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Saturday afternoon? Television market size
(read: potential viewers) is one reason. The (What you won’t find on Facebook … even if you are approved as a friend) PRESIDENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Whitney Shaw
number of U.S. TV households will be 114.9 PUBLISHER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ed Baker
million for the ‘09-10 season, up 400,000 from EDITOR-IN-CHIEF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jeff D’Alessio
last year, but the smallest increase in 10 years,
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18. Cleveland 1,520,750 -0.3% start of the game. First job: I worked at the Favorite athlete to watch in My greatest love: My mother
Worst habit: Staying up late unemployment office in another sport: Roy Halladay My hero: President Obama
19. Orlando 1,455,620 -0.7% On my walls: Pictures of my Monroe, La., helping people Favorite cities to visit: Las My bucket list: 1. Win a second
20. Sacramento 1,404,580 0.4% daughter, a Kung Fu Panda find jobs on the Internet. I Vegas, Miami and Houston ACC football championship, 2.
poster, Wake Forest football was 16 and was making $6.75 Favorite team as a kid: Dallas Jetski, 3. Climb a mountain, 4.
21. St. Louis 1,249,450 0.0%
poster per hour. Cowboys Become a grandfather
22. Portland 1,188,770 1.2% Love to trade places for a day with Talent I’d most like to have: I Favorite value in others: Trust My motto: You get out of it
23. Pittsburgh 1,154,950 -0.1% … Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wish I could sing. Favorite physical attribute about what you put into it.
He helped shape American Favorite meal: Fried chicken, myself: My smile — Jeff D’Alessio
24. Charlotte 1,147,910 2.2%
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RECRUITING DISH CLASS OF 2010
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
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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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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.
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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
previous years?
at Atlanta ............... 6½ ..........6½..........(43) Carolina West W L T Pct PF PA Home Away NFC AFC Div
feel like you met your goals? to do too much? which would be Larry and Anquan. at Washington ....... 9½ ...........10..........(37) St. Louis
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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.
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Despite the Steelers’ uncharac-
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“You know, it’s a factor,” Tomlin Rashard Mendenhall had just six yards on four carries in the Steelers’ opener.
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schematically this week and how commitment to stopping the run “a mediocre running team on their
they play, but at the same time and it’s easier to make the commit- best day.” Bettis also said the offen-
understanding and being able to ment when everybody feels good sive line lacks continuity and that
function against it are two differ- and you’ve got all the horses in the fullback Frank Summers looked
ent things.” stable,” Tomlin said. “I think over confused and missed many blocks
It probably doesn’t help that the course of a long haul, you see in the season opener.
Parker, limited by injuries, had who’s good at it week in and week Despite winning the Super Bowl
only four carries in preseason out. last season, the Steelers ranked
games, or that Mendenhall had “It’s usually tough sledding early only 23rd in rushing and did not
precious little time in the offense in the football season. That’s been have a 1,000-yard runner as
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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
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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For SN Today
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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BIG 12 SEC
INSIDE DISH INSIDE DISH
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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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,
SOUTH
Howard at Florida A&M, 7:30 p.m. Top 25
Thursday
at Miami. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 ½. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Georgia Tech
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.
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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.
Edward Waters at Alabama St., 8 p.m. Conference standings, Page 20
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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.
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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
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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15
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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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