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► WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 2005
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Boeheim, Syracuse reach deal
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) -
Syracuse basketball coach Jim
Boeheim agreed to a four-year
contract extension,
Boeheim, who has been head
coach since 1976, had two years
remaining on his current con
tract.
Boeheim finished his 29th sea
son as head coach with a 703-
241 record. The Orange finished
27-7 in 2004-05 and made their
24th NCAA tournament appear
ance under Boeheim, losing in
overtime to Vermont in a first
round upset.
Henderson to play for Dawgs
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Rickey
Henderson will play in the new
independent Golden Baseball
League this season, agreeing to
join the San Diego Surf Dawgs.
The 46-year-old Henderson
started the last two years with the
Newark Bears of the independent
Atlantic League. He finished 2003
with the Los Angeles Dodgers,
playing in 30 games.
Henderson is baseball's career
leader in runs and stolen bases.
U.S. loses but clinches spot
INNSBRUCK, Austria (AP)
- Zach Parise was stopped on
a penalty shot with 1:25 left, but
the United States clinched a spot
in the quarterfinals of the world
hockey championships by tying
last-place Ukraine 1 -1.
The Americans trailed 1-0 until
defenseman Brett Hauer scored
a power-play goal 2:45 into the
third period. They couldn't grab
the lead despite holding a 39-9
shots advantage.
In the other Group F game,
Finland tied Latvia 0-0.
In Group E, Russia beat
Kazakhstan 3-1 to remain the
only unbeaten team in the tourna
ment, and Switzerland defeated
Belarus 2-0.
Federer wins, Roddick loses
HAMBURG, Germany (AP)
- Top-ranked Roger Federer won
his first match after a three-week
injury layoff while Andy Roddick
lost in the opening round of the
Hamburg Masters and Rafael
Nadal withdrew because of a cut
hand.
Federer, recovering from an
inflammation to both feet, defeat
ed Fernando Verdasco 6-4, 6-3.
Roddick, seeded second, was
beaten by Chile's Nicolas Massu
7-6 (4), 4-6, 7-5. Nadal was joined
on the injury list by seventh-seed
ed Carlos Moya, who pulled out
because of an ailing right shoul
der.
Also winning in the first round
were Gustavo Kuerten, the 2000
Hamburg winner and three-time
French Open champion, and fifth
seeded Tim Henman.
Camerln upsets Dechy
ROME (AP) - Maria Elena
Camerin of Italy upset 10th-seed
ed Nathalie Dechy of France 4-6,
6-1, 6-4 at the Italian Open.
Also, ninth-seeded Elena
Bovina beat Mashona Washington
of the United States 6-2, 6-2; and
Francesca Schiavone of Italy elim
inated Meghann Shaughnessy of
the United States 7-5, 6-0.
Kostanic defeats Osterloh
PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP)
- Third-seeded Jelena Kostanic
of Croatia defeated Lilia Osterloh
of the United States 6-3, 7-6 (6)
to advance to the second round
of the Prague Open.
Fifth-seeded Iveta Benesova
of the Czech Republic also won,
beating Andrea Hlavackova
5-7, 6-3, 6-4, but sixth-seeded
Tamarine Tanasugarn of Thailand
was upset by Henrieta Nagyova
of Slovakia 6-2, 6-4.
Also, Cho Yoon-jeong of South
Korea beat Eleni Daniilidou of
Greece 6-2, 6-4.
Mazarakis upset top seed
NEW YORK (AP) - Vasilis
Mazarakis, who has never won a
tournament since turning profes
sional in 2003, upset top-seed
ed Justin Gimelstob, a two-time
member of the U.S. Davis Cup
team, in the opening round of
the USTA Forest Hills Clay Court
Classic.
In another first-round match,
James Blake, who also played
Davis Cup from 2001-03, routed
Hars Uebel of Germany 6-1, 6-2.
McEwen captures second stage
SANTA MARIA DEL CEDRO,
Italy (AP) - Australia's Robbie
McEwen won a close sprint to
capture the second stage of the
Giro d’ltalia and take the overall
leader’s pink jersey from Olympic
champion Paolo Bettini.
McEwen completed the 113-
mile stage from Catanzaro Lido to
Santa Maria del Cedro in south
ern Italy in 4 hours, 34 minutes,
47 seconds.
Bused wins pit crew competition
MOORESVILLE, N.C. (AP)
- Kurt Busch's team won the
National Pit Crew Championship,
defeating Jeremy Mayfield's crew
in the final round with a mistake
free stop.
Colorado relievers help Rockies hold on against Braves
By EDDIE PELLS
AP Sports Writer
DENVER - The ballpark. The bull
pen. The Braves.
Nothing about the
way Monday night’s
game at Coors Field
Rockies 7, was shaping up made
Braves 6 it feel like the Colorado
Rockies could hold
onto the 7-6 lead they grabbed in the
fourth inning.
Starter Jamey Wright and three
Colorado relievers wrote an unusual
- and successful - ending to this
story, though. They shut out Atlanta
for the final five innings to make that
precarious 7-6 lead stand up and help
the Rockies win consecutive games
MONCRIEF
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my hands (they're hard to
see but trust me, they're
there - although, once they
were coursing with molten
steel and are now turned
to varicose. I went from the
“sailor man” to Squidward
of “Spongebob Squarepants”
fame.)
And there’s also that thing
going on with my hat. I now
know why folding under
wear in basic military train
ing came so easy.
And speaking of which,
how did those kids get “birth
control” glasses (the com
mon military term) .without
enlisting?
And, what about these
other kids - along with the
aforementioned? That’s
what I want to know.
That’s why I’m writing.
Not to draw attention to
myself, but I found this
photo - and some others
but they didn’t hold quite as
much mystery - while going
through some of my late
father’s stuff, and I want to
remember who these kids
are, but I can’t. (I can’t even
remember what the “S”
stands for on our uniforms).
Are they doctors? Did
they grow up to be lawyers
or Indian chiefs with the
Village people?
Who’s the “Leave It to
Beaver” kid, front row, first
in line? He looks like local
soccer guru Billy Walters,
but that’s a guess.
Hot streak has Atlanta
back leading division
By CHARLES ODUM
AP Sports Writer
ATLANTA - The Atlanta
Braves began a long road trip
Monday with the best record
in the National League
despite spending most of the
first five weeks of the season
floundering at the plate.
In an impressive four-game
sweep of the Houston Astros,
the Braves finally put togeth
er the complete team effort
- including the hitting - that
manager Bobby Cox hopes
will provide momentum on
the team’s longest road trip
of the season.
“A sweep is hard to do in a
four-game series,” Cox said.
Even so, the Braves made
it look easy.
The Braves averaged
almost 10 runs per game
while their starters allowed a
total of only three runs in the
sweep that was capped by a
16-0 rout Sunday. Outscoring
the Astros 38-8 in the four
games, the Braves looked like
a team prepared to withstand
challenges in the NL East
from Florida, Washington
and the New York Mets.
“We’re playing better base
ball,” said first baseman
Julio Franco. “The team is
really coming along. The
pieces of the puzzle are com
ing together. So it’s going to
be fun.”
The depth of the Braves’
rotation was emphasized in
the four games.
Horacio Ramirez, the
No. 5 starter who had not
pitched in 11 days, threw
seven shutout innings in
a 4-1 win Saturday. Mike
Hampton, no better than No.
3 behind John Smoltz and
Tim Hudson, hurled a two
for only the third time this year.
“I can’t remember getting too
many wins when I’ve come out of
the game with a one-run lead in the
sixth,” Wright said. “That usually
doesn’t happen.”
It did this time, thanks to the two
hit ball thrown by Jose Acevedo,
Brian Fuentes and Chin-Hui Tsao
over the final 3 2-3 innings. Tsao
needed just nine pitches - seven
strikes - to work a perfect ninth and
get his third save in as many tries.
The two setup men didn’t get in
much trouble, either, and Colorado,
which improved to 8-21 this sea
son, remained with only seven blown
saves.
“I’m sure there were doubters in
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Who’s the kid on my left?
Is he a rock star today? He
has the hair thing going on.
And check out the fact he
has no glove, but he has
a ring on his finger and
a sweatband. Is he Mark
Knopler of Dire Straits? “I
want my. I want my. I want
my Little League.” (As in
... “I want my. I want my. I
want my MTV ...”)
Who’s the kid back row,
third from left (counting the
hit shutout Sunday, facing
only one batter above the
minimum 27.
Houston manager Phil
Garner kept hoping for a
break but kept finding anoth
er dominant starter on the
mound for Atlanta.
“It’s hard to tell wheth
er it’s their pitching or us,”
Garner said.
With his strong starting
pitching, Cox can afford to
be patient with his bats.
The Braves rank second
in baseball with a 3.01 ERA.
Hampton, Hudson and John
Thomson all rank among the
top 10 in the league with
ERAs below 3.00.
Even after collecting 17
hits in the 16-0 win Sunday,
the Braves still rank only
ninth in the NL with a .259
batting average and only
fifth in runs scored.
Five starters - outfield
ers Raul Mondesi and Brian
Jordan, first baseman Adam
Laßoche, catcher Johnny
Estrada and shortstop Rafael
Furcal - began the road trip
hitting .250 or worse.
Mondesi, at .202, appeared
to be in potential danger of
losing playing time to rookie
Ryan Langerhans, who hit
two homers and drove in six
runs Sunday. Then again,
Langerhans was hitting only
.182 before his big day.
“Career .280 and .300 hit
ters eventually are going to
hit .280, .300,” said Chipper
Jones, the team’s most con
sistent hitter.
The averages began to
climb as the Braves feasted
on Astros pitching.
“When you score 38 runs
in four games, that’s pretty
good,” Jones said.
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second)?
The best I can pinpoint is
this was taken around 1970.
Is that why that particular
kid is shooting a peace sign?
And who’s next to him?
Darryl Strawberry? Michael
Jordan? (Note he already
has his own line of batting
gloves.)
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ny kid, second row, fourth
from left, still have a mil
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the stands that didn’t think we would
hold a lead,” Fuentes said.
In the dugout, too.
“I don’t think there was any
body in the ballpark that thought it
would finish 7-6 after the fourth,”
Rockies manager Clint Hurdle said.
“I didn’t.”
Todd Helton hit two run-scoring
doubles to continue his climb out of
an early season slump. He is 13-for
-38 with seven RBIs over the last 10
games. Brad Hawpe had a two-run
single in the fourth off Tim Hudson
(3-2) to give Colorado its 7-6 lead.
By that time, the game was nearly
2 hours old and most everyone was
hunkering down for a long evening.
But Wright (2-2) pitched a scoreless
lion freckles (see: “trust me,
they're there”)?
Is that Robert Downey Jr.
on his left?
Finally, what about the
coach on the left? I believe
I’ve seen him on the sidelines
during a bunch of Northside
games, but was I coached by
the Amish?
Questions. Questions.
Questions. And not an
answer in sight. That’s why
I’m turning to you, dear
THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
fifth and got the first out of the sixth.
Then, the bullpen took over. Asked if
it was the relievers’ best performance
of the season, Hurdle replied simply,
“You can look it up. Yes.”
Atlanta’s bullpen also was strong.
John Foster, Adam Bernero and
Jorge Sosa allowed just two hits and
no runs over 4 1-3 innings.
“It’s really odd,” Braves manager
Bobby Cox said. “We got shut out for
five innings. That doesn’t happen
often here.”
By stopping Atlanta’s five-game
winning streak, the worst team in
the major leagues strung together
wins for only the third time this
season - these two coming after a 10-
game losing streak.
reader.
I’m hoping you recognize
a few - or maybe you’re one
of them - and will tell me
who they are and where they
are today.
Or, maybe you have an
old photo of yourself tucked
away with just as many
secrets locked into it. If so,
pull it out and submit it.
Maybe we can all help out
each other, and you might
even find you were cute too.