259
San Francisco AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Ethier rf 6 2 2 2 0 2 .283
on the N.L. wild card with a 10-2 victory Dodgers a 5-4 victory over the M.Ramirez lf 5 0 0 0 0 1 .302
Velez lf 4 1 1 1 1 2 .269
over the Rockies on Tuesday night. F.Sanchez 2b 5 1 1 0 0 1 .293 Pittsburgh Pirates. Kemp cf 5 1 2 1 0 2 .306
Winn rf 3 3 1 0 2 0 .265 Blake 3b 4 1 1 1 1 1 .281
“We’re just clicking right now,” man- Four of Ethier’s game-ending Loretta 1b 2 0 1 1 0 0 .224
Sandoval 3b 4 2 2 0 1 2 .322
ager Bruce Bochy said. “Hopefully this Rohlinger 3b 0 0 0 0 0 0 .100 hits have been home runs. -Repko pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
B.Molina c 4 1 2 2 0 0 .265 Broxton p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
is something we can continue and keep The N.L. West-leading Dodg- Thome ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .200
Whiteside c 0 0 0 0 0 0 .213
the momentum going. ... We still have Uribe ss 5 2 2 3 0 2 .289 ers moved five games ahead of Ja.McDonald p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Ishikawa 1b 3 0 1 2 0 1 .264 Pierre ph 1 0 1 0 0 0 .315
some ground to make up.” Colorado, which lost 10-2 at Belisario p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Rowand cf 4 0 0 2 0 1 .266
San Francisco won its third straight A.Torres cf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .250 San Francisco. O.Hudson 2b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .287
Zito p 2 0 0 0 0 1 .125 Wolf p 2 0 0 0 0 1 .175
after a four-game skid and pulled within Ethier sent the first pitch Troncoso p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Runzler p 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
2½ games of the wild-card leading Joaquin p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- from Phil Dumatrait (0-1) into Sherrill p 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
Totals 34 10 10 10 4 10 Belliard ph 0 0 0 0 0 0 .251
Rockies, who dropped their fourth the right field pavilion with one Loney ph-1b 3 0 0 0 0 0 .281
straight following an eight-game win- Colorado 001 001 000 — 2 5 2 out for his 30th homer and 97th Totals 44 5 9 5 2 9
ning streak. San Francisco 304 003 00x — 10 10 1 and 98th RBIs of the season. Pitt 030 000 000 000 1 — 4 8 0
Zito, the 2002 AL Cy Young Award a-struck out for Belisle in the 5th. b-flied out for Fogg in Rafael Furcal opened the LA 000 020 001 000 2 — 5 9 1
winner, is finally performing more like the 7th. c-flied out for Tulowitzki in the 8th. E: G.Atkins inning with a line drive single
2 (9), Zito (2). LOB: Colorado 6, San Francisco 8. 2B: E: Blake (10). LOB: Pittsburgh 8, Los Angeles 6. 2B:
the standout pitcher San Francisco Sandoval (41), Uribe (24). HR: Tulowitzki (26), off Zito. that struck Chris Bootcheck Doumit (14), Cedeno (3), R.Martin (19), Ethier (40), Kemp
RBIs: C.Gonzalez (25), Tulowitzki (77), Velez (25), (25). 3B: Blake (6), Pierre (6). HR: Pearce (4), off Wolf;
awarded with a $126 million, seven-year and ricocheted between first Ethier (30), off Dumatrait. RBIs: Doumit (31), Pearce 2
B.Molina 2 (73), Uribe 3 (46), Ishikawa 2 (38), Rowand
contract before the 2007 season. The 2 (61). SB: C.Gonzalez (15). S: Jimenez, Zito 2. SF: and second base. (15), Duke (4), Ethier 2 (98), Kemp (92), Blake (74), Loretta
Ishikawa. Runners left in scoring position: Colorado (23). CS: A.McCutchen (5). S: An.LaRoche, O.Hudson. SF:
Giants swept the Rockies from Aug. The Pirates had taken a 4-3 Loretta. Runners left in scoring position: Pittsburgh 4
2 (Tulowitzki, C.Gonzalez); San Francisco 5 (Rowand,
28-30 to move even in the wild card, F.Sanchez 2, Ishikawa, Zito). DP: San Francisco 1 (Zito, lead in the top of the inning on (Milledge, G.Jones, Pearce 2); Los Angeles 4 (M.Ramirez,
Uribe, Ishikawa). Furcal, Thome, Loney).
and could really benefit by doing so BEN MARGOT / AP Ryan Doumit’s RBI single.
again this time. All-Star Matt Cain takes The Giants’ Bengie Molina, right, slides past the tag of Yorvit Torrealba in the third inning. Colorado IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Los Angeles starter Randy Pittsburgh IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Jimenez L, 13-11 2 2⁄3 6 7 6 2 6 92 3.55 Duke 7 1⁄3 4 2 2 0 7 104 3.96
the mound in the series finale tonight Wolf gave up three runs and J.Chavez H, 12 2⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 8 4.05
Belisle 1 1⁄3 2 0 0 0 1 19 6.46
for the Giants. back is what is on the table tomorrow. It 12). Fans chanted “Barry! Barry!” for his Fogg 2 2 3 3 2 1 40 3.77 five hits in seven innings, Capps BS, 5-30 1 2 1 1 1 0 22 6.02
Herges 2 0 0 0 0 2 22 3.24 Hanrahan 2 0 0 0 1 2 34 4.94
Randy Johnson is back, too, though doesn’t come easy.” second straight impressive home outing struck out five and walked S.Jackson 1 1 0 0 0 0 17 3.60
San Francisco IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
the 303-game winner will work out of In San Francisco’s three straight wins, against Colorado. Zito W, 10-12 7 5 2 2 1 9 93 3.94 two. Bootcheck H, 1 1⁄3 1 1 1 0 0 912.00
Runzler 1 0 0 0 0 0 10 0.00 Dumatrait L, 0-1 BS, 1-10 1 1 1 0 0 111.12
the bullpen following a two-month the Giants have outscored the Dodgers The lefthander allowed five hits and — The Associated Press Los Angeles IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Joaquin 1 0 0 0 1 0 16 4.26
shoulder injury. and Rockies 26-5 after being outscored two runs in seven efficient innings, Wolf 7 5 3 3 2 5 95 3.24
Troncoso 2⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 6 2.54
“It’s black and white,” Rockies man- 19-4 in the previous two with first-place walking only one in a 93-pitch effort. Inherited runners-scored: Belisle 2-0. HBP: by Jime-
nez (B.Molina), by Zito (C.Gonzalez). Umpires: Home,
National League Sherrill 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 7 0.44
ager Jim Tracy said. “There is no middle Los Angeles. Travis Ishikawa singled in “I definitely think it’s one of the better Broxton 1 0 0 0 0 3 22 2.45
Chuck Meriwether; First, Laz Diaz; Second, Eric Cooper;
Third, Mike Reilly. T: 2:58. A: 30,353 (41,915).
wild card standings Ja.McDonald 3 2 0 0 1 3 41 3.86
ground. We have the opportunity to win a run and added a sacrifice fly. ones I’ve had as a Giants. It’s nice to go Belisario W, 4-3 1 1 1 0 1 2 17 1.96
W L Pct. GB
a game in this series and move ahead Troy Tulowitzki hit a solo home run out there and have success,” Zito said. Colorado 82 64 .562 —
San Francisco 79 66 .545 2½ Dumatrait pitched to 1 batter in the 13th. Inherited
with a 3½-game lead, or we’ll have a in the sixth and Carlos Gonzalez singled —The Associated Press runners-scored: J.Chavez 1-0, Dumatrait 1-1. IBB: off
Florida 77 68 .531 4½
1½-game lead. That is what is up for in the Rockies’ first run in the third, but Atlanta 76 68 .528 5 Belisario (G.Jones), off Ja.McDonald (Doumit). Umpires:
Chicago 75 68 .524 5½ Home, Mike Everitt; First, Gerry Davis; Second, Brian Gorman;
grabs. It’s a big cushion versus giving it Colorado did little else against Zito (10- Brawl in the Bronx, Page 24 Third, C.B. Bucknor. T: 4:02. A: 52,562 (56,000).
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BASEBALL / AMERICAN LEAGUE BASEBALL / NATIONAL LEAGUE
Chicago White Sox 6, Seattle 3 Arizona 4, San Diego 2

Pierzynski, Sox not willing to concede race Big impact from ‘short’ HR
SAN DIEGO—One of Mark Reyn- Diamondbacks 4, Padres 2
SEATTLE—A.J. Pierzynski and the Chi- White Sox 6, Mariners 3 olds’ shortest home runs of the Arizona AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
C.Young cf 3 0 0 0 1 2 .204
cago White Sox are still chasing the A.L. Chicago AB R H BI BB SO Avg. season might have made the S.Drew ss 4 0 1 0 0 1 .259
Podsednik cf-lf 4 0 2 0 0 1 .306
Central-leading Tigers, no matter how Beckham 3b 5 0 0 0 0 1 .274 biggest impact. J.Upton rf 4 0 0 0 0 0 .300
Montero c 4 0 1 0 0 0 .301
slim their chances are. Pierzynski c 5 2 3 2 0 0 .315 Reynolds hit a two-run 1-Oeltjen pr 0 1 0 0 0 0 .246
Konerko 1b 3 1 2 1 1 0 .284
Pierzynski hit a two-run, go-ahead 1-Wise pr-rf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .203 homer in the ninth inning off Hester c 0 0 0 0 0 0 .333
Reynolds 3b 4 1 1 2 0 2 .275
single in the seventh inning and the Chi- Kotsay rf-1b 5 0 1 2 0 0 .265 closer Heath Bell as the Dia- R.Roberts 2b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .271
Dye dh 3 0 0 0 1 1 .249
cago White Sox beat the Seattle Mari- Quentin lf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .231 mondbacks overcame a bizarre Allen 1b 4 1 2 0 0 1 .219
Byrnes lf 4 1 2 2 0 0 .216
ners 6-3 on Tuesday night cutting the Rios cf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .242 play for a 4-2 win over the San Haren p 3 0 1 0 0 2 .242
Getz 2b 4 2 2 0 0 1 .270
Tigers’ division lead to 5½ games with Al.Ramirez ss 4 1 3 0 0 1 .280 Diego Padres. J.Gutierrez p 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
Totals 34 4 8 4 1 10
17 to play. Totals 38 6 13 5 2 6 Reynolds, who has had a
“(The score) is up on the scoreboard, Seattle AB R H BI BB SO Avg. number of long homers in his San Diego AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
E.Cabrera ss 4 0 1 0 0 0 .258
so of course you look,” Pierzynski said. I.Suzuki rf 4 1 2 0 1 0 .354 career, hit his 42nd home run Gwynn cf 3 1 1 0 1 0 .262
F.Gutierrez cf 3 0 1 0 1 0 .279
“Being on the West Coast is odd because Jo.Lopez 2b 5 0 0 1 0 1 .268 on a 3-1 fastball off Bell (5-4) Ad.Gonzalez 1b 3 0 0 0 0 2 .276
Headley 3b 4 1 2 1 0 0 .262
their game is over before ours even Griffey Jr. dh 4 1 1 1 0 2 .219 that barely made it into the first Macias lf 4 0 1 0 0 2 .228
Beltre 3b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .264
starts. But you know, you would have to Hall lf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .244 row in left field, 378 feet away. Ed.Gonzalez rf 2 0 0 1 0 0 .216
Hundley c 3 0 1 0 0 1 .221
be lying to yourself if you say you don’t Langerhans lf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .206 “I was running out of the L.Rodriguez 2b 3 0 0 0 0 0 .203
look.” Johjima c 4 1 2 0 0 0 .250 box,” Reynolds said. “In this LeBlanc p 2 0 0 0 0 0 .125
Carp 1b 4 0 2 1 0 0 .281
The White Sox are a game behind the yard you never know. I was Perdomo p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Ja.Wilson ss 3 0 1 0 0 0 .224 Gregerson p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
second-place Minnesota Twins, who 2-Jo.Wilson pr-ss 1 0 0 0 0 1 .268 sprinting. I still wasn’t sure a-Durango ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Totals 36 3 10 3 2 5
beat the Indians. Detroit fell to the lowly until I got around second base H.Bell p 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
Totals 29 2 6 2 1 5
Kansas City Royals, 11-1. Chicago 000 200 310 — 6 13 1 and saw the outfielders looking
Seattle 021 000 000 — 3 10 0
“I think when the offense works, our at each other.” Arizona 001 000 102 — 4 8 0
San Diego 000 200 000 — 2 6 1
team looks a lot better,” said White Sox 1-ran for Konerko in the 7th. 2-ran for Ja.Wilson in the Reynolds was hitless in three
7th. E: Pierzynski (5). LOB: Chicago 8, Seattle 9. 2B:
manager Ozzie Guillen. at-bats with two strikeouts a-bunted out for Gregerson in the 8th. 1-ran for Montero
Konerko 2 (28), Kotsay (7), Johjima (8). 3B: Carp (1). in the 9th. E: E.Cabrera (14). LOB: Arizona 4, San Diego
Ken Griffey Jr. hit his 626th home HR: Griffey Jr. (15), off Garcia. RBIs: Pierzynski 2 (45), before facing Bell. 3. 2B: Byrnes (13), Headley (27). HR: Byrnes (6), off
Konerko (83), Kotsay 2 (18), Jo.Lopez (87), Griffey
run—15th this season—for the Mariners “I hadn’t really been swing- LeBlanc; Reynolds (42), off H.Bell. RBIs: Reynolds 2
Jr. (46), Carp (2). SB: I.Suzuki (25), F.Gutierrez (14). (96), Byrnes 2 (26), Headley (58), Ed.Gonzalez (15).
in the second, a drive to right-center that S: Podsednik, F.Gutierrez. Runners left in scoring ing it at all,” he said. “He chal-
ELAINE THOMPSON / AP SB: Gwynn (7), Hundley (2). CS: E.Cabrera (5), Macias
position: Chicago 6 (Getz, Pierzynski, Quentin, Kotsay,
landed about 20 rows up in the stands. lenged me and I got the better (1). S: Ad.Gonzalez. SF: Ed.Gonzalez. Runners left in
Paul Konerko had two hits, knocked in a run and scored to lead Chicago. Beckham 2); Seattle 7 (Ja.Wilson 2, Beltre, Carp, Griffey scoring position: Arizona 1 (C.Young); San Diego 3
It came off former Seattle ace Freddy Jr. 2, Jo.Lopez). of it.” (E.Cabrera, Headley, Macias).
Garcia, the 404th pitcher to give up a gave up a pair of singles to start the 5½ years in Seattle. Now the two-time Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Reynolds ran his season Arizona IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Garcia W, 2-2 6 7 3 3 1 1 97 4.41
homer to Griffey. inning. The White Sox then scored three All Star is trying to rely more on his Dotel H, 15 2⁄3 2 0 0 0 0 12 3.38 strikeout total to a major league- Haren W, 14-8 8 5 2 2 1 4 106 2.79
J.Gutierrez S, 5-6 1 1 0 0 0 1 21 3.88
Kenji Johjima then doubled and Mike times for a 5-3 lead, taking advantage of control, having lost much of his velocity Thornton H, 24 1 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 2 14 2.77 leading 196, nine short of San Diego IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Jenks S, 29-34 1 1 0 0 1 2 28 3.44
Carp followed with an RBI single. In the a shaky Seattle bullpen. Pierzynski got to shoulder surgery in 2007. Against Seattle IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA breaking the big league record LeBlanc 6 3 1 1 1 5 101 4.30
Perdomo BS, 1-1 1 2 1 1 0 2 13 4.61
third, Jose Lopez added an run-scoring his hit off Mark Lowe. the Mariners, Garcia topped out at Snell 6 5 2 2 2 4 84 4.86 he set last year. Gregerson 1 1 0 0 0 2 11 2.81
Kelley L, 4-3 H, 7 1⁄3 2 2 2 0 1 12 4.99
grounder for a 3-0 lead. “This game is a lot about the bullpen,” 90-mph and lasted six innings, giving M.Lowe BS, 7-9 2⁄3 2 1 1 0 0 20 2.97 “I threw the previous pitch H.Bell L, 5-4 1 2 2 2 0 1 17 2.90
The White Sox responded with a pair Mariners manager Don Wakamatsu up three runs. Messenger 2⁄3 2 1 1 0 1 10 5.63 pretty much in the same place Umpires: Home, James Hoye; First, Mike Muchlinski;
Olson 1⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 5 5.85
of runs in the top of the fourth. Ian Snell, said. “The last three innings—eight hits, Octavio Dotel got two outs and Matt Batista 1 1 0 0 0 0 11 4.48 and he swung through it,” Bell Second, Bob Davidson; Third, Jim Wolf. T: 2:31. A:
14,790 (42,691).
who was sharp early, gave up a leadoff three runs. You win games by getting Thornton pitched 1 2/3 scoreless innings said. “But he got that one.”
Inherited runners-scored: Thornton 2-0, M.Lowe
single to Pierzynski and then walked your closer in the ballgame. We have to before Bobby Jenks, worked an inning 2-2, Olson 2-1. WP: Snell. PB: Johjima. Umpires: Dan Haren (14-8) won his
Paul Konerko. Mark Kotsay laced a dou- allow Lowe to pitch the eighth and for his 29th save, striking out Lopez to Home, Marvin Hudson; First, Angel Hernandez; Second, first road game since Aug. 3, a
Randy Marsh; Third, Lance Barksdale. T: 2:59. A: 17,153
ble to right for two runs. But Snell then (closer David) Aardsma the ninth.” end the game (47,878). span of five starts, allowing
got three straight outs to escape further Despite earning the win, Garcia (2-2) — The Associated Press two runs on five hits in eight
damage. looked nothing like the power pitcher innings.
In the seventh, Shawn Kelley (4-3) Mariners fans came to know during his Six shutout innings for Dice-K, Page 23 — The Associated Press
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AFC DISH

Colts defenders like newfound blitz freedom


WIN
2009 SCOREBOARD LOSS
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AFC EAST AFC NORTH AFC SOUTH AFC WEST

NE NYJ MIA BUF BAL PIT CLE CIN IND TEN HOU JAC SD DEN KC OAK
W-L 1-0 1-0 0-1 0-1 1-0 1-0 0-1 0-1 1-0 0-1 0-1 0-1 1-0 1-0 0-1 0-1
Pct. 1.000 1.000 .000 .000 1.000 1.000 .000 .000 1.000 .000 .000 .000 1.000 1.000 .000 .000
PF 25 24 7 24 38 13 20 7 14 10 7 12 24 12 24 20
PA 24 7 19 25 24 10 34 12 12 13 24 14 20 7 38 24
Div. 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-1
AFC 1-0 1-0 0-0 0-1 1-0 1-0 0-0 0-1 1-0 0-1 0-1 0-1 1-0 1-0 1-0 0-1
1 BUF* @HOU @ATL @NE* KC TEN † MIN DEN JAC @PIT † NYJ @IND @OAK* @CIN @BAL SD*
2 @NYJ NE IND* TB @SD @CHI @DEN @GB @MIA* HOU @TEN ARI BAL CLE OAK @KC
3 ATL TEN @SD NO CLE @CIN @BAL PIT @ARI @NYJ JAC @HOU MIA @OAK @PHI DEN
4 BAL @NO BUF @MIA @NE SD CIN @CLE SEA @JAC OAK TEN @PIT DAL NYG @HOU
5 @DEN @MIA* NYJ* CLE CIN @DET @BUF @BAL @TEN IND @ARI @SEA — NE DAL @NYG
6 TEN BUF — @NYJ @MIN CLE @PIT HOU — @NE @CIN STL DEN † @SD* @WAS PHI
7 TB ^ @OAK NO @CAR — MIN GB CHI @STL — SF — @KC — SD NYJ
A.J. MAST / AP 8 — MIA @NYJ HOU DEN — @CHI — SF JAC @BUF @TEN OAK @BAL — @SD
MLB Gary Brackett, left, said he blitzed more often Sunday than any time he can remember. 9 MIA — @NE — @CIN @DEN* — BAL HOU @SF @IND KC @NYG PIT* @JAC —
10 @IND JAC TB @TEN @CLE* CIN BAL* @PIT NE BUF — @NYJ PHI @WAS @OAK KC
Colts MLB Gary Brackett figures he blitzed 11 NYJ @NE @CAR † @JAC IND @KC @DET @OAK @BAL @HOU* TEN* BUF @DEN SD PIT CIN
four times Sunday vs. Jacksonville—more Chargers RB LaDainian Tomlinson sprained 12 @NO* CAR @BUF MIA PIT @BAL @CIN CLE @HOU ARI IND @SF KC NYG § @SD @DAL §
than he can remember having in any game an ankle Monday night at Oakland and isn’t 13 @MIA ◊ BUF † NE ◊ NYJ † @GB* OAK SD DET TEN @IND @JAC HOU @CLE @KC DEN @PIT
during his seven-year NFL career. expected to practice today. The Chargers also 14 CAR @TB @JAC @KC DET @CLE † PIT † @MIN DEN STL SEA MIA @DAL @IND BUF WAS
Yes, these are the changes the Colts have concerns on the offensive line after C Nick 15 @BUF ATL @ TEN NE CHI GB @KC @SD @JAC † MIA @STL IND † CIN OAK CLE @DEN
promised when bringing in new defensive Hardwick (ankle) and rookie RG Louis Vasquez
16 JAC @IND HOU @ATL @PIT BAL OAK KC NYJ SD° @MIA @NE @TEN° @PHI @CIN @CLE
coordinator Larry Coyer. (knee) were hurt Monday night.
17 @HOU CIN PIT IND @OAK @MIA JAC @NYJ @BUF @SEA NE @CLE WAS KC @DEN BAL
“I’d say we blitzed upward of 10 times The Chargers were down to five healthy
Sunday, and that’s about 10 more times offensive linemen Monday night, which
than we’ve done in the past,” Brackett forced LT Marcus McNeill to stay in the game even
joked. “Last year, that wasn’t really our after he rolled an ankle. Coach Norv Turner said kickoff, but he hopes to get a good reading season opener, and his replacement, Keyaron returns against the Bills and 6 yards on two
philosophy. We had some blitzes, but they Tuesday that Hardwick, Vasquez and Tom- on Cassel much earlier this week. Fox, played well and recorded a team-high 10 returns against the Bucs.
were mostly run blitzes.” linson could be game-time decisions Sunday. The Chiefs also signed WR Bobby Wade on tackles while also recovering a fumble.
With the Jaguars starting rookies OTs Tuesday and waived LB Turk McBride. Since Bills coach Dick Jauron says MLB Paul
Eugene Monroe and Eben Britton, the Colts took Chiefs coach Todd Haley says QB Matt Cas- 2003, Wade has appeared in 90 games, Titans rookie CB Ryan Mouton (high ankle Posluszny will be out for “several weeks”
advantage. Monroe struggled mightily sel remains a question mark for Sunday’s including 44 starts with the Bears. sprain) is expected to return punts Sunday with a broken left arm and thus the team is
against the spin moves of former league game vs. the Raiders. Cassel missed last vs. Houston, according to Titans coach Jeff looking to add a linebacker. Youngster Mar-
sacks champ Dwight Freeney. The Colts cred- week’s game with a left knee injury he sus- Steelers ILB Lawrence Timmons (sprained Fisher. Last week, against Pittsburgh, Cortland cus Buggs or Keith Ellison could fill in for
ited Freeney with one sack and four pres- tained Aug. 29. He returned to practice last ankle) didn’t practice Monday and might not Finnegan had to handle the job but averaged Posluszny, but neither have looked good.
sures. Britton had problems with Pro Bowl week but limped slightly. Haley said Tues- practice today but remains hopeful he can only 3 yards on four returns. Mouton, who Another option could be Pat Thomas, who
DE Robert Mathis, who was more disruptive day the decision to start Brodie Croyle last play Sunday at Chicago, according to the Pitts- played in two preseason games before injur- started eight games for the Chiefs in ’08 but
than the stats indicated. week was not made until shortly before burgh Tribune-Review. Timmons sat out the ing his ankle, averaging 21 yards on two punt was cut late in camp.
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NFC DISH

Back injury ends OT Shawn Andrews’ season


Eagles RT Shawn Andrews was placed on WIN
I.R. on Tuesday, ending the two-time Pro
Bowl lineman’s season. Andrews missed
2009 SCOREBOARD LOSS
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the entire preseason and season opener NFC EAST NFC NORTH NFC SOUTH NFC WEST
with a back injury. He briefly returned to
practice, but his surgically repaired back
flared up again. NYG PHI DAL WAS GB MIN DET CHI NO ATL TB CAR SEA SF ARI STL
Philadelphia revamped its offensive line in W-L 1-0 1-0 1-0 0-1 1-0 1-0 0-1 0-1 1-0 1-0 0-1 0-1 1-0 1-0 0-1 0-1
Pct. 1.000 1.000 1000 0.000 1.000 1.000 0.000 0.000 1.000 1.000 0.000 0.000 1.000 1.000 0.000 0.000
the offseason, replacing longtime bookend PF 23 38 34 17 21 34 27 15 45 19 21 10 28 20 16 0
OTs Tra Thomas and Jon Runyan. The Eagles PA 17 10 21 23 15 20 45 21 27 7 34 38 0 16 20 28
signed Andrews’ brother, Stacy Andrews, and Div. 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 1-0 0-0 0-1 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-0 1-0 0-1 0-1
NFC 1-0 1-0 1-0 0-1 1-0 0-0 0-1 0-1 1-0 0-0 0-1 0-1 1-0 1-0 0-1 0-1
acquired his college roommate, Jason Peters.
1 WAS @CAR @TB @NYG CHI @CLE @NO @GB DET MIA DAL PHI STL @ARI SF @SEA
Winston Justice replaced Shawn Andrews in
the starting lineup, but Runyan remains 2 @DAL NO NYG STL CIN @DET MIN PIT @PHI CAR @BUF @ATL @SF SEA @ JAC @WAS
unsigned and worked out with the team last 3 @TB KC CAR* @DET @STL SF WAS @SEA @BUF @NE NYG @DAL CHI @MIN IND GB
week. 4 @KC — @DEN TB @MIN* GB* @CHI DET NYJ — @WAS — @IND STL — @SF
Critics have questioned Andrews’ passion 5 OAK TB @KC @CAR — @STL PIT — — @SF @PHI WAS JAC ATL HOU MIN
for football and wondered whether he’s more 6 @NO @OAK — @KC DET BAL @GB @ATL NYG CHI CAR @TB ARI — @SEA @JAC
interested in a music career. Andrews, who 7 ARI @WAS* ATL PHI* @CLE @PIT — @CIN @MIA @DAL NE ^ BUF — @HOU @NYG IND
sports a faux-hawk haircut that’s sometimes 8 @PHI NYG SEA — MIN @GB STL CLE ATL* @NO* — @ARI @DAL @IND CAR @DET
blonde or orange or red, loves to sing. He has 9 SD DAL @PHI @ATL @TB — @SEA ARI CAR WAS GB @NO DET TEN @CHI —
posted various YouTube videos where he 10 — @SD @GB DEN DAL DET @MIN @SF † @STL @CAR @MIA ATL @ARI CHI † SEA NO
talks about his latest musical compositions. 11 ATL @CHI WAS @DAL SF SEA CLE PHI @TB @NYG NO MIA † @MIN @GB @STL ARI
Andrews wrote a song, Gettin’ My Michael 12 @DEN § WAS OAK § @PHI @DET § CHI GB § @MIN NE* TB @ATL @NYJ @STL JAC TEN SEA
Phelps On, which he dedicated to the Olympic 13 DAL @ATL @NYG NO BAL* @ARI @CIN STL @WAS PHI @CAR TB SF @SEA MIN @CHI
champion. CHRIS O’MEARA / AP
14 PHI @NYG SD @OAK @CHI CIN @BAL GB @ATL NO NYJ @NE @HOU ARI* @SF* @TEN
Felix Jones’ bruised thigh could cause him to miss 15 @WAS* SF @NO ‡ NYG* @PIT @CAR ARI @BAL DAL ‡ @NYJ @SEA MIN TB @PHI @DET HOU
QB Jeff Garcia took Andrews’ spot on practice today.
16 CAR DEN @WAS DAL SEA @CHI* @SF MIN* TB BUF @NO @NYG @GB DET STL @ARI
the roster, and the Eagles also elevated
Michael Vick to the team’s 53-man roster and ankle but pledges to practice today, accord- 17 @MIN @DAL PHI @SD @ARI NYG CHI @DET @CAR @TB ATL NO TEN @STL GB SF
placed WR Hank Baskett on waivers. ing to The Dallas Morning News. It’s a normal
Garcia was signed to provide insurance sprain and not a “high ankle sprain,” which
because Donovan McNabb has a cracked rib normally requires weeks, not days, to heal. hamstring is feeling “better” but not good NFL, served as the team’s primary kickoff
and is uncertain to play Sunday vs. New enough to practice this week or play Sun- The Lions brought in DE Paul Spicer, who returner for five games last season before his
Orleans. The team now has four quarter- Cowboys RB Felix Jones sustained a day at Dallas, according to the New York has played for the Jaguars and Saints, on season ended with an ankle injury.
backs on the active roster: McNabb, Kevin bruised thigh in the first half of Sunday’s Daily News. Ross says he is frustrated by the Tuesday for a workout, according to The
Kolb, Garcia and Vick. Kolb is expected to game vs. Tampa Bay and thus only got six slow recuperation because the hamstring is Detroit News. The Lions, who gave up 143 Weakside LB Michael Boley, who was sus-
start Sunday. carries, about half as many as what had been injured in two placed. He has no timetable yards rushing to journeyman Mike Bell last pended by the NFL from the Giants season
Vick is eligible to play September 27 vs. forecasted by the coaches. According to The for when he’ll be ready to play. week, face Minnesota’s Adrian Peterson Sunday. opener, was reinstated from the reserve-sus-
Kansas City. Vick, who had been on the Dallas Morning News, Jones was seen limping pended list on Tuesday. The Giants also got
exempt list, will begin practicing with the around the team complex Tuesday and is Ex-Giants WR David Tyree, a hero of Super The Saints have brought back kick running back Gartrell Johnson off waivers from
team today but cannot play Sunday. unsure if he’ll be able to practice today. Bowl 42, worked out for the Rams on Tues- return specialist and reserve WR Courtney the San Diego Chargers. The team needed a
day but hasn’t been signed. Since being cut, Roby, waiving TE Buck Ortega to make room on back because Danny Ware is out at least two
Dallas QB Tony Romo has a sprained Giants CB Aaron Ross says his left Tyree also has visited with the Ravens. the roster. Roby, now in his fourth year in the weeks after he dislocated his elbow Sunday.
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Q&A with ... 49ers CB Nate Clements Standings
AFC

‘It was definitely a step forward for us’


East W L T Pct PF PA Home Away AFC NFC Div
New England 1 0 0 1.000 25 24 1-0-0 0-0-0 1-0-0 0-0-0 1-0-0
N.Y. Jets 1 0 0 1.000 24 7 0-0-0 1-0-0 1-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0
Buffalo 0 1 0 .000 24 25 0-0-0 0-1-0 0-1-0 0-0-0 0-1-0
Miami 0 1 0 .000 7 19 0-0-0 0-1-0 0-0-0 0-1-0 0-0-0
San Francisco sacked Arizona’s Kurt Warner possible for the guys up front to
four times, harassing him all day, and inter- pressure the QB and stop the run. South W L T Pct PF PA Home Away AFC NFC Div
cepted two passes en route to a 20-16 vic-
tory on Sunday. Sporting News Radio’s Tim
Montemayor caught up with Nate Clements to
A: They complement us, and we
complement them. Our
mindset in the secondary is to keep
Indianapolis
Houston
Jacksonville
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Q: Do you feel like you’re a


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don’t have to cover that long. Cleveland 0 1 0 .000 20 34 0-1-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-1-0 0-0-0

previous years?

A: No, I just try to be consistent


in what I do and consistent
Q: You won at Arizona,
which has become a tough
place to play. Was this a
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in my job and always consistent in statement game for you guys? Oakland 0 1 0 .000 20 24 0-1-0 0-0-0 0-1-0 0-0-0 0-1-0
my craft. I wouldn’t say I’m a
different guy; I’m the same guy. A: It was definitely a step
forward for us. We knew
this was going to be a challenge.
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Q: You looked quick and strong


against the Cardinals on
Sunday, ready to just blow
They were just in the Super Bowl,
so it wasn’t like we were going up
against some slouches. They are a
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like I’ve always been quick
and strong. We collectively played
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well against Arizona. The guys up PAUL CONNORS / AP
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it and made my job a lot easier. at Kansas City.............3 .............3..........(39) Oakland Green Bay 1 0 0 1.000 21 15 1-0-0 0-0-0 1-0-0 0-0-0 1-0-0
interceptions. wide receivers Larry Fitzgerald at Tennessee ..............7 .............7..........(41) Houston
Minnesota 1 0 0 1.000 34 20 0-0-0 1-0-0 0-0-0 1-0-0 0-0-0
New England ......... 4½ ..........5½..........(47) at N.Y. Jets

Q: It seemed like the Niners


had a tight game plan
against the Cardinals. Do you Q: Was the game plan just to
keep it simple and not try
and Anquan Boldin in check?

A: We knew they would try to get


the ball to their playmakers,
at Green Bay...............9 .............9..........(42) Cincinnati
Minnesota.............. 9½ ...........10..........(47) at Detroit
at Philadelphia ......OFF .........OFF........(OFF) New Orleans
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feel like you met your goals? to do too much? which would be Larry and Anquan. at Washington ....... 9½ ...........10..........(37) St. Louis
at Jacksonville........ 4½ ..........3½..........(43) Arizona San Francisco 1 0 0 1.000 20 16 0-0-0 1-0-0 1-0-0 0-0-0 1-0-0

A: We definitely met some goals.


Our No. 1 goal was to win. I
think we executed consistently. There
A: Yes, definitely—just take
care of your responsibilities
and take care of your job. When you
Our job in the secondary was to make
sure we had tight coverage on those
guys—to make it difficult and to mess
at San Francisco .........1 ..........1½.......(39½) Seattle
at Buffalo ...................4 ..........4½..........(42) Tampa Bay
at Denver....................3 .............3.......(37½) Cleveland
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at San Diego........... 3½ .............3.......(40½) Baltimore
were some things we could have done have all 11 players doing their job as up the timing and the flow of that Pittsburgh ..................3 .............3.......(37½) at Chicago
better, but we executed consistently a unit, it works. It’s hard to beat a offense—and that’s what we did.
at Dallas ................. 2½ .............3.......(43½) N.Y. Giants Schedule
Monday Sunday Cincinnati at Green Bay, 1 p.m. Cleveland at Denver, 4:15 p.m.
and everybody did what they were defense when everyone is taking Indianapolis ...............3 .............3..........(42) at Miami Houston at Tennessee, 1 p.m. New Orleans at Philadelphia, 1 p.m. N.Y. Giants at Dallas, 8:20 p.m.
supposed to do. And when you have
guys taking care of responsibilities,
care of their responsibilities.
Q: Niners linebacker Parys
Haralson said you made
Off key
Philadelphia QB questionable
Minnesota at Detroit, 1 p.m.
Carolina at Atlanta, 1 p.m.
St. Louis at Washington, 1 p.m.
Arizona at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Buffalo, 4:05 p.m.
Seattle at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m.
Monday
Indianapolis at Miami, 8:30 p.m.
that opens up opportunities for
players to make plays such as sacks, Q: How were you able to
keep Arizona Pro Bowl
his sack of Warner possible. He
said the secondary made it
New England at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.
Oakland at Kansas City, 1 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Chicago, 4:15 p.m.
Baltimore at San Diego, 4:15 p.m.
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Scouts’ views
Uneven Campbell continues
to confound as Redskins sputter Beware of Curry; 49ers a dark horse
BY DENNIS DILLON
ddillon@sportingnews.com
BY BILL EICHENBERGER
beichenberger@sportingnews.com Gradual improvement Ten observations and opinions after
Week 1 from two NFL scouts, one from an
The Redskins had high hopes
Inconsistency and an inability to for fifth-year quarterback Jason NFC team and another from an AFC team:
convert drives into touchdowns is Campbell this season. Those
one thing when learning a new
offense under a rookie coach.
But it is entirely different when
hopes remain. He completed
19-of-26 passes for 211 yards and
a touchdown Sunday, but he also
1. When you lose an impact
player like MLB Brian
Urlacher I don’t know how you
,
threw an interception and lost a
those problems persist, as they did fumble and thus keep alive the overcome that. He’s as important
Sunday for the Redskins and sec- doubts of whether he’s the long- to the Bears’ defense as Ray Lewis is
ond-year coach Jim Zorn. term answer. to the Ravens’ defense.
“I think we showed flashes of YEAR STARTS COMP. PCT. TDS INT.
what we can do offensively, but we
weren’t consistent,” tight end Chris
Cooley said after the Redskins’
2006
2007 13
2008 16
7 53.1
60.0
62.3
10 6
12 11
13 6
2. If there’s one rookie who
could set the league on fire, it’s
Seahawks LB Aaron Curry. He plays Scouts are excited about Seahawks rookie Aaron Curry and his intensity.
ELAINE THOMPSON / AP

23-17 loss at Giants Stadium. “We hard, he plays fast and he plays with
didn’t take care of the ball, we had intensity. He’s physical, and he’s not not going to wow you on offense, but level. Last year, you had mostly run-
some silly penalties and we stopped “We really didn’t have a chance to intimidated by veteran players. they have a good run/pass balance ning backs taking the snap in that
ourselves on drives.” get into our offense,” Portis said of and a quarterback in Shaun Hill who scheme, but now you have real quar-
With Zorn calling the plays,
Washington’s offense produced
only a field goal and a touchdown in
the Redskins, who ran only
five plays in the first quarter. “They
dominated the time of possession
3. I think DE Richard Seymour is
going to help the Raiders a
lot—if his attitude is right. You saw
manages the game and doesn’t make
a lot of mistakes. Going into Arizona
and beating the defending NFC
terbacks who could fit into that role—
Pat White in Miami, Michael Vick in
Philly and Seneca Wallace in Seattle.
garbage time. and kept us off the field.” Monday night what he can do as far champs was no small thing. All those guys could take the snap
Typical was the Redskins’ failure BILL KOSTROUN / AP Campbell had respectable num- as making plays in the backfield and and do a variety of things as far as
to score a touchdown after an inter-
ception in the third quarter gave
them the ball at the Giants’ 11-yard
Despite his inconsistent play against the
Giants, Redskins QB Jason Campbell is upbeat.
bers, completing 19-of-26 passes for
211 yards. But he made a couple of
costly mistakes on consecutive pos-
being disruptive. But coming from a
winning organization like New Eng-
land and going to Oakland is not a
6. It’s too early to tell if Bucs RB
Cadillac Williams has revived
his career. He always has been a tal-
running it, throwing it or turning it
into an option play.

line. That series began with Clinton


Portis being dropped for a 6-yard
loss and ended with a sack of Jason
advantage of a Giants secondary
missing starting cornerback Aaron
Ross and nickel back Kevin Dock-
sessions in the second quarter, the
sort that have led to speculation
that he might not be the long-term
player’s dream. Let’s check in on him
in about eight weeks and see if he’s
doing the same things.
ented player. The big question with
him is being able to withstand pun-
ishment and be durable enough to
9. I don’t think Bengals WR
Chad Ochocinco’s eccentric
behavior is hurting his performance
Campbell on third down, forcing ery. Both were sidelined with ham- answer at quarterback. come back the next week. on the field. It’s kind of comical at
the Redskins to settle for a 27-yard
field goal that cut the Giants’ lead to
17-10.
string injuries.
The Redskins did have success
throwing underneath routes. Slot
He threw an interception on an
ill-advised pass, then had the ball
swatted out of his hand by Osi
4. You hate to say Panthers QB
Jake Delhomme isn’t as produc-
tive as he once was, but he has some 7. Raiders QB JaMarcus Russell is
making small strides. He’s
times, to be honest. But it could
become a powder keg if the Bengals
were to lose four or five games in a
“When we get in the red zone, we receiver Antwaan Randle El and Umenyiora, who picked up the issues with accuracy and decision- doing a better job of moving around row. Right now, it’s not an issue.
have to finish,” said Portis, who Cooley led the Redskins with seven fumble and raced 37 yards for a making. Maybe he’s not reading in the pocket, feeling pressure and
gained 34 yards on his first carry
but only 28 yards on his remaining
15. “That hampered us last year—
receptions apiece. But with the
exception of one Randle El catch-
and-run for 35 yards, all were for 17
touchdown to give the Giants a 17-0
lead.
Still, Campbell remains upbeat.
defenses as well as he once did, or
opponents have just caught up to what
he does. One thing he does is force
hanging in there. But the lack of accu-
racy is what’s going to kill him. It’s
not the physical talent or the arm
10. It’s impressive to see Saints
QB Drew Brees put up all
those stats, but the Saints haven’t
not scoring seven in the red zone.” yards or less. “I’m not discouraged at all,” he throws, and I think defenses are tak- strength. It’s the accuracy part. made the playoffs since 2006. I’d
“This offense is not designed to The Giants double-covered wide said. “We left a lot of plays out ing advantage of that. rather have a quarterback throw for
settle for field goals,” said Zorn,
clearly frustrated.
The Redskins did not take
receiver Santana Moss, the Red-
skins’ main deep threat, and limited
him to two catches for six yards.
there. We’ve got to just forget about
this, come back and execute better
next week.” 5. The 49ers could be a dark
horse in the NFC. They’re
8. I’m curious to see how people
build off the Wildcat forma-
tion this year and take it to the next
200 yards and two touchdowns
(per game) and be there in conten-
tion for the playoffs in December.
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GAME OF THE WEEK: Tennessee at No. 1 Florida, 3:30 p.m. ET, Saturday, CBS
WHAT WE LEARNED Sporting News Today’s Matt Hayes analyzes
what Tuesday’s buzz means to college football

Kiffin wisely showers Florida defense with praise


Dressing them down
Apparently, you really can get under The Senator’s skin. BY DAVE CURTIS
Ohio State coach Jim Tressel took some not-so-veiled dcurtis@sportingnews.com
shots at the Buckeyes fan base during his weekly press
conference, calling some of the whiners who emailed In the beginning, Lane Kiffin’s comments about
him—and you know who you are—“miserable.” Florida and coach Urban Meyer were equal parts
Tressel, who is known for reading and responding to inflammatory and foolish. Why poke a beast that had
emails, got a boatload after the Buckeyes’ 18-15 loss to USC just shown Georgia the cost of tweaking the Gators?
last weekend extended their losing streak to teams ranked Things have changed in the past six weeks. At SEC
in the top five to six games. In calling the fans “some of the media days, Kiffin all but conceded the national title
most unhappy people in the world,” Tressel made a back- to UF and another Heisman trophy to QB Tim Tebow.
handed apology in the form of, “I hate to be part of making And in a news conference this week in Knoxville,
someone less happy. I mean, they’re already miserable and Kiffin’s inflated the Gators’ rep a little more.
to make them less happy, I feel bad.” “They’re extremely talented,” Kiffin said of Florida.
Wow. Just wow. “I look at their defense, look at their 11 starters, and
For the first time since he arrived in Columbus in you have 11 NFL players. They’re maybe the most tal-
2001, we see a new side the successful conservative ented defense ever to play, and maybe the best quar-
coach. Jimmy T. has a little attitude to his game. terback ever to play college football.”
And there’s not a thing wrong with that. The lofty praise makes it sound like the Vols won’t
be singing “Rocky Top” all night long after beating
The polling game Florida on Saturday afternoon, as Kiffin once pre-
Ladies and gentlemen, your Colley Matrix ranking sys- dicted. The geniuses in Las Vegas sure don’t think
tem is up and running. You know, the Matrix that is one so—the Gators opened as better than three-touch-
of the computer rankings used by the BCS to help deter- down favorites over Tennessee.
mine who plays in the BCS national championship game. But Kiffin’s change in tone doesn’t signal regret for
If the season ended today, the Colley Matrix would his winter and spring comments. No, it’s merely a
spit out—wait for it, everyone—Pittsburgh vs. LSU. sign of reality. Maybe UF and UT someday will run WADE PAYNE / AP
I ask you, what poll is more on the mark than the Col- stride-for-stride atop the SEC East again. But this Lane Kiffin seems to know his Vols face long odds against Florida.
ley Matrix? year, the talent gap between the teams stretches wider
The remaining top 10: Wisconsin, Texas, UCLA, than it has in at least a generation. bled snap, three interceptions and three sacks.
Missouri, Arizona, Alabama, North Carolina. Florida’s defense hasn’t allowed a touchdown yet this Kiffin said he never considered inserting backup
For those interested, current AP, coaches and Sport- season against two overmatched opponents. In its last Nick Stephens despite the offense’s troubles Satur-
ing News No. 1 Florida is not in the Top 25. An educated big test, the Gators held Oklahoma’s record-setting, jug- day. Still, the coach said this week, the quarterback
guess: This has something to do with the strength of MARCO GARCIA / AP gernaut offense to 14 points. And the sense in Gaines- needs to produce more.
Florida’s first two games (I-AA Charleston Southern Coach Greg McMackin said Hawaii’s trip to Las Vegas is a business one. ville is that this defense sees plenty of room to improve. “We need him to play well,” Kiffin said of Cromp-
and Troy), which, of course, are light years behind that “We’re not anywhere near as good as we can be yet,” ton. “I need to help him with better play calls to get
of Pitt (I-AA Youngstown State and Buffalo). and in the early stages of nearly two weeks in hotel linebacker Ryan Stamper said. “But we’ve done real him rolling a little bit to get his confidence back.”
Please, ridicule at your own pace. rooms, and there’s no fun allowed. well so far. We’ve picked up right where we left off.” Facing almost an identical defensive line to what
“Even the ones who are 21,” Warriors coach Greg So, too, has the Tennessee offense. The Vols managed he’ll see Saturday, Crompton posted a so-so Saturday
Road blues McMackin told the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. “I won’t be just 208 yards offense in Saturday’s loss to UCLA and afternoon last year against the Gators. But Tennessee
So this is what you get for your longest stretch of road doing any gambling myself. This is a business trip.” scored one offensive touchdown. The points came on a didn’t score until the fourth; by then, it trailed 27-0.
games in 45 years: Stay away from The Strip, fellas. McMackin says the players can spend free time in one-play, 11-yard drive that followed a fumble recovery. On paper, this game could play out in similar fash-
You would think, maybe, just maybe, your coach Summerlin, Nev., near Las Vegas. Hawaii (2-0) has The problems start with senior quarterback Jonathan ion for the Vols. A lack of talent, especially at quarter-
would give you some free time to, you know, see the wins over Central Arkansas and Washington State— Crompton, who won the starting job during August’s back, means their offensive struggles figure to
sights in Las Vegas. I mean, if you’re 21. essentially, two I-AA teams—and if it can get one more training camp despite a rough 2008. The box score pro- continue for much of the year. And that makes it
But here is Hawaii, in the middle of a three-game victory from the rest of the road trip, should be set up to vides the perfect summation for Crompton’s day against tough to see how they fare well against maybe the
road trip (Washington State, UNLV, Louisiana Tech) get six wins and become bowl-eligible. the Bruins—13-for-26, 93 yards, no touchdowns, a fum- most talented defense ever to play.
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FIVE UNDER PRESSURE

FEELING THE HEAT


1. Nick Siciliano
Sporting News Today’s Matt Hayes
looks at five under fire for Week 3

at Florida State. This, of course, begs the question: 4. Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin
Nick who, you say? Get to know him, folks. How open would receivers at Miami and Jacksonville and QB Jonathan Crompton
Siciliano is the quarterbacks coach at Ohio State, State have been if not for the speed in the secondary? Forget about the silly talk of payback for Flor-
the guy who this season officially replaced long- Now the Seminoles travel to BYU on Saturday to ida. Tennessee has a much bigger issue on its
time successful Buckeyes assis- play a program that, frankly, invented getting hands: what to do with Crompton.
tant Joe Daniels, who was moved open. Talk to any of the pass-happy coaches in Before we go further, let’s be fair and explain
to an administrative role while he college football, and all say their offenses—in one that Crompton has had four offensive coordinators
courageously fights cancer. I say form or another—have BYU principles from way in four years at Knoxville. But at this point, his
“officially” because Siciliano back in the Norm Chow/LaVell Edwards days. confidence couldn’t be lower.
coached Buckeyes quarterback The young and inexperienced FSU defense If the Vols had another option at the position,
Terrelle Pryor last season while doesn’t cover well, can’t get pressure from its front he would’ve played last week against UCLA
Daniels fought the disease. four and will be reduced to one of two scenarios: when Crompton was—again—gift-wrapping a
Here’s the problem: When gamble with various blitz schemes and hope to Bruins victory. Kiffin has to somehow keep
Matt Hayes faced with the possibility of create turnovers, or play zone and keep everything Crompton mentally in the game no matter how
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
hiring an outsider that could in front of them—and hope impatient BYU makes bad it gets. Because if it gets zero points and
expand his team’s methodology, mistakes. That’s a bad plan for a team that desper- multiple turnovers bad, Kiffin could lose Cromp-
Ohio State coach Jim Tressel gave the third-most ately needs to avoid a potential 1-3 start. ton for the season.
important assistant coaching spot (behind the two Because if this team goes 1-3 in September, loose That’s when a potential 7-5 season—with 15
coordinators) to a 34-year-old whose coaching cannon president T.K. Wetherell is going to blame extra bowl practices (huge for a young team)—
career includes jobs with Oklahoma (assistant someone. It won’t be Bobby Bowden, his former quickly becomes a 4-8 disaster.
video coordinator), Youngstown State (tight ends), position coach from the 1960s, nor will it be Jimbo
Urbana (offensive coordinator/offensive line) and Fisher, his $5 million coach-in-waiting who really 5. The Cal psyche
North Carolina A&T (receivers and quarterbacks). is the head coach now, anyway. Two long road trips, two ugly nonconference
Siciliano might be a terrific coach someday. But It’s going to be Andrews, the guy who toiled and losses. The common thread: Cal comes unglued
right now, one of the most talented players in the sweated and busted his tail at FSU for years, early and never recovers.
game (Pryor) isn’t reaching his full potential. The fielding some of the nation’s best defenses season Can this road game at Minnesota be any differ-
biggest jump a player makes is from his freshman after season, only to be told the hotshot offensive ent than recent trips to Tennessee in 2006 (35-18
to sophomore season, and Pryor doesn’t look any guru—let’s pause here for reflection—is the loss) and Maryland in 2008 (35-27)? And frankly,
better—or any worse—than his freshman season. school’s next coach. we may as well add a 2004 trip to Southern Miss,
He still makes bad decisions, still has poor where an ugly 26-16 victory cost the Bears the
mechanics, still bails and doesn’t trust his protec- 3. The Notre Dame defense Rose Bowl.
tion or progressions. Bill Walsh once told me years The Irish scored more than enough points last We’ve already seen that Minnesota plays
ago a simple phrase that holds true to this day: week to win at Michigan. The defense, on other better in its new on-campus palace instead of the
Players play how they’re coached. hand, still has a long way to go. road, and it won’t be an easy environment for Cal
Look at the other side of the field in last week’s ND doesn’t have big-hitting, physical safeties quarterback Kevin Riley.
game against USC. When Pete Carroll needed a who can walk close to the line of scrimmage in run This game is huge for a Cal team that feels like
quarterbacks coach to replace Steve Sarkisian, he support and drop in coverage from anywhere on it can win the Pac-10 but still must play at
hired Jeremy Bates, a successful, experienced NFL the field. And until the Irish figure out how to Oregon on Sept. 26 before USC comes to Berke-
coach. USC freshman quarterback Matt Barkley slow down the zone-read play, they’ll see more and ley on Oct. 3.
didn’t win the game for USC, but he didn’t lose it, more of it as the season progresses. Two wins in the next two weeks will give the
either. And he played with a ton of poise. Michigan State, which has won six in a row at Bears the confidence they haven’t had since 2004,
South Bend in the annual series, is more of a when a last-second Aaron Rodgers pass was
PHIL COALE / AP 2. Mickey Andrews power running team. But you better believe after knocked away in the end zone to preserve a USC
If Florida State’s defense doesn’t stop BYU this weekend, veteran defensive Florida State’s longtime defensive coordinator said watching the Irish last week, the Spartans will use victory.
coordinator Mickey Andrews could be the fall guy. in fall camp that he could have his fastest defense ever more zone-read principles on Saturday. mhayes@sportingnews.com
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‘This game against East Carolina is personal for me’


About the author
Deunta
Williams,
North
Carolina S
A junior from
Jacksonville,
N.C., Williams
enters
Saturday’s
game against East Carolina
with two interceptions and two
breakups. The Tar Heels look to
start the season 3-0 for the first
time since 1997.

BY DEUNTA WILLIAMS
For SN Today

We had a pretty wild ending to our


game against Connecticut on Satur-
day. I’d never really been a part of
something like that before (a holding
penalty in the end zone resulted in a JEFFREY A. CAMARATI / UNC ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS
safety and 12-10 win for North Caro- Deunta Williams loved the teamwork involved in UNC’s comeback win over Connecticut.
lina), but it reminded me of the
Miami-Ohio State national champi- after the game for giving the offense personal for me. I’m not going to
onship game back in 2002. That a chance to come back and do what hold anything back this week.
pass interference against Miami (in they had to do. I think our offense I should have a lot of friends and
the end zone) was a bad call, of did a tremendous job of stepping family in the stands on Saturday.
course, but I remember that like it up and finishing. My aunt lived in Greenville, so
was yesterday. But I’d never person- We tell our offense, all we need is during the summers I used to go
ally experienced something like three points. That’s how much down there and stay with her, and
what happened on Saturday. confidence we have. If they give us she lived just three minutes from
I knew as soon as the flag was three points, we’ll get the win. It the ECU stadium. I’d play basket-
thrown that it was a safety. I was takes me back to the Baltimore ball on the courts next to the sta-
standing right beside Coach Davis Ravens and their Super Bowl run dium, and I know that school well.
trying to get them to call that. It was and the confidence their defense Any time we have a chance to
a holding penalty, but I wasn’t sure if had every week. play another team from North Car-
they were going to call it a safety. At They used to tell their offense to olina, it’s a huge game because we
first the ref didn’t make the safety just score one time and they’d take feel like we need to dominate the
signal, he was just saying it was a care of the rest. state… and there’s no better team to
hold. But we were all yelling safety This week in practice is going to start with than ECU. I’m not trying
because he was in the end zone. be tough on our scout team. I feel to push anybody’s buttons with
Both the offense and the defense sorry for those guys, and that’s that, but they’ve proven themselves
had a part in the comeback, but T.J. nothing personal against them, but in the state these last few years.
(Yates) was definitely thanking us this game against East Carolina is — As told to James Boswell
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Former Hurricanes tell Harris to keep it up Tressel: I feel bad for our unhappy fans
Only a sophomore, Miami QB Jacory Harris already is Was he being facetious or speaking from the
regarded as one of the team’s best leaders. heart? Only Ohio State coach Jim Tressel knows the
“You’d think he’s a senior,” CB Brandon Harris told The answer to that, but his comments about critical
Miami Herald. e-mails following a disheartening 18-15 loss to USC
So don’t expect Jacory Harris’ big night—386 yards are not likely to play well in Buckeyes country.
passing, nine completions of 20 more yards to six dif- “Honestly, the thing when I read some of them is I
ferent teammates, two touchdowns—against Florida feel terrible for them because there’s no way they’re
State to make him overconfident heading into Thurs- happy,” Tressel said at his weekly media luncheon.
day night’s game against Georgia Tech. “They’ve got to be some of the most unhappy people
Even if he received several reminders from former in the world, and I feel bad because we just made
Hurricanes about how well he played. them less happy.
“Gino Torretta, Ken Dorsey, William Joseph, Santana Moss texted “And I hate to be a part of making someone less
me,” Harris told the newspaper. “Torretta and Dorsey happy. I mean, they’re already miserable and to make
congratulated me, told me to keep the team focused, make them less happy, I feel bad.”
sure we don’t get bigheaded, keep this thing going.” Tressel, according to The Columbus Dispatch, went
In other Miami news, the team will be without defen- on to say that the loss didn’t exactly make him feel
sive backs DeMarcus Van Dyke (undisclosed injury) and good, either. But he added that he doesn’t have time
JoJo Nicholas (illness) Thursday. to mope with his team preparing for Saturday’s JEFF ROBERSON / AP
Van Dyke was hurt in the season-opening win at game against Toledo at Cleveland Browns Stadium. A quad injury shouldn’t keep Juice Williams out of Illinois’ lineup.
Florida State. WR Aldarius Johnson (groin) is listed as
questionable and likely will be a game-time decision. Illinois coach Ron Zook told reporters in a confer- who have combined for 23 receptions, 494 yards and
PHIL COALE / AP ence call that QB Juice Williams has recovered from his six touchdowns in two games.
With two games in the books for most teams, Geor- QB Jacory Harris wants to help bring back national glory to the ‘U.’ quadriceps injury and should be ready when the
gia Tech sophomore CB Jerrard Tarrant sits atop the nation’s Illini travel to Ohio Stadium for their conference Minnesota athletic director Joel Maturi says the
leaderboard in punt returns. in Saturday’s win over James Madison. opener Sept. 26. school is trying to work out problems with the new
Two of his four returns have gone for touchdowns, Sophomore Cameron Chism, among others, likely will vie Williams was injured early in last Saturday’s game Gophers stadium before Saturday’s game vs. Cal.
and he’s averaging 43 yards on runbacks. for Carroll’s spot, according to The Baltimore Sun. against Illinois State when he was hit on an option Fans faced long lines to get in and long waits at con-
“I think Jerrard is the best returner we’ve had in the Friedgen also said he didn’t expect starting S Jamari keeper and had to yield to backup Eddie McGee. It was cession stands at last Saturday’s inaugural game.
two years we’ve been here,” special teams coordinator Jeff McCollough (foot) or starting OT Bruce Campbell (turf toe) to McGee who directed most of the team’s 45-17 rout. Maturi told WCCO Radio in Minneapolis on Tues-
Monken told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. play Saturday against Middle Tennessee. Both missed The Illini are currently in a bye week. day that the stadium will open up 30 minutes earlier—
Miami, Tech’s opponent Thursday night, punted four the James Madison game. two hours before game time—and will open a couple
times, with none returned and three inside the 20, in the Michigan State, coming off a stunning loss to more gates. Express lines also will be added for people
opener against Florida State. Clemson, which hosts Boston College on Saturday, Central Michigan, announced Tuesday that FS Tren- who aren’t carrying bags that have to be searched.
actually feels pretty good about itself coming off a loss ton Robinson will make his first career start after
Maryland fifth-year senior CB Nolan Carroll, one of to Georgia Tech. being moved above Danny Fortener and Kendell Davis- Trying to help his team that has been flagged
the team’s four captains, likely is out for the rest of the The Tigers, down 24-0 at one point, rallied to take the Clark on the depth chart. for 21 penalties in two games—the total would be
season after having surgery for a broken leg. lead 27-24 in the fourth quarter before losing 30-27. “I think he deserves that opportunity,” coach Mark two dozen if three calls weren’t declined—Hoosiers
Coach Ralph Friedgen told reporters that doctors inserted “When the picture’s all painted, it’s going to be a nice Dantonio told The Detroit News. coach Bill Lynch asked several referees to call practice
a screw to stabilize the bone. Carroll apparently was picture,” coach Dabo Swinney told reporters Tuesday. “You The Spartans’ secondary will be challenged by the Tuesday and today. Eight of the calls have been for
kicked near the shin by a teammate while making a tackle saw an effort and a will to win that’s uncommon.” Irish’s receiving tandem of Michael Floyd and Golden Tate, illegal procedure.
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Rescheduling Texas-TT was not simple as ABC Tebow can complete four-peat vs. UT
Apparently the decision to move the Texas-Texas It’s well-documented that Tim including about a dozen starters
Tech football game from Week 10 on the schedule to Tebow has claimed the two biggest and quarterback Jevan Snead, and
Week 3 wasn’t the no-brainer it might seem—at least honors in college football: he won a knocked the Rebels off the rails.
not from the perspective of the Red Raiders. Heisman Trophy and was a part of Now the team is out of sync,
The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reported that Tech two national title teams at Florida. and the flu’s only partly to blame.
athletic director Gerald Myers proposed the idea to coach It has even been said that there’s Ole Miss didn’t look like a top 5
Mike Leach, knowing the financial payoff would help the nothing Tebow hasn’t done, but team against Memphis and some
program. But he wasn’t about to do anything without that would be untrue. He has of the confidence surrounding
Leach signing off first. another milestone approaching the squad has been wiped away.
“There was discussion about it,” Myers told the Saturday against Tennessee. Nutt’s making no apologies for
newspaper. “ABC called to ask us if we’d consider mov- Tebow could become just the a 31-point road victory over the
ing that game up to this week, then they’d put it on ABC third quarterback to go undefeated Tigers, but he called the team
national television. So I talked to Mike about it and he against the Vols in a four-year span, “sluggish” earlier this week and
thought about it, and then he supported it, more from a The Gainesville Sun reported. vowed the Rebels would pick
scheduling standpoint than anything else, I think. It Tebow would join former Gator things up as game time nears.
gave him a chance to break up all those games at the Danny Wuerffel and former Alabama “Offensively I think we can
end of the year without an open date.” QB Jay Barker as the only quarter- block better, run better routes
Just how much Tech will benefit from the move on the LM OTERO / AP backs to accomplish that feat. JOHN RAOUX / AP and throw better,” Nutt said. “I
field remains to be seen. But the school will reportedly Mike Leach, left, is OK with taking on Mack Brown in Week 3. “Since I’ve been here, it’s been Tim Tebow has a chance at becoming the think our total execution can get
receive $315,000 for the national telecast, considerably such a big game,” Tebow told The third QB to go undefeated against the Vols. better, and our players know that.
more than the $175,000 most televised games generate. Colorado’s defense already has allowed 1,000 yards, Sun. “It’s an intense rivalry. It’s a From start to finish—the way we
77 points and nine touchdowns in two games—and it rivalry where you go out there athletics, as this past weekend break the huddle, take the line of
It was a good news/bad news announcement by doesn’t figure to get any easier with Texas, Missouri, and you play extremely hard. It’s showed on several different levels, scrimmage—you want to be on
Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy. First the good: The Kansas and Oklahoma State on the schedule. one of the most physical games including to us. When we lost to automatic pilot.”
ankle injury suffered by top RB Kendall Hunter in Satur- “We’ve been through this before, players and coaches, that we’ll play all year.” UCLA, we lost to a better academic
day’s loss to Houston is not as bad as expected. and you just have to stay with it,” Hawkins said. “I institution, too.” Kentucky freshman line-
And now the bad: “But the likelihood of him playing think we’re starting to find ourselves offensively and Tennessee’s interim president backer Ridge Wilson has been sus-
(Saturday against Rice) is not good,” Gundy told The there’s a few things to clean up on defense, but there’s a has told a newspaper he talked to No. 5 Ole Miss (1-0) play FCS pended indefinitely by coach Rich
Oklahoman. In Hunter’s place will be Keith Toston and lot of football left.” Lane Kiffin “early on” about the uni- opponent Southeastern Louisi- Brooks after surrendering to cam-
Beau Johnson, who combined to rush for 148 yards and versity having more than an ath- ana (2-0) on Saturday then makes pus police on a charge of fourth-
two touchdowns against the Cougars. The Oklahoman reported that Brody Eldridge, moving letic reputation, and he also said a quick turnaround for a confer- degree assault.
back to tight end and playing with a broken pinkie finger, the Vols didn’t just lose Saturday to ence game next Thursday at University campus interim
Colorado coach Dan Hawkins raised a few eyebrows got high marks from coaches after the Sooners’ victory a better UCLA football team. South Carolina. police chief Joe Monroe said
with his winter prediction of “10 wins and no excuses” last Saturday over Idaho State. “He’s a strong character The Chattanooga Times Free Press Had things gone to plan, Houston police received a call about 11 p.m.
in Boulder. So far, it has been two ugly losses and plenty out there, and makes a difference wherever he’s playing,” reported that in a Monday meeting Nutt’s squad would have come off Monday about an altercation
of questions for the Buffaloes. coach Bob Stoops told the newspaper. “He had another great with its editors, interim president a resounding victory over Mem- between a male and female out-
First they had to watch the fans for rival Colorado State game last week.” Jan Simek said “Lane comes from phis and then had a week of prep- side a university housing com-
storm their home field after a 23-17 season-opening loss. The plan is for Eldridge, as a replacement for injured Jer- the Pac-10, which is in many aration to get ready for the plex. The female complainant
Then they saw an underdog Toledo pull most of its start- maine Gresham, to get most of his snaps at tight end, though respects the epitome of great aca- challenges ahead. Instead, the flu said Wilson struck her in the face
ers in the fourth quarter of a 54-38 loss last Saturday. he could get some at center. demic institutions playing great sacked a third of the team, during an argument.
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PAC-10 ‘Cincinnati is going to be really tough’


INSIDE DISH BY KEATON KRISTICK
For SN Today

Bruised shoulder might bench Barkley We had a close game at UNLV


last Saturday. Our defense did really
USC QB Matt Barkley is still unable to throw in prac- well in the beginning, and the
tice, increasing the possibility the freshman might miss offense put up some points early in
the No. 3 Trojans’ upcoming game at Washington. the second half. Then UNLV got a
Barkley has a bone bruise in his right shoulder from couple of breaks, and they got the
last week’s victory at Ohio State. momentum on their side. They
Although the injury feels better than it did after the came back at the end of the fourth
game, sophomore Aaron Corp worked with USC’s first- quarter, and we held them off with a
team offense Tuesday while Barkley was held out of field goal with seven seconds left.
throwing drills. We’re just glad we beat UNLV,
“I tried this morning, and it felt pretty bad,” Barkley because they were a good team, and
said. “I can’t really bring my shoulder back. ... I thought we definitely respect them.
I was going to be able to throw today, but it has gotten In the second quarter, I had a
better. I think it’s progressing.” fumble recovery. There was an
out route, and the guy caught it in
UCLA suspended four football players for violat- open space and tried to jump over
ing team rules, sidelining them for Saturday’s home JOHN FROSCHAUER / AP one of our players. Lance Mitch- DANIEL GLUSKOTER / AP
game against Kansas State. Marshall Lobbestael (8) will get his shot at quarterbacking WSU. ell, one of our safeties, really gave Justin Kahut’s kick in the final seconds gave Oregon State a win over UNLV.
Starting cornerback Courtney Viney was suspended by him a pop, and the ball came out.
coach Rick Neuheisel along with running back Milton Knox behind 21-3 one play into the second quarter on the way to I just locked eyes with the ball the last two teams we played, and and it was messing with our sleep a
and receivers Morrell Presley and Randall Carroll. The school a 35-27 loss to the Terrapins. and hoped I’d pick it up. I grabbed it’s very potent. They scored 70 little bit. That’s no excuse, but then
didn’t specify the nature of the rule violations. it and just started chugging away. points against Southeast Mis- they got off to a good start, and we
Washington State coach Paul Wulff is making a switch I was going to try and pitch it souri State last week. They spread really couldn’t do much offensively
Jeff Tedford still believes that his decision to fly cross at quarterback, benching Kevin Lopina in favor of Marshall back, try and make a play, but at the ball out really well. We just that game.
country the day before an early start against Maryland had Lobbestael on Saturday against SMU. Wulff made the the same time my running back have to be ready for it. This game could really help us as
nothing to do with California’s flat performance in a loss. announcement on Tuesday. The Cougars are coming off a instincts from high school kicked We lost at Cincinnati a couple of we try to get off to a good start
With another 9 a.m. PDT start coming this Saturday 38-20 loss to Hawaii last Saturday in Seattle, where they in, and I tried to get upfield as far as years ago, so we have a sour taste in before Pac-10 play. We’re back at
against Minnesota, Tedford showed he’s not too stub- trailed 35-0 at one point in the second quarter. I could. I ended up going about 18 our mouths watching film and home, where the fans will be on our
born to change his ways. The eighth-ranked Golden Wulff also said the Cougars will not use a redshirt yards to our 30 before one of their stuff. We were there for a couple of side, and the momentum will hope-
Bears (2-0) will fly to Minneapolis on Thursday after- for freshman QB Jeff Tuel, and that the coaching staff is linemen came at me at full speed days, just trying to get acclimated fully be on our side. It’s going to be a
noon, giving them all of Friday to get acclimated. preparing to have Tuel play at some point this season. and just smashed me along the to the time difference and stuff like classic college football game.
“I don’t want to be hardheaded about it,” Tedford told sideline. I just tried to hang onto that. It was a few hours forward, — As told to Jim Ryan
reporters Tuesday. “I’ll see if it’s better. I don’t think The first two weeks of the season have done little the ball. Our offense scored after
there’s ever an issue with going a day before the game.” to show where Oregon’s offense really is, although the that, which really helped us.
This will be Cal’s sixth game that started before noon Ducks say they’re starting to find a groove with No. 18 After the game, there was a lot About the author
Pacific time in Tedford’s tenure at Cal, but the first time he Utah set to visit on Saturday. of excitement in the locker room. Keaton Kristick, Oregon State LB
has flown out on Thursday instead of Friday. “It’s a work in progress,” coach Chip Kelly told the AP. We haven’t been 2-0 in a while, A senior captain from Fountain Hills, Ariz., Kristick leads
Cal arrived in Maryland on Friday night, went straight That almost seems to understate how enigmatic Ore- and to be 2-0 heading into the the team in tackles with 14 through two games. He made
the preseason Chuck Bednarik Award watch list.
to the stadium for a walkthrough, ate dinner and then gon’s offense has been. In the opening 19-8 loss at Boise Cincinnati game is good. Cincin-
went to bed. The players woke up and went straight to the State, it was nearly nonexistent and the Ducks didn’t nati is going to be really tough.
stadium. The criticism only intensified after Cal fell have a first down in the first half. They run a similar offense to
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BIG EAST Notre Dame’s Floyd recovering from cut on leg


INSIDE DISH Notre Dame WR Michael Floyd, injured in the loss to
Michigan, is expected to play Saturday against
Michigan State.
Pitt’s Dickerson lands at perfect position just in time Coach Charlie Weis said Floyd needed 15 stitches in his
right leg after scraping his knee on the track surround-
Dorin Dickerson was a player without a position when Pitt ing Michigan Stadium. Weis said the Irish will be
recruited him in 2005. Three years later, he still was. careful with Floyd this week in practice so the cut
A multidimensional player at West Allegheny High in doesn’t reopen.
suburban Pittsburgh, Dickerson was labeled by recruit- “He’s from Minnesota and we gave him a hockey
ing services with the ambiguous tag of athlete. The prob- analogy: that if you get 15 stitches in a hockey game,
lem is there isn’t any such position in football. usually you’re out about five minutes and then you’re
Dickerson piled up touchdowns—36 in his senior back in there,” Weis told reporters. “So we have been
season alone—against overmatched high school play- playing the Minnesota angle with him all week long.”
ers no matter where he played and initially was tried by Floyd caught seven passes for 131 yards and a touch-
Pitt coach Dave Wannstedt at wide receiver. A season later, down against the Wolverines. He leads the team with
he was a linebacker. By last season, he was a tight end. 320 receiving yards and four touchdowns.
Three seasons, three positions and Dickerson had yet to Weis said RB Armando Allen, who was banged up at
make the impact expected of a former Pennsylvania high the end of the game against Michigan, is healthy. FB
school player of the year, one who was rated in 2005 as the James Aldridge, who sprained his right shoulder in the
nation’s fourth-best high school receiver by Scout.com. opener against Nevada, is doubtful.
Now, Dickerson appears to be trying to make up for
three all-but-lost seasons in which he had 14 receptions, Houston has had a little longer to enjoy its big
15 tackles and not much impact. After two games, Dick- CHRIS O’MEARA / AP win over Oklahoma State with no game this week-
erson has four touchdown catches—three against Buffalo RB Mo Plancher (193 yards, four TDs) has helped create a logjam at USF. end. The last time the program knocked off a top
on Saturday—and eight other receptions for Pitt (2-0). five opponent was Nov. 10, 1984, when Houston
By contrast, starter Nate Byham, who went into the “He knows he did wrong.” beat No. 3 Texas in Austin.
season considered as a top NFL prospect at tight end, “There’s a lot of people excited about football around TONY DING / AP
doesn’t have a catch. Justin Burke can remember the dismal Mondays at here now,” QB Case Keenum, who has passed for 725 Michael Floyd, Notre Dame’s leading WR, has 15 stitches in his leg.
Where have you been, Dorin Dickerson? school growing up in Lexington if Kentucky lost in yards and seven touchdowns in Houston’s 2-0 start,
“We did a couple of things with him that you might football the previous Saturday. told reporters Tuesday. “Texas people are always in twice for one game in return.
see a wide receiver do,” Wannstedt told The Associated While never explicitly a Wildcats fan—his mother is love with football during football season, but to see a “I am really not willing to go two-for-one any lon-
Press. “We did a couple of things with him that a full- from the heart of UK country in eastern Kentucky, his lot of people excited about Cougar football is neat.” ger,” Mendenhall said in a report by The Salt Lake Tri-
back or running back might do out of the backfield. dad is from Louisville—Burke wore orange to Ken- Next up for Houston, a home game Sept. 26 against bune. “And even if that was the philosophy at one point,
And then we did some things with him that are strictly tucky home games in hopes of remaining neutral in the another Big 12 team, Texas Tech. I think our program has a different level of credibility
tight end things. ... If you’re defending, you better know eyes of his parents. To be honest, he only rooted Big “Everybody is starting to recognize us a little bit,” now that has been earned, and the teams that suggest
where he’s at all the time.” Blue because he didn’t want to deal with it if they lost. CB Jamal Robinson said. “But if we lose next week that two-for-one now, I take that as an insult.”
“I hoped they did well just because it’d be a lot more recognition that we’ve been having means abso- BYU will visit Tallahassee next September, most
South Florida junior RB Mike Ford will return this fun around Lexington if they won or whatever, or at lutely nothing.” likely the third week of the season.
week against Division I-AA Charleston Southern after least people won’t be so depressed,” Burke told the AP.
serving his two-game suspension for violating team rules, Now, the kid who set records at Lexington Catholic— BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall says Saturday’s San Jose State coach Dick Tomey named junior Jor-
but he has more competition at the spot now, according to not far from Commonwealth Stadium—finds himself home game against Florida State is big for many dan LaSecla the team’s starting quarterback for Satur-
The Tampa Tribune. Senior Mo Plancher rushed for 193 yards in a position to make Kentucky fans miserable as the reasons—and one of them is the Seminoles’ willing- day’s game at Stanford.
and four touchdowns, and freshman Lindsey Lamar aver- quarterback at Louisville. ness to play at LaVell Edwards Stadium. LaSecla took over for Kyle Reed at the end of the first
aged 6.2 yards per carry in his absence. The Cardinals (1-0) will try to snap a two-game los- He said it is becoming more difficult to get bigger quarter in the Spartans’ 24-14 loss to Utah on Saturday
“He’s got some guys he has to compete with,” Bulls ing streak to the Wildcats (1-0) Saturday in the Gover- name programs such as Florida State to make a home- and completed 21 of 33 passes for 242 yards and a
coach Jim Leavitt told the newspaper, referring to Ford. nort’s Cup. and-home agreement because most want BYU to visit touchdown.
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Boston College 19, Baylor 15, Clemson 10, Oregon 5, Arizona 4, Arkansas 52, Northern Arizona 45, Gardner-Webb 42, Brown 36, Prairie View A&M 33,
Thursday
USA Today / Coaches 3, Colorado State 2, Florida State 1, Minnesota 1, South Florida 1. Stephen F. Austin 28, Western Illinois 26, Valparaiso 23, Sam Houston St. 19,
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Howard at Florida A&M, 7:30 p.m. Top 25
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Record Pts Rk Southern 18, Georgia Southern 15, Tennessee St. 15, Tennessee-Martin 13,
1. Florida (56) 2-0 1,472 1 Georgia Tech at Miami, 7:30 p.m.
Butler 12, Lafayette 8, Southeastern Louisiana 8, North Carolina A&T 7, North
2. Texas 2-0 1,399 2 Dakota State 7, Alabama State 6, Jackson State 6, North Dakota 6,The Citadel Friday
Friday Thursday
3. USC (3) 2-0 1,368 3 Sporting News 5, Albany 4, Drake 4, Rhode Island 4, Northern Colorado 3, Tennessee Tech 3, FAR WEST No. 14 Georgia Tech at Miami, 7:30 p.m.
Boise St. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7½. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at Fresno St.
4. Alabama 2-0 1,277 4 Record Pvs Missouri St. 2, Saint Francis 2, Murray St. 1, San Diego 1,Yale 1. Boise St. at Fresno St., 9 p.m.
5. Penn State 2-0 1,216 5 1. Florida 2-0 1 Saturday
6. Mississippi 1-0 1,060 8 2. USC 2-0 4 Saturday Friday at Army. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7½. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ball St.
7. LSU 2-0 1,051 9 3. Texas 2-0 2 AFCA Division II Coaches EAST No. 10 Boise State at Fresno State, 9 p.m. at Purdue. . . . . . . . . . . . .  13. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  N.Illinois
7. California 2-0 1,051 10 4. Alabama 2-0 3 Record Pts Pvs Ball St. at Army, Noon at Michigan. . . . . . . . . .24½. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E.Michigan
9. BYU 2-0 941 12 5. California 2-0 13 1. Grand Valley St. (Mich.) (25) 3-0 625 1 Delaware St. at Delaware, Noon Saturday at Pittsburgh. . . . . . . . . . . .7  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Navy
10. Boise State 2-0 913 11 6. Mississippi 1-0 5 2. Abilene Christian (Texas) 3-0 592 2 Duquesne at Monmouth, N.J., Noon Northwestern. . . . . . . . . . .4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at Syracuse
Temple at Penn St., Noon No. 1 Florida vs. Tennessee, 3:30 p.m.
11. Ohio State 1-1 855 7 7. LSU 2-0 9 3. North Alabama 3-0 577 3 at Clemson. . . . . . . . . . . .6½. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Boston College
4. Bloomsburg (Pa.) 3-0 541 5 Dayton at Robert Morris, Noon No. 2 Texas vs. Texas Tech, 8:05 p.m.
12. Oklahoma 1-1 794 14 8. Georgia Tech 2-0 7 at Penn St. . . . . . . . . . . .29½. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Temple
5. Central Washington 3-0 526 6 Bucknell at Cornell, 12:30 p.m. No. 3 Southern Cal at Washington, 3:30 p.m. at North Carolina . . . . . . . .7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .East Carolina
13. Georgia Tech 2-0 771 13 9. BYU 2-0 11 Yale at Georgetown, D.C., 1 p.m.
6. Northwest Missouri St. 2-1 510 7 No. 4 Alabama vs. North Texas, 12:20 p.m. at W. Michigan . . . . . . . .  17. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Miami (Ohio)
14. Virginia Tech 1-1 709 15 10. Penn State 2-0 8 Harvard at Holy Cross, 1 p.m.
15. TCU 1-0 648 16 11. Virginia Tech 1-1 10 7. Minnesota St.-Mankato 3-0 432 8 Youngstown St. at Northeastern, 1 p.m. No. 5 Mississippi vs. SE Louisiana, 7:30 p.m. at Vanderbilt . . . . . . . . . . . .9. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mississippi St.
16. Utah 2-0 533 17 12. Ohio State 1-1 14 8. Minnesota-Duluth 2-1 418 9 Colgate at Dartmouth, 1:30 p.m. No. 5 Penn State vs. Temple, Noon p.m. at Colorado  . . . . . . . . . . . . .7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wyoming
17. Oklahoma State 1-1 485 6 13. Boise State 2-0 15 9. Delta St. (Miss.) 1-1 392 10 Winston-Salem vs Morgan St. at East No. 7 BYU vs. Florida State, 7 p.m. at Iowa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5½. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Arizona
18. Nebraska 2-0 471 18 14. Oklahoma 1-1 12 10. Texas A&M-Kingsville 3-0 388 11 Rutherford, N.J., 2 p.m. No. 8 California at Minnesota, Noon p.m. at Akron . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4½. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Indiana
11. Pittsburg St. (Kan.) 2-1 355 4 The Citadel at Princeton, 3 p.m. at Kansas . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Duke
19. North Carolina 2-0 341 19 15. Cincinnati 2-0 21 Rhode Island at Massachusetts, 3:30 p.m. No. 9 LSU vs. La.-Lafayette, 7 p.m.
20. Georgia 1-1 333 21 16. Georgia 1-1 19 12. Central Missouri 3-0 320 13 at Southern Miss.. . . . . .  16. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Virginia
Maine at Albany, N.Y., 4 p.m. No. 11 Ohio State vs. Toledo at Cleveland, Noon
21. Cincinnati 2-0 328 23 17. Miami 1-0 17 13. Albany St. (Ga.) 3-0 301 12 at Oregon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Utah
14. Catawba (N.C.) 3-0 262 17
Fla. International at Rutgers, 5 p.m. No. 12 Oklahoma vs. Tulsa, 3:30 p.m.
22. Miami 1-0 291 22 18. Houston 2-0 — Columbia at Fordham, 6 p.m. Southern Cal . . . . . . . . .20½. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .at Washington
15. Chadron St. (Neb.) 2-1 258 15 No. 13 Virginia Tech vs. No. 19 Nebraska, 3:30 at UCLA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kansas St.
23. Kansas 2-0 195 25 19. Oklahoma State 1-1 6 Liberty at Lafayette, 6 p.m.
16. Valdosta St. (Ga.) 1-1 230 18 Navy at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m. p.m. at Virginia Tech . . . . . . . . . .4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nebraska
24. Oregon State 2-0 118 24 20. TCU 1-0 —
25. Missouri 2-0 104 — 21. North Carolina 2-0 22 17. Tuskegee (Ala.) 2-1 211 14 Brown at Stony Brook, 6 p.m. No. 15 TCU vs. Texas State, 7 p.m. at Notre Dame  . . . . . . .10½. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Michigan St.
Dropped out: Notre Dame (20) 22. Kansas 2-0 — 18. Ashland (Ohio) 2-1 183 19 Villanova at Penn, 7 p.m. No. 16 Oklahoma State vs. Rice, 7 p.m. Ohio St.-x. . . . . . . . . . . .20½. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Toledo
19. Tarleton St. (Texas) 3-0 178 22 Northwestern at Syracuse, 7 p.m. No. 17 Cincinnati at Oregon State, 6:45 p.m. at Auburn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7. . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . West Virginia
Others receiving votes: Michigan 84, Houston 69, Texas Tech 68, 23. Utah 2-0 23 Coastal Carolina at Towson, 7 p.m.
24. Michigan 2-0 — 20. Wayne St. (Neb.) 3-0 157 23 No. 18 Utah at Oregon, 3:30 p.m. at Florida  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  29. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Tennessee
Pitt 40, Notre Dame 32, Auburn 30, Iowa 27, Florida State 19, Oregon
16, West Virginia 16, South Florida 13, UCLA 13, Kentucky 9, Arizona 25. Oregon State 2-0 24 21. Indiana (Pa.) 3-0 136 t24 No. 22 Kansas vs. Duke, Noon SMU. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6½. . . . . . . . . . . . . . at Washington St.
SOUTH
4, Central Michigan 2, Colorado State 2, Minnesota 2, Northwestern 22. Washburn (Kan.) 3-0 113 NR San Diego St.. . . . . . . . . .3½. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .at Idaho
Dropped out: Notre Dame (16), Michigan State (18), Oregon (20), Boston College at Clemson, Noon No. 23 Georgia at Arkansas, 7:45 p.m.
2, Arkansas 1, South Carolina 1, Tulsa 1. Missouri (24)). 23. Saginaw Valley St. (Mich.) 2-1 88 16 Louisville at Kentucky, Noon Nevada. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at Colorado St.
24. Midwestern St. (Texas) 3-0 69 NR No. 24 North Carolina vs. East Carolina, Noon
East Carolina at North Carolina, Noon Bowling Green . . . . . . . . . .3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at Marshall
25. Augustana (S.D.) 3-0 66 NR North Texas at Alabama, 12:20 p.m. No. 25 Michigan vs. Eastern Michigan, Noon California . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at Minnesota
The Associated Press Division I-AA Old Dominion at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. at UCF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Buffalo
Record Pts Pvs Record Pts Pvs Morehead St. at N.C. Central, 1:30 p.m. at Oklahoma St. . . . . . .32½. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Rice
1. Florida (56) 2-0 1,491 1 1. Richmond (122) 2-0 3,607 1 Chattanooga at Presbyterian, 1:30 p.m. at Oklahoma . . . . . . . . .15½. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Tulsa
2. Texas (1) 2-0 1,404 2 2. Villanova (13) 2-0 3,369 3 TV schedule Miles at Samford, 3 p.m.
Tennessee at Florida, 3:30 p.m.
Savannah St. at McNeese St., 8 p.m. SOUTHWEST at Baylor. . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Connecticut
3. USC (1) 2-0 1,396 3 3. Northern Iowa (6) 1-1 3,271 4 Tenn.-Martin at Memphis, 8 p.m. Tulsa at Oklahoma, 3:30 p.m. at Texas A&M. . . . . . . . . .  18. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .UtahSt.
Thursday *No. 3 USC at Washington, ABC Middle Tennessee at Maryland, 3:30 p.m. Connecticut at Baylor, 5 p.m.
4. Alabama (2) 2-0 1,328 4 4. Montana 2-0 3,075 5 Hofstra at Richmond, 3:30 p.m. at Kentucky . . . . . . . . . .13½. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Louisville
5. Mississippi 1-0 1,145 6 5. William & Mary (2) 2-0 2,865 7 7:30 p.m. Tulsa at No. 12 Oklahoma, FSN MIDWEST Rice at Oklahoma St., 7 p.m. Iowa St.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at Kent St.
No. 14 Georgia Tech at Miami, *No. 19 Nebraska at No. 13 Virginia at Southern Miss., 3:30 p.m. Duke at Kansas, Noon Texas St. at TCU, 7 p.m.
5. Penn State 2-0 1,145 7 6. New Hampshire (1) 2-0 2,701 9 UAB at Troy, 3:30 p.m. at BYU. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7½. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Florida St.
ESPN Virginia Tech, ABC E. Michigan at Michigan, Noon Utah St. at Texas A&M, 7 p.m.
7. BYU 2-0 1,122 9 7. James Madison 0-1 2,618 6 Nebraska at Virginia Tech, 3:30 p.m. California at Minnesota, Noon Texas College at Texas Southern, 7 p.m. at Arkansas  . . . . . . . . . . . . .1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Georgia
Friday No. 18 Utah at Oregon, ESPN
8. California 2-0 1,058 10 8. McNeese State (1) 2-0 2,358 16 9 p.m. *Arizona at Iowa, ABC Grambling St. at Jackson St., 4:30 p.m. N. Illinois at Purdue, Noon Georgia at Arkansas, 7:45 p.m. Air Force . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  17. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .at New Mexico
9. LSU 2-0 951 11 9. Southern Illinois 0-1 2,296 8 No. 10 Boise State at Fresno Michigan State at Notre Campbell at Davidson, 6 p.m. Ohio St. vs. Toledo at Cleveland, Noon Texas Tech at Texas, 8 p.m. UTEP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14. . . . . . . . . . . . . .at New Mexico St.
10. Boise State 2-0 945 12 10. Appalachian State 0-2 2,241 2 State, ESPN Dame, NBC VMI at James Madison, 6 p.m. Wofford at Wisconsin, Noon at Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . .17½. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Texas Tech
11. Ohio State 1-1 840 8 11. Elon 2-0 2,219 10 Saturday Indiana at Akron, ESPNU Ark.-Pine Bluff at MVSU, 6 p.m. Hanover at Butler, 1 p.m. FAR WEST
Hampton at N. Carolina A&T, 6 p.m. at UNLV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hawaii
12. Oklahoma 1-1 835 13 12. Cal Poly 1-0 1,885 12 Noon 6:45 p.m. Furman at Missouri, 2 p.m. Portland St. at Montana, 3:05 p.m. at Stanford. . . . . . . . . . .17½. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .San Jose St.
*Temple at No. 5 Penn State, No. 17 Cincinnati at Oregon Gardner-Webb at N.C. State, 6 p.m. Indiana at Akron, 3:30 p.m. Wyoming at Colorado, 3:30 p.m.
13. Virginia Tech 1-1 749 14 13. Weber State 0-2 1,719 11 William & Mary at Norfolk St., 6 p.m. at Oregon St.. . . . . . . . . . .Pk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cincinnati
14. Georgia Tech 2-0 683 15 14. Wofford 1-1 1,612 14 Big Ten Network State, FSN Alcorn St. at Cent. Michigan, 3:30 p.m. Utah at Oregon, 3:30 p.m.
No. 8 California at Minnesota, 7 p.m. Elon at Wake Forest, 6:30 p.m. Michigan St. at Notre Dame, 3:30 p.m. Southern Cal at Washington, 3:30 p.m. at Rutgers  . . . . . . . . . . .14½. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Fla. International
15. TCU 1-0 609 16 15. South Carolina St. (1) 2-0 1,515 15 Jacksonville St. at Alabama A&M, 7 p.m. Arizona at Iowa, 3:35 p.m. Marist at San Diego, 4 p.m. at Alabama  . . . . . . . . . . OFF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .North Texas
ESPN Florida State at No. 7 BYU,
16. Oklahoma State 1-1 445 5 16. Central Arkansas 0-1 1,503 13 Duke at No. 22 Kansas, Versus Versus Tennessee Tech at E. Kentucky, 7 p.m. Murray St. at Missouri St., 4 p.m. N. Colorado at E. Washington, 4:05 p.m. at Maryland. . . . . . . . . . .6½. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Middle Tenn.
17. Cincinnati 2-0 407 23 17. Massachusetts 1-1 1,346 17 East Carolina at No. 24 North Louisiana-Lafayette at No. 9 W. Carolina at Georgia Southern, 7 p.m. St. Francis, Pa. at N. Iowa, 5:05 p.m. Nevada at Colorado St., 5 p.m. at South Carolina . . . . . .  21. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Fla. Atlantic
18. Utah 2-0 405 17 18. South Dakota State 1-0 1,089 21 Carolina, ESPN2 LSU, ESPNU Louisiana-Lafayette at LSU, 7 p.m. Drake at South Dakota, 5:05 p.m. San Diego St. at Idaho, 5 p.m. at Troy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6½. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  UAB
19. Nebraska 2-0 365 22 19. Texas State 1-0 977 19 *Eastern Michigan at No. 25 7:45 p.m. Nicholls St. at Louisiana Tech, 7 p.m. Iowa St. at Kent St., 7 p.m. SMU at Washington St., 5 p.m.
Bowling Green at Marshall, 7 p.m. at LSU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26½. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . La.-Lafayette
20. Miami 1-0 364 20 20. Maine 2-0 973 20 Michigan, Big Ten Network No. 23 Georgia at Arkansas, Wagner at N. Dakota St., 7 p.m. S. Utah at N. Arizona, 5:05 p.m. at Arizona St.. . . . . . . . . .  19. . . . . . . . . . . . .  Louisiana-Monroe
Louisville at Kentucky, ESPNU ESPN North Dakota at Northwestern St., 7 p.m. Cal Poly at Ohio, 7 p.m. Cincinnati at Oregon St., 6:45 p.m.
21. Houston 2-0 341 — 21. Eastern Washington 1-1 572 18 Florida Atlantic at South Carolina, 7 p.m. x-at Cleveland
22. Kansas 2-0 271 24 22. Eastern Kentucky 0-1 505 22 *Northern Illinois at Purdue, West Virginia at Auburn, ESPN2 Indiana St. at S. Dakota St., 7 p.m. Florida St. at BYU, 7 p.m.
Big Ten Network 8 p.m. Charleston Southern at South Florida, 7 p.m. SW Baptist at S. Illinois, 7 p.m. Air Force at New Mexico, 7:30 p.m. Off key
23. Georgia 1-1 260 21 23. Holy Cross 2-0 476 25 Tennessee St. at Southern U., 7 p.m. E. Illinois at SE Missouri, 7 p.m. UTEP at New Mexico St., 8 p.m. North Texas QB questionable
*Wofford at Wisconsin, Big Ten Texas Tech at No. 2 Texas, ABC
24. North Carolina 2-0 250 19 24. Jacksonville State 0-2 471 23 Network Kansas State at UCLA, FSN Mississippi St. at Vanderbilt, 7 p.m. Miami (Ohio) at W. Michigan, 7 p.m. Idaho St. at Weber St., 8:05 p.m.
25. Michigan 2-0 169 — 25. Harvard 0-0 267 24 3:30 p.m. *—Regional telecast Cent. Arkansas at W. Kentucky, 7 p.m. Stephen F.Austin at W. Illinois, 7:05 p.m. San Jose St. at Stanford, 9 p.m.
Dropped out: Notre Dame (18), Missouri (25) Others receiving votes: Eastern Illinois 241, Liberty 205, Florida A&M 182, Tennessee at No. 1 Florida, CBS SE Louisiana at Mississippi, 7:30 p.m. Austin Peay at Illinois St., 7:30 p.m. Louisiana-Monroe at Arizona St., 10 p.m.
Others receiving votes: Missouri 93, Pitt 87, Oregon State 64, Texas Delaware 177, Furman 124, Colgate 100, Grambling St. 89, Hofstra 82, Ala- Buffalo at UCF, 7:30 p.m. Kansas St. at UCLA, 10:15 p.m.
Tech 54, UCLA 44, Notre Dame 40, West Virginia 30, Auburn 26, Iowa 23, bamaA&M77,Samford71,MontanaSt.64,YoungstownSt.53,Pennsylvania West Virginia at Auburn, 7:45 p.m. Hawaii at UNLV, 11 p.m.
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Conference standings
ACC BIG EAST BIG TEN BIG 12 CONFERENCE USA MAC
Atlantic Conference All Games Conference All Games North East East
Conference All Games W L PF PA W L PF PA W L PF PA W L PF PA Conference All Games Conference All Games Conference All Games
W L PF PA W L PF PA Cincinnati 1 0 47 15 2 0 117 18 Indiana 0 0 0 0 2 0 42 32 W L PF PA W L PF PA W L PF PA W L PF PA W L PF PA W L PF PA
Boston College 0 0 0 0 2 0 88 7 Pittsburgh 0 0 0 0 2 0 92 30 Iowa 0 0 0 0 2 0 52 19 Kansas 0 0 0 0 2 0 83 10 Southern Miss. 1 0 26 19 2 0 78 19 Akron 0 0 0 0 1 1 48 31
N.C. State 0 0 0 0 1 1 68 14 West Virginia 0 0 0 0 2 0 68 40 Michigan 0 0 0 0 2 0 69 41 Missouri 0 0 0 0 2 0 64 29 UAB 1 1 77 59 1 1 77 59 Bowling Green 0 0 0 0 1 1 51 41
Wake Forest 0 0 0 0 1 1 45 41 Louisville 0 0 0 0 1 0 30 10 Minnesota 0 0 0 0 2 0 43 33 Nebraska 0 0 0 0 2 0 87 12 East Carolina 0 0 0 0 1 1 49 59 Buffalo 0 0 0 0 1 1 50 71
Maryland 0 0 0 0 0 1 13 52 South Florida 0 0 0 0 1 0 40 7 Northwestern 0 0 0 0 2 0 74 38 Iowa St. 0 0 0 0 1 1 37 52 Marshall 0 0 0 0 1 1 41 80 Kent St. 0 0 0 0 1 1 25 34
Clemson 0 1 27 30 1 1 64 44 Connecticut 0 0 0 0 1 1 33 28 Penn St. 0 0 0 0 2 0 59 14 Kansas St. 0 0 0 0 1 1 36 34 Memphis 0 0 0 0 0 2 28 76 Ohio 0 0 0 0 1 1 47 53
Florida St. 0 1 34 38 0 1 34 38 Syracuse 0 0 0 0 0 2 27 51 Wisconsin 0 0 0 0 2 0 62 51 Colorado 0 0 0 0 0 2 55 77 UCF 0 1 19 26 1 1 47 50 Temple 0 0 0 0 0 1 24 27
Rutgers 0 1 15 47 0 1 15 47 Ohio St. 0 0 0 0 1 0 31 27 Miami (Ohio) 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 90
Coastal Purdue 0 0 0 0 1 0 52 31 South West
Conference All Games Saturday’s games Illinois 0 0 0 0 1 1 54 54 Conference All Games Conference All Games West
W L PF PA W L PF PA Louisville at Kentucky, Noon Michigan St. 0 0 0 0 1 1 71 32 W L PF PA W L PF PA W L PF PA W L PF PA Conference All Games
Georgia Tech 1 0 30 27 2 0 67 44 Connecticut at Baylor, 5 p.m. Texas Tech 0 0 0 0 2 0 93 23 SMU 1 0 35 33 2 0 66 56 W L PF PA W L PF PA
Miami 1 0 38 34 1 0 38 34 Fla. International at Rutgers, 5 p.m. Saturday’s games Texas 0 0 0 0 2 0 100 30 Tulsa 1 0 37 13 2 0 81 23 Cent. Michigan 0 0 0 0 1 1 35 46
North Carolina 0 0 0 0 2 0 52 16 Navy at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m. Wofford at Wisconsin, Noon Baylor 0 0 0 0 1 0 24 21 Houston 0 0 0 0 2 0 100 42 N. Illinois 0 0 0 0 1 1 61 35
Duke 0 0 0 0 1 1 51 43 Cincinnati at Oregon St., 6:45 p.m. Temple at Penn St., Noon Texas A&M 0 0 0 0 1 0 41 6 UTEP 0 0 0 0 0 2 24 57 Toledo 0 0 0 0 1 1 85 90
Virginia Tech 0 0 0 0 1 1 76 44 Northwestern at Syracuse, 7 p.m. Ohio St. vs. Toledo at Cleveland Browns Stadium, Noon Oklahoma St. 0 0 0 0 1 1 59 55 Rice 0 1 24 44 0 2 34 99 Ball St. 0 0 0 0 0 2 26 43
Virginia 0 0 0 0 0 2 28 56 Charleston Southern at South Florida, 7 p.m. N. Illinois at Purdue, Noon Oklahoma 0 0 0 0 1 1 77 14 Tulane 0 1 13 37 0 2 16 91 E. Michigan 0 0 0 0 0 2 38 54
West Virginia at Auburn, 7:45 p.m. E. Michigan at Michigan, Noon W. Michigan 0 0 0 0 0 2 26 54
Thursday’s game 3:30 p.m. California at Minnesota, Noon Saturday’s games Iowa St. at Kent St., 7 p.m. Saturday’s games Bowling Green at Marshall, 7
Georgia Tech at Miami, 7:30 Nebraska at Virginia Tech, 3:30 Indiana at Akron, 3:30 p.m. Duke at Kansas, Noon Rice at Oklahoma St., 7 p.m. East Carolina at North Carolina, p.m. Saturday’s games Cal Poly at Ohio, 7 p.m.
p.m. p.m. Michigan St. at Notre Dame, 3:30 p.m. Furman at Missouri, 2 p.m. Texas Tech at Texas, 8 p.m. Noon Buffalo at UCF, 7:30 p.m. Temple at Penn St., Noon Iowa St. at Kent St., 7 p.m.
Virginia at Southern Miss., 3:30 Arizona at Iowa, 3:35 p.m. Wyoming at Colorado, 3:30 Kansas St. at UCLA, 10:15 p.m. UAB at Troy, 3:30 p.m. Tenn.-Martin at Memphis, 8 Ball St. at Army, Noon Miami (Ohio) at W. Michigan,
Saturday’s games p.m. Northwestern at Syracuse, 7 p.m. p.m. Tulsa at Oklahoma, 3:30 p.m. p.m. Ohio St. vs. Toledo at Cleveland 7 p.m.
Duke at Kansas, Noon Gardner-Webb at N.C. State, Tulsa at Oklahoma, 3:30 p.m. Virginia at Southern Miss., 3:30 UTEP at New Mexico St., 8 p.m. Browns Stadium, Noon Bowling Green at Marshall, 7
Boston College at Clemson, 6 p.m. Nebraska at Virginia Tech, 3:30 p.m. N. Illinois at Purdue, Noon p.m.
Noon Elon at Wake Forest, 6:30 p.m. p.m. SMU at Washington St., 5 p.m. E. Michigan at Michigan, Noon Buffalo at UCF, 7:30 p.m.
East Carolina at North Carolina, Florida St. at BYU, 7 p.m. Connecticut at Baylor, 5 p.m. Rice at Oklahoma St., 7 p.m. Indiana at Akron, 3:30 p.m.
Noon Utah St. at Texas A&M, 7 p.m. Alcorn St. at Cent. Michigan,
Middle Tennessee at Maryland, 3:30 p.m.

MOUNTAIN WEST PAC-10 SEC SUN BELT WAC INDEPENDENTS


Conference All Games Conference All Games East Conference All Games Conference All Games W L PF PA
W L PF PA W L PF PA W L PF PA W L PF PA Conference All Games W L PF PA W L PF PA W L PF PA W L PF PA Army 1 1 46 49
BYU 0 0 0 0 2 0 68 16 Stanford 1 0 39 13 1 1 56 37 W L PF PA W L PF PA La.-Lafayette 0 0 0 0 2 0 59 34 Idaho 1 0 21 6 1 0 21 6 Navy 1 1 59 45
Colorado St. 0 0 0 0 2 0 47 40 Arizona 0 0 0 0 2 0 53 23 Georgia 1 0 41 37 1 1 51 61 Arkansas St. 0 0 0 0 1 1 70 38 Hawaii 0 0 0 0 2 0 63 40 Notre Dame 1 1 69 38
Utah 0 0 0 0 2 0 59 31 California 0 0 0 0 2 0 111 20 Florida 0 0 0 0 2 0 118 9 La.-Monroe 0 0 0 0 1 1 78 59 Boise St. 0 0 0 0 1 0 19 8
TCU 0 0 0 0 1 0 30 14 Oregon St. 0 0 0 0 2 0 57 28 Kentucky 0 0 0 0 1 0 42 0 Middle Tenn. 0 0 0 0 1 1 45 51 Fresno St. 0 0 0 0 1 1 82 34 Saturday’s games
Air Force 0 0 0 0 1 1 85 20 Southern Cal 0 0 0 0 2 0 74 18 Tennessee 0 0 0 0 1 1 78 26 North Texas 0 0 0 0 1 1 50 41 Nevada 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 35 Ball St. at Army, Noon
San Diego St. 0 0 0 0 1 1 49 52 UCLA 0 0 0 0 2 0 52 29 South Carolina 0 1 37 41 1 1 44 44 Fla. International 0 0 0 0 0 1 14 40 San Jose St. 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 56 Michigan St. at Notre Dame, 3:30 p.m.
UNLV 0 0 0 0 1 1 59 26 Ariz. St. 0 0 0 0 1 0 50 3 Vanderbilt 0 1 9 23 1 1 54 23 Fla. Atlantic 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 49 Utah St. 0 0 0 0 0 1 17 35 Navy at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.
Wyoming 0 0 0 0 1 1 39 63 Oregon 0 0 0 0 1 1 46 55 Troy 0 0 0 0 0 2 20 87 Louisiana Tech 0 0 0 0 0 2 27 69
New Mexico 0 0 0 0 0 2 16 85 Washington 0 0 0 0 1 1 65 54 West W. Kentucky 0 0 0 0 0 2 20 98 New Mexico St. 0 1 6 21 0 1 6 21
Washington St. 0 1 13 39 0 2 33 77 Conference All Games
Saturday’s games W L PF PA W L PF PA Saturday’s games Friday’s game
Utah at Oregon, 3:30 p.m. Saturday’s games Auburn 1 0 49 24 2 0 86 37 North Texas at Alabama, 12:20 p.m. Boise St. at Fresno St., 9 p.m.
Wyoming at Colorado, 3:30 p.m. California at Minnesota, Noon LSU 1 0 23 9 2 0 54 32 UAB at Troy, 3:30 p.m.
San Diego St. at Idaho, 5 p.m. Utah at Oregon, 3:30 p.m. Alabama 0 0 0 0 2 0 74 38 Middle Tennessee at Maryland, 3:30 p.m. Saturday’s games
Nevada at Colorado St., 5 p.m. Southern Cal at Washington, 3:30 p.m. Arkansas 0 0 0 0 1 0 48 10 Fla. International at Rutgers, 5 p.m. San Diego St. at Idaho, 5 p.m.
Texas St. at TCU, 7 p.m. Arizona at Iowa, 3:35 p.m. Mississippi 0 0 0 0 1 0 45 14 Louisiana-Lafayette at LSU, 7 p.m. Nevada at Colorado St., 5 p.m.
Florida St. at BYU, 7 p.m. SMU at Washington St., 5 p.m. Mississippi St 0 1 24 49 1 1 69 56 Cent. Arkansas at W. Kentucky, 7 p.m. Utah St. at Texas A&M, 7 p.m.
Air Force at New Mexico, 7:30 p.m. Cincinnati at Oregon St., 6:45 p.m. Florida Atlantic at South Carolina, 7 p.m. Nicholls St. at Louisiana Tech, 7 p.m.
Hawaii at UNLV, 11 p.m. San Jose St. at Stanford, 9 p.m. Saturday’s games lina, 7 p.m. Louisiana-Monroe at Arizona St., 10 p.m. UTEP at New Mexico St., 8 p.m.
Louisiana-Monroe at Arizona St., 10 p.m. Louisville at Kentucky, Noon Mississippi St. at Vanderbilt, San Jose St. at Stanford, 9 p.m.
Kansas St. at UCLA, 10:15 p.m. North Texas at Alabama, 12:20 7 p.m. Hawaii at UNLV, 11 p.m.
p.m. SE Louisiana at Mississippi,
Tennessee at Florida, 3:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m.
Louisiana-Lafayette at LSU, 7 Georgia at Arkansas, 7:45 p.m.
p.m. West Virginia at Auburn, 7:45
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INSIDE DISH THE LAUNCHING PAD

Twins’ stadium, Red Sox-Yanks highlight ’10 sked What to expect in the major leagues today

Major League Baseball released of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Crede told


its 2010 schedules Tuesday. The manager Ron Gardenhire that he
Red Sox and Yankees will open and couldn’t swing the bat the way he
close the season at Fenway Park, wanted to. Crede hit .225 with 15
with their first meeting likely to be homers and 48 RBIs in 90 games
the official season opener on Sun- this season.
day, April 4. The Twins’ new sta-
dium, Target Field, will make its The Nationals announced No.
debut on April 12 when the Red Sox 1 overall draft pick Stephen Strasburg
come to town. The first weekend of will pitch in the Florida Instruc- DAVID ZALUBOWSKI / AP
interleague play will be May 21-23, tional League. The seasons runs Despite a 5.40 ERA, Jorge De La Rosa is 2-0 against the Giants this season.
and it will return from June 11-27. from Sept. 24 through Oct. 13.
Intriguing matchups there include Strasburg also will pitch in the Ari-
Braves at Twins (1991 World Series zona Fall League.
Critical clash
The Rockies will leave San Francisco with the N.L. wild-card lead tonight,
rematch), Yankees and Diamond- but it remains to be seen how big that lead will be. The N.L. West rivals will
backs (2001 World Series rematch), The Astros released a state- meet for the final time this season as they wrap up their three-game set.
Red Sox at Rockies (2007 World ment Tuesday that doctors repaired Colorado will start lefthander Jorge De La Rosa, who will be looking for win
Series rematch), Phillies at Blue CRAIG LASSIG / AP a full tear in P Mike Hampton’s rotator No. 15. After losing his first six decisions and falling to 2-7 with a 5.81 ERA on
The Twins will open Target Field on April 12 against Boston. June 16, De La Rosa has been a different pitcher. In 16 games (15 starts) since
Jays (1993 World Series rematch) cuff Tuesday. As a result, Hampton then, the righthander is 12-2 with a 3.34 ERA. However, has a 5.40 in two
and Yankees at Dodgers. is expected to miss the 2010 season. starts vs. the Giants in that span. For San Francisco, Matt Cain will aim for just
Angeles Daily News reported he is inflammation, but manager Tony La The 37-year-old lefthander went his second win since July 25 (see: lack of run support).
Jake Peavy will make his first expected to throw a simulated game Russsa said that Lohse’s scheduled 7-10 with a 5.30 ERA in 21 starts
start for the White Sox on Saturday by Sunday. start for Friday is in question. for Houston this season. In other Kuroda to the rescue?
against the Royals. Peavy has not Astros news, SS Miguel Tejada, a The Dodgers, trying to piece together their rotation with Clayton Kershaw
pitched since injuring his right The Journal News reported Yan- The Yankees are cutting the pending free agent, told the Houston (shoulder) still out and Chad Billingsley still struggling, will turn to Hiroki
ankle in June. In four starts with kees P Andy Pettitte will be skipped prices of some of their most expen- Chronicle that he would like to Kuroda in the finale of their three-game series against the Pirates this after-
noon. Los Angeles would love to build some momentum heading into its
Class AAA Charlotte, Peavy was until Monday because of shoulder sive season tickets for 2010, accord- return to Houston and would be big weekend series against the Giants. To do so, it will need Kuroda to be
1-1 with a 2.93 ERA. fatigue. Manager Joe Girardi told the ing to The Associated Press. The willing to play third base. as effective as he was in his most recent outing. In what was his best start
newspaper that the fatigue is nothing price of the best field-level seats will since late June, Kuroda tossed eight innings of two-run ball in a win over San
Dodgers manager Joe Torre told serious. Pettitte is 13-6 with a 4.14 drop from $325 to $250 or $235 as According to the Detroit Free Press, Francisco.
the Los Angeles Times that P Chad ERA in 29 starts this season and has part of season plans, the team said the Tigers will honor Hall of Fame
Billingsley will take his next turn in won his past five decisions. late Tuesday night. A total of 3,400 broadcaster ErnieHarwell before tonight’s Postseason audition
the rotation. The righthander is 0-4 field-level seats will have lower game. Harwell is expected to address The A.L. Central-leading Tigers have to feel confident about their playoff
with a 5.67 ERA in his past five After struggling Saturday in prices. the team before the game and watch it chances, given the lateness of the season and the fact that the second-
place Twins have lose first baseman Justin Morneau for the season. Tonight,
starts and is 3-7 with a 5.30 ERA his first start since coming off the from team owner Mike Ilitch’s suite. A Detroit will turn to newly appointed fifth starter Eddie Bonine against the
since June 15. “Physically he’s fine. disabled list, Cardinals P Kyle Lohse In addition to losing 1B Justin video tribute will be shown. Doctors Royals. Bonine is unlikely to make a playoff start but could secure a bullpen
Now it’s just a matter of getting that admitted to the St. Louis Post-Dis- Morneau (back) for the season, the recently discovered a cancerous tumor job with a strong finish this season.
good feeling back,” Torre said. As patch that his forearm bothered Twins likely will be without 3B Joe in Harwell’s bile duct and advised him — Chris Bahr
for P Clayton Kershaw, the Los him. An MRI exam revealed only Crede. According to The Star Tribune against further surgery.
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Fantasy Focus LEAGUE LEADERS
American League standings
Batting Average Home Runs East W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away
Start ’em, Sit ’em New York 93 53 .637 — — 6-4 L-1 51-23 42-30
A.L. N.L. A.L. N.L. Boston 85 58 .594 6½ — 7-3 W-6 51-21 34-37
Player Team Player Team Player Team Player Team Tampa Bay 73 72 .503 19½ 13 1-9 L-1 43-26 30-46
Mauer Minnesota .373 HaRamirez Florida .358 CPena Tampa Bay 39 Pujols St. Louis 47 Toronto 66 79 .455 26½ 20 6-4 W-1 38-36 28-43
Baltimore 59 85 .410 33 26½ 5-5 W-1 35-38 24-47
ISuzuki Seattle .354 Pujols St. Louis .331 Teixeira New York 35 Reynolds Arizona 42
Jeter New York .332 Sandoval San Francisco .322 Bay Boston 32 Fielder Milwaukee 39 Central W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away
MiCabrera Detroit .331 Helton Colorado .321 NCruz Texas 32 Howard Philadelphia 38 Detroit 77 67 .535 — — 4-6 L-1 47-25 30-42
Minnesota 73 72 .503 4½ 13 5-5 W-3 42-32 31-40
Bartlett Tampa Bay .327 DWright New York .312 AHill Toronto 32 ADunn Washington 37 Chicago 72 73 .497 5½ 14 6-4 W-1 40-32 32-41
MYoung Texas .322 LCastillo New York .310 Branyan Seattle 31 AdGonzalez San Diego 37 Cleveland 61 83 .424 16 24½ 2-8 L-3 31-41 30-42
Cano New York .320 Braun Milwaukee .308 Four tied 30 Two tied 33 Kansas City 58 86 .403 19 27½ 7-3 W-2 30-44 28-42
TED S. WARREN / AP West W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away
Runs Stolen Bases Los Angeles 86 58 .597 — — 6-4 L-2 44-27 42-31
Mariners P Ryan Rowland-Smith Texas 80 64 .556 6 5½ 4-6 L-3 45-29 35-35
A.L. N.L. A.L. N.L. Seattle 74 71 .510 12½ 12 3-7 L-1 39-31 35-40
Oakland 66 78 .458 20 19½ 7-3 W-2 34-36 32-42
Start ’em Player Team Player Team Player Team Player Team
Ryan Rowland-Smith, SP, Mariners. Figgins
Damon
Los Angeles
New York
106
102
Pujols
Braun
St. Louis
Milwaukee
119
102
Ellsbury
Crawford
Boston
Tampa Bay
61
57
Bourn
Morgan
Houston
Washington
56
42
National League standings
Since coming off the disabled list East W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away
in July, Rowland-Smith has a Jeter New York 101 Utley Philadelphia 100 Figgins Los Angeles 41 Kemp Los Angeles 33 Philadelphia 83 60 .580 — — 6-4 W-3 40-32 43-28
BRoberts Baltimore 101 Zimmerman Washington 98 RDavis Oakland 37 Rollins Philadelphia 28 Florida 77 68 .531 7 4½ 6-4 W-1 40-35 37-33
respectable 4.07 ERA and a solid Pedroia Boston 100 Victorino Philadelphia 94 BUpton Tampa Bay 37 Fowler Colorado 27 Atlanta 76 68 .528 7½ 5 6-4 W-5 36-33 40-35
1.06 WHIP. Use him tonight Scutaro Toronto 99 HaRamirez Florida 92 BRoberts Baltimore 29 Pierre Los Angeles 26
New York 63 82 .434 21 18½ 2-8 L-3 36-36 27-46
Washington 50 94 .347 33½ 31 4-6 L-1 29-43 21-51
against the White Sox. Cano New York 95 Three tied 90 Two tied 28 Two tied 25
Orlando Cabrera, SS, Twins. Cabrera Central W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away
St. Louis 85 61 .582 — — 5-5 L-1 44-30 41-31
is batting .429 (6-for-14) lifetime RBIs Pitching Chicago 75 68 .524 8½ 5½ 8-2 W-3 44-28 31-40
against Indians lefthander Aaron Houston 70 75 .483 14½ 11½ 5-5 L-3 42-33 28-42
A.L. N.L. A.L. N.L. Milwaukee 69 75 .479 15 12 4-6 L-2 34-37 35-38
Laffey. Player Team Player Team Player Team Player Team Cincinnati 66 79 .455 18½ 15½ 4-6 W-2 33-37 33-42
Ryan Spilborghs, OF, Rockies. Expect Teixeira New York 111 Fielder Milwaukee 126 Sabathia New York 17-7 Wainwright St. Louis 18-8 Pittsburgh 55 88 .385 28½ 25½ 2-8 L-2 36-34 19-54
Colorado to start Spilborghs Longoria Tampa Bay 103 Pujols St. Louis 126 Feldman Texas 16-5 CCarpenter St. Louis 16-4 West W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away
tonight. He is 5-for-12 with two Bay Boston 102 Howard Philadelphia 118 Verlander Detroit 16-8 Marquis Colorado 15-11 Los Angeles 87 59 .596 — — 7-3 W-2 45-29 42-30
Lind Toronto 101 DLee Chicago 101 FHernandez Seattle 15-5 JoJohnson Florida 14-4 Colorado 82 64 .562 5 — 6-4 L-4 45-27 37-37
homers in his career against San Francisco 79 66 .545 7½ 2½ 5-5 W-3 48-25 31-41
Morneau Minnesota 100 Braun Milwaukee 100 Beckett Boston 15-6 Lincecum San Francisco 14-5 San Diego 65 81 .445 22 17 5-5 L-2 38-37 27-44
Giants righthander Matt Cain. CPena Tampa Bay 100 ADunn Washington 99 JerWeaver Los Angeles 15-6 Haren Arizona 14-8 Arizona 64 82 .438 23 18 3-7 W-2 32-40 32-42
Two tied 98 HaRamirez Florida 99 Halladay Toronto 15-9 DLowe Atlanta 14-9 z-first game was a win
Sit ’em
Clint Barmes, 2B, Rockies. Don’t be HIts Strikeouts
Pitching matchups Today’s games (All times Eastern)
surprised if Barmes is on Colorado’s A.L. N.L. A.L. N.L. American League The Line
bench. He is 0-for-12 with three Player Team Player Team Player Team Player Team Cleveland (Laffey 7-5) at Minnesota (Blackburn 9-11), 1:10 p.m. at Min -155, Cle +145
strikeouts lifetime against Cain. ISuzuki Seattle 202 HaRamirez Florida 186 Verlander Detroit 239 Lincecum San Francisco 244 Kansas City (DiNardo 0-0) at Detroit (Bonine 0-0), 7:05 p.m. at Det -155, KC +145
Derek Lowe, SP, Braves. Lowe has a Jeter New York 194 Tejada Houston 172 Greinke Kansas City 216 JVazquez Atlanta 216
Tampa Bay (Sonnanstine 6-9) at Baltimore (Tillman 2-3), 7:05 p.m. at Bal -110, TB +100
career 7.89 ERA against the Mets, Cano New York 187 Braun Milwaukee 171 Lester Boston 211 Haren Arizona 201
Toronto (Tallet 7-9) at N.Y. Yankees (Gaudin 1-0), 7:05 p.m. at NYY -180, Tor +170
and New York torched him for MiCabrera Detroit 177 Pujols St. Louis 168 FHernandez Seattle 193 Gallardo Milwaukee 197
AHill Toronto 175 Victorino Philadelphia 168 Halladay Toronto 189 Wainwright St. Louis 183 L.A. Angels (J.Saunders 13-7) at Boston (P.Byrd 1-1), 7:10 p.m. at Bos -115, LAA +105
eight earned runs in 3 2/3 innings Markakis Baltimore 175 Three tied 167 Beckett Boston 180 WRodriguez Houston 176 Oakland (Cahill 8-12) at Texas (Nippert 5-2), 8:05 p.m. at Tex -170, Oak +160
on Aug. 18. Mauer Minnesota 171 Sabathia New York 178 Jimenez Colorado 173 Chicago W. Sox (G.Floyd 11-10) at Seattle (Rowland-Smith 3-3), 10:10 p.m. ChW -110, at Sea +100
Jhonny Peralta, 3B, Indians. Peralta
has managed just three hits in 17 Doubles Saves National League The Line
at-bats in his career against Minne- A.L. N.L. A.L. N.L.
Florida (Jo.Johnson 14-4) at St. Louis (Pineiro 14-10), 2:15 p.m. at StL -125 Fla +115
sota righthander Nick Blackburn. Player Team Player Team Player Team Player Team Pittsburgh (K.Hart 4-6) at L.A. Dodgers (Kuroda 6-6), 3:10 p.m. at LAD -260, Pit +230
— Matt Lutovsky BRoberts Baltimore 52 Sandoval San Francisco 41 Fuentes Los Angeles 41 Franklin St. Louis 37 Arizona (D.Davis 7-13) at San Diego (Mujica 3-4), 3:35 p.m. at SD -105, Ari -105
Butler Kansas City 46 Ethier Los Angeles 40 Nathan Minnesota 40 HBell San Diego 37 Washington (Li.Hernandez 8-10) at Philadelphia (Blanton 9-7), 7:05 p.m. at Phi -260, Was +230
MORE COVERAGE Lind Toronto 46 Tejada Houston 40 MaRivera New York 40 Cordero Cincinnati 36 Houston (Bazardo 0-1) at Cincinnati (Lehr 4-2), 7:10 p.m. at Cin -130, Hou +120
Longoria Tampa Bay 43 Hawpe Colorado 39 Papelbon Boston 36 Broxton Los Angeles 34 N.Y. Mets (Parnell 3-8) at Atlanta (D.Lowe 14-9), 7:10 p.m. at Atl -230, NYM +210
Get everything you need to Pedroia Boston 43 Pujols St. Louis 39 Aardsma Seattle 34 BrWilson San Francisco 34 Milwaukee (Looper 12-6) at Chicago Cubs (Harden 9-8), 8:05 p.m. at ChC -170, Mil +160
dominate your fantasy league at Markakis Baltimore 42 HaRamirez Florida 39 Rodney Detroit 32 Street Colorado 33
sportingnews.com/fantasy/baseball Colorado (De La Rosa 14-9) at San Francisco (Cain 13-5), 10:15 p.m. at SF -135, Col +125
Two tied 41 Three tied 37 Jenks Chicago 29 Hoffman Milwaukee 32
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston 4, L.A. Angels 1 Oakland 6, Texas 1

Matsuzaka triumphant in comeback Young’s return no help


ARLINGTON, TEXAS—Rajai Davis Athletics 6, Rangers 1
BOSTON—Daisuke Matsuzaka returned Red Sox 4, Angels 1 scored the first run then Oakland AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Kennedy 3b 4 1 1 0 2 3 .285
from the disabled list just in time to Los Angeles AB R H BI BB SO Avg. matched a career best with four R.Davis cf 4 1 3 4 1 0 .314
show the Boston Red Sox he can help Figgins 3b 2 0 0 0 2 2 .299 RBIs for the Oakland Athletics, R.Sweeney rf 3 0 1 1 1 0 .288
M.Izturis 2b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .297 K.Suzuki c 4 0 0 1 1 0 .267
them in the playoffs. B.Abreu rf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .299 who delivered another blow to Cust dh 5 0 0 0 0 4 .234
And he gave the Los Angeles Angels a Guerrero dh 4 0 0 0 0 1 .297 the Texas Rangers’ playoff Hairston lf 5 0 1 0 0 1 .237
Tor.Hunter cf 4 1 1 0 0 0 .311 M.Ellis 2b 5 1 1 0 0 2 .274
preview of what could be waiting for K.Morales 1b 3 0 1 0 1 0 .306 chances with a 6-1 victory. D.Barton 1b 3 2 1 0 2 1 .235
them in October, too. J.Rivera lf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .287 Texas is 1-4 on its homestand Pennington ss 5 1 2 0 0 2 .288
E.Aybar ss 4 0 2 1 0 0 .303 Totals 38 6 10 6 7 13
Matsuzaka returned from a three- J.Mathis c 2 0 0 0 0 2 .208 and 5½ games behind A.L.
month stint on the DL with six shutout a-Matthews Jr. ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .241 wild-card leader Boston. The Texas AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Bo.Wilson c 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- Borbon lf 2 0 0 0 1 0 .323
innings on Tuesday night to lead the b-H.Kendrick ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .291 Rangers have their largest defi- M.Young dh 1 0 0 0 0 0 .322
Red Sox to a 4-1 victory over the Angels, Totals 33 1 6 1 3 8 cit for a playoff spot all season a-N.Cruz ph-dh 3 0 0 0 0 1 .268
Dav.Murphy rf 4 1 2 1 0 0 .273
their likely first-round playoff Boston AB R H BI BB SO Avg. with only 18 games left. M.Byrd cf 3 0 1 0 1 0 .283
opponent. Ellsbury cf 4 1 2 0 0 0 .300 David Murphy’s leadoff Gentry cf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Pedroia 2b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .296 Kinsler 2b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .252
“We’re in the middle of a playoff race, J.Drew rf 4 1 1 0 0 0 .266 homer in the fourth snapped C.Davis 1b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .214
and we don’t have a lot of leeway,” said Bay lf 2 0 1 1 2 1 .262 the Rangers’ 22-inning score- I.Rodriguez c 4 0 0 0 0 0 .254
D.Ortiz dh 4 1 2 2 0 1 .233 German 3b 4 0 2 0 0 1 .343
Matsuzaka, who hadn’t pitched for Bos- Lowell 3b 3 0 0 0 1 2 .294 less streak, their longest in five Andrus ss 2 0 0 0 2 0 .275
ton since June 19 and hadn’t won since Kotchman 1b 3 0 1 0 0 1 .196 years, but they were down 4-1 Totals 31 1 5 1 4 4
Varitek c 3 0 0 0 0 1 .215
June 2. “I just want to do my best to Ale.Gonzalez ss 3 1 1 0 0 0 .287 and didn’t score again. Oakland 110 202 000 — 6 10 0
contribute.” Totals 30 4 9 3 3 6 Craig Breslow (7-7) worked Texas 000 100 000 — 1 5 3
David Ortiz hit his record-breaking Los Angeles 000 000 001 — 1 6 1 two scoreless innings in relief E: I.Rodriguez (3), German (4), C.Wilson (2). LOB: Oakland
270th homer as a designated hitter and also Boston 000 002 02x — 4 9 0 for the last-place Athletics, who 13, Texas 8. 2B: D.Barton (8), M.Byrd (41), German (4). 3B:
added an RBI single after Boston broke a have won seven of nine. Pennington (1). HR: Dav.Murphy (16), off Ed.Gonzalez. RBIs:
a-struck out for J.Mathis in the 7th. b-grounded into a R.Davis4(41),R.Sweeney(47),K.Suzuki(75),Dav.Murphy(46).
scoreless tie in the sixth thanks to a throw- fielder’s choice for Bo.Wilson in the 9th. E: Lackey (2). Michael Young returned to the SB: R.Davis (37). CS: R.Davis (11). S: Borbon. Runners left in
LOB: Los Angeles 8, Boston 5. 2B: B.Abreu (26), E.Aybar scoring position: Oakland 7 (R.Sweeney 2, K.Suzuki 2, M.Ellis
ing error by John Lackey (10-8). The Red (23). 3B: J.Drew (4). HR: D.Ortiz (24), off Arredondo. Texas lineup as the designated 2, Hairston);Texas 6 (Kinsler, I.Rodriguez, Dav.Murphy 4).
Sox have won six straight since returning to RBIs: E.Aybar (54), Bay (102), D.Ortiz 2 (83). SB: Figgins hitter after missing two weeks
(41), E.Aybar (14). CS: Ellsbury (10). Runners left in Oakland IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Fenway Park after Labor Day. scoring position: Los Angeles 4 (Guerrero, Figgins 2, because of a strained left ham- Ed.Gonzalez 4 4 1 1 2 1 71 4.74
Jonathan Papelbon pitched the ninth Tor.Hunter); Boston 2 (Kotchman 2). DP: Los Angeles string, but the All-Star third Breslow W, 7-7 2 0 0 0 1 1 26 3.67
2 (M.Izturis, E.Aybar, K.Morales), (Lackey, E.Aybar, Ziegler 2⁄3 1 0 0 1 1 22 2.95
and gave up an RBI double to Erick Aybar K.Morales). baseman left after he flied out his Blevins 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 5 5.56
to spoil the shutout before Howie Kendrick only at-bat in the first inning. Wuertz 1 0 0 0 0 1 14 2.92
Los Angeles IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA A.Bailey 1 0 0 0 0 0 11 2.00
hit a soft roller to third to end the game. Lackey L, 10-8 7 2⁄3 8 3 2 3 6 120 3.47 “I felt like I wanted to give Texas IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
An 18-game winner last year, Matsu- Arredondo 1⁄3 1 1 1 0 0 3 6.15 them a lift any way I could,” McCarthy L, 7-3 3 4 4 3 3 2 80 4.97
Boston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA D.Mathis 2 3 0 0 0 3 33 2.70
zaka (2-5) did not allow a hit through Matsuzaka W, 2-5 6 3 0 0 3 5 93 7.02 Young said. “I figured the best N.Feliz 1 2 2 2 2 3 36 1.46
four innings and got a standing ovation MICHAEL DWYER / AP R.Ramirez H, 11 1 0 0 0 0 1 12 2.80 way to do that was get back in W.Eyre 1 0 0 0 0 2 21 2.51
Wagner H, 3 2⁄3 1 0 0 0 1 13 1.42 C.Wilson 1 1 0 0 1 1 22 3.15
when he was relieved after one batter in Prior to Tuesday, Daisuke Matsuzaka had not pitched in the majors since June 19. D.Bard H, 11 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 3 3.30 the lineup.” F.Francisco 1 0 0 0 1 2 16 3.59
the seventh. In all, Matsuzaka gave up Papelbon 1 2 1 1 0 1 20 2.00 Young’s return was expected
McCarthy pitched to 2 batters in the 4th. Ed.Gonzalez
three hits and three walks while strik- The Angels won eight of their previous 13 playoff games against Boston dating Matsuzaka pitched to 1 batter in the 7th. Inherited to be a huge boost for the Rang- pitched to 2 batters in the 5th. Inherited runners-
ing out five for his first win at Fenway in 11 and hold a six-game lead over Texas in to 1986 and are 0-4 all-time in postsea- runners-scored: R.Ramirez 1-0, D.Bard 1-0. Umpires: ers, who are trying to end a scored: Breslow 2-0, Blevins 2-0, D.Mathis 2-2. HBP:
Home, Mark Wegner; First, Rick Reed; Second, Jeff Kel- by N.Feliz (R.Sweeney). Umpires: Home, Tim McClel-
almost a year. the A.L. West; Boston leads the Rangers son series against the Red Sox. logg; Third, Tim Timmons. T: 2:44. A: 37,942 (37,373). 10-year playoff drought. land; First, Kerwin Danley; Second, Marty Foster; Third,
“I’ve been a burden on my teammates. by 5½ in the wild-card race. If the stand- “People see it as the Boston Red Sox “A day without him is Mark Carlson. T: 3:20. A: 15,964 (49,170).
I feel that I owe them,” he said. “There’s ings hold, the Red Sox and Angels would and a potential playoff matchup, but the enough,” Marlon Byrd said.
not much left in the season. In the lim- meet in the first round of the playoffs for playoffs are totally different,” Angels “To have him back, hopefully
American League
ited opportunity I do have, I want to the third consecutive season. outfielder Torii Hunter said. “Some he goes out there and gives us wild-card standings
show my appreciation to my teammates That hasn’t worked out too well for guys show up and some guys don’t.” the spark we need.” W L Pct. GB
Boston 85 58 .594 —
and the fans.” the Angels, who have lost 12 of their last — The Associated Press — The Associated Press Texas 80 64 .555 5½
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
Toronto 10, N.Y. Yankees 4 Baltimore 10, Tampa Bay 5

Rumble in the Bronx: Posada at center of brawl O’s find solace in rookies
BALTIMORE—If the Baltimore Orioles 10, Rays 5
NEW YORK—As soon as Jorge Posada Blue Jays 10, Yankees 4 Orioles are looking for positive Tampa Bay AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Bartlett ss 4 1 1 0 0 0 .327
bumped Toronto reliever Jesse Carlson Toronto AB R H BI BB SO Avg. signs for next season, they got Crawford lf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .300
Scutaro ss 4 0 1 1 0 0 .284
after crossing home plate, almost every- A.Hill 2b 4 1 0 0 0 1 .286 plenty of them in a gritty come- Longoria 3b 3 1 1 0 0 0 .276
Zobrist rf-2b 4 2 3 1 0 0 .283
one at Yankee Stadium knew a fight was Lind dh 4 2 2 1 1 0 .300 back win. Burrell dh 4 1 2 4 0 0 .230
V.Wells cf 5 0 2 1 0 0 .262
coming. Overbay 1b 5 1 2 0 0 2 .262 Despite being in last place W.Aybar 1b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .247
B.Upton cf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .235
Posada and Carlson got into a scrap Encarnacion 3b 4 2 2 2 0 0 .216 with nothing to play for, the Navarro c 2 0 0 0 2 0 .225
Barajas c 5 0 1 1 0 0 .241
near the New York dugout, leading to a J.Bautista rf 3 2 1 1 2 1 .226 Orioles received solid contribu- Brignac 2b 2 0 0 0 0 0 .278
a-Kapler ph-rf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .232
frenzied, bench-clearing brawl during Snider lf 5 2 2 3 0 3 .227 tions from two rookies and ral- b-Gross ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .241
Totals 39 10 13 10 3 7
the Blue Jays’ 10-4 victory over the Yan- lied from a five-run deficit to Totals 33 5 8 5 2 2
kees on Tuesday night. New York AB R H BI BB SO Avg. beat the Tampa Bay Rays 10-5 Baltimore AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Jeter ss 4 0 2 1 1 0 .332
“It got pretty heavy and pretty thick Damon lf 5 0 1 0 0 1 .283 on Tuesday night. Pie cf 5 1 1 0 0 3 .264
Fiorentino lf 4 1 1 0 1 2 .333
pretty quickly,” New York slugger Alex Teixeira 1b 5 1 2 0 0 1 .286 “This late in the year, to not B.Roberts 2b 4 1 3 1 1 0 .288
A.Rodriguez 3b 5 0 1 0 0 1 .285
Rodriguez said. “I think we’re all fortu- H.Matsui dh 4 0 2 1 1 1 .277 give in, that’s a lot of fight and Markakis rf 5 2 1 1 0 1 .301
Mora 3b 5 1 1 0 0 0 .264
nate and glad no one got hurt.” Posada c 3 2 1 0 1 1 .281 determination,” manager Dave Scott dh 4 1 2 2 1 0 .258
Cervelli c 0 0 0 0 0 0 .259
Toronto’s Edwin Encarnacion and All- a-Me.Cabrera ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .280 Trembley said. 1-Andino pr-dh 0 1 0 0 0 0 .231
Wieters c 4 2 3 5 1 1 .272
Star second baseman Aaron Hill were hit Cano 2b 5 0 2 0 0 1 .320 Matt Wieters fueled the Aubrey 1b 5 0 1 0 0 1 .290
by pitches before Carlson threw behind Swisher rf 4 1 2 0 0 1 .257 comeback with a homer and a C.Izturis ss 4 0 3 1 0 0 .255
Gardner cf 4 0 2 2 0 0 .276
Posada in the eighth inning. Posada career-high five RBIs, and Totals 40 10 16 10 4 8
Totals 40 4 15 4 3 7
glared out at the mound and appeared to Toronto 003 202 111 — 10 13 0
righthander Jason Berken held Tampa Bay 401 000 000 — 5 8 0
say, “You don’t want to do that.” the Rays in check after giving Baltimore 002 130 13x — 10 16 1
New York 020 000 011 — 4 15 0
Carlson motioned toward Posada as a-flied out for Cervelli in the 9th. LOB: Toronto 8, New
up four first-inning runs. a-flied out for Brignac in the 7th. b-grounded out for
the benches and bullpens emptied, Wieters, a former No. 1 draft Kapler in the 9th. 1-ran for Scott in the 8th. E: Berken
York 12. 2B: Barajas (17), A.Rodriguez (16), Swisher 2 (2). LOB: Tampa Bay 4, Baltimore 10. 2B: Zobrist (21),
though the teams never got close to each (32), Gardner (6). 3B: Teixeira (2). HR: Snider 2 (8), off pick playing in his 78th game, B.Roberts (52), Scott (22), Wieters (12). 3B: Zobrist
Mitre 2; Lind (30), off Mitre; Encarnacion (3), off Mitre;
other and order was quickly restored. appears to have justified the (7). HR: Burrell (14), off Berken; Scott (22), off Shouse;
KATHY WILLENS / AP J.Bautista (6), off M.Dunn. RBIs: Scutaro (60), Lind Wieters (6), off Bradford. RBIs: Zobrist (74), Burrell 4
Johnny Damon and manager Joe Girardi Yankees C Jorge Posada (20) took offense to an inside fastball from Jays P Jesse Carlson. (101), V.Wells (61), Encarnacion 2 (11), Barajas (65), hype that surrounded his (62), B.Roberts (74), Markakis (94), Scott 2 (69), Wieters
J.Bautista (23), Snider 3 (20), Jeter (64), H.Matsui (82),
aggressively pulled teammates away, arrival in late May. 5 (32), C.Izturis (29). Runners left in scoring posi-
Gardner 2 (23). SF: Scutaro. Runners left in scoring tion: Baltimore 6 (Aubrey, Mora 2, Fiorentino 2, Pie).
aware an injury or suspension could be position: Toronto 4 (A.Hill 2, J.Bautista, Overbay);
The two wrestled to the ground as the hoping I got out of there all right.” New York 7 (H.Matsui, Damon 3, Jeter 2, Posada). DP:
“It’s good for the organiza- DP: Baltimore 3 (Mora, B.Roberts, Aubrey), (C.Izturis,
costly to the Yankees as they close in on Aubrey), (C.Izturis, B.Roberts, Aubrey).
benches and bullpens emptied and other When things finally settled down, Toronto 1 (Overbay, Scutaro, Overbay). tion, it’s good for the team,”
a playoff berth. Plate umpire Jim Joyce scuffles broke out near home plate. there was catching equipment strewn all Toronto IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Orioles second baseman Brian Tampa Bay IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Niemann L, 12-6 4 1⁄3 11 6 6 1 6 83 3.80
warned both benches. “He was just right there on the line to over the field behind home plate. New Halladay W, 15-9 6 11 2 2 1 6 112 3.03 Roberts said. “There’s a lot of Cormier 1 2⁄3 1 0 0 1 0 35 3.31
Carlson 1 2⁄3 2 1 1 1 0 29 4.43
But moments later, a nasty rumble the dugout. We got carried away and York pitchers CC Sabathia and Andy Accardo 0 0 0 0 1 0 7 2.84 pressure, and it’s hard enough Shouse 1⁄3 1 1 1 1 0 9 5.25
Springer 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 4.05
broke out. hopefully that’s the end of it,” the Pettitte escorted Posada into the dugout. S.Downs 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 3 2.74 up here without having to deal Choate 1 1 1 1 0 2 20 3.90
League 1 2 1 1 0 1 32 4.98
After scoring on Brett Gardner’s dou- 38-year-old Posada said. “I don’t want The 6-1, 160-pound Carlson, also New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA with that. I think it was a little Bradford 2⁄3 1 2 2 1 0 12 4.82
Baltimore IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
ble, Posada jostled Carlson, who was on my kids to see that. ... Fight in the middle ejected, was left with a large red knot on Mitre L, 3-3 5 8 7 7 1 2 79 7.63 unfair, the expectations early Berken W, 5-11 6 1⁄3 7 5 5 1 2 83 6.08
E.Ramirez 1 1⁄3 2 1 1 1 1 21 5.73
his way to back up the plate. Joyce of the field, benches clearing—that’s a the left side of his forehead. Melancon 1 1⁄3 1 1 1 1 2 23 3.86 on. Now he’s finally started to A.Castillo H, 4 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 3 2.45
C.Ray H, 6 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 3 6.42
promptly ejected Posada as Carlson bad example.” “We were wrestling or whatever and we M.Dunn 1 1⁄3 2 1 1 0 2 21 6.75 get comfortable and find his Baez H, 11 1 0 0 0 0 0 11 4.09
shouted curses at the star catcher. Blue Jays catcher Rod Barajas and both went down to the ground. We were Mitre pitched to 3 batters in the 6th. Accardo pitched groove.” Ji.Johnson 1 1 0 0 1 0 15 3.96
“As he ran past Carlson, he gave him a Yankees reserve Shelley Duncan got in kind of right near their dugout and kind of to 1 batter in the 8th. Inherited runners-scored: Berken (5-11) kept the Orioles Springer pitched to 1 batter in the 7th. Inherited
Accardo 2-0, S.Downs 3-0, E.Ramirez 2-1, Melancon 2-1,
little shove with his elbow. It was very a particularly rough tussle. got trampled on for a little bit. I was trying M.Dunn 2-1. HBP: by Mitre (Encarnacion), by Melancon in the game after a rocky start. runners-scored: Cormier 1-0, Springer 1-0, Choate
2-0, Bradford 1-1, A.Castillo 1-0, C.Ray 1-0. HBP: by
unsportsmanlike,” Joyce told a pool “Once he crossed the plate and threw to cover up and I’m not sure who it was, (A.Hill). WP: Melancon 2. PB: Posada. Umpires: Home, He gave up four hits in the first Baez (Longoria). Balk: Cormier. Umpires: Home, Rob
Jim Joyce; First, Greg Gibson; Second, Bill Miller; Third,
reporter. “It was a cheap shot.” that elbow at me or whatever, I just said, but somebody moved my hands out of the Derryl Cousins. T: 3:52. A: 45,847 (52,325). inning and only three more Drake; First, Mike DiMuro; Second, Ron Kulpa; Third,
Dale Scott. T: 2:55. A: 11,575 (48,290).
Posada spun around, sidestepped Joyce ‘Let’s go,’” Carlson said. “I’m probably way and got in a shot,” Carlson said. “I’m before being lifted with one out
and came back at Carlson, who took a the smallest guy in MLB and we were fine. It doesn’t even hurt.” in the seventh.
high swing with a punch that missed. right near their dugout, so I was just — The Associated Press — The Associated Press
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
Minnesota 5, Cleveland 4 Kansas City 11, Detroit 1
Washburn done in by knee
Twins pull within 4 1/2 games of Tigers DETROIT—Jim Leyland is out Royals 11, Tigers 1
MINNEAPOLIS—Joe Nathan’s 40th save was what the rest of Twins 5, Indians 4 of answers. Kansas City AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
DeJesus lf 4 1 1 3 0 2 .280
the Minnesota Twins’ season promises to be without Justin Cleveland AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Not only did his division- J.Anderson cf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .244
Morneau—a grind. Brantley cf 5 0 0 0 0 2 .321 leading Detroit Tigers drop a Bloomquist rf 5 2 3 0 0 0 .265
J.Carroll 2b 4 1 2 0 0 2 .295 Butler 1b 3 2 0 0 2 0 .301
But Nathan bounced back from allowing a ninth-inning A.Cabrera ss 3 0 1 0 1 1 .308 fifth straight game to the last- Olivo dh 4 3 2 3 1 0 .249
home run and the Twins fought back from a two-run deficit Jh.Peralta 3b 4 1 1 1 0 1 .274 place Kansas City Royals, 11-1 Callaspo 2b 4 1 2 4 0 1 .298
Hafner dh 3 1 1 0 0 0 .276 Maier cf-lf 5 0 0 0 0 1 .246
for a 5-4 victory over the Cleveland Indians on Tuesday A.Marte 1b 1 0 0 1 1 0 .227 on Tuesday night, he has to fill J.Buck c 4 1 2 0 0 0 .224
night. a-Valbuena ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .237 another spot in his patchwork A.Gordon 3b 2 1 0 0 2 0 .200
LaPorta rf 4 1 2 2 0 0 .246 Y.Betancourt ss 4 0 0 0 0 0 .239
Minnesota improved to 2-0 since losing first baseman Marson c 3 0 0 0 0 0 .154 rotation. Totals 36 11 10 10 5 4
Morneau for the season and pulled within 4½ games of first- b-Choo ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .300 Jarrod Washburn lasted just
Crowe lf 3 0 1 0 1 0 .225 Detroit AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
place Detroit in the A.L. Central. Totals 32 4 8 4 3 7 one inning—the shortest start Granderson cf 3 0 1 0 1 0 .248
Nick Punto had three hits and two RBIs for the Twins, who of his career—and gave up four W.Ramirez rf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .364
Minnesota AB R H BI BB SO Avg. C.Guillen lf 4 0 1 1 0 2 .243
still have a daunting task to catch Detroit with only 18 games Span cf-rf 5 1 1 0 0 2 .306 runs before it became obvious Ordonez rf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .294
left—seven against the Tigers—without Morneau, a former O.Cabrera ss 4 1 2 1 0 1 .271 that his sore left knee wasn’t up Thomas rf-cf 1 0 0 0 0 1 .243
Mauer c 3 0 2 1 1 0 .373 Mi.Cabrera 1b 2 0 0 0 1 1 .331
A.L. MVP who has a stress fracture in his back. Kubel rf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .302 to pitching. The Tigers lost Nate Kelly 1b 1 0 0 0 0 0 .240
“Morneau is a luxury, he’s as good as they get, but we can’t Gomez cf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .236 Robertson (groin) and A.Huff dh 4 0 0 0 0 0 .244
Cuddyer 1b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .271 Avila c 3 0 1 0 0 1 .302
just lay down,” Minnesota manager Ron Gardenhire said. Delm.Young lf 3 1 1 0 1 1 .265 Armando Galarraga (elbow) a-D.Ryan ph-c 1 0 0 0 0 1 .154
“We know that we have to do other things. When you lose a Buscher dh 2 2 1 1 1 1 .241 last week, while Dontrelle Wil- Inge 3b 2 0 0 0 0 1 .233
1-A.Casilla pr-dh 0 0 0 0 0 0 .196 Dlugach 3b 2 0 0 0 0 1 .000
power guy like that you have to figure out other ways to get it Tolbert 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 .197 lis and Jeremy Bonderman Santiago 2b 2 0 0 0 2 1 .257
done, that’s all.” Punto 2b 4 0 3 2 0 0 .232 have been unavailable for Everett ss 3 1 1 0 1 0 .240
Totals 32 5 10 5 3 7 Totals 32 1 4 1 5 10
The Twins got four hits, three RBIs and two runs from the almost the entire season.
bottom third of their order and 2 2/3 scoreless innings of relief Cleveland 000 300 001 — 4 8 1 “I don’t have any information Kansas City 400 310 300 — 11 10 1
Minnesota 100 112 00x — 5 10 0 Detroit 000 010 000 — 1 4 0
from their bullpen before Nathan gave up the solo homer to for you right now, because I
Matt LaPorta with one out in the ninth. Nathan walked Trevor a-popped out for A.Marte in the 9th. b-struck out don’t have any information for a-struck out for Avila in the 8th. E: A.Gordon (6). LOB:
for Marson in the 9th. 1-ran for Buscher in the 8th. E: Kansas City 4, Detroit 9. 2B: Bloomquist (10), Callaspo
Crowe with two outs, but got Michael Brantley to fly out for LaPorta (3). LOB: Cleveland 6, Minnesota 8. 2B: Hafner myself,” Leyland said. “I have (34), J.Buck (10), Granderson (20). 3B: Bloomquist (8),
his 40th save in 45 chances. (16), Mauer (26), Delm.Young (12), Punto (13). HR: no idea who is going to pitch. Olivo (5). HR: Callaspo (10), off Washburn; DeJesus (13),
LaPorta (5), off Nathan; O.Cabrera (7), off Carmona. off Fien; Olivo (20), off Bonderman. RBIs: DeJesus 3
Nathan reached 40 saves for the third time in his career and RBIs: Jh.Peralta (78), A.Marte (19), LaPorta 2 (14), We’ll get together and try to (70), Olivo 3 (54), Callaspo 4 (62), C.Guillen (33). SF: Cal-
for the first time since recording 43 in 2005. O.Cabrera (61), Mauer (85), Buscher (12), Punto 2 (32). figure something out.” laspo. Runners left in scoring position: Kansas City 2
SB: J.Carroll (3), A.Cabrera (17), Crowe (5). S: Tolbert. SF: (Maier 2); Detroit 5 (Ordonez 2, Mi.Cabrera 2, Thomas).
“It’s been a while, but it feels good,” Nathan said. “But we A.Marte. Runners left in scoring position: Cleveland Washburn (9-9) struck out
still know we’ve got some work to do. We still know if we’re 4 (Jh.Peralta, Marson, A.Marte, Brantley); Minnesota David DeJesus to start the Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
6 (Buscher 2, O.Cabrera 2, Delm.Young, Span). DP: Tejeda W, 3-1 5 2 1 1 4 5 102 3.09
4½ back we’re going to have to do something special. We’ve Cleveland 1 (Jh.Peralta, J.Carroll, A.Marte); Minnesota 2 game, but Willie Bloomquist D.Hughes 2 2 0 0 0 3 28 3.38
got to win probably more than four games against (the Tigers), (Tolbert, Punto, Cuddyer), (O.Cabrera, Punto, Cuddyer). doubled and Billy Butler and V.Marte 2 0 0 0 1 2 29 4.91
Detroit IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
probably five to have even a glimpse of hope.” Cleveland IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Miguel Olivo walked to load Washburn L, 9-9 1 3 4 4 2 2 30 3.78
The deficit had been 5½ games for six straight days, but the PAUL BATTAGLIA / AP Carmona L, 3-11 5 1⁄3 9 5 5 3 3 99 6.58 the bases. Miner 2 0 0 0 0 2 28 4.57
Sipp 1 1 0 0 0 1 23 3.12 Fien 3 3 4 4 2 0 49 9.82
Twins beat Fausto Carmona (3-11) for the third time this sea- Minnesota 2B Nick Punto isn’t particularly known for his bat, but he did have Veras 1 2⁄3 0 0 0 0 3 29 5.89 A passed ball allowed the Bonderman 1 2 3 3 1 0 2111.25
son to finally trim the margin. three hits and two RBIs as the Twins won their third straight game. Minnesota IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA first run to score before Alberto Perry 1 0 0 0 0 0 14 4.00
S.Baker 5 1⁄3 5 3 3 2 5 101 4.35 Ni 1 2 0 0 0 0 17 2.93
Carmona, coming off a season-low outing in which he Mahay 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 4.57 Callaspo hit a three-run homer
allowed five runs while only getting two outs against Texas on ably be a close play.” Rauch W, 3-1 1 1⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 9 3.38 into the Kansas City bullpen in PB: Avila. Umpires: Home, Gary Darling; First, Bruce
Mijares H, 22 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 3 2.09 Dreckman; Second, Paul Emmel; Third, Scott Barry. T:
Sept. 9, had some tough luck to start the decisive sixth inning. Buscher followed with a single to score Young, and Buscher Guerrier H, 29 1 1 0 0 0 0 12 2.24 left-center field. 3:06. A: 20,422 (41,255).
Delmon Young’s leadoff chopper off the Metrodome turf scored two batters later on Punto’s second RBI single that Nathan S, 40-45 1 1 1 1 1 1 21 2.28 “When you’ve got a pitcher
stayed high enough to tip off Jhonny Peralta’s glove and slowly chased Carmona. Mahay pitched to 1 batter in the 6th. Inherited on the ropes like that, you have
rolled to the outfield for a double. The righthander fell to 1-5 since he was recalled from Class runners-scored: Sipp 1-0, Veras 1-0, Mahay 1-0, to finish him off,” DeJesus said.
Rauch 2-0, Mijares 1-0. HBP: by Veras (Buscher), by
“That shouldn’t have been a double,” Cleveland manager AAA Columbus on July 31. He allowed five runs, nine hits Mahay (Hafner). WP: S.Baker. Umpires: Home, Gary “Even though he’s hurt, we still
Eric Wedge said. “At the very least, he has to catch that ball. and three walks in 5 1/3 innings. Cederstrom; First, Fieldin Culbreth; Second, Jeff Nelson; have to play the game.”
Third, Adrian Johnson. T: 3:14. A: 19,035 (46,632).
Ideally he catches it and makes a throw and it’s going to prob- — The Associated Press — The Associated Press
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
Florida 2, St. Louis 1 Philadelphia 5, Washington 0

Pitchers’ duel goes to rookie, not Cy candidate Lee ends struggles with CG
PHILADELPHIA—With a sellout Phillies 5, Nationals 0
ST. LOUIS—One pitch kept Adam Wainwright from his 19th Marlins 2, Cardinals 1 crowd standing and roaring in Washington AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Maxwell cf 4 0 2 0 0 1 .226
win. It kept the St. Louis Cardinals’ magic number at 10, too. Florida AB R H BI BB SO Avg. anticipation of another shutout, C.Guzman ss 3 0 0 0 1 1 .294
Coghlan lf 4 0 0 0 0 3 .304
Dan Uggla golfed a two-run homer on an ankle-high curve- N.Johnson 1b 3 1 1 0 1 1 .302 Cliff Lee reared back and fired Zimmerman 3b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .291
A.Dunn 1b 3 0 1 0 1 0 .282
ball for the go-ahead hit in the sixth inning and rookie Sean Ha.Ramirez ss 4 0 0 0 0 1 .358 his final fastball of the night. Willingham lf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .278
Cantu 3b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .281
West had a season-high nine strikeouts while outpitching L.Nunez p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- Swing and miss. Game over. Dukes rf 3 0 0 0 1 1 .256
J.Bard c 4 0 1 0 0 3 .234
Wainwright in the Florida Marlins’ 2-1 victory on Tuesday. Uggla 2b 4 1 1 2 0 3 .244 Lee threw a six-hitter, Carlos Alb.Gonzalez 2b 3 0 0 0 0 0 .255
C.Ross rf 4 0 1 0 0 0 .273
“I had a blast,” West said. “The main thing was I wanted to R.Paulino c 4 0 1 0 0 1 .268 Ruiz hit a three-run double and Mock p 1 0 1 0 0 0 .100
S.Rivera p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .333
attack those guys and I said ‘Here you go’ and got some swings, Maybin cf 3 0 1 0 0 1 .228 the Philadelphia Phillies beat Villone p 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
West p 1 0 0 0 0 1 .071
got some strikeouts, and all around a good performance.” a-Gload ph 1 0 1 0 0 0 .266 the Washington Nationals 5-0 a-Morse ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .294
Kensing p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Wainwright (18-8) allowed two runs in seven innings and 1-Bonifacio pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 .251 on Tuesday night. Totals 30 0 6 0 3 9
Sanches p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
struck out eight, not quite good enough to make him the major Donnelly p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- “Every time I’m on the
Philadelphia AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
leagues’ first 19-game winner. He had been 6-0 with a 1.99 Helms 3b 0 0 0 0 0 0 .279 mound, I want to be the last Rollins ss 4 1 2 1 0 0 .246
Totals 32 2 7 2 1 11
ERA in seven starts since Aug. 8. guy out there,” Lee said. “I feel Victorino cf 3 0 1 0 0 0 .300
Utley 2b 4 0 1 1 0 0 .295
“Almost every night with this team that’s going to win,” St. Louis AB R H BI BB SO Avg. strong and good and hopefully Howard 1b 3 0 0 0 1 0 .270
Schumaker 2b 4 0 2 0 0 2 .299
Wainwright said. “The guy on the other side pitched a great Lugo ss 3 0 1 0 1 2 .297 I continue to feel that way.” Ibanez lf 3 1 1 0 1 0 .279
Werth rf 4 1 3 0 0 0 .270
game.” Pujols 1b 3 0 2 1 0 0 .331 The N.L. East leaders have P.Feliz 3b 3 1 0 0 1 1 .268
Wainwright said catcher Yadier Molina would have had to Holliday lf 4 0 0 0 0 2 .363 won six of eight and reduced C.Ruiz c 4 1 2 3 0 0 .258
Ludwick rf 3 0 0 0 1 1 .272 Cl.Lee p 4 0 0 0 0 2 .259
block the pitch in the dirt if Uggla had not made contact. Uggla DeRosa 3b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .230 their magic number for their Totals 32 5 10 5 3 3
wasn’t arguing the point. Y.Molina c 3 0 1 0 1 0 .283 third consecutive division title
Ankiel cf 4 1 1 0 0 3 .235 Washington 000 000 000 — 0 6 1
“He didn’t make a mistake,” Uggla said. “I probably wasn’t Wainwright p 2 0 0 0 0 0 .148 to 12 with 19 games remaining. Philadelphia 140 000 00x — 5 10 0
supposed to hit the ball out of the ballpark, but somehow I did b-Rasmus ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .260 In his best outing in three
T.Miller p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- a-struck out for Villone in the 8th. E: A.Dunn (14). LOB:
and I’ll take it.” M.Boggs p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .071 weeks, Lee (7-2) struck out nine Washington 7, Philadelphia 7. 2B: J.Bard (16), Rollins
The 23-year-old West (7-5) topped his previous strikeout c-Thurston ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .228 and walked three to record his (37), Ibanez (31), C.Ruiz 2 (24). RBIs: Rollins (66), Utley
Totals 32 1 7 1 3 13 (90), C.Ruiz 3 (41). S: Mock, Victorino. Runners left
best of seven in six strong innings. The 6-8 lefthander escaped second shutout and sixth com- in scoring position: Washington 2 (J.Bard 2); Phila-
with minimal damage in the fifth when the Cardinals loaded Florida 000 002 000 — 2 7 0 plete game this season. He was delphia 3 (Victorino, Ibanez, Cl.Lee). DP: Washington
St. Louis 000 010 000 — 1 7 1 2 (Alb.Gonzalez, Zimmerman, A.Dunn), (Zimmerman,
the bases with one out and the middle of the order coming up. 1-2 with a 9.60 ERA in his pre- Alb.Gonzalez, A.Dunn).
Albert Pujols settled for a sacrifice fly to give St. Louis the a-singled for West in the 7th. b-grounded out for Wain- vious three starts after giving
wright in the 7th. c-struck out for M.Boggs in the 9th. Washington IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
lead, but Matt Holliday struck out to end the inning. 1-ran for Gload in the 7th. E: Lugo (2). LOB: Florida 5, St. up three earned runs in his Mock L, 3-8 6 7 5 5 2 2 107 5.89
“I kind of gave a little smirk when Pujols came up and the Louis 8. 2B: Pujols (39). HR: Uggla (29), off Wainwright.
RBIs: Uggla 2 (78), Pujols (126). SB: Bonifacio (21). CS: first five with Philadelphia. S.Rivera 1⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 7 5.46
Villone 2⁄3 0 0 0 1 0 13 4.14
crowd went crazy,” West said. “I got a slider in at his feet and Cantu (1). S: West. SF: Pujols. Runners left in scoring “My past few outings I got a Kensing 1 2 0 0 0 1 1810.67
position: Florida 3 (Maybin, Coghlan 2); St. Louis 3
he popped it up and that was huge right there because I’m (Holliday 3). GIDP: Ha.Ramirez, DeRosa. DP: Florida 1 little fastball happy,” Lee said. Philadelphia IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Cl.Lee W, 7-2 9 6 0 0 3 9 124 2.67
pretty sure he can hit it out of the park pretty easy. (Ha.Ramirez, N.Johnson); St. Louis 2 (Lugo, Schumaker, “Tonight, I tried to be more
Pujols), (Y.Molina, Y.Molina, Schumaker).
“Holliday looked a little susceptible to sliders, that’s what I TOM GANNAM / AP conscious of mixing speeds and Inherited runners-scored: Villone 1-0. Umpires:
Home, Joe West; First, Ed Rapuano; Second, Paul Schrie-
fed him, and I got him twice.” Marlins P Sean West struck out a career-high nine in six innings. Florida IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA it worked. That’s the name of ber; Third, Paul Nauert. T: 2:39. A: 44,521 (43,647).
West W, 7-5 6 6 1 1 3 9 94 4.60
Leo Nunez, the fourth Florida pitcher, worked the ninth for Sanches H, 7 1 1 0 0 0 1 14 1.74 the game. You have to be as
his 21st save in 27 chances. for the sixth straight season and 11th time in franchise history. Donnelly H, 7 1 0 0 0 0 1 9 1.66 unpredictable as possible.”
L.Nunez S, 21-27 1 0 0 0 0 2 10 4.04
The Marlins are now 4½ games behind Colorado for the N.L. They have had 29 sellouts this year. St. Louis IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA The defending World Series
wild card. The Central-leading Cardinals have lost four of five. Uggla hit his 29th homer and fourth in seven games. The Wainwright L, 18-8 7 7 2 2 1 8 104 2.59 champions acquired the A.L. Cy
T.Miller 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 7 1.77
St. Louis is 26-20 against lefthanders, but 12-5 since acquir- two-run go-ahead shot to left with two outs in the sixth was M.Boggs 1 2⁄3 0 0 0 0 3 25 4.00 Young award winner from Cleve-
ing Holliday on July 24. Ryan Ludwick thought hitters chased the first homer allowed in five starts by Wainwright and only land in July to strengthen the top
Umpires: Home, Chris Guccione; First, Mike Winters;
too many sliders out of the strike zone. the fourth in 16 outings dating to June 26. Second, Jerry Layne; Third, Tony Randazzo. T: 2:42. A: of their rotation. Lee has been out-
“I don’t like our lineup against anybody if we help the pitcher The homer lifted Uggla’s career numbers against the 6-7 42,895 (43,975). standing for the most part, post-
as much as we did tonight,” manager Tony La Russa said. righthander to 2-for-15 with two RBIs and seven strikeouts. ing a 2.67 ERA in nine starts.
The sellout crowd of 42,895 put the Cardinals over 3 million — The Associated Press — The Associated Press
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NATIONAL LEAGUE Cubs 13, Brewers 7
Milwaukee AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
F.Lopez 2b 2 1 0 0 2 1 .306
Atlanta 6, N.Y. Mets 0 Cincinnati 5, Houston 4 Chicago Cubs 13, Catalanotto 2b 1 1 1 1 0 0 .286
C.Hart rf 5 1 1 3 0 1 .257
Milwaukee 7
LaRoche makes Hanson’s start stand Janish burns hometown team Zambrano
Braun lf
Fielder 1b
McGehee 3b
Gamel ph-3b
4
3
3
1
1
1
0
0
1
0
1
0
1
0
0
0
1
2
0
1
2
1
1
1
.308
.298
.304
.235
ATLANTA—Thanks to Adam Braves 6, Mets 0 M.Cameron cf 3 0 1 2 0 1 .257
LaRoche, rookie Tommy Han- New York
L.Castillo 2b
AB
3
R
0
H
1
BI
0
BB
1
SO
0
Avg.
.310
Reds 5, Astros 4
Houston AB R H BI BB SO Avg. gets fussy after C.Patterson ph-cf 1
Kendall c 3
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
.087
.238
son didn’t have to worry about Bourn cf 3 1 0 0 1 1 .293 Mi.Rivera ph-c 1 0 0 0 0 0 .232
his 10th win slipping away
Sullivan lf
D.Wright 3b
Beltran cf
4
3
3
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
2
0
.261
.312
.330
K.Matsui 2b
Pence rf
4
4
2
0
2
0
2
0
0
0
1 .252
1 .285
Soto’s big game A.Escobar ss
Gallardo p
4
3
0
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
2
.278
.175
again. Dan.Murphy 1b 4 0 2 0 0 0 .260 Ca.Lee lf 4 0 1 0 0 0 .306 Coffey p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Hanson cruised through Francoeur rf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .273 Tejada ss 4 1 1 1 0 1 .301 CHICAGO—Carlos Zambrano Villanueva p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .111
Thole c 3 0 1 0 1 1 .409 Blum 1b 4 0 1 1 0 0 .258 C.Smith p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
another start, pitching seven A.Hernandez ss 3 0 0 0 0 1 .253 Keppinger 3b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .258 tried to remain positive after a Axford p 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
innings, and LaRoche homered Misch p 1 0 0 0 0 1 .000 Coste c 4 0 1 0 0 1 .226 rough start. Talk about the Gerut ph 1 1 1 0 0 0 .215
a-Pagan ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .304 2-Manzella pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 Totals 35 7 8 7 6 11
twice and drove in three runs Dessens p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- Oswalt p 2 0 0 0 0 0 .122 Cubs wanting to trade him in
to lead the Atlanta Braves to Takahashi p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Brocail p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- the offseason got him riled up. Chicago AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
b-N.Evans ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .222 a-Michaels ph 0 0 0 0 1 0 .242 Theriot ss 2 3 1 1 4 1 .285
their fifth straight win, 6-0 Stokes p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- Gervacio p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- Geovany Soto homered and Fukudome cf 4 1 0 0 1 2 .258
over the New York Mets on Totals 30 0 4 0 4 8 Hawkins p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- drove in three runs, and the D.Lee 1b 2 1 2 3 4 0 .307
c-Boone ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Ar.Ramirez 3b 4 1 1 1 0 0 .323
Tuesday night. Atlanta AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Totals 34 4 7 4 2 5 Chicago Cubs took advantage of Caridad p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Nate McLouth had three McLouth cf 5 0 2 3 0 0 .272 12 walks to beat the Milwaukee M.Hoffpauir ph 0 0 0 1 1 0 .235
Prado 3b 5 0 0 0 0 0 .287 Cincinnati AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Samardzija p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
RBIs, but this was largely a M.Diaz rf-lf 3 0 1 0 0 0 .320 Stubbs cf 4 1 1 1 0 2 .246 Brewers 13-7 on Tuesday night. Soto c 5 2 2 3 1 1 .225
two-man effort. McCann c 4 0 1 0 0 0 .281 Janish ss 4 2 3 1 0 0 .223 Zambrano continued to strug- Bradley rf 4 0 0 1 0 1 .257
Y.Escobar ss 3 0 1 0 1 0 .303 Votto 1b 3 1 2 0 1 0 .301 Fontenot 2b 4 2 2 1 1 1 .235
Hanson (10-3) has allowed G.Anderson lf 4 1 1 0 0 0 .275 B.Phillips 2b 4 0 1 1 0 1 .276 gle. He handled the Milwaukee Scales lf 5 1 1 0 0 2 .239
just one run in his last 20 M.Gonzalez p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- Rolen 3b 3 0 1 2 0 0 .260 lineup with relative ease in the Zambrano p 1 0 0 1 0 0 .213
O’Flaherty p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Bruce rf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .211 Heilman p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
innings to reach double-figure Ad.LaRoche 1b 4 4 4 3 0 0 .280 L.Nix lf 4 0 0 0 0 0 .247 first four innings, striking out -Miles ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .176
wins in a brilliant debut sea- Infante 2b 4 1 3 0 0 1 .301 C.Miller c 2 0 0 0 0 0 .128 eight, but he got roughed up in Gregg p 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
Hanson p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .063 1-Arroyo pr 0 1 0 0 0 0 .111 Je.Baker ph-3b 2 2 2 0 0 0 .291
son. He could have had No. 10 Church rf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .274 Hanigan c 0 0 0 0 0 0 .270 the fifth for five runs. Totals 34 13 11 12 12 8
in his last start, pitching eight Totals 33 6 13 6 1 1 K.Wells p 2 0 0 0 0 2 .111 “It’s been tough, but I’m not Milwaukee 000 050 002 — 7 8 2
Herrera p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Chicago 010 315 21x — 13 11 1
scoreless inning at Houston, New York 000 000 000 — 0 4 0 AL BEHRMAN / AP
b-Sutton ph 0 0 0 0 0 0 .192 frustrated,” Zambrano said. E: Kendall (7), Fielder (7), Theriot (15). LOB: Milwaukee
only to have Rafael Soriano Atlanta 010 301 01x — 6 13 0 Masset p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- Just try to help this team and do 7, Chicago 13. 2B: C.Hart (24), D.Lee (32), Scales (6). 3B:
Reds SS Paul Janish, a Houston native, drove in the go-ahead run. Cordero p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- Catalanotto (3), A.Escobar (1). HR: Soto (11), off Gal-
blow it in the ninth of a 2-1 loss. a-struck out for Misch in the 6th. b-fouled out for Totals 30 5 9 5 1 6 the best every time I go to the lardo. RBIs: Catalanotto (9), C.Hart 3 (43), Braun (100),
“It was nice to get a few runs Takahashi in the 8th. LOB: New York 7, Atlanta 8. 2B: C I N C I N N AT I —H o u s t o n to do something.’ It’s good mound, but just have fun. I go M.Cameron 2 (61), Theriot (52), D.Lee 3 (101), Ar.Ramirez
Dan.Murphy (33), McLouth (25), G.Anderson (23), Houston 301 000 000 — 4 7 0 (56), M.Hoffpauir (29), Soto 3 (43), Bradley (40), Fon-
early,” said Hanson, who Ad.LaRoche 2 (32). HR: Ad.LaRoche (23), off Misch; native Paul Janish gave his playing in front of the Cincinnati 200 002 10x — 5 9 0 out there to have and try to help tenot (41), Zambrano (9). SB: Theriot (18), Fontenot (3).
allowed three hits, walked Ad.LaRoche (24), off Dessens. RBIs: McLouth 3 (65), family and friends some- home fans.” this team every where I can.” CS: C.Hart (5). SF: Zambrano. Runners left in scoring
Ad.LaRoche 3 (70). SB: L.Castillo (16). CS: McLouth a-walked for Brocail in the 7th. b-sacrificed for Herrera in the position: Milwaukee 4 (C.Hart, M.Cameron, Kendall,
three and struck out eight. “The (4). S: Hanson 3. Runners left in scoring position: thing to cheer about—even Houston reliever Sammy 7th. c-flied out for Hawkins in the 9th. 1-ran for C.Miller in the Zambrano became agitated Gamel); Chicago 9 (Bradley 3, Ar.Ramirez, Scales, Fon-
last few outings, everything New York 4 (A.Hernandez 2, D.Wright, Beltran); Atlanta if he did help beat the Gervachio (1-1) opened the 7th. 2-ran for Coste in the 9th. LOB: Houston 5, Cincinnati 5. when asked if he’s seen reports tenot 2, Soto 2). DP: Milwaukee 1 (F.Lopez, A.Escobar,
4 (Y.Escobar, McLouth, Prado 2). DP: Atlanta 1 (Infante, 2B: Janish 3 (17),Votto 2 (25), Rolen (4). HR: K.Matsui (6), off Fielder); Chicago 1 (Soto, Soto, Fontenot).
has felt good.” Y.Escobar, Ad.LaRoche). Astros. seventh by hitting Corky K.Wells; Stubbs (6), off Oswalt. RBIs: K.Matsui 2 (40), Tejada the Cubs will ask him to waive
The winning streak has Janish drove in the go- Miller. Pitcher Bronson (75), Blum (46), Stubbs (11), Janish (14), B.Phillips (89), Rolen his no-trade clausen. Milwaukee IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA 2 (13). SB: Bourn (56), K.Matsui (19), Tejada (5). S: Sutton. Gallardo L, 12-12 5 1⁄3 7 7 7 5 5 107 3.84
likely come a little late for the Misch L, 1-3 5 8 4 4 1 0 79 4.21 ahead run in the seventh Arroyo ran for Miller and SF: Rolen. Runners left in scoring position: Houston 1 “I don’t care,” he said. “If the Coffey 0 1 3 2 1 0 17 3.15
Braves, who remained 7½ Dessens 1 2⁄3 3 1 1 0 0 21 3.10 inning with his third dou- was sacrificed to second by (Bourn); Cincinnati 2 (B.Phillips 2). Cubs want to trade me it’s Villanueva 2⁄3 2 2 2 1 0 19 5.53
Takahashi 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 1 2.88 C.Smith 1 0 0 0 2 2 29 3.50
games behind Philadelphia in Stokes 1 2 1 1 0 1 17 4.04 ble, leading the Cincinnati pinch hitter Drew Sutton. Houston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA because they don’t like me any- Axford 1 1 1 1 3 1 30 9.00
the N.L. East. They trail wild- Atlanta IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Reds to a 5-4 victory over Drew Stubbs struck out, Oswalt 5 6 4 4 0 3 72 4.12 more. I have to move on, what Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Hanson W, 10-3 7 3 0 0 3 8 95 2.65 Brocail BS, 1-1 1 2 0 0 0 0 13 3.55 Zambrano 5 6 5 5 4 9 103 3.94
card leader Colorado by five M.Gonzalez 1 1 0 0 1 0 20 2.48 Houston on Tuesday night. but Janish lined up an Gervacio L, 1-1 1 1 1 1 1 2 18 1.26 else can I do? Just move on.” Heilman W, 3-3 1 0 0 0 0 1 13 4.15
games. O’Flaherty 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 3.14 “I was kidding around opposite-field double to Hawkins 1 0 0 0 0 1 7 2.34 Would he waive his no-trade Gregg 1 0 0 0 0 0 8 4.70
Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Caridad 1 0 0 0 1 0 17 2.38
“We have absolutely nothing Inherited runners-scored: Takahashi 1-0. HBP: by with some of their guys right-center to help send K.Wells 6 2⁄3 5 4 4 2 1 98 5.23 clause? Samardzija 1 2 2 2 1 1 19 7.89
to lose. We have zero pressure,” Misch (M.Diaz). Umpires: Home, Sam Holbrook; First, before the game about it the Astros to their third Herrera W, 4-4 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 5 2.91 “No. I don’t want to. What
Mike Estabrook; Second, Dan Iassogna; Third, Larry Masset H, 15 1 1 0 0 0 3 16 2.67 Coffey pitched to 3 batters in the 6th. Villanueva pitched
LaRoche said. “We’re in a bad Vanover. T: 2:27. A: 25,094 (49,743). being televised in Hous- consecutive loss. Cordero S, 36-39 1 1 0 0 0 0 8 2.32 kind of question is that?” That’s to 2 batters in the 7th. Inherited runners-scored:
position. Everyone is just going ton,” said Janish, who was Janish improved to 6 for enough,” Zambrano said as he Coffey 2-2, Villanueva 2-2, C.Smith 2-2. IBB: off Zam-
Oswalt pitched to 2 batters in the 6th. Inherited run- brano (Fielder). HBP: by C.Smith (Bradley), by Coffey
out there and doing their born and still lives in 13 over his last three games ners-scored: Brocail 2-2, Herrera 2-0. IBB: off Gervacio stormed out of the interviewing (Ar.Ramirez), by Gallardo (Fukudome). WP: Gallardo,
thing.” Houston and went to Rice after a 2-for-32 slump. (Votto). HBP: by Gervacio (C.Miller). Umpires: Home, room. Axford, Zambrano 2. PB: Kendall. Umpires: Home,
Tim Welke; First, Jim Reynolds; Second, Chad Fairchild; Dana DeMuth; First, Doug Eddings; Second, Brian Knight;
— The Associated Press University. “I said, ‘I’ve got — The Associated Press Third, Bill Welke. T: 2:27. A: 11,923 (42,319). — The Associated Press Third, Hunter Wendelstedt. T: 3:20. A: 38,986 (41,210).
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INSIDE DISH

Racing heartbeat benches Leafs goalie Gustavsson


Jonas Gustavsson’s bid to land a goal- important first step for a team that Dispatch reported the extension is
tending job with the Toronto Maple has hinged its hopes for a rebound worth $3.75 million per year, for a
Leafs was stalled Tuesday when he season on his healthy return. Smith, total of $18.75 million.
was diagnosed with a heart prob- 27, was considered the team’s MVP Vermette, 27, had seven goals and
lem that coach Ron Wilson described over the first half of last season six assists in 17 games after he was
as a minor concern. before suffering the injury that has acquired from Ottawa last year for
Gustavsson experienced a racing kept everyone guessing for more G Pascal Leclaire.
heartbeat following fitness tests on than seven months. Coach Rick Toc-
Saturday. But the big Swede took chet was happy with what he saw. Montreal D Andrei Markov says
part in on-ice sessions Monday and, “He’s square to the puck. He doesn’t he’s not interested in becoming
when he didn’t appear at the club’s look like he’s discombobulated,” he team captain.
practice facility Tuesday, Wilson told the newspaper. “All the other Markov called the responsibility
was asked about his absence. stuff will come. He looks good.” a huge one and said Tuesday he just
It turns out that doctors per- wants to concentrate on his on-ice
formed an ablation on him, a proce- The Detroit News reported that F performance. A published report
dure that Wilson said requires an Darren Helm, whose surprising play said Markov had rejected the cap-
incision in the groin area. helped energize the Red Wings in the taincy, but both the player and
“They go in and touch a part of playoffs last spring, could miss from coach Jacques Martin denied he had
his heart that was misfiring,” said two to four weeks after spraining an even been approached.
Wilson. “It’s a simple procedure AC joint in his right shoulder.
that’s actually fairly common with “It’s never fun to get injured, Fred Cusick, the radio and televi-
athletes. Our doctor said he’ll do 10 especially for me right now coming sion voice of the Boston Bruins for
NHL players in a summer if they’ve in here trying to prove myself and more than four decades, died Tues-
ever shown this (problem). It’s not a prove that I belong here all year,” day at age 90.
difficult procedure. We don’t expect Helm told the newspaper. “It’s Cusick’s son, Ted, said his father
him to miss more than 48 hours.” pretty frustrating.” died at his Barnstable, Mass., home
“You don’t want him to put his Helm, who could be the team’s after suffering from cancer.
gear on until he’s comfortable and fourth-line center, reportedly tripped Cusick’s death came one day before
there’s no risk of infection (at the over the stick of D Logan Pyett and he was scheduled to be inducted
site of the incision).” crashed hard into the boards. into the Massachusetts Broadcast-
“Real disappointing,” coach Mike ers Hall of Fame.
Tampa Bay G Mike Smith, seeing Babcock told the paper. “We are real Cusick began his career with radio
his first live action since Jan. 30 fortunate it’s not worse than it is.” broadcasts of the Bruins in 1952. He
because of post-concussion syn- MISHA JAPARIDZE / AP moved to television in 1971 and
drome, took his first step toward Sharks coach Todd McLellan has Leafs’ coach Ron Wilson has called Jonas Gustavsson, right, the ‘best goaltender outside of the NHL.’ retired from calling games in 1997.
reclaiming a starting job Monday ended any suspense about his top
when he stopped two of five shots line, telling the San Jose Mercury ton) and probably Devin Setoguchi.” elski and Ryane Clowe. The St. Louis Blues have exer-
in a team scrimmage. News that new F Dany Heatley, a two- That Heatley, one of the game’s “Jumbo (Thornton) is obviously a The Columbus Blue Jackets cised their contract option to keep
“I wasn’t a very good goalie time 50-goal scorer, will be paired top goal scorers, would be paired pass-first guy,” McLellan told the have signed C Antoine Vermette to a coach Andy Murray through the 2010-
today,” Smith admitted to the St. with one of the top playmakers in with Thornton, one of the NHL’s paper. “We’d like him to shoot the five-year contract extension 11 season. Murray led St. Louis to a
Petersburg Times, before addressing the game. elite passers, came as no surprise. puck a lot more, but when he’s pass- through the 2014-15 season. 41-31-10 record last season, includ-
the bigger picture. “It was good to “Right now,” McLellan told the But McLellan’s choice of Setoguchi ing, it’ll be nice to see it go to Dany Tuesday’s announcement from ing a 25-9-7 second-half surge that
get back into a real, live situation.” newspaper, “we’re thinking of play- over Patrick Marleau puts Marleau on Heatley and Devin Setoguchi. Both G.M. Scott Howson did not disclose put the Blues in the playoffs for the
Smith’s first scrimmage was an ing him on the left side with Joe (Thorn- a second line, probably with Joe Pav- of those guys love to shoot the puck.” terms of the deal, but The Columbus first time since 2004.
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Preseason Glance
PRESEASON
SPOTLIGHT
SUMMARIES
Minnesota 0 0 1 — 1 Florida 2 1 0 — 3
All Times EDT
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Columbus 1 2 1 0 — 4 Atlantic Division
Pittsburgh 0 0 4 1 — 5 St. Louis 2 0 1 — 3 Ottawa 1 0 0 — 1
W L OT Pts GF GA
Pittsburgh 5, Columbus 4, OT First Period: 1, St. Louis, Kariya 1 (Boyes, Bell), First Period: 1, Ottawa, Picard 1 (Karlsson, Hen- Pittsburgh 1 0 0 2 5 4
First Period: 1, Columbus, Voracek 1 (Brassard, New Jersey 0 0 0 0 0 0
Umberger), 16:14 (pp). Penalties: Fedotenko, 4:26. 2, St. Louis, Porter 1 (Armstrong, Palushaj), nessy), 15:22 (pp). 2, Florida, Timmins 1 (Horton,
Philadelphia 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kunitz ends it in overtime for Pens Pit (boarding), 1:25; Dorsett, Clm (hooking),
7:10; Lynch, Clm, major (fighting), 9:36; Godard,
Pit (roughing), 9:36; Engelland, Pit, major
(fighting), 9:36; Sestito, Clm, major (fighting),
4:55. Penalties: Brodziak, Min (hooking), 5:59;
Kalus, Min (high-sticking), 8:33; Janssen, StL
(hooking), 10:56; Kassian, Min (slashing), 13:55;
Falk, Min, major (fighting), 15:55; Janssen, StL,
Ellerby), 16:19. 3, Florida, Kreps 1 (Koistinen,
Dadonov), 17:39. Penalties: Schubert, Ott
(hooking), 2:24; Dadonov, Fla (interference), 7:25;
Kulikov, Fla (holding), 18:57.
N.Y. Islanders 0 1 0 0 1 2
N.Y. Rangers 0 1 0 0 1 2
Northeast Division
11:52; Godard, Pit, major (fighting), 11:52; Roy, minor-major-misconduct (instigator, fighting), Second Period: 4, Florida, Booth 1 (Weiss, W L OT Pts GF GA
PITTSBURGH—Chris Kunitz Clm (cross-checking), 12:19; McKee, Pit (high- 15:55; Smith, Min, served by Pouliot, minor-major Horton), 19:38. Penalties: Koistinen, Fla (hold- Boston 1 0 0 2 2 1
scored his second goal of the sticking), 15:23. (roughing, fighting), 18:54; Armstrong, StL, major ing), 1:08; Bannister, Ott (hooking), 3:37; Carkner, Buffalo 0 0 0 0 0 0
Second Period: 2, Columbus, Mayorov 1 (Fila- (fighting), 18:54. Ott (cross-checking), 5:25; Condra, Ott (delay of Montreal 0 0 0 0 0 0
game 44 seconds into overtime tov, Moore), 15:21 (pp). 3, Columbus, Mayorov Second Period: None. Penalties: Kalus, Min game), 8:45; McArdle, Fla (holding), 11:22; Tar-
(high-sticking), 10:12; Backes, StL (tripping), nasky, Fla, major (fighting), 14:58; Neil, Ott, major Toronto 0 0 0 0 0 0
to lead the Pittsburgh Penguins 2 (Blunden), 19:45. Penalties: Clitsome, Clm
16:35; Perron, StL (holding), 16:35. (fighting), 14:58. Ottawa 0 1 0 0 1 3
(interference), 10:26; Vitale, Pit (hooking), 14:05;
to a 5-4 preseason win over the Boll, Clm (goaltender interference), 15:49. Third Period: 3, St. Louis, Armstrong 1 (Bell, Third Period: None. Penalties: Picard, Ott Southeast Division
Weaver), 2:31. 4, Minnesota, Pouliot 1 (Sheppard, (boarding), 1:48; Kulikov, Fla (hooking), 4:11; W L OT Pts GF GA
Columbus Blue Jackets in the Third Period: 4, Pittsburgh, Crosby 1 (Tangradi,
Irmen), 19:03 (pp). Penalties: Irmen, Min, major Carkner, Ott (roughing), 8:25; Weiss, Fla (hooking), Florida 1 0 0 2 3 1
Gonchar), 3:49 (pp). 5, Pittsburgh, Crosby 2
Penguins’ first game since win- (Tangradi, Kunitz), 6:49. 6, Pittsburgh, Conner 1 (fighting), 4:41; Perron, StL, major (fighting), 4:41; 8:33; Donovan, Ott (interference), 12:23; Koistinen, Atlanta 0 0 0 0 0 0
ning the Stanley Cup in June. (McKee), 13:44. 7, Columbus, Picard 1 (Murray, Reaves, StL (tripping), 5:52; Johnson, StL (interfer- Fla (holding), 17:31; Neil, Ott (tripping), 18:12. Carolina 0 0 0 0 0 0
Roy), 17:58. 8, Pittsburgh, Kunitz 1 (Eaton), 18:15. ence), 8:41; Sydor, StL (holding), 12:35; Scott, Min, Shots on Goal: Florida 11-10-9: 30. Ottawa Tampa Bay 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sidney Crosby had two goals Penalties: Roy, Clm (hooking), 2:57; Dorsett, misconduct, 15:44; Janssen, StL, misconduct, 7-7-13: 27. Washington 0 0 0 0 0 0
and assisted on the winner for Clm (roughing), 7:30; Fedotenko, Pit (roughing), 15:44; Armstrong, StL (interference), 18:56. Power-play opportunities: Florida 0 of 8; WESTERN CONFERENCE
7:30; Brassard, Clm (slashing), 8:34. Shots on Goal: Minnesota 6-12-16: 34. St. Louis Ottawa 1 of 7.
Pittsburgh. 9-8-4: 21. Goalies: Florida, Clemmensen 1-0-0 (14 shots-13 Central Division
Overtime: 9, Pittsburgh, Kunitz 2 (Crosby), :44. W L OT Pts GF GA
Penalties: None. Power-play opportunities: Minnesota 1 of 8; saves), Salak (0:00 third, 13-13). Ottawa, Leclaire
St. Louis 0 of 5. 0-1-0 (16-14), Lehner (11:27 second, 14-13). St. Louis 1 0 0 2 3 1
Shots on Goal: Columbus 9-10-7-2: 28. Pitts-
Boston 2, N.Y. Rangers 1 burgh 12-9-20-1: 42. Goalies: Minnesota, Khudobin (17 shots-15 A: 6,178 (0). T: 2:30. Columbus 0 0 1 1 4 5
saves), Hackett 0-1-0 (0:00 third, 4-3). St. Louis, Referees: Stephane Auger, Ghislain Hebert. Chicago 0 0 0 0 0 0
NEW YORK—Bruins goalie Power-play opportunities: Columbus 2 of 4;
Mason 1-0-0 (10-10), Bishop (10:09 second, Linesmen: Pierre Champoux, Michel Cormier. Detroit 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pittsburgh 1 of 6.
Tuukka Rask made 31 saves in a Goalies: Columbus, Garon (21 shots-21 saves), 24-23). Nashville 0 0 0 0 0 0
rare complete-game preseason LaCosta 0-0-1 (0:00 third, 21-16). Pittsburgh, A: 10,582 (19,150). T: 2:19. Los Angeles (ss) 1 0 1 — 2 Northwest Division
Fleury (19-16), Thiessen 1-0-0 (0:00 third, 9-8). Referees: Tim Peel, Justin St. Pierre. Linesmen: Phoenix (ss) 1 1 2 — 4 W L OT Pts GF GA
effort, and prospect Zach Hamill A: 15,766 (16,940). T: 2:23. Pierre Racicot, Mark Pare. Edmonton 1 0 0 2 4 1
scored a first-period goal. Referees: David Banfield, Stephane Auger. First Period: 1, Phoenix, Vandermeer 1 (Aucoin),
14:20 (pp). 2, Los Angeles, Simmonds 1 (Voynov, Vancouver 1 0 0 2 2 1
Linesmen: Derek Amell, Brad Kovachik. Colorado 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rask, who stopped 35 Rang- Phoenix (ss) 1 1 1 — 3 Drewiske), 19:31 (pp).
Edmonton 1 1 2 — 4 Los Angeles (ss) 1 1 2 — 4 Second Period: 3, Phoenix, Fiddler 1 (Spina, Minnesota 0 1 0 0 1 3
ers shots on Jan. 31 for a 1-0 vic- Calgary 0 0 1 — 1 Sauer), 13:05. Calgary 0 1 0 0 1 4
tory in his only action with the First Period: 1, Los Angeles, Johnson 1 (Purcell, Third Period: 4, Phoenix, Hoggan 1 (Lessard, Pacific Division
Bruins last season, stymied New GENE J. PUSKAR / AP First Period: 1, Edmonton, O’Sullivan 1 (Plante, Moller), 17:00 (pp). 2, Phoenix, Boedker 1 (Porter, Jovanovski), 14:50. 5, Phoenix, Spina 1 (Upshall, W L OT Pts GF GA
Gilbert), 10:11. Penalties: Arsene, Edm, major Meyer), 19:48 (pp). Penalties: Meyer, Pho, major Stone), 16:41. 6, Los Angeles, Simmonds 2 (Hand- Phoenix 1 1 0 2 7 6
York again. A big test came in Penguins C Sidney Crosby couldn’t sneak this shot past Columbus G Mathieu Garon, (fighting), 1:49; Murray, Cal, major (fighting), (fighting), 2:17; Fritz, Pho, major (fighting), 2:17; zus, Frolov), 16:56. Los Angeles 1 1 0 2 6 7
but he did manage to score twice in the Stanley Cup champions’ first preseason game. 1:49; Strudwick, Edm (roughing), 3:56; Plante, Westgarth, LA, major (fighting), 2:17; Clune, LA, Shots on Goal: Los Angeles 3-6-5: 14. Phoe- Anaheim 0 0 0 0 0 0
the second period when New Edm (tripping), 7:55; Stortini, Edm, major (fight- major (fighting), 2:17; Pyatt, Pho (hooking), 3:49; nix 7-9-14: 30. Dallas 0 0 0 0 0 0
York recorded 14 shots and had ing), 10:58; Prust, Cal, major (fighting), 10:58; Mikus, LA (tripping), 10:32; Lupaschuk, Pho (inter- Goalies: Los Angeles, Ersberg, Zatkoff. Phoenix, San Jose 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pardy, Cal (tripping), 19:44. ference), 16:31; Kopitar, LA (slashing), 18:32. Bryzgalov. A: 4,643 (17,125). T: 2:15.
two power plays. Kreps put Florida ahead in the Los Angeles (ss) 4, Second Period: 2, Edmonton, O’Sullivan 2 Second Period: 3, Phoenix, Yandle 1 (Porter, Hol- Two points for a win, one point for over-
first period and David Booth Phoenix (ss) 3 (Comrie, Stone), 1:25. Penalties: Brennan, Edm lweg), 5:18. 4, Los Angeles, Williams 1 (Kopitar, Boston 1 0 1 — 2 time loss or shootout loss.
(roughing), 2:21; Jaffray, Cal (holding), 5:33; Doughty), 16:11. Penalties: Purcell, LA (inter- N.Y. Rangers 0 0 1 — 1
St. Louis 3, Minnesota 1 added a goal in the second. LOSANGELES—Jack Johnson scored Murray, Cal (slashing), 7:19; Schremp, Edm (high- ference), :50; Pyatt, Pho, major (fighting), 6:56; Sept. 14
ST. LOUIS—Paul Kariya scored two goals and assisted on another sticking), 13:47; Jacques, Edm (hooking), 16:27. Teubert, LA (boarding, roughing, fighting), 6:56; First Period: 1, Boston, Hamill 1 (Sturm,Wheeler), Vancouver 2, N.Y. Islanders 1
Third Period: 3, Calgary, Jaffray 1 (Lundmark), Clifford, LA (roughing), 18:24. 7:30 (pp). Penalties: Byers, NYR (hooking), 6:01;
in his first game action in almost Phoenix (ss) 4, to help Kings split the split-squad 10:26 (pp). 4, Edmonton, Gilbert 1 (Schremp, Third Period: 5, Los Angeles, Purcell 1 (Williams, Boyle, NYR (hooking), 9:16; Semenov, NYR (slash- Tuesday’s games
a year to help the St. Blues beat Los Angeles (ss) 2 games aginst Phoenix. Comrie), 15:27 (pp). 5, Edmonton, Horcoff 1, Johnson), 8:39 (pp). 6, Los Angeles, Johnson 2 ing), 12:52; Boyle, NYR (holding), 15:52. Florida 3, Ottawa 1
19:32 (en). Penalties: Moreau, Edm (elbowing), (Scuderi), 11:06 (sh). 7, Phoenix, Mueller 1 (Por- Second Period: None. Penalties: Chara, Bos Boston 2, N.Y. Rangers 1
the Wild in the preseason opener GLENDALE, ARIZ.—With only a 2:39; Paukovich, Edm (tripping), 6:04; Gilbert, ter), 11:59 (pp). Penalties: Porter, Pho (hooking), (holding), 6:17; Bodnarchuk, Bos (holding), Pittsburgh 5, Columbus 4, OT
for both teams. Erik Johnson couple thousand on hand, if that, Edmonton 4, Calgary 1 Edm (interference), 8:49; Stuart, Cal, double 7:36; Yandle, Pho (roughing), 9:28; Clune, LA 17:08. St. Louis 3, Minnesota 1
minor (high-sticking), 13:06; Pardy, Cal (hold- (roughing), 9:28; Clifford, LA (hooking), 10:52; Third Period: 2, Boston, Savard 1 (Lucic,
also returned for St. Louis, which the Phoenix Coyotes began an CALGARY—Patrick O’Sullivan ing), 16:20. Mueller, Pho (holding), 18:31. Boychuk), 6:39 (pp). 3, N.Y. Rangers, Higgins 1
Edmonton 4, Calgary 1
got goals from Kariya and Chris uncertain preseason with a split- scored twice for the Oilers. Shots on Goal: Edmonton 10-9-11: 30. Cal- Missed Penalty Shot: Korpikoski, Pho, 4:43 (Semenov, Kotalik), 10:05. Penalties: Kotalik, Phoenix (ss) 4, Los Angeles (ss) 2
gary 11-10-10: 31. second. NYR (boarding), 5:14; Callahan, NYR (goaltender Los Angeles (ss) 4, Phoenix (ss) 3
Porter 29 seconds apart in the squad win over Los Angeles. O’Sullivan only had two goals Power-play opportunities: Edmonton 1 of 5; Shots on Goal: Phoenix 9-4-11: 24. Los Ange- interference), 18:55.
first period. Minority owner and coach in 19 games for Edmonton after Calgary 1 of 8. les 11-14-11: 36. Shots on Goal: Boston 14-8-13: 35. N.Y. Rang- Today’s games
Goalies: Edmonton, Drouin-Deslauriers 1-0-0 Power-play opportunities: Phoenix 2 of 7; Los ers 5-14-13: 32. Boston at Toronto, 7 p.m.
Wayne Gretzky was nowhere to he was acquired from the Kings. (13 shots-13 saves), Dubnyk (9:13 second, Angeles 2 of 4. Power-play opportunities: Boston 2 of 6; N.Y. N.Y. Rangers at New Jersey, 7 p.m.
Florida 3, Ottawa 1 be seen as the franchise awaits Jarome Iginla sat for Calgary, as 18-17). Calgary, Keetley 0-1-0 (18-16), Irving Goalies: Phoenix, Montoya 0-1-0 (36 shots-32 Rangers 0 of 2. Florida at Ottawa, 7 p.m.
(9:14 second, 11-10). saves). Los Angeles, Bernier 1-0-0 (24-21). Goalies: Boston, Rask 1-0-0 (32 shots-31 saves). Philadelphia at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA—New Sena- resolution of its case in U.S. did 41-year-old Theo Fleury, who A: 19,289 (19,289). T: 2:25. A: 8,432 (18,118). T: 2:25. N.Y. Rangers, Valiquette 0-1-0 (19-18), Zaba Tampa Bay at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
tors goalie Pascal Leclaire Bankruptcy Court and a final is attempting a comeback after six Referees: Tom Kowal, Brad Meier. Linesmen: Referees: Mike Leggo, Kyle Rehman. Linesmen: (11:17 second, 16-15). N.Y. Islanders at Edmonton, 9 p.m.
Mike Cvik, Mark Wheler. Don Henderson, Thor Nelson. A: 11,111 (18,200). T: 2:13.
stopped 14 of 16 shots. decision on its ownership. Ulf years away from the NHL. Referees: Dave Jackson, Chris Ciamaga. Lines- Phoenix at Anaheim, 10 p.m.
Scott Timmins and Kamil Samuelsson ran the bench. — The Associated Press men: Anthony Sericolo, Tim Nowak.
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NHL countdown Every day in September leading into
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the Oct. 1 season openers, Sporting
Goals per game 2.68 21
News Today will preview each of the 2008-09 record: 41-31-10, 92 points Penalty kill percentage 82.08 13
NHL teams, counting backward from Last Playoff: 2009 (lost in conference quarterfinal) Power play goals 41 30
its July 24 Power Poll. Coach: Ken Hitchcock Power play percentage 12.73 30
Saves 2058 27
Save percentage .902 19
BY LARRY LAGE “I think his signing sends a message to Shorthanded goals 8 12t
Sporting News Yearbooks our younger players that he’s in it for the Shots against per game 27.82 3
long haul and they can be, too, with this Shots per game 28.90 21t
While contract talk in Ohio usually focuses franchise,” Blue Jackets coach Ken Hitch- Shutouts 11 1
on NBA great LeBron James, there was cock said. “Our best young players—Steve Total points 592 21
another Buckeye State sports star nearing the Mason, Jakub Voracek, Derick Brassard Faceoff percentage .512 11
end of his deal over the summer. and Rostislav Klesla—know they don’t have Goals against per game 2.72 9t
But unlike James, Columbus captain and to leave us.”
Power play
left winger Rick Nash chose not to toy with Mason went from the AHL to Columbus 322 22
opportunities
his team, quickly signing an eight-year last November, and helped turn the fran- Shorthanded goals
extension worth more than $62 million to chise around with a sparkling 33-20-7 12 4
against
remain with the franchise that drafted him record. He had a 2.29 goals-against average Times shut out 6 7t
No. 1 overall seven years ago. that ranked second in the NHL, as well as a
“I didn’t want it to be a distraction to the league-leading 10 shutouts. Offseason moves
locker room,” Nash said. For his effort, Mason won the 2008-09
Nash, 25, could have declined the long- Calder Trophy in the most dominant per- Additions
term offer and chosen to be a free agent next formance by a rookie goaltender since Tony Mathieu Garon, G (Penguins); Samuel Pahlsson, C
offseason—perhaps even returning home Esposito’s sensational 1969-70 season. But (Blackhawks); Pascal Pelletier, LW (Blackhawks);
to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs. But Mason came back to earth in the playoffs Mathieu Roy, D (Oilers).
instead of chasing riches and a better shot when he gave up 17 goals in a first-round
at hoisting the Stanley Cup, Nash listened sweep courtesy of the Detroit Red Wings. Subtractions
to his loyal leanings after helping Colum- He and many of his teammates, who were Wade Dubielewicz, G (Wild); Craig
bus get to the playoffs last year for the first in the playoffs for the first time, learned a MacDonald, F (Europe); Aaron Rome, D (Canucks);
time in the franchise’s eight seasons. valuable lesson. Ole-Kristian Tollefsen, D (Flyers).
He scored 40 times—one short of his pre- “It took us two games to dial it up for 60
vious high that led the league in 2003-04— minutes the way you have to in the play-
and had 79 points, surpassing a previous offs,” Hitchcock said. “In every game but to a three-year deal, providing a veteran up
career high by 10. the last one, we faded in the third period. front who can handle the puck, and acquir-
“We took a huge step last year and I love We’ll learn from that. You can’t have credi- ing dependable Mathieu Garon to back up
being the leader of this team,” Nash said. “It bility without making it to the playoffs con- Mason.
would’ve been easy to go back to my home- sistently, and now it’s our task to get back Now it’s up to Hitchcock to put it all
town, all my friends and family, but I’ve there and take the next step.” together, and the Blue Jackets coach has a
invested a lot of time in this organization Columbus received key contributions from track record of doing just that.
and the organization has invested a lot of a handful of newcomers last season, getting In his 11th full season, Hitchcock has 511
time in me.” more than 100 points combined from for- career coaching wins and has led his team
Nash’s decision to stay gives professional wards Kristian Huselius and R.J. Umberger, NAM Y. HUH / AP to the playoffs nine times.
hockey a chance to thrive in Columbus for along with solid defense from Fedor Tyutin Rick Nash’s decision to stay in Columbus will continue to give the Blue Jackets a leader to build their team around. Columbus earned 80 points under Hitch-
much of the next decade. Nash acknowledged and Mike Commodore. Defenseman Jan cock last season and the team’s 92 points and
not knowing where the city was located when Hejda had a plus-23 rating to break a fran- and beyond. Brassard was leading all rook- offseason was getting Nash to stay for the 10 games over .500 were franchise highs.
he was drafted as an 18-year-old phenom, but chise record he set the previous year. ies in scoring before his season was stunted long term. — For much more on the Blue Jackets, purchase a copy of Sporting
his spectacular skill set has put the Ohio state A pair of rookies—forwards Brassard by injury after just 31 games. But the team made a few subtle, yet solid, News Hockey ’09-10 yearbook by calling 1-800-380-7404. Or order it
capital on the hockey map. and Voracek—inspired hope for this season The Blue Jackets’ biggest news of the moves in signing center Samuel Pahlsson online at sportingnews.com or streetandsmiths.com
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From Kansas to UNC and beyond: Pivotal players for ’09-10


The biggest college basketball games are decided by the biggest suggests a larger role for Fisher.
talents: Tyler Hansbrough, Emeka Okafor and Al Horford. That’s He was the team’s third-leading scorer last
rather obvious. There are important stars in the team picture of year but played only 24.3 minutes per game.
nearly every NCAA champion. Fisher is as good at breaking down defend-
There also were great players, though, on a lot of the losing ers as most any college point guard. If we see
more of that, perhaps the Wildcats will be as
teams. Gilbert Arenas, Derrick Rose and Deron Williams all fell
powerful as everyone (else) insists.
Mike DeCourcy in the national title game, and Dwyane Wade, Jameer Nelson and
COLLEGE BASKETBALL Allen Iverson didn’t get that far. 6. Delvon Roe, sophomore forward, Michigan State
So what happens between now and April isn’t just about the big A lot of Michigan State players could fit
names. Somewhere out there is a Danny Green, whose role in determining the this category: Raymar Morgan, bothered
season’s outcome will be greater than anyone might have imagined. so much by illness last season; Durrell
Summers and Chris Allen, who struggled
Who might be such a player? These guys—the pivotal players for 2009-10:
to carve out consistent roles.
But after a freshman season affected by
1. Xavier Henry, freshman forward, Kansas. 3. Robbie Hummel, junior forward, Purdue injuries that lingered from high school, Roe
Opinions vary widely on Henry, a For the Boilers to continue their gradual is best qualified to give the Spartans an
McDonald’s All-American who believes climb, Hummel will need to recapture the inside presence. Is he healthy enough now?
he’s a one-and-done talent. Uh, maybe. promise of his youth. Yeah, it’s only been
He’s a physically powerful wing but is not two years since he was a freshman star, 7. Darius Miller, sophomore forward, Kentucky
a Kobe Bryant-style athlete. He’ll have to be and he was still pretty doggone good with It’s not like the Wildcats are hurting for
a great shooter to make it big. an aching back, but Hummel at full wing options. If it’s not Miller, it could be
This works out fine for KU because the strength could make this a special team. DeAndre Liggins or Ramon Harris. But
Jayhawks need a shooter. They did not Hummel said in June he was feeling Miller best fits the vacancy.
have a double-figure scorer who made 38 much better, and he played OK for the U.S. Darnell Dodson probably starts at
percent or more of his 3s last season. in the World University Games. But if he shooting guard because he is the one true
Henry is an ideal fit, if he chooses to be. were truly himself, he’d have been the best deep threat. But Miller can score a variety
That’s where the “pivotal” part comes in. guy on that team. of ways and should take great advantage of
Henry has to take the scoring opportuni- opportunities that develop in the Dribble
ties that develop, not try to elbow his way 4. Matthew Bryan-Amaning, Drive offense.
into stardom. junior center, Washington
If he’s a solid starter for an NCAA Nagging injuries have hindered his 8. Bobby Maze, senior guard, Tennessee
champion, there’ll be an opportunity for development, but that’s not enough of an Would it be unkind to say the Vols were a
him in the 2010 draft. excuse for him struggling to get minutes as dysfunctional mess by the end of last
last season closed. season? Sure, but it wouldn’t be wrong. A
2. Larry Drew, sophomore guard, North Carolina Bryan-Amaning moves well, has a lot of what undid them started at the point
The Tar Heels lost their top four scorers, reasonable amount of skill and is the UW guard position, where Maze shot poorly
but there is no shortage of replacements— big man best suited to complement the and made questionable decisions. And the
except at point guard. team’s blazing perimeter attack. He is defense that once was among the most
Drew was a McDonald’s All-American, capable of better performances than he’s disruptive in college basketball became
but it was an odd choice given that Scout, delivered. easy to conquer.
Rivals and Hoopmasters all rated him JAMES CRISP / AP It’s not uncommon for junior college
outside the top 50. Drew played some when 5. Corey Fisher, junior guard, Villanova Darius Miller (5.3 ppg as a freshman) has a chance to take advantage of an opening on the wing for Kentucky. players to take a year to completely adjust to
Ty Lawson was injured late last season but Based on glimpses of other publications’ Division I. With as much talent and
mostly was asked to stay out of the way. preseason rankings, Sporting News is not If they are to overcome the losses of seem to dismiss as no big deal, it would experience as the Vols enjoy, they could be
It hasn’t been established whether he has quite as high on the Wildcats as most others. Dante Cunningham, Shane Clark and appear the Wildcats would have to take Final Four-good if they’re solid at the point.
the ability to excel at this level. (We’re high on them, just not as high). Dwayne Anderson, which our competitors full advantage of the available talent. That decourcy@sportingnews.com
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Anderson’s first ‘elite’ recruit at Missouri fits his system Spurs’ Jefferson dislocates right thumb
Missouri coach Mike Anderson got the Tigers to the
NCAA Elite Eight before he landed his first elite player. Spurs forward Richard Jefferson could miss the start
So how far can the Tigers go now that big-time players of training camp after dislocating his right thumb.
have started to choose the school? Jefferson was injured Tuesday while working out
Pit-bull PG Phil Pressey from the Episcopal School in Dal- at the Spurs’ practice facility. X-rays were negative,
las is the Tigers’ latest commitment. He is rated No. 33 and the 29-year-old swingman is expected to be re-
among 2010 prospects by Scout.com and becomes the examined next week.
first top 50 prospect to pledge to Anderson at Mizzou. The Spurs called the injury minor. Training camp
Current freshman Michael Dixon, a 6-1 point guard from begins Sept. 29.
Lees Summit, Mo., was rated the No. 12 point guard in the
2009 class but did not crack Scout’s top 100. Heat basketball operations employees—includ-
Pressey’s tenacious approach to the game should be a ing team president Pat Riley and head coach Erik
perfect fit for Anderson’s pressure defense. Listed at 5-10 Spoelstra—have accepted up to a 20 percent pay cut in
but possibly shorter, Pressey is a power point who can order to avoid layoffs.
overwhelm weaker opponents at both ends. The cuts also include assistant coaches and scouts.
Pressey is the second commitment for Mizzou’s 2010 Player salaries are not being affected. The Heat laid
class, joining 3-star prospect—and local product—Ricky off 20 members of its business operations staff in May
Kreklow of Columbia. as a result of the economic downturn.
— Mike DeCourcy The South Florida Sun-Sentinel also noted that the
team still hasn’t replaced former general manager Randy
Former Kentucky coach Billy Gillispie wants a law- Pfund, who resigned on the eve of last season, with Riley, L.G. PATTERSON / AP
suit that the school filed against him moved to federal senior vice president Andy Elisburg and Nick Arison, son of Pat Riley, left, and Erik Spoelstra took cuts to help avoid layoffs.
court. The Lexington Herald-Leader reported that Gil- owner Micky Arison, taking on many of Pfund’s old
lispie asked that the case be moved to U.S. District responsibilities. cleared to work out with the Clippers after hurting
Court in Frankfort from Franklin Circuit Court. L.G. PATTERSON / AP his shoulder during the summer league. Griffin
Gillispie sued the University of Kentucky Athletics Mike Anderson is 65-35 in three seasons at Missouri. Warriors G/F Stephen Jackson was fined $25,000 strained his right shoulder July 16 in Las Vegas,
Association in federal court in Dallas on May 27, claiming for public statements detrimental to the NBA, the causing him to miss a minicamp for USA Basket-
fraud and breach of contract stemming from his March and G Tim Peete of Central High in Memphis. league announced Tuesday. Jackson, speaking at a ball. He averaged 19.2 points and 10.8 rebounds in
firing. The university countersued in state court. Peete is Tulsa’s first recruit from Memphis in nearly public event in New York on Aug. 28, told a crowd of summer league play.
Meanwhile, Kentucky told the NCAA it disciplined four decades. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Mem- fans, “I don’t think I’ll be a Warrior next year. I’m
former men’s basketball administrative assistant Bilal phis sent Tulsa two of the greatest players in the looking to leave.” The 76ers signed free agent G/F Rodney Carney a year
Batley for shagging rebounds with an unnamed student- school’s history: Bobby “Bingo” Smith and Willie Biles, both In its press release, the NBA said players are not after trading him away. Carney spent last season with the
athlete at a gym, a secondary rules violation. members of the school’s athletic hall of fame. permitted to make trade requests publicly. Timberwolves, averaging 7.2 points and 1.9 rebounds.
— Mike DeCourcy
Landing Ben Uzoh out of San Antonio a few years The Suns reached an agreement on a contract Raptors F Hedo Turkoglu, who’s been playing with
back has paid off in many ways for the Tulsa program, Elsinore (Wildomar, Calif.) PF James Johnson has com- buyout with SG Sasha Pavlovic, who was acquired Turkey at the European basketball championship, has
and it has helped lead to another important recruit. mitted to Virginia, Scout.com reported. Johnson (6-9) also from Cleveland as part of the trade that sent Shaquille had minor soreness in one of his knees that’s causing
Combo guard Jordan Clarkson of Wagner High is rated took an official visit to California earlier this month and O’Neal to the Cavaliers. problems with his mobility, the Toronto Star reported.
the No. 4 player in Texas. He committed to Tulsa in had scholarship offers from Arizona, Arizona State, According to The Arizona Republic, Pavlovic accepted However, the Raptors aren’t expecting it to be a prob-
part because he believed he could follow the same Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, among others. a buyout of $1.25 million, $250,000 less than his guar- lem heading into the season. In Tuesday’s EuroBasket
career path as Uzoh, a double-figure scorer each of the “James felt so good about the program,” his father, anteed salary of $1.5 million and $3.7 million less than games, defending champion Russia edged Macedonia
past two seasons. Ted Johnson, told Scout.com. “It’s the ACC; James always his full salary of $4.95 for the last year of his contract. 71-69, France defeated Greece 71-69 and Croatia
Tulsa already has three commitments for 2010, with wanted to play in the ACC. earned the final quarterfinal spot from Group E with
Clarkson joined by big man Blondy Baruti of Mesa, Ariz., — Brian McLaughlin No. 1 NBA draft pick Blake Griffin has been its 70-68 win over Germany.
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Vickers enters Chase full of confidence JR Motorsports signs Bires
BY REA WHITE for the second time—which has the
SceneDaily.com potential to make the team even Kelly Bires has signed a two-year than five hours of Cup and Nation-
more formidable. deal to drive full time for JR Motor- wide practices and then qualifying
Brian Vickers can’t put his fin- “The second time around, we sports in the Nationwide Series for both series as well as a Nation-
ger on any one thing that his team can talk about what we did there starting in 2010, the team wide race. Edwards now will have
did to improve its performance. before,” Pemberton said. “What announced Tuesday. one 90-minute
There was no significant change to we did the last time at Loudon, Whether Bires, 25, drives the No. practice and quali-
the car, no perfect hire that caused what will we do different. That 88 or No. 5 JRM Chevrolet next sea- fying Friday, a cou-
things to meld more completely first Loudon race, we didn’t have son remains to be seen, given that ple of hours of
into a championship-contending that. We couldn’t even have that JRM is still in the process of secur- practice Saturday
team. conversation. All we had was that ing sponsorship for its cars. and then the Sylva-
Crew chief Ryan Pemberton one practice session to build off of. Bires, who has posted three top nia 300 on Sunday.
thinks it was more a case of time So now we can start putting some- fives and 11 top 10s in the Nation- “Keep talking
together. Pemberton joined the thing together. … I think we (will wide Series while driving for a Carl Edwards (about that), sounds
team this season, its third in the be) smarter and be able to put a variety of owners, will replace cur- good,” Edwards
Sprint Cup Series, and the group better product on the racetrack rent No. 88 driver Brad Keselowski, said. “One race, 300 laps, at a finesse
began building notes and relation- and ultimately give him a little bet- who is leaving JRM for a Sprint Cup racetrack. That will be nice, I think,
ships—in other words, began ter racecar, and he does a little bet- ride at Penske Racing next season. physically for me.”
crafting the pieces of a champion- ter with it.” “Kelly is a talented young driver, — Bob Pockrass, SceneDaily.com
ship team. In that race, Vickers was col- and we want to give him the oppor-
“They’ve both accomplished lected in an accident and finished tunity to showcase that talent,” JR Robby Gordon returns to the Cup
some things in their careers, but 35th. It was one of his three DNFs Motorsports owner Dale Earnhardt Jr. series this weekend after missing
together they could do some spec- on the season. said in a team release. “Our whole Saturday’s race at Richmond. David
tacular things in their career,” So much has changed since then, premise at JR Motorsports from the Gilliland drove the No. 7 Robby Gor-
team general manager Jay Frye and Vickers expects the team’s beginning has been to take up-and- don Motorsports Toyota at Rich-
said. success down the stretch, when it coming drivers, give them the mond, finishing 24th, while his
And look what happened. Vick- faced pressure each week just to chance to drive good equipment boss was winning an off-road race
ers finished 35th at New Hamp- make the Chase, should carry into and help them reach the next level. in Primm, Nevada.
shire in June and left the track 17th the final 10 races. “Kelly has a lot of promise. I Gordon won the SCORE Terri-
in the standings and 197 points “I think there is a lot of confi- noticed his potential earlier this ble’s Primm 300 race for his ninth
outside of the top 12 and a spot in dence in this team,” he said. “I year, and we are glad to have him at career SCORE Trophy-Truck vic-
the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint know there is. We’ve got to realize JR Motorsports.” tory. Gordon leads the series
Cup. In the nine races that fol- that this is new for us. If we stub Bires has started 12 of 29 Nation- standings.
lowed, Vickers posted seven top our toe, that’s OK. We’ve just got to wide events this season; he posted Gordon started fifth in Satur-
10s, including a win at Michigan. get back up and keep working his best finish of the year (fourth) at day’s 69-mile race and worked his
He finished 11th and 12th in the hard. We can’t give up. That’s what Nashville in April, driving for way into the lead quickly. He held
other two races. He finished sev- got us to this position. But looking Kevin Harvick Inc. on and won with a time of 4 hours,
enth at Richmond to clinch a spot back, I know we’re capable of it. — Reid Spencer, Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service 49 minutes, 18 seconds (57.24 mph),
in the Chase. “We are capable of winning this beating runner-up Rob MacCachren by
“The past 10 weeks, we really STEVE HELBER / AP championship. It won’t be easy. It Carl Edwards and his broken foot 1 minute, 2 seconds.
started to click as a group of people Brian Vickers made up a 197-point deficit with nine races left just to make the Chase. doesn’t mean we will. But we’re catch a break this weekend at New Gordon first career Cup victory
who really just built this chemistry capable of it. If you look back the Hampshire. Edwards competes in came at New Hampshire in 2001. It
and just became stronger and magical thing. It was a lot of things New Hampshire Motor Speedway past 10 weeks, we’ve collected as the Nationwide and Sprint Cup is his only Cup victory on an oval.
stronger,” Vickers said. “I think it coming together, hard work and in Loudon. much if not more points than any- series, and the Nationwide Series is His other two wins came in 2003
shows. The past 10 weeks we have perseverance.” Pemberton said the team has one. That’s a tough order. But we’re off this weekend. on the road courses of Infineon
had unbelievable performance. It It earned Vickers the eighth capitalized on its time together. capable of it.” The first on-track day the past two Raceway and Watkins Glen.
wasn’t one person, it wasn’t one seed. The Chase starts Sunday at And now they are hitting tracks rwhite@streetandsmiths.com weeks has been filled with more — SceneDaily.com
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2010 Nationwide Series
Pocono added to truck series schedule in ’10 Feb. 13
Feb. 20
Feb. 27
Daytona International Speedway
Auto Club Speedway
Las Vegas Motor Speedway
March 20 Bristol Motor Speedway
April 3 Nashville Superspeedway
April 9 Phoenix International Raceway
2010 Sprint Cup Series April 17 Texas Motor Speedway
Dates are subject to change. April 24 Talladega Superspeedway
April 30 Richmond International Raceway
May 7 Darlington Raceway
Feb. 6 x-Budweiser Shootout, May 15 Dover International Speedway
Daytona International Speedway May 29 Lowe’s Motor Speedway
Feb. 14 Daytona International Speedway June 5 Nashville Superspeedway
Feb. 21 Auto Club Speedway June 12 Kentucky Speedway
Feb. 28 Las Vegas Motor Speedway June 19 Milwaukee Mile
June 26 New Hampshire Motor Speedway
March 7 Atlanta Motor Speedway July 2 Daytona International Speedway
March 21 Bristol Motor Speedway July 9 Chicagoland Speedway
March 28 Martinsville Speedway July 17 Gateway International Raceway
April 10 Phoenix International Raceway July 24 O’Reilly Raceway Park
April 18 Texas Motor Speedway July 31 Iowa Speedway
Aug. 7 Watkins Glen International
April 25 Talladega Superspeedway
Aug. 14 Michigan International Speedway
May 1 Richmond International Raceway Aug. 20 Bristol Motor Speedway
May 8 Darlington Raceway Aug. 29 Circuit Gilles Villeneuve
May 16 Dover International Speedway Sept. 4 Atlanta Motor Speedway
May 22 x-Sprint all-star race, Sept. 10 Richmond International Raceway
Lowe’s Motor Speedway Sept. 25 Dover International Speedway
May 30 Lowe’s Motor Speedway Oct. 2 Kansas Speedway
Oct. 9 Auto Club Speedway
June 6 Pocono Raceway Oct. 15 Lowe’s Motor Speedway
June 13 Michigan International Speedway Oct. 23 Memphis Motorsports Park
June 20 Infineon Raceway Nov. 6 Texas Motor Speedway
June 27 New Hampshire Motor Speedway Nov. 13 Phoenix International Raceway
July 3 Daytona International Speedway Nov. 20 Homestead-Miami Speedway
July 10 Chicagoland Speedway
July 25 Indianapolis Motor Speedway CAROLYN KASTER / AP 2010 Camping World Truck Series
Aug. 1 Pocono Raceway The Camping World Truck Series has never visited Pocono Raceway, but it will in July of 2010, when it is paired with the Sprint Cup race being held the same weekend. Feb. 12 Daytona International Speedway
Aug. 8 Watkins Glen International March 6 Atlanta Motor Speedway
Aug. 15 Michigan International Speedway March 27 Martinsville Speedway
NASCAR on Tuesday released the 2010 The rest of the 36-race schedule remains The Pocono truck race replaces Auto
Aug. 21 Bristol Motor Speedway May 2 Kansas Speedway
schedules for the Sprint Cup Series, essentially the same as this season, with Club Speedway in the lineup. Because of May 14 Dover International Speedway
Sept. 5 Atlanta Motor Speedway
Sept. 11 Richmond International Raceway Nationwide Series and Camping World no new tracks. The season will open in the change, the trucks take a long break May 21 Lowe’s Motor Speedway
Truck Series. Daytona, with the Daytona 500 scheduled early in the season, skipping the trip that June 4 Texas Motor Speedway
Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup races: June 12 Michigan International Speedway
There were no major surprises in the for Feb. 14. The season will end at Home- was made to Auto Club Speedway in Cali- June 18 Milwaukee Mile
Sept. 19 New Hampshire Motor Speedway Cup schedule, following recent announce- stead-Miami, as it has done since 2002. fornia this February. The season opens at June 26 Memphis Motorsports Park
Sept. 26 Dover International Speedway ments of changes in the race order. The Richmond remains the site of the final Daytona on Feb. 12, then takes a break July 11 Iowa Speedway
only series scheduled to visit a new track is pre-Chase race, with New Hampshire open- until the March 6 race at Atlanta. July 16 Gateway International Raceway
Oct. 3 Kansas Speedway July 23 O’Reilly Raceway Park
Oct. 10 Auto Club Speedway the truck series, which will race at Pocono ing the 10-race, championship-determining The Pocono race is set for July 31, the July 31 Pocono Raceway
Oct. 16 Lowe’s Motor Speedway in July. segment of the season. The 10 Chase races same weekend as the Cup series’ second Aug. 7 Nashville Superspeedway
The first alteration to the Cup schedule remain the same. The final three races of the trip to Pocono. There also have been some Aug. 18 Bristol Motor Speedway
Oct. 24 Martinsville Speedway Aug. 27 Chicagoland Speedway
Oct. 31 Talladega Superspeedway comes in April, when the series will visit season again will be companion events with major date swaps. In addition to Dover and Sept. 3 Kentucky Speedway
Nov. 7 Texas Motor Speedway Phoenix before Texas. Then in May, Dover the Nationwide and truck series. Lowe’s swapping dates in the spring, the Sept. 18 New Hampshire Motor Speedway
Nov. 14 Phoenix International Raceway moves ahead of the all-star race and the In Nationwide, the companion races at race at Iowa moves from its Sept. 5 date Sept. 25 Las Vegas Motor Speedway
points race at Lowe’s. The Lowe’s date Phoenix, Texas and Dover will move as this season to July 11, Kentucky’s race Oct. 23 Martinsville Speedway
Nov. 21 Homestead-Miami Speedway Oct. 30 Talladega Superspeedway
remains the same, but Dover is moving well, along with the date for the race at moves from July to Sept. 3, and the Gate- Nov. 5 Texas Motor Speedway
x-non-points races because of the alignment of weekends next Nashville. Those are the series’ only sched- way race moves from September to July 16. Nov. 12 Phoenix International Raceway
season. ule changes. — SceneDaily.com Nov. 19 Homestead-Miami Speedway
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GOLF TENNIS
22. Stanislas Wawrinka, Switzerland,

PGA Tour schedule Big flop for ‘Big 4’ in FedEx Surprises came ATP World
Tour rankings
1555
23. Philipp Kohlschreiber, Germany,
1530
Jan. 8-11 — Mercedes-Benz Championship (Geoff 24. James Blake, United States, 1460
Ogilvy)
Jan. 15-18 — Sony Open in Hawaii (Zach Johnson)
Jan. 21-25 — Bob Hope Chrysler Classic (Pat Perez)
Jan. 29-Feb. 1 — FBR Open (Kenny Perry)
LEMONT, ILL.—The “Big Four” in last
year’s FedEx Cup delivered a big flop
for an encore.
in bunches at Open (Through Sept. 14)
x-qualified for the Barclays ATP
World Tour Finals, Nov. 22-29
Singles
25. Sam Querrey, United States,
1390
26. Lleyton Hewitt, Australia, 1375
27. Paul-Henri Mathieu, France,
Feb. 5-8 — Buick Invitational (Nick Watney) 1. x-Roger Federer, Switzerland, 1330
Feb. 12-15 — AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am Vijay Singh won the first two play- NEW YORK—Any chance he got, on TV and on the Web, Juan 11240 28. Victor Hanescu, Romania, 1286
(Dustin Johnson) off events and mathematically Martin del Potro wanted to watch replays of Roger Federer’s 2. x-Rafael Nadal, Spain, 8845 29. Dudi Sela, Israel, 1244
Feb. 19-22 — Northern Trust Open (Phil Mickelson) 3. x-Andy Murray, Britain, 8390 30. Nicolas Almagro, Spain, 1225
Feb. 25-March 1 — WGC-Accenture Match Play clinched the $10 million prize before last shot sailing out to end the U.S. Open final. 4. x-Novak Djokovic, Serbia, 7480 31. Ivo Karlovic, Croatia, 1220
Championship (Geoff Ogilvy) the Tour Championship. All he had It was as if del Potro himself could not quite believe that he 5. x-Juan Martin del Potro, 32. Viktor Troicki, Serbia, 1215
Feb. 25-March 1 — Mayakoba Golf Classic (Mark Argentina, 6825 33. Jeremy Chardy, France, 1207
Wilson) to do was finish four rounds at East is now a Grand Slam champion—or, perhaps, could not quite 6. Andy Roddick, United States, 5310 34. Feliciano Lopez, Spain, 1205
March 5-8 — The Honda Classic (Y.E. Yang) Lake to win. believe that Federer had failed to win his sixth consecutive 7. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, France, 3950 35. Philipp Petzschner, Germany,
March 12-15 — WGC-CA Championship, (Phil 8. Nikolay Davydenko, Russia, 3535 1172
Mickelson) He didn’t make it out of the second title at Flushing Meadows 9. Fernando Verdasco, Spain, 3430 36. Julien Benneteau, France, 1159
March 12-15 — Puerto Rico Open (Michael Bradley) round this year. Singh missed the cut and 16th major overall. 10. Gilles Simon, France, 3090 37. Juan Monaco, Argentina, 1110
March 19-22 — Transitions Championship (Retief 11. Robin Soderling, Sweden, 3015 38. Dmitry Tursunov, Russia, 1090
Goosen) a career-high six times, had only “I still feel chills,” the del 12. Fernando Gonzalez, Chile, 2885 39. John Isner, United States, 1084
March 26-29 — Arnold Palmer Invitational (Tiger Woods) three top 10s and is 60th on the Potro said Tuesday, a day 13. Gael Monfils, France, 2355 40. Jurgen Melzer, Austria, 1080
April 2-5 — Shell Houston Open (Paul Casey) 14. David Nalbandian, Argentina, 41. Fabrice Santoro, France, 1072
April 9-12 — The Masters (Angel Cabrera) money list with just over $1.2 million. after his startling 3-6, 7-6 2225 42. Benjamin Becker, Germany, 1064
April 16-19 — Verizon Heritage (Brian Gay) He did not reach the Tour Champi- (5), 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-2 come- 15. Marin Cilic, Croatia, 2195 43. Igor Andreev, Russia, 1040
April 23-26 — Zurich Classic of New Orleans (Jerry 16. Tommy Robredo, Spain, 2045 44. Andreas Beck, Germany, 998
Kelly) onship for the first time since 1994, back victory over Federer. 17. Radek Stepanek, Czech Republic, 45. Igor Kunitsyn, Russia, 992
April 30-May 3 — Quail Hollow Championship (Sean when Nick Price was player of the “I can’t explain with 2030 46. Albert Montanes, Spain, 991
O’Hair) 18. Tomas Berdych, Czech Republic, 47. Ivan Ljubicic, Croatia, 986
May 7-10 — The Players Championship (Henrik Stenson) year and Tiger Woods was a fresh- words.” 2025 48. Richard Gasquet, France, 985
May 14-17 — Valero Texas Open (Zach Johnson) man at Stanford. That pretty sums up the 19. David Ferrer, Spain, 1785 49. Martin Vassallo Arguello,
May 21-24 — HP Byron Nelson Championship (Rory 20. Tommy Haas, Germany, 1780 Argentina, 963
Sabbatini) Singh indicated he will play some way this whole, wild U.S. 21. Juan Carlos Ferrero, Spain, 1670 50. Mischa Zverev, Germany, 930
May 28-31 — Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial in the Fall Series as he tries to avoid STEW MILNE / AP Open went.
(Steve Stricker)
June 4-7 — The Memorial Tournament (Tiger Woods) going winless for the first time since Vijay Singh won last year’s FedEx Cup, but he Seeing Federer clutching 24. Francesca Schiavone, Italy, 1955
June 11-14 — Stanford St. Jude Championship (Brian 2001. Singh, 46, had knee surgery in was a nonfactor in this season’s race. the runner-up’s silver tray WTA Tour 24. Elena Vesnina, Russia, 1955
Gay) 26. Zheng Jie, China, 1945
June 18-21 U.S. Open (Lucas Glover) January and never seriously under his left arm Monday rankings 27. Maria Sharapova, Russia, 1880
June 25-28 — Travelers Championship (Kenny Perry) contended. and five straight finishes in the top night, a blank expression ELISE AMENDOLA / AP 28. Sabine Lisicki, Germany, 1870
July 2-5 — AT&T National (Tiger Woods) Singles 29. Sorana Cirstea, Romania, 1826
July 9-12 — John Deere Classic (Steve Stricker) “It wasn’t the season I was looking five to reach No. 2 in the world. Gar- on his face, while del Potro’s Juan Martin del Potro is still getting 1. Dinara Safina, Russia, 9070 30. Kaia Kanepi, Estonia, 1710
July 16-19 — The Open Championship (Stewart Cink) for,” Singh told Golfweek magazine. cia had a chance to go to No. 1 in the big silver trophy was a few used to his win over Roger Federer. 2. Serena Williams, United States, 31. Alisa Kleybanova, Russia, 1680
July 16-19 — U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee 7807 32. Gisela Dulko, Argentina, 1675
(Bo Van Pelt) “A lot of mishaps along the way, and world in March. feet away, stood as only the 3. Venus Williams, United States, 33. Carla Suarez Navarro, Spain,
July 23-27 — RBC Canadian Open (Nathan Green) it ended up being a real crappy sea- Garcia now is No. 7 in the world latest of a series of extraordinary images from the past 15 6645 1660
July 30-Aug. 2 — Buick Open (Tiger Woods) 4. Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russia, 6060 34. Kateryna Bondarenko, Ukraine,
Aug. 6-9 — WGC-Bridgestone Invitational (Tiger son. ... I had a pretty ordinary year, to ranking and barely made it to the days: 5. Elena Dementieva, Russia, 6035 1620
Woods) say the least, and I’m just going to go BMW Championship before he was Serena Williams’ finger-pointing, profanity-laden tirade 6. Caroline Wozniacki, Denmark, 35. Aleksandra Wozniak, Canada,
Aug. 6-9 — Legends Reno-Tahoe Open (John Rollins) 5850 1575
Aug. 13-16 — PGA Championship (Y.E. Yang) figure it out. There’s no other eliminated. at a lineswoman; 7. Vera Zvonareva, Russia, 5460 36. Alona Bondarenko, Ukraine, 1570
Aug. 20-23 — Wyndham Championship (Ryan Moore) explanation.” And then there’s Anthony Kim, a Kim Clijsters’ 18-month-old daughter, Jada, cavorting on 8. Jelena Jankovic, Serbia, 5320 37. Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez,
Aug. 27-30 — The Barclays (Heath Slocum) 9. Victoria Azarenka, Belarus, 4592 Spain, 1520
Sept. 4-7 — Deutsche Bank Championship (Steve Stricker) Camilo Villegas won the final two two-time winner a year ago who fin- court, posing for a horde of photographers, after Mom won 10. Flavia Pennetta, Italy, 3490 38. Alize Cornet, France, 1475
Sept. 10-13 — BMW Championship (Tiger Woods) FedEx Cup playoff events in 2008 ished No. 4 in the final standings. the U.S. Open; 11. Ana Ivanovic, Serbia, 3155 39. Agnes Szavay, Hungary, 1459
Sept. 24-27 — The Tour Championship, East 12. Nadia Petrova, Russia, 3130 40. Iveta Benesova, Czech Republic,
Lake GC, Atlanta and was second to Singh in the stand- Kim had only three top 10s this year, The word “Believe” stamped on the sneakers of Melanie 13. Agnieszka Radwanska, Poland, 1455
Oct. 1-4 — Turning Stone Restort Chamnpionship, ings. Villegas, who rose to No. 7 in missed four cuts and has slipped to Oudin, the 5-foot-6 17-year-old from Marietta, Ga., who 3000 41. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova,
Atunyote GC at Turning Stone Resort, Verona, N.Y. 14. Samantha Stosur, Australia, 2860 Russia, 1445
Oct. 8-11 — The Presidents Cup, Harding Park GC, San the world ranking at the end of the No. 20 in the world. knocked off Maria Sharapova and others on the way to the 15. Marion Bartoli, France, 2825 42. Aravane Rezai, France, 1420
Francisco year, hasn’t won since. The Colom- “I’ve been struggling all year, quarterfinals. 16. Virginie Razzano, France, 2420 42. Sara Errani, Italy, 1420
Oct. 15-18 — Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for 17. Dominika Cibulkova, Slovakia, 44. Melanie Oudin, United States,
Children Open, TPC Summerlin, Las Vegas bian has slipped to No. 16 in the world haven’t gotten putts to fall,” Kim said. Even del Potro and his coach, Franco Davin, acknowledged 2405 1414
Oct. 22-25 — Frys.com Open, Grayhawk GC, and didn’t come close to making it to “It’s disappointing, but I’ll tell you Tuesday that they didn’t exactly arrive in New York con- 18. Li Na, China, 2352 45. Patty Schnyder, Switzerland,
Scottlsdale, Ariz. 19. Kim Clijsters, Belgium, 2310 1389
Oct. 29-Nov. 1 — Viking Classic, Annandale GC, the Tour Championship. what, I’ve worked real hard for the vinced that a championship would be the end result. 20. Amelie Mauresmo, France, 2281 46. Vera Dushevina, Russia, 1320
Madison, Miss. Sergio Garcia lost in a playoff twice last month. I’m going to keep work- Not this year, anyway. 21. Daniela Hantuchova, Slovakia, 47. Sybille Bammer, Austria, 1305
Nov. 12-15 — Children’s Miracle Network Classic, Walt 2105 47. Peng Shuai, China, 1305
Disney World Resort (Magnolia Course, Palm Course), during the FedEx Cup postseason ing hard and I’m going to be ready for “I won’t say we prepared for this U.S. Open planning to win 22. Yanina Wickmayer, Belgium, 49. Magdalena Rybarikova, Slovakia,
Lake Buena Vista, Fla. and finished third. He closed the next season.” it,” Davin said. “We came to the U.S. Open with a chance.” 2045 1280
23. Anabel Medina Garrigues, 50. Lucie Safarova, Czech Republic,
year with two victories in Europe — The Associated Press — The Associated Press Spain, 2030 1250
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Tuesday, Nov. 3 Today’s games
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Glance AC Milan vs. Real Madrid Inter Milan (Italy) vs. Barcelona (Spain)
Marseille vs. FC Zurich Dynamo Kiev (Ukraine) vs. Rubin Kazan (Russia)
GROUP A Tuesday, Sept. 29
Wednesday, Nov. 25

Ronaldo off to royal start


Team GP W D L GF GA Pts
Bayern Munich 1 1 0 0 3 0 3 Real Madrid vs. FC Zurich Rubin Kazan vs. Inter Milan
Bordeaux 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 AC Milan vs. Marseille Barcelona vs. Dynamo Kiev
Juventus 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 Tuesday, Dec. 8 Tuesday, Oct. 20
Maccabi Haifa 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 FC Zurich vs. AC Milan Inter Milan vs. Dynamo Kiev
Marseille vs. Real Madrid Barcelona vs. Rubin Kazan
ZURICH—Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice from long- Tuesday’s games Wednesday, Nov. 4
Juventus (Italy) 1, Bordeaux (France) 1 Rubin Kazan vs. Barcelona
range free-kicks as Real Madrid beat FC Zurich 5-2 to Maccabi Haifa (Israel) 0, Bayern Munich (Germany) 3 GROUP D Dynamo Kiev vs. Inter Milan
open the Champions League group phase on Tuesday. Wednesday, Sept. 30 Team GP W D L GF GA Pts Tuesday, Nov. 24
Bayern Munich vs. Juventus CChelsea 1 1 0 0 1 0 3 Barcelona vs. Inter Milan
The nine-time European champion coasted to a three- Bordeaux vs. Maccabi Haifa APOEL Nicosia 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 Rubin Kazan vs. Dynamo Kiev
goal lead in the first-half. Ronaldo gave Madrid the lead Wednesday, Oct. 21 Atletico Madrid 1 0 1 0 0 0 1
Wednesday, Dec. 9
Bordeaux vs. Bayern Munich FC Porto 1 0 0 1 0 1 0
in the 27th minute, before Raul finished a neat move in Inter Milan vs. Rubin Kazan
Juventus vs. Maccabi Haifa Dynamo Kiev vs. Barcelona
the 34th and Gonzalo Higuain broke through to score in Tuesday, Nov. 3
Tuesday’s games
Chelsea (England) 1, FC Porto (Portugal) 0
stoppage time. Bayern Munich vs. Bordeaux Atletico Madrid (Spain) 0, APOEL Nicosia (Cyprus) 0
But unheralded Zurich got goals from Xavier Mar- Maccabi Haifa vs. Juventus
Wednesday, Sept. 30
GROUP G
Wednesday, Nov. 25 Team GP W D L GF GA Pts
gairaz on a 64th-minute penalty and a header from Sil- APOEL Nicosia vs. Chelsea Sevilla 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bordeaux vs. Juventus FC Porto vs. Atletico Madrid
van Aegerter moments later. Bayern Munich vs. Maccabi Haifa Rangers 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wednesday, Oct. 21 Stuttgart 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tuesday, Dec. 8
“If they want to win the Champions League they will Juventus vs. Bayern Munich
FC Porto vs. APOEL Nicosia Unirea 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chelsea vs. Atletico Madrid
have to play better,” Zurich goalkeeper Johnny Leoni Maccabi Haifa vs. Bordeaux
Tuesday, Nov. 3 Today’s games
said. APOEL Nicosia vs. FC Porto Stuttgart (Germany) vs. Rangers (Scotland)
Madrid sealed victory as Ronaldo struck again in the GROUP B Atletico Madrid vs. Chelsea Sevilla (Spain) vs. Unirea (Romania)
Team GP W D L GF GA Pts Wednesday, Nov. 25 Tuesday, Sept. 29
89th and Guti scored on a counterattack just before the Wolfsburg 1 1 0 0 3 1 3 FC Porto vs. Chelsea Unirea vs. Stuttgart
final whistle. Manchester United 1 1 0 0 1 0 3 APOEL Nicosia vs. Atletico Madrid Rangers vs. Sevilla
Besiktas 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 Tuesday, Dec. 8 Tuesday, Oct. 20
“I never feel pressure,” Ronaldo said. “I just work to CSKA Moscow 1 0 0 1 1 3 0 Chelsea vs. APOEL Nicosia Rangers vs. Unirea
score goals. I scored two, and I’m really pleased for that Atletico Madrid vs. FC Porto Stuttgart vs. Sevilla
Tuesday’s games Wednesday, Nov. 4
but the important thing is to win games.” Besiktas (Turkey) 0, Manchester United (England) 1 Unirea vs. Rangers
On this evidence, Madrid’s $360 million offseason Wolfsburg (Germany) 3, CSKA Moscow (Russia) 1 GROUP E Sevilla vs. Stuttgart
investment in players, including Ronaldo, looks a sure Wednesday, Sept. 30 Team GP W D L GF GA Pts Tuesday, Nov. 24
Manchester United vs. Wolfsburg Liverpool 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Rangers vs. Stuttgart
bet for exciting matches—win or lose. CSKA Moscow vs. Besiktas Lyon 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Unirea vs. Sevilla
Madrid returns to Group C action on Sept. 30 when it Wednesday, Oct. 21 Fiorentina 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Debreceni 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Wednesday, Dec. 9
CSKA Moscow vs. Manchester United Stuttgart vs. Unirea
hosts Marseille, while Zurich travels to face AC Milan STEFFEN SCHMIDT / AP Wolfsburg vs. Besiktas
Today’s games Sevilla vs. Rangers
on the same date. Cristiano Ronaldo, left, had two goals to lift Real Madrid. Tuesday, Nov. 3 Liverpool (England) vs. Debreceni (Hungary)
Manchester United vs. CSKA Moscow Lyon (France) vs. Fiorentina (Italy)
Besiktas vs. Wolfsburg GROUP H
LONDON—Nicolas Anelka gave Chelsea a winning “It was difficult,” United captain Gary Neville said. Wednesday, Nov. 25
Tuesday, Sept. 29 Team GP W D L GF GA Pts
Fiorentina vs. Liverpool Arsenal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
start to its Champions League campaign by clinching a “Coming away from home in Europe is always a bit hard. Manchester United vs. Besiktas Debreceni vs. Lyon
CSKA Moscow vs. Wolfsburg AZ Alkmaar 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1-0 victory over Porto in the Group D opener on They create an atmosphere over here like no other Tuesday, Oct. 20 Olympiakos 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tuesday, Dec. 8 Debreceni vs. Fiorentina
Tuesday. country.” Wolfsburg vs. Manchester United Standard Liege 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Liverpool vs. Lyon
On a rain-soaked Stamford Bridge pitch, the France Besiktas vs. CSKA Moscow
Wednesday, Nov. 4 Today’s games
forward struck three minutes into the second half to see MARSEILLE, FRANCE—Filippo Inzaghi’s two goals gave Fiorentina vs. Debreceni Olympiakos (Greece) vs. AZ Alkmaar (Netherlands)
GROUP C Lyon vs. Liverpool Standard Liege (Belgium) vs. Arsenal (England)
off the Portuguese champions on an unimpressive night AC Milan a 2-1 victory over Marseille on Tuesday in the Tuesday, Nov. 24 Tuesday, Sept. 29
Team GP W D L GF GA Pts
for Chelsea. first round of the Champions League group stage, allow- Real Madrid 1 1 0 0 5 2 3 Debreceni vs. Liverpool Arsenal vs. Olympiakos
AC Milan 1 1 0 0 2 1 3 Fiorentina vs. Lyon AZ Alkmaar vs. Standard Liege
“It was a great result. We weren’t at our best tonight, ing his team to bounce back following a disappointing
Marseille 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 Wednesday, Dec. 9 Tuesday, Oct. 20
but it was a difficult night and we got the win,” mid- start to the season. FC Zurich 1 0 0 1 2 5 0 Liverpool vs. Fiorentina AZ Alkmaar vs. Arsenal
fielder Frank Lampard said. Milan, which missed last year’s tournament, opened Lyon vs. Debreceni Olympiakos vs. Standard Liege
Tuesday’s games Wednesday, Nov. 4
the Serie A season with a win, but then lost to Inter FC Zurich (Switzerland) 2, Real Madrid (Spain) 5 Arsenal vs. AZ Alkmaar
ISTANBUL—Paul Scholes scored with 13 minutes Milan 4-0 before being held to a 0-0 draw at Livorno Marseille (France) 1, AC Milan (Italy) 2 GROUP F Standard Liege vs. Olympiakos
Wednesday, Sept. 30 Team GP W D L GF GA Pts Tuesday, Nov. 24
remaining Tuesday to give Manchester United a 1-0 last weekend. AC Milan vs. FC Zurich Barcelona 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 AZ Alkmaar vs. Olympiakos
win at Besiktas in the teams’ opening Champions As expected, Milan coach Leonardo decided to bench Real Madrid vs. Marseille Inter Milan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Arsenal vs. Standard Liege
Wednesday, Oct. 21 Dynamo Kiev 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
League Group B match. out-of-form Ronaldinho and start with former Nether- Rubin Kazan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Wednesday, Dec. 9
Real Madrid vs. AC Milan Olympiakos vs. Arsenal
It was a slow start to the European season for United, lands midfielder Clarence Seedorf, who had two assists. FC Zurich vs. Marseille Standard Liege vs. AZ Alkmaar
which lost last season’s final 2-0 to Barcelona. — The Associated Press
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Major League Soccer IN BRIEF
EASTERN CONFERENCE TRANSACTIONS
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Columbus
Chicago
D.C.
Toronto FC
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10
8
9
4
6
6
9
9
9
12
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Deceased boxer’s manager admitted to hospital BASEBALL
American League
BOSTON RED SOX: Activated RHP Daisuke
Matias Sointu to Ottawa (OHL), D Mark
Barberio to Moncton (QMJHL), LW Alex
Hutchings to Barrie (OHL) and RW Kyle
New England 9 8 6 33 28 32 Matsuzaka from the 60-Day DL. Sent INF DeCoste to Sault Ste. Marie (OHL).
Kansas City 7 11 6 27 25 32 LONDON—Darren Sutherland, a boxer Chris Woodward outright to Pawtucket ECHL
New York 4 17 4 16 20 42 who won a bronze medal for Ireland at (IL). CHARLOTTE CHECKERS: Agreed to terms
WESTERN CONFERENCE National League
W L T Pts GF GA the Beijing Olympics, was found hanged with F Derek Couture and F Kenny Roche.
Houston 11 8 7 40 32 24 CINCINNATI REDS: Activated OF Laynce IDAHO STEELHEADS: Agreed to terms
at his home Monday. Frank Maloney,
Los Angeles 9 5 11 38 31 29 Nix from the 15-day DL. with F Evan Barlow, F Chris Myers, and F
Seattle 9 6 10 37 31 24 his manager, discovered the body of the American Association Garrett Regan.
Colorado 10 8 6 36 38 30 27-year-old fighter and was so unnerved GRAND PRAIRIE AIRHOGS: Traded INF
Chivas USA 11 9 3 36 25 24 READING ROYALS: Signed F Max Taylor.
Real Salt Lake 9 9 7 34 36 28 he was admitted to a hospital. Cesar Nicolas to Southern Maryland VICTORIA SALMON KINGS: Signed C
FC Dallas 7 11 6 27 39 40 (Atlantic) for a player to be named. Yannick Tifu.
San Jose 5 12 5 20 27 40 Sutherland was unbeaten in his first
International Hockey League
NOTE: Three points for victory, one Columbus 2, Houston 1
four pro fights and was to have appeared BASKETBALL MUSKEGON LUMBERJACKS: Agreed to
National Basketball Association
point for tie. Friday’s games with Maloney at a news conference terms with D Justin Dacosta and D Mike
New England at New York, 7:30 p.m. NBA: Fined Golden State G-F Stephen
Tuesday to talk about his next bout on Novak.
Sept. 12 Colorado at San Jose, 11 p.m. Jackson $25,000 for public statements
Toronto FC 3, Colorado 2 Saturday’s games Oct. 16. detrimental to the NBA.
Seattle FC 2, D.C. United 1 Chivas USA at Seattle FC, 3 p.m. LACROSSE
Kansas City 1, New York 0 Real Salt Lake at Houston, 8:30 p.m. The Metropolitan Police said Suther- PHILADELPHIA 76ERS: Signed G-F National Lacrosse League
Real Salt Lake 1, Chicago 1, tie FC Dallas at Kansas City, 8:30 p.m. Rodney Carney. CALGARY ROUGHNECKS: Signed D Craig
FC Dallas 6, Los Angeles 3 Toronto FC at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.
land was pronounced dead in the mid-
PHOENIX SUNS: Agreed to terms on a Gelsvik to a two-year contract and F
Sept. 13 Sunday’s game afternoon. Police said his death is not contract buyout with G-F Sasha Pavlovic. Carlton Schuss and D Rob Kirby to one-
Chivas USA 2, New England 0 Columbus at Chicago, 3 p.m.
being treated as suspicious, a sugges- year contracts.
tion that no one else was involved. FOOTBALL
National Football League SOCCER
Maloney, who once managed former NEW ORLEANS SAINTS: Signed KR-WR
WNBA All Times ET heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis, Courtney Roby. Waived TE Buck Ortega.
Major League Soccer
FC DALLAS: Added D Steve Purdy to
Playoff Schedule was taken to a hospital. Tests revealed PHILADELPHIA EAGLES: Placed OL Shawn the roster.
Andrews on injured reserve. Released KANSAS CITY WIZARDS: Acquired F
FIRST ROUND the 55-year-old manager had a heart WR Hank Baskett. Kei Kamara from Houston for F Abe
(Best-of-3) attack, but it was not clear if the attack WASHINGTON REDSKINS: Signed OT Thompson and allocation money.
EASTERN CONFERENCE happened before Monday’s events. He William Robinson to the practice squad.
Indiana vs. Washington is expected to remain in the hospital a Released WR Onrea Jones from the COLLEGE
Thursday: Indiana at Washington, 7 p.m. practice squad. BOWLING GREEN: Suspended DB P.J.
Saturday: Washington at Indiana, 7 p.m. few days. Mahone indefinitely for a violation of
x-Monday: Washington at Indiana, 8 p.m. HOCKEY team rules.
Atlanta vs. Detroit Basketball National Hockey League
COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS: Signed C
CARTHAGE: Named Denae Fisher
Today: Atlanta at Detroit, 8 p.m. DETROIT—The clock is running down women’s assistant basketball coach/
Friday: Detroit at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. Antoine Vermette to a five-year contract assistant director of intramurals.
x-Sunday: Detroit at Atlanta, 3 p.m. for Robert Traylor, the ex-NBA and NAM Y. HUH / AP extension through the 2014-15 season. CLARION: Named Joe Swick women’s
University of Michigan basketball star Bronze medalist boxer Darren Sutherland had won his first four professional bouts. Assigned D Cam Brodie, D Tim Filangieri, softball coach.
WESTERN CONFERENCE LW Chris Higgins, C Brock McBride, C
Phoenix vs. San Antonio who’s been given two weeks to arrange GENEVA: Announced the retirement
Tyler Murovich and D Kevin Roeder to of women’s basketball coach Ron
Thursday: Phoenix at San Antonio, 9 p.m. a payment plan on $178,000 in back take the 16th stage of the Spanish while competing at a Champ Car race Syracuse (AHL).
Saturday: San Antonio at Phoenix, 10 p.m. Galbreath.
x-Monday: San Antonio at Phoenix, 10 p.m. taxes. Vuelta, and Alejandro Valverde of at the Lausitzring in Germany 2001, MONTREAL CANADIENS: Signed F MANHATTAN: Promoted Doug Straley
U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn says Spain held on to the overall lead. but returned to racing in 2003. Since Philippe Lefebvre to a three-year to assistant athletic director for sports
Seattle vs. Los Angeles contract. Assigned D Mac Bennett to
Today: Seattle at Los Angeles, 10 p.m. he’ll send Traylor to prison for 60 days Greipel, riding for Team Columbia- then, he has competed in the European medicine.
Cedar Rapids (USHL), D Joe Stejskal to RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE: Named Scott
Friday: Los Angeles at Seattle, 10 p.m. if he misses that deadline. HTC, covered Tuesday’s 102-mile and the World Touring Car Champi-
x-Sunday: Los Angeles at Seattle, 5 p.m. Dartmouth (ECAC) and G Jason Missiaen Virgulak baseball coach.
(x-if necessary) Traylor told Cohn Monday he’d been route from Cordoba to Puertollano in 4 onship each season. to Peterborough (OHL). ROWAN: Named Tony Lisa men’s and
playing basketball in Turkey and Puerto hours, 50 minutes, 44 seconds. Zanardi also took up hand cycling PHOENIX COYOTES: Assigned D Tim women’s swimming coach.
Rico and wasn’t aware of the conse- The Vuelta ends Sunday in Madrid. and finished 14th in last week’s indi- Billingsley to Mississauga-St. Michael’s SACRED HEART: Named Brendan Flynn
(OHL), RW Jordan Szwarz to Saginaw graduate assistant for athletic com-
quences of failing to make timely pay- vidual time trial at the Para-Cycling (OHL) and D Justin Weller to Red Deer munications.
ments. Traylor apologized and pleaded MILAN—Former Formula One Road World Championship in (WHL). SHENANDOAH: Named Catherine Beuerle
with the judge to not lock him up. driver Alex Zanardi, who lost both legs Bogogno, Italy, where he finished 4 ST. LOUIS BLUES: Exercised their contract assistant softball coach.
in a car accident, intends to compete minutes, 45 seconds behind Oz San- option on coach Andy Murray through SIENA: Named Andy Christodoulou
the 2010-11 season.
Cycling for a place on Italy’s cycling team at the chez of the United States, who won TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING: Assigned G
women’s tennis coach.
STOCKTON: Named Kevin Zulauf men’s
PUERTOLLANO, SPAIN—German rider 2012 Paralympics in London. gold at the Beijing Paralympics. Michael Zador to Oshawa (OHL), RW lacrosse coach.
Andre Greipel won a sprint finish to Zanardi lost both legs in a crash — The Associated Press

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