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Broncos owner to try trading unhappy quarterback Cutler

admin — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:02:45 +0000

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Disgruntled Broncos quarterback Jay Cutler looked likely to get his wish to leave Denver after the NFL team’s owner said on Tuesday he would pursue trade talks about the strong-armed signal caller.

Devils playoff tickets on sale Monday

admin — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:10:07 +0000

Devils individual game tickets for the first round of the 2009 Stanley Cup Playoffs will go on sale Monday, March 30 at 11 a.m.

3 UP: MURPHY, HERNANDEZ AND PEREZ

admin — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:50:06 +0000

1. I have written a few times in this space already advocating that the Mets should bat Daniel Murphy second in the order, so I am not surprised that Jerry Manuel finally made that official. The short-hand for my reasons was that his lefty, patient bat would work best with Jose Reyes on first, especially over Luis Castillo. Murphy has the ability to hit a ball into the gap and score Reyes from first, Castillo does not hit the ball into many gaps. Murphy is more likely to pull and take advantage of the hole created by Reyes being held on. Also, it is simple, at this moment Murphy is a superior hitter than Castillo, so you want him to bat more often.

Brawn GP wields job axe

admin — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:11:13 +0000

Less than 24 hours after their Australian Grand Prix fairytale, Formula One newcomers Brawn GP have sacked more than 270 workers.

Wigan boss gives stadium his name

admin — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:40:06 +0000

Barclays Premier League side Wigan Athletic will play their home matches at the re-named DW Stadium from next season after club chairman Dave Whelan’s company bought the naming rights.

Brazil slip to fourth after draw in Quito

admin — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:40:06 +0000

(CNN) — Brazil dropped to fourth place in South American qualifying for the 20`0 World Cup after being held to a 1-1 draw by Ecuador in Quito.

Noboa (far right) denied Brazil victory in Quito with a late equalizer.

Brazil went into the Sunday night’s match looking to reclaim second place in the table from arch-rivals Argentina, but a late goal from Cristian Noboa, combined with Chlle’s later 3-1 win over Peru, left them in the final automatic qualifying spot for South Africa.

Five-time World Cup champions Brazil were below their best at the 9,000 feet altitude of the Andean capital and were without injured AC Milan star Kaka.

He was replaced in the starting line-up by teammate Ronaldinho, but it was Ecuador who had the better chances, forcing several fine saves from Brazil goalkeeper Julio Cesar with Tottenham’s Wilson Palacios also hitting the post.

Ronaldinho was replaced by Julio Baptista in the second half and the Roma striker’s first kick of the ball resulted in a goal for the visitors after 71 minutes.

But Ecuador grabbed a deserved equalizer through Noboa just two minutes from time and had a late chance to grab the winner.

Chile had few problems in beating bottom side Peru, their first victory in Lima for 24 years.

Alexis Sanchez put them on their way with a second minute goal and Humberto Suazo doubled the advantage on the half hour mark.

Peru hit back in the 33rd minute as striker John Fano scored but their cause was undermined by the 52nd minute dismissal of Juan Vargas for two yellow cards.

Matias Fernandez wrapped up the Chile win with a 69th minute strike.

Paraguay lead the standings with 23 points, followed by Argentina and Chile on 19, with Brazil in fourth on 18 after 11 rounds.

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Button wins Australian Grand Prix for Brawn

admin — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:10:07 +0000

(CNN) — Britain’s Jenson Button won the opening race of the 2009 Formula One season after dominating the Australian Grand Prix for the newly-formed Brawn GP team.

76ers in Detroit for crucial game

admin — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:30:06 +0000

Eleven games remain on the 76ers’ schedule. The Sixers know each one will be similar to a playoff game, especially tonight’s contest against the Detroit Pistons at the Palace at Auburn Hills.

Bill Lyon: Sports helped Philly celebrate Bicentennial

admin — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:20:06 +0000

The country was 200 years old, and a peanut farmer from Georgia was elected president.

It was 1976, and among the movies of the time: Rocky (the first one), The Bad News Bears (the original), A Star Is Born (the remake), and The Omen (the first one).

This being the Bicentennial, just about everything sporting was held in Philadelphia in 1976: the National League won the All-Star Game, 7-1, at a stadium called the Vet, with five Reds voted starters by the fans in a successful ballot-box stuffing.

The East beat the West, 123-109, in the NBA All-Star Game, with Washington’s Dave Bing and his silk-on-satin jumper named MVP, while the winning coach was Boston’s gravelly voiced Tom Heinsohn, who in his playing days was known as “Tommy Gun” for his penchant for

squeezing off long bursts.

The National Hockey League All-Star Game was . . . well, there was about as much defense as there was in the NBA’s game. Checks were by invitation only.

The Final Four was held here, in an arena called the Spectrum, and Indiana, coached by a tempestuous tyrant named Bobby Knight, capped an undefeated year with the title. We would host one other Final Four, in 1981, and just our luck, Knight won again.

So what else transpired in 1976?

Well, on the eighth day of the second month, Eagles owner Leonard Tose, having fired three coaches in the preceding five years, hired a 39-year-old Californian named Dick Vermeil, whom he had stumbled upon while watching Vermeil’s UCLA team win the Rose Bowl.

Vermeil was inheriting a franchise that hadn’t had a winning season in the previous nine years and that had mortgaged its future, trading away its top three picks in the next two drafts and its top two the year after that.

On one rain-lashed afternoon, Vermeil had the team bused to Widener College, which had an indoor facility. The Birds were barely 10 minutes into practice when the Widener women’s field hockey team arrived and booted them out. Back out in the driving rain, Philadelphia’s football players, by now surly and sodden, discovered their buses had left. Vermeil began to butt his head against a brick wall. It all seemed omen-like.

One midsummer night in ‘76, while Vermeil was conducting a film study, there arose a great clatter from outside. Vermeil threw open a window and demanded to know the source of the clamor.

“The birthday, Coach,” he was told.

“Whose birthday?”

“Uh, well, the country’s. It’s the Bicentennial. You know, the Fourth of July.”

“Well tell them to hold it down, will ya?”

Eventually, still oblivious to the rest of the world, he coached the E-A-G . . . to the Super Bowl.

In the world of baseball in ‘76, the Big Red Machine was inhaling everyone else. The Reds were under the tender loving care of an engaging, unaffected, uncomplicated, malaprop-spouting, silver-maned (remind you of anyone around here?) manager named George Anderson, alias Sparky, and also alias Captain Hook for his impatient tendency to yank pitchers.

In 1959, in his one and only season playing in the bigs, Sparky Anderson was employed as an infielder by the Phillies. In 477 at-bats, he hit .218 and was advised - not too gently - to pursue the game from a different angle.

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Bob Ford: Villanova in Final Four

admin — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 10:20:10 +0000

BOSTON - After several seasons of great promise and ultimate disappointment, the Villanova Wildcats are headed back to college basketball’s promised land.