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August 10, 2008 - August 16, 2008 Archives
9:11 PM Sat, Aug 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Thom Cahir  Email
St. Raphael pitcher Nick Gaj pitched a complete game, one-hit, six strikeout gem, leading the Wyatt Detention team to a 10-1 semifinal win over New Hampshire in the Junior American Legion New England Regionals. Gaj's batterymate, Albert Bellows led a......
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6:20 PM Sat, Aug 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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Behind Jeff Roy's complete game performance (five innings, three hits, six strikeouts and 2-4 from the plate) Flood Auto Group completed the 2-0 sweep of Warwick with a 12-1 win in the State Connie Mack Championship yesterday at Warwick. Ross......
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8:32 AM Sat, Aug 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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Keno Davis and his staff have apparently made their first grab into what will be an important recruiting class of 2009. The Friars have received a verbal commitment from Antoine Allen, a 6-1 guard out of Baltimore. Allen attends......
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9:53 PM Fri, Aug 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
North Kingstown's Elizabeth Beisel finished fifth tonight in the finals of the 200-meter backstroke, ending her first Olympic appearance without a medal. Her final time was 2:08.23. Beisel finished fourth over the weekend in the 400-meter individual medley. Zimbabwe's Kirsty......
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8:37 PM Fri, Aug 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Corey Bourassa Email
Tonight's Red Sox game has been postponed due to rain. It will be made up as a day/night doubleheader on Sept. 13. The first game will begin at 12:35 with the nightcap scheduled for 7:05. Tickets for tonight's game are......
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7:58 PM Fri, Aug 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Thom Cahir Email
Flood Auto Group came from behind once again this season with a 6-5 win over Warwick in the Connie Mack championships when Geoff Sabbagh hit a nubber back to the pitcher who then threw the ball away, allowing Trevor Patrick......
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7:26 PM Fri, Aug 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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St. Raphael's Ray Johnson hit two grand slams in the same inning; accounting for 11 RBIs in leading Wyatt Detention to a 21-0 rout of Maine in the Junior American Legion New England Regionals yesterday at McCarthy Field in West......
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6:42 PM Fri, Aug 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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BY JOE McDONALD Journal Sports Writer BOSTON -- It appears Ryan Westmoreland is on the verge of signing with the Boston Red Sox for $2 million. The Sox selected the Portstmouth native as their fifth round pick (172nd overall) in......
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6:38 PM Fri, Aug 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Thom Cahir Email
Shalane Flanagan of Marblehead, Mass., last year's winner of the CVS Caremark Downtown 5K, took the bronze medal in the Women's 10,000-meter race in Beijing Thursday, finishing in 30:22.22 behind Ethiopian Tirunesh Diababa (29:54.66) and Turkey's Elvan Abeylegesse (29:56.34).......
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6:30 PM Fri, Aug 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Corey Bourassa Email
NEW YORK -- Slumping center fielder Melky Cabrera was demoted to the minors Friday, the biggest move in a mini shakeup by the struggling New York Yankees as they tried to regroup for a playoff push. The Yankees also designated......
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6:00 PM Fri, Aug 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Corey Bourassa Email
Defender Cory Gibbs, a former Brown University standout, agreed to a contract with Major League Soccer's Colorado Rapids and is expected to be available for Saturday's match at Kansas City. Gibbs was picked for the 2006 U.S. World Cup roster......
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3:53 PM Fri, Aug 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Hall of Fame third baseman Mike Schmidt will be at McCoy Stadium to throw out the first pitch on Thursday, when the PawSox host the Syracuse Chiefs. Schmidt, a member of baseball's 500-home-run club who spent his entire career with......
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3:30 PM Fri, Aug 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
One way or another, Elizabeth Beisel's remarkable journey to Beijing will culminate tonight, when she swims in the finals of the 200-meter backstroke. Beisel, who had the second-fastest time in last night in the semifinals, will jump off at 10:03......
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2:51 PM Fri, Aug 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Juliet Macur The New York Times BEIJING - More than seven hours after she had won the silver medal in the women's gymnastics all-around event, Shawn Johnson finally left the Olympic Green. She climbed onto the back of a......
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2:26 PM Fri, Aug 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Harvey Araton The New York Times News BEIJING - Becky Hammon isn't here to wave a flag, or pledge allegiance. She wants people to know she is celebrating sport, she came to play, though if you filled her with......
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2:06 PM Fri, Aug 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Linda Robertson The Miami Herald BEIJING - One day a couple months ago, before the Olympics, Dara Torres walked around with a urine sample in one hand and a cell phone in the other. Torres, 41, was at swimming......
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12:37 PM Fri, Aug 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
The Boston Globe is reporting that J.R. Giddens, the 30th and final pick in the first round of this year's NBA Draft, has agreed to a two-year, guaranteed contract with the Celtics. The contract gives the team options for another......
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12:26 PM Fri, Aug 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John Leicester AP Olympics Columnist BEIJING (AP) - For a few brief moments, it was as if a curtain had parted. We had one of China's young - perhaps too young - Olympic gymnasts alone. Your Turn: Are the......
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12:25 PM Fri, Aug 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andre Jacobs The New York Times BEIJING - Shortly after Liu Zige touched the edge of the pool at the Water Cube on Thursday and grabbed China's first gold medal for swimming in the Beijing Olympics, the questions began.......
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12:08 PM Fri, Aug 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Surprising no one, the New England Patriots today officially announced the signing of veteran defensive back John Lynch. The team also announced that placed offensive lineman Barry Stokes was going on the reserve/injured list because of a back injury. The......
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12:03 PM Fri, Aug 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Ben Shpigel The New York Times BEIJING - The baseball-adoring men who have governed these baseball-adoring nations, it is safe to say, will not be making congratulatory and consolatory phone calls to each other after another intense chapter in......
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12:00 PM Fri, Aug 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
By David Barron Houston Chronicle BEIJING - NBC hit its first 2008 Olympics ratings hiccup Wednesday as the audience dropped from the night four years ago that featured Paul Hamm's controversial win in the men's gymnastics all-around. Wednesday night's program,......
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11:21 AM Fri, Aug 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Art Martone Email
The Web site boxingscene.com has a detailed analysis of Demetrius Andrade's quarterfinal-round victory over Russia's Andrey Balanov Thursday in Beijing.......
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10:36 AM Fri, Aug 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Thom Cahir Email
NEWPORT - John McEnroe defaulted in his opening round-robin match at the $150,000 Hall of Fame Champions Cup Thursday at the International Tennis Hall of Fame due to audible, unsportsmanlike conduct and abuse of official code violations in his match......
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10:25 AM Fri, Aug 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
BEIJING (AP) -- James Blake could shrug off the three match points he failed to convert, and even the misfire on an easy forehand that would have given him a berth in the Olympic final. What stuck in his craw......
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9:41 AM Fri, Aug 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Juliet Macur The New York Times BEIJING - On the eve of the Olympic all-around final in women's gymnastics, the teammates Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson sat together in their room at the athletes' village, looking at the calendars......
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9:37 AM Fri, Aug 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike Klis The Denver Post Denver - Former Denver Broncos safety John Lynch is now a New England Patriot. "I'm happy for John," said Broncos owner Pat Bowlen. "It's a good organization and if they can use them, that's......
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9:34 AM Fri, Aug 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Tyler Kepner The New York Times NEW YORK - Bruised by a dispiriting 10-game road trip, the Yankees are facing odds they have never encountered before. At stake is their 14th consecutive playoff berth, which would tie a major......
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9:26 AM Fri, Aug 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - The best-known dreadlocks in these parts got a little shorter Thursday. Heeding the request of his manager, Manny Ramirez got a haircut, but as teammate Jeff Kent said with a smile, holding his thumb and forefinger......
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8:50 AM Fri, Aug 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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Good morning. In Beijing, we report success for Michael Phelps, Demetrius Andrade and Elizabeth Beisel. In Boston, we report success for the Red Sox -- what else would you expect against the Rangers? Click here to download the file in......
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7:35 AM Fri, Aug 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jere Longman The New York Times BEIJING - Distance running has its rabbits, who are paid to set the pace and then bunny-hop off the track. Cycling has its domestiques, Spandex man-servants who sacrifice their own ambitions for the......
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9:37 PM Thu, Aug 14, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Chris Venditto Email
Jeff Roy hit a walk-off bases-loaded double with one out in the bottom of the seventh inning to give Flood Auto Group a 3-2 victory over Tiverton in the third-and-deciding game of the Connie Mack semifinals. A leadoff triple by......
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8:34 PM Thu, Aug 14, 2008 | Permalink |
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Elizabeth Beisel of Saunderstown finished first in her group and second overall with a time of 2:07.9 in the semfinals of the 200-meter backstroke tonight in Beijing. As she did just hours before in the preliminary heats, Beisel hung near......
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8:23 PM Thu, Aug 14, 2008 | Permalink |
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Jack Nottage pitched a complete game, striking out eight and adding two hits and three RBIs to help his cause as Warwick defeated Slocum 14-7 on their way to a 2-1 semifinal series win in the Connie Mack playoffs. Matt......
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8:14 PM Thu, Aug 14, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Chris Venditto Email
Both semifinals matches in the Championship Division of the RIGA Junior Amateur Championship went down to the wire yesterday at West Warwick Country Club as John McCarthy, of Potowomut, defeated Crestwood's Jared Adams, 2 and 1; and Jeffrey Ray, of......
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6:10 PM Thu, Aug 14, 2008 | Permalink |
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By STEVEN KRASNER Journal Sports Writer BOSTON -- Jacoby Ellsbury has been forced to sit out another game, though just sitting around is an uncomfortable proposition for the rookie center fielder in more ways than one. Ellsbury was drilled on......
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3:32 PM Thu, Aug 14, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Federal investigators have charged a Philadelphia man with trying to blackmail New York Giants coach Tom Coughlin by sending him letters threatening to expose a fictitious sexual tryst with two women. Herbert Alex Simpson, 30, is accused......
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2:49 PM Thu, Aug 14, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
CNBC will be broadcasting tapes of today's boxing events, including Demetrius Andrade's victory over Andrey Balanov, beginning at 5 p.m. today. Elizabeth Beisel swims in the semifinals of the 200-meter backstroke, looking to secure a spot in the medal event......
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2:36 PM Thu, Aug 14, 2008 | Permalink |
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NEW YORK (AP) - Beth Walsh is swimming laps again at age 57. Stasi Turrell has returned to walking, 13 weeks after giving birth to her fourth child. And Geralin Thomas is lifting hand weights and skipping rope at 47.......
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2:23 PM Thu, Aug 14, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
The last time Demetrius Andrade fought Andrey Balanov of Russia, the situation was far different. It was 2005. Andrade, weeks away from his 17th birthday, was in Russia on his first international trip. Balanov was 28 and an experienced world......
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