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July 12, 2009 - July 18, 2009 Archives
11:35 PM Fri, Jul 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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The Boston Globe is reporting that guard Marquis Daniels has committed to signing with the Celtics. The 28-year-old guard will receive the biannual exception contract worth $1.9 million unless a sign and trade deal is worked out with his former......
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10:38 PM Fri, Jul 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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NEW YORK (AP) -- The Yankees voided the signing of an amateur from the Dominican Republic after he flunked a DNA test that showed he misrepresented his name and identity. The Yankees had reached an agreement on July 2 with......
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7:30 PM Fri, Jul 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Ira Winderman South Florida Sun Sentinel FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - During his talk to season-ticket holders Thursday at AmericanAirlines Arena, Miami Heat President Pat Riley joked how he already had guard Dwyane Wade texting Lakers free-agent forward Lamar Odom......
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5:04 PM Fri, Jul 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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Bobby Leopold's first time competing in the R.I. Golf Association Amateur turned out to be a special one. The 24-year-old from England, who now lives in Cranston, won the 104th Amateur Friday at Crestwood, 3 and 2, over Valley's......
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3:23 PM Fri, Jul 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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BY MIKE SZOSTAK Journal Sports Writer PROVIDENCE -- Brown University should complete interviews for the vacant men's hockey coaching position by early next week, athletics director Michael Goldberger said Friday. "We hope to make a decision immediately afterward," Goldberger......
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10:20 PM Thu, Jul 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kevin McNamara Email
According to the New England Basketball Recruiting Report, high school guard Matt Brown of Barrington and Northfield Mt. Hermon School will enroll at Harvard in the fall of 2010. Brown is a strong and athletic combination guard who was being......
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6:16 PM Thu, Jul 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
Former Boston Celtic Antoine Walker reportedly was arrested at Harrah's Casino in South Lake Tahoe, Nev., on Wednesday night. According to rotoworld.com, Walker -- who has gambling debts of over $800,000 -- was led from the building in handcuffs, and......
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5:58 PM Thu, Jul 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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HOUSTON (AP) -- Houston Dynamo forward Brian Ching has been fined $500 by Major League Soccer for criticizing the officiating in a recent game through his Twitter account. Ching didn't play in Houston's 2-1 loss in Seattle on Saturday because......
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5:40 PM Thu, Jul 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
Adam Wodon, managing editor of collegehockeynews.com, has written an interesting column on the search for a new men's hockey coach at Brown. The column includes the news that there are two additional finalists for the job, bringing the total to......
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4:59 PM Thu, Jul 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
PHOENIX (AP) -- The Phoenix Mercury have suspended guard Diana Taurasi for two games without pay after she was cited on drunk-driving related charges. In a release Thursday, the team said Taurasi was suspended "for conduct detrimental to the team."......
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4:38 PM Thu, Jul 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
MARINA DEL REY, Calif. (AP) -- A shaggy-haired 17-year-old from Southern California has become the youngest person to sail around the world alone. Zac Sunderland docked Thursday in this coastal community west of Los Angeles, completing a 28,000-mile trip that......
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1:27 PM Thu, Jul 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
Four players who already know what it is like to win a championship have reached the semifinals of the R.I. Amateur Championship at Crestwood Country Club. They include the defending champion, David McAndrew of Rhode Island Country Club. McAndrew......
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11:31 AM Thu, Jul 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo Sports reports that the Miami Heat, in a bid to rejoin the ranks of the Eastern Conference elite, are "working furiously to deliver Lamar Odom" as well as Utah's Carlos Boozer. Boozer, who is owed $12.7......
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11:19 AM Thu, Jul 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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The Boston Herald's Mark Murphy reports today that restricted free-agent forward Glen Davis is looking more likely to be back in the green next season, as the market for his services has not been as robust as he had hoped.......
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11:00 AM Thu, Jul 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kevin McNamara Email
Two high school stars from Rhode Island have been selected to play for the New York Yankees' entry in the prestigious Area Code games next month. Tiverton catcher Zach Kapstein and Rumford pitcher Sam Dodge played at Yankee Stadium......
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10:09 AM Thu, Jul 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Bernie Miklasz St. Louis Post-Dispatch ST. LOUIS -- In 1994, PBS aired the documentary Baseball, by acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns. It was a terrific piece of work, but in St. Louis we remembered it for a regrettable reason: Stan......
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9:56 AM Thu, Jul 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
Here the release from the Brown sports information department: Brown's Buddy Farnham and David Howard Named To Sports Network Pre-Season All-American Team Providence, RI - Brown senior wide receiver Buddy Farnham (Andover, MA) and senior defensive tackle David Howard (Columbia,......
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8:56 AM Thu, Jul 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Portland's new NBA Development League team is looking for somebody with acrobatic skills to be its new mascot. The Maine Red Claws are holding auditions on July 25 for team mascot, as well as for......
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9:14 PM Wed, Jul 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Art Martone Email
BY PAUL KENYON Journal Sports Writer Brett Quigley qualified for the British Open, but don't look for his name when the championship starts Thursday. Rather than being at Turnberry in Scotland, Quigley is in Milwaukee to play in the......
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2:29 PM Wed, Jul 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- A prosecutor is declining to pursue a complaint filed with police by a woman embroiled in an alleged extortion attempt involving Louisville coach Rick Pitino. Jefferson County Commonwealth's Attorney David Stengel said Wednesday the complaint is......
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2:19 PM Wed, Jul 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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The top two seeds, Garrett Medeiros and Matt Broome, both had to come from behind to survive first-round matches Wednesday in the 104th R.I. Golf Association Amateur Championship at Crestwood. Medeiros, who won medalist honors by 10 strokes with......
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11:01 AM Wed, Jul 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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Sports-radio morning fixtures Dennis & Callahan will have some new competition next month when CBS Radio unveils its new Boston sports-talk station, but co-host Gerry Callahan didn't sound too concerned when asked about the new kid on the block by......
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10:02 AM Wed, Jul 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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Former URI star Lamar Odom hasn't responded to the Los Angeles Lakers contract offer, so the Lakers have taken the offer off the table and broken off talks, according to The Los Angeles Times. The Lakers have reportedly offered Odom......
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8:49 AM Wed, Jul 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
St. Petersburg Times SPRING HILL, Fla. -- The score was tied at 5 in the top of the last inning when South Lake's Hunter Cowers crushed a baseball deep into the night. Teammates thronged the exuberant boy at home plate,......
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2:55 PM Tue, Jul 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
Former Boston Celtic Antoine Walker, 32, who made many millions of dollars during his NBA career, has been charged with passing nearly $1 million in bad checks while taking out markers at three Las Vegas casinos. Gambling debts in Nevada......
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2:16 PM Tue, Jul 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
As so often seems to happen in the Rhode Island Amateur golf championship, players from Rhode Island Country Club are leading the way. Two youngsters who learned the game at RICC, Matt Broome and Eddie Hjerpe, are the co-leaders......
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2:02 PM Tue, Jul 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Baseball commissioner Bud Selig wants to keep players on drug suspensions from going to the minor leagues before they return. Manny Ramirez drew sellout crowds last month in the minors when he played two games at......
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1:47 PM Tue, Jul 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
According to the Kansas City Star, the Chiefs have locked up former Patriots QB Matt Cassel with a long-term contract, terms undisclosed. Click here for more.......
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1:40 PM Tue, Jul 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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By KEVIN McNAMARA Journal Sports Writer Providence College has just announced that it will be extending the contracts of basketball coach Keno Davis and athletic director Bob Driscoll through 2016. Davis has coached one year at PC and led the......
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12:12 PM Tue, Jul 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
Sports fans in these parts may have an alternative to WEEI as soon as next month, according to reports out of Boston. Adam Reilly of the Boston Phoenix says that a new radio station that will be known as the......
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11:02 AM Tue, Jul 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) -- Pittsburgh Pirates farmhand and reality show contestant Rinku Singh earned his first win Monday in the second game of a Gulf Coast League doubleheader. Singh struck out the only batter he faced in the Bradenton Pirates'......
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10:28 AM Tue, Jul 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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Myron Pryor, a defensive lineman from Kentucky who was drafted in the sixth round, has agreed to contract terms with the New England Patriots, according to Mike Reiss of The Boston Globe. Click here to read the story.......
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6:30 AM Tue, Jul 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Neil Downing Email
The parent company of the Golfers' Warehouse store in Cranston has asked a U.S. Bankruptcy Court for protection from creditors as it works on the sale of its stores to a larger retailer based in California. Golfers' Warehouse Inc., which......
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10:00 PM Mon, Jul 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Fans were only allowed five choices, but according to an ESPN SportsNation poll, the Dallas Cowboys are the team that football fans most love to hate. Bill Belichick's Patriots made it close, though. The Cowboys got 36 percent of the......
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8:34 PM Mon, Jul 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Police have interviewed Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino about allegations brought by a woman charged with trying to extort him, his lawyer said Monday. Attorney Steve Pence said Pitino has been cooperating in the investigation......
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7:50 PM Mon, Jul 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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You've got to love the audacity of the New York media. Not content to fantasize about getting their hands on Toronto's best pitcher, they feel entitled to the Jays' best hitter, too. See for yourself: By Anthony Rieber Newsday So......
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7:28 PM Mon, Jul 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
According to multiple media reports today, future Hall of Famer Pedro Martinez will take a physical for the Philadelphia Phillies on Tuesday and could sign with the team by Wednesday. The reports indicate that the Phillies are hoping Martinez will......
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7:06 PM Mon, Jul 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
The Bruins have signed centers Trent Whitfield and Drew Larman and defensemen Rob Kwiet and Zach McKelvie to one-year contracts, according to an announcement by the Providence Bruins Whitfield, 32, was a 1996 draft pick of the Bruins and has......
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5:45 PM Mon, Jul 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Journal Sports Writer REHOBOTH -- Only in golf could something like this happen: A competitor in a state championship event showed shows up without any equipment. But he got gets to play anyway, with the help of......
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4:28 PM Mon, Jul 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) - Connecticut Sun forward Tamkia Whitmore plans to undergo knee surgery and is expected to be sidelined for about three weeks. Whitmore missed Saturday's game against Detroit with bone spurs in her right knee, ending a streak......
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4:07 PM Mon, Jul 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
NEW YORK (AP) -- Landon Donovan is an All-Star for the ninth time in nine MLS seasons. The Los Angeles Galaxy forward joins seven first-time All-Stars among the first 11 players announced Monday. Players, coaches, general managers, media and fans......
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2:18 PM Mon, Jul 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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Metacomet's Garrett Medeiros capped a great day with an eagle on the final hole to record a 6-under 65 Monday and take the early lead in the 104th Rhode Island Golf Association Amateur Championship at Crestwood. Medeiros, a former......
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2:15 PM Mon, Jul 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Here's the starting lineup for the American League announced today by Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon: Ichiro Suzuki, rf Derek Jeter, ss Joe Mauer, c Mark Teixeira, 1b Jason Bay, lf Josh Hamilton, cf Evan Longoria, 3b Aaron Hill, 2b......
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8:52 PM Sun, Jul 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Dwight Perry The Seattle Times When Minnesotans say "just take a little off the top, please," they're not kidding. "As a result of the Yankees' three games in the Metrodome last week, Minnesota will receive about $280,000 in state......
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8:12 PM Sun, Jul 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
ST. LOUIS (AP) - All-Star tickets are a bargain at Busch Stadium, at least in comparison with prices for last year's game at the original Yankee Stadium. Tickets for Tuesday night's All-Star game are priced at $100-$360, down from $150-$725......
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7:46 PM Sun, Jul 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Special to The Journal Michael Lovato, USA, and Michellie Jones, AUS, captured victories at the 2009 Amica Ironman 70.3 Rhode Island Triathlon, presented by Ford. Lovato, a two-time Ironman champion, claimed the title with an overall time of 3:54:39. Last......
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4:54 PM Sun, Jul 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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Triple-A All-Star Clay Buchholz will be called up to the Red Sox and will start Friday night's game in Toronto, Sox manager Terry Francona said today. We'll have more on this story soon.......
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4:34 PM Sun, Jul 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Anna Grzebien shot a 2-over 73 for the day in the fourth and final round of the U.S. Women's Open in Bethlehem, Pa., finishing with a very solid 8-over par for the tournament. At the time of this posting, she......
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4:14 PM Sun, Jul 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike Szostak Email
NEWPORT -- Unseeded Rajeev Ram, ranked No. 181 on the ATP World Tour, upset third-seeded Sam Querrey, 6-7 (3), 7-5, 6-3 ,in the singles final of the Campbell's Hall of Fame Tennis Championships Sunday at the Newport Casino. Querrey......
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