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IT WAS A GAUGE for some, a foothold for others, entertainment for all. Last night, at the first of two rounds of women's Olympic team trials, a few injured gymnasts exhibited how close - or how far - they are from being viable members of the 2008 team.
- WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Paul Hamm isn't bitter. He hasn't spent the past 4 years wondering how and why he never was allowed to fully enjoy the achievement of a lifetime, his Olympic gold in gymnastics. Instead, he has moved on with life, only to find that like the rings he uses in competition, sometimes life can come full circle.
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THESE ARE THE TYPES of pitchers the Phillies will face in October, and the type of pitchers they will face many more times in their quest to get there.
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Phillies Notebook: Phillies GM Gillick says team will seek to fill needs as trade deadline approaches
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Every sign coming from the Phillies indicates they expect to be active players once this summer's pretrading deadline action heats up.
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Phillies vs. Angels, 7:05, Citizens Bank Park. TV: Channel 57. Radio: WPHT (1210-AM); WUBA (1480-AM) Spanish. Ticket info: Standing-room-only tickets are available today and tomorrow.
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IT WOULDN'T have seemed like a move the Flyers would make after the way R.J. Umberger tore up the Montreal Canadiens on the way to the Eastern Conference final.
- Steven Stamkos was selected with the No. 1 pick by the Tampa Bay Lightning. Tampa Bay, coming off an NHL-low, 31-win season, had the first pick in the draft for the second time. The Lightning chose Vincent Lecavalier No. 1 in 1998.
- Manager John Gibbons was fired by the last-place Toronto Blue Jays yesterday and replaced by Cito Gaston, who led the team to World Series titles in 1992 and 1993 before being fired himself in 1997.
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Depending on which NBA mock draft you check, the 76ers could be deciding on any number of prospects to be selected at No. 16. They are, in fact, scheduled to check out four more today at Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine. But today's session appears to be more about being nice to the local basketball community.
- Schill's only hopeBOSTON - Curt Schilling will have surgery on his ailing shoulder Monday, ending his season and possibly his career. The 41-year-old Boston Red Sox righthander will have the operation after a rehabilitation program preferred by the team failed to fix the tendon injury that sparked a spring training dispute between doctors about how to treat it.
- Buffalo Bills running back Marshawn Lynch is expected to plead guilty next week to an unspecified charge stemming from a hit-and-run accident involving his SUV, Erie County (N.Y.) District Attorney Frank Clark said yesterday.
- Phil Mickelson has agreed to compete in the LG Skins Game, the first time in 5 years the three-time major champion will play in the event.
- Turkey taught the European Championship another lesson in fortitude last night to advance to the semifinals with a 3-1 shootout victory over Croatia in Vienna, Austria.
- There were three winners in the Daily News Home Run Payoff contest last night. Each winning a Phillies Gift Pack in the inning were:
- Former Saint Joseph's basketball player Nemanja Petrovic passed away this week in his native Serbia. He would have been 35 next month.
- OMAHA, Neb. - Tim Federowicz' grand slam in the top of the ninth inning last night sent North Carolina to a 7-3 victory over LSU in a College World Series elimination game disrupted twice in 2 days by rain.
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JAMIE MOYER sat in the corner of the visiting clubhouse at St. Louis' Busch Stadium and considered the question. At the time, he was 7-3 with a 4.12 ERA, enjoying his best start to a season since 2003, a critical component of the Phillies' best start in nearly a decade-and-a-half.
- SATURDAY, Oct. 6, 1973, was Yom Kippur and the first game of the National League Championship Series between Tug McGraw's "Ya Gotta Believe" New York Mets and Pete Rose's Cincinnati Reds. As righthanders Tom Seaver and Pedro Borbon prepared to do battle in Riverfront Stadium, Egypt and Syria violated the most sacred day on the Jewish religious calendar with a massive invasion of Israel.
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Phillies vs. Angels, 7:05 Citizens Bank Park. TV: Comcast SportsNet. Radio: WPHT (1210-AM); WUBA (1480-AM) Spanish. Ticket info: Advance sale was 42,500.
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CLEARWATER, Fla. - Kris Benson said he felt "a little awkward" standing on the mound in a Clearwater Threshers uniform, throwing in a Class A game against the Dunedin Blue Jays.
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BASEBALL IS the ultimate game of fathers and sons. For most, it ends with playing catch in the backyard and sitting in the stands together at ballgames. For a fortunate few, it becomes a big-league legacy.
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A GENERAL MANAGER, Seattle's Bill Bavasi, and two managers, the Mets' Willie Randolph and the Mariners' John McLaren, were fired this week. And that can mean only one thing.
- Quote of the week Nationals manager Manny Acta, on negativity: "We live in a world where people love to boo instead of cheer. They'd rather say no than yes. They love to say, 'You [stink],' instead of, 'It's OK; you'll get them next time.' They love violence instead of calm. That's why I'm so worried and feel so bad about my daughter's future in this world."
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Mike Scioscia will be wearing the red of the enemy Los Angeles Angels tonight at Citizens Bank Park, but there will come a smattering of applause from the many family and friends of the 1976 Springfield (Delco) High grad.
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The NBA wants exiled referee Tim Donaghy, who is awaiting sentencing on wire-fraud and interstate gambling charges, to cough up $1,395,104,89 in restitution.
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In a sports world where specialists are coveted commodities, Sean Golden is counting on that to earn his ticket to Beijing as a member of the men's gymnastics team.
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IN OLYMPIC circles, the injury to Paul Hamm's right hand is about as scrutinized as any shoulder, knee, hernia or ankle injury that Donovan McNabb has incurred.
- THERE WAS an athlete at the Wachovia Center who probably could have reached the criteria to earn an automatic bid to the United States men's gymnastics Olympic team.
- SO HOW MUCH is "Pastor" John Ziegler expecting membership to increase at his First Church of Tiger Woods? "I might lose a few of the flock because they commit suicide," Ziegler said Wednesday night by phone from Los Angeles. "For myself, I don't know what I'm going to do."
- The NHL is threatening to kick the owners of the New York Rangers out of the league as punishment for accusing league officials of violating antitrust laws. The NHL filed court papers Wednesday that included a draft letter from commissioner Gary Bettman proposing discipline against Madison Square Garden, L.P., that could lead to suspension or termination of its ownership of the Rangers.
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This year's NHL entry draft might be one of the deepest ever in terms of available defensemen, but don't look for the Flyers to solve their blue-line needs this weekend.
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PAUL HOLMGREN was thinking it has been at least 10 years since the Flyers went to the NHL draft with so few chances to get a good player.
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Where: Scotiabank Place, Ottawa When: Tonight (First round, beginning at 7 o'clock); tomorrow (Rounds 2-7 beginning at 10 a.m.) TV: Tonight on Versus, tomorrow on NHL Network
- John McLaren is the latest member of the Mariners to get cut loose. He probably won't be the last. On the day McLaren was fired as manager, Seattle executives said they agree with franchise cornerstone Ichiro Suzuki that players also should be jettisoned from the team with the worst record in the majors.
- Tayshaun Prince earned a spot on the USA Basketball team for the Beijing Games, a person in the NBA told the Associated Press yesterday. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the roster will be announced Monday during a news conference in Chicago.
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When it comes to evaluating players, you can never have enough information. In keeping with that philosophy, the 76ers held another predraft workout yesterday at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine to get an even better feel for some of the players who could still be on the board when they pick at No. 16 Thursday.
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Sometimes it's not just what goes on between the lines that determines what happens in a football game, or in a season.
- Kevin Jones darted to the right, planted a foot, pivoted and sprinted back across a patch of grass. "That is what teams can't believe I can do," Jones said yesterday in Saline, Mich., after doing a shuttle run in 4.3 seconds.
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When the Soul considered pursuing wide receiver Chris Jackson last season, the front office wanted to know what kind of person it would be bringing on.
- Soul (12-3) at New York (8-7) When: Sunday, 3 p.m. Where: Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, N.Y. TV: None Radio: WPEN (950-AM)
- Finally, the Big Ten Network and Comcast Corp. reached a deal. The BTN and the Philadelphia-based cable carrier announced a multiyear agreement yesterday that provides programming on expanded basic on Aug. 15 in states with Big Ten schools: Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Ohio. Comcast doesn't have any subscribers in Iowa, the eighth Big Ten state.
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Justin Crosgile was in the Palestra on Feb. 4 when Saint Joseph's, playing perhaps its most complete game of the season, beat Villanova. The St. Joe's students were there early. They were loud. They got louder. It was the kind of scene that would have to impress any recruit.
- What: U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Team Trials Where: Wachovia Center When: Through Sunday Tickets: Range from $30 to $95. Visit Comcasttix.com or call 1-800-298-4200
- Paul Hamm isn't the only American gymnast with skills. With the reigning Olympic champion recovering from a recent broken hand, Sasha Artemev and Jonathan Horton made their cases for why they should get trips to Beijing last night at the Wachovia Center in the preliminaries of the Olympic trials.
- Apparently, Big Brown will run again. It was announced yesterday by co-owner Michael Iavarone that the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner is being pointed for the $1 million Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park on Aug. 3.
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THERE WAS NOT a lot of disagreement among the witnesses who testified in Washington yesterday about horse racing's myriad issues concerning drugs, breakdowns and breeding: The sport needs a central authority. Given that there are 38 racing states with differing regulations, that is really the essence of the problem. There is nobody in charge.
- Top 5 North American skaters Player, Pos. . . . Amateur club 1. Steven Stamkos, C . . . Sarnia
- Charles Barkley is headed back to the tables in Las Vegas to play in a poker tournament about a month after pledging not to gamble. He says it's all for charity.
- This weekend, Fairmount Park will be flooded with athletes from across the country for the fourth-annual Philadelphia Insurance Triathlon. The 3-day affair starts today, with an expo outside Memorial Hall in West Fairmount Park, and runs through Sunday. The official race begins Sunday at 7 a.m. along the banks of the Schuylkill at Saint Joseph's Boathouse on Kelly Drive. A post-race celebration will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. along Martin Luther King Drive at Black Rock Road.
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