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August 9, 2009 - August 15, 2009 Archives
10:44 PM Sat, Aug 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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The New York Jets have cut Paul Raymond, the wide receiver from Brown who spent much of last season on the practice squads of multiple NFL teams, has been cut by the New York Jets. The Jets also cut undrafted......
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8:25 PM Sat, Aug 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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AP photo / Jessica Hill Lincoln's Jeffery Sheehan pitches against Peabody Western in Saturday's regional final. By JOHN HILL Journal Staff Writer The Lincoln Little League season ended in Bristol, Conn., Saturday afternoon, in a game that was hard......
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7:03 PM Fri, Aug 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
The Lincoln Little Leaguers are one game away from advancing to represent New England in the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa. Lincoln routed Brattleboro, of Vermont, 14-3 in the regional semifinal Friday night. Tyler Duquette pitched a six-inning......
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6:07 PM Fri, Aug 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
BALTIMORE (AP) - Baltimore police say they'll cite Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps for driving without a license and failure to establish residency in Maryland. Phelps was in a car accident Thursday night, but police say it wasn't his fault.......
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5:05 PM Fri, Aug 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Brendan Lemp played 1-under-par golf for the 14 holes he needed to beat Jamison Randall, 5 and 4, in the title match of the 88th R.I. Golf Association Junior Championship Friday at Metacomet. Lemp, who attends Northwest Catholic High in......
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2:44 PM Fri, Aug 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike Szostak Email
The Stanley Cup will make a whirlwind tour of Rhode Island on Sunday, courtesy of Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Mark Eaton, a summer resident of Smithfield. Eaton will appear with the NHL's championship trophy from approximately 10:30 a.m. to noon at......
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12:21 PM Fri, Aug 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
The New York Post gives strong play Friday to an interview with Karen Sypher, the woman who had a sexual encounter with former Providence College Basketball Coach Rick Pitino at a Louisville bar after a chance meeting in August......
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9:09 AM Fri, Aug 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike Szostak Email
Hall of Famers Jim Courier and Mats Wilander and six other former champions will return to Newport Aug. 20-23 for the Hall of Fame Champions Cup at the Newport Casino. The former touring pros will share a purse of......
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7:21 PM Thu, Aug 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Jamison Randall has moved within one match of bringing the Button Hole Short Course and Teaching Center its third state champion. Randall, who lives in Cumberland but learned how to play golf at Button Hole, the short course on the......
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5:48 PM Thu, Aug 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
CLEVELAND (AP) - If he had to leave one Eastern Conference powerhouse, Leon Powe is happy to join another. Powe signed a two-year deal with the Cleveland Cavaliers this week even though he isn't expected back on the court until......
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12:04 AM Thu, Aug 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
NEW YORK (AP) -- With the New York Mets fading from contention, the team has cut ticket prices up to 50 percent for some seats for 13 of 26 remaining home games. Metropolitan Box seats originally priced at $180 can......
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9:01 PM Wed, Aug 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Jeremy Tyler completed his jump from high school underclassman to pro basketball player on Wednesday when he signed a one-year, $140,000 contract with Maccabi Haifa of the Israeli Premier League. Tyler, 18, is the first American-born......
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6:48 PM Wed, Aug 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
The Lincoln Little Leaguers have earned the second seed in the Final Four of the New England Little League Championship and will play third-seed Vermont on Friday at 5 p.m. in Bristol, Conn. Lincoln beat Vermont, 9-1, on Monday in......
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5:56 PM Wed, Aug 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Miguel Sabah scored in the 82nd minute, lifting Mexico to a 2-1 victory over the United States in a World Cup qualifier Wednesday. The win strengthened Mexico's chances of reaching next year's World Cup in South......
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3:06 PM Wed, Aug 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
The Lincoln Little Leaguers have earned a berth in the Final Four of the New England Little League Championship. Lincoln won for the third time in four starts in the tournament Wednesday when it rallied past Portsmouth, N.H., the......
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2:26 PM Wed, Aug 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
Jamison Randall, the medalist, and defending champion John McCarthy led a march of favorites Wednesday into the quarterfinals of the 88th R.I. Golf Association Junior Championship at Metacomet. McCarthy and Randall both won easily to set up a quarterfinal......
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10:16 AM Wed, Aug 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Classy forward Leon Powe is expected to sign a two-year, $1.77-million contract with the Cleveland Cavaliers, according to a report today by ESPN.com's Chris Sheridan. Powe, who tore the anteroir cruciate ligament in his left knee during Game Two of......
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10:05 PM Tue, Aug 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Louisville men's basketball coach Rick Pitino told police he had sex and paid for an abortion for the woman accused of trying to extort him for $10 million, a newspaper reported Tuesday. The Courier-Journal of Louisville......
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4:45 PM Tue, Aug 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) -- Little League Baseball is expanding the use of instant replay at this year's World Series. Instant replay was used at the World Series last year to review questionable home runs and other close plays at......
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4:11 PM Tue, Aug 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
The Stanley Cup will be at the Wide World of Indoor Sports in North Smithfield on Sunday, Aug. 16, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The Cup visit will be hosted by Mark Eaton of the Pittsburgh Penguins and will......
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2:39 PM Tue, Aug 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
Cumberland's Jamison Randall birdied each of the last two holes to shoot an even-par 70 and lead qualifying in the 88th R.I. Golf Association Junior Championship Tuesday at West Warwick. Randall had five birdies on the day. Jared Adams,......
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2:13 PM Tue, Aug 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
The Atlantic 10 Conference will soon move its headquarters from Philadelphia to Newport News, Va., the Associated Press reported Tuesday. Here is the AP report: RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- A person familiar with the decision says the Atlantic 10......
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12:19 PM Tue, Aug 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
The Lincoln Little League team will complete pool play in the New England Championship Wednesday when it takes on Portsmouth, N.H., at 1 p.m. Giametti Training Center in Bristol, Ct. The game will be telecast on NESN. The Rhode......
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11:32 AM Tue, Aug 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike Szostak Email
Brown, the defending Ivy League co-champion with Harvard, is picked to finished third in the 2009 Ivy League football standings. A panel of 17 media gave the Bears three first-place votes and 106 points. Harvard finished first in the......
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9:54 AM Tue, Aug 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
The Pawtucket Red Sox Thursday will get a look at a potentially important player in the American League title race. Jake Peavy, the former National League Cy Young Award winner, has been scheduled to make his first appearance for......
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9:47 PM Mon, Aug 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
The Rhode Island champion Cranston Babe Ruth team for 15-year-olds came from behind and defeated Westfield, Mass., 13-7, on Sunday to win the New England regional championship. Cranston rallied from a 7-2 deficit, scoring seven runs in the bottom of......
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9:44 PM Mon, Aug 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
WEST DEPTFORD, N.J. - Dominick Kulbaba fired a two-hitter to lead Suffern, N.Y., past Barrington, 4-1, in a winners'-bracket game Monday morning at the Senior Little League Eastern Regional at West Deptford, N.J. Kulbaba took a no-hitter into the fifth......
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8:59 PM Mon, Aug 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) -- Aaron Boone is back playing baseball, appearing in a minor league game in Texas less than five months after open-heart surgery. Boone batted second Monday night for the Corpus Christi Hooks, a Double-A affiliate of......
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7:25 PM Mon, Aug 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
DAVIE, Fla. (AP) -- Fullback Matt Quillen became the third player to quit the Miami Dolphins' training camp, and coach Tony Sparano conceded he could be the reason for the defections. "It might be me," Sparano said with a chuckle......
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7:23 PM Mon, Aug 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Blue Jays outfielder Alex Rios has been claimed off waivers by the Chicago White Sox, sending him to a contending team and giving Toronto financial flexibility. Blue Jays general manager J.P. Ricciardi announced the move Monday......
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7:18 PM Mon, Aug 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) -- All summer, Glen "Big Baby" Davis waited for a new deal from the Celtics. When training camp grew near and he was still unsigned, he figured it might never come. "There was a point I thought......
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10:42 AM Mon, Aug 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike Szostak Email
A 47-year-old Coventry man has become the first Rhode Islander to swim across the English Channel. Ray Gandy covered the 21 miles from Dover, England, to Cap Griz Nez, France, in 13 hours and 47 minutes. He went into......
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4:41 PM Sun, Aug 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
Chicago Tribune Chicago Blackhawks star winger Patrick Kane was arrested early Sunday morning in his hometown of Buffalo, N.Y., and faces robbery and other charges after allegedly assaulting a cab driver and failing to pay the fare, according to police.......
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