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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 2006
STANDINGS, MORE
CURTAIN CALL
American League
EAST
W L PCT GB HOME ROAD RS RA STRK LlO
Boston 45 28 .616 - 24-10 21-18 405 356 Won 9 9-1
NY Yankees 43 31 .581 2.5 23-15 20-16 417 345 Won 1 6-4
Toronto 41 34 .547 5 24-16 17-18 403 369 Lost 1 5-5
Baltimore 35 42 .455 12 22-20 13-22 374 423 Lostl 5-5
Tampa Bay 33 44 .429 14 18-17 15-27 331 406 Lost 2 6-4
CENTRAL
W L PCT GB HOME ROAD RS RA STRK LlO
Detroit 52 25 .675 - 24-14 28-11 404 289 Won 4 9-1
Chicago Sox 49 26 .653 2 29-11 20-15 438 341 Lostl 9-1
Minnesota 40 35 .533 11 25-10 15-25 360 350 Won 5 9-1
Cleveland 34 41 .453 17 20-19 14-22 407 382 Won 1 3-7
Kansas City 24 50 .324 26.5 15-20 9-30 313 452 Won 2 7-3
WEST
W L PCT GB HOME ROAD RS RA STRK LlO
Oakland 41 34 .547 - 21-15 20-19 342 330 Won 1 7-3
Texas 40 36 .526 1.5 20-21 20-15 464 381 Lost 2 5-5
Seattle 38 39 .494 4 22-17 16-22 379 361 Won 2 7-3
LA Angels 35 41 .461 6.5 17-20 18-21 344 370 Won 1 5-5
National League
EAST
W L PCT GB HOME ROAD RS RA STRK LlO
NYMets 47 28 .627 - 22-15 25-13 401 319 Won 1 5-5
Philadelphia 35 40 .467 12 18-23 17-17 365 392 Lost 5 2-8
Florida 33 40 .452 13 16-17 17-23 338 335 Won 2 7-3
Washington 33 44 .429 15 15-19 18-25 346 386 Won 1 3-7
Atlanta 32 45 .416 16 14-20 18-25 365 396 Lost 1 2-8
CENTRAL
W L PCT GB HOME ROAD RS RA STRK LlO
St. Louis 42 33 .560 - 24-14 18-19 376 356 Lost 7 3-7
Cincinnati 41 35 .539 1.5 17-19 24-16 373 377 Won 1 4-6
Milwaukee 38 39 .494 5 25-17 13-22 358 409 Won 1 6-4
Houston • 38 39 .494 5 25-18 13-21 360 389 Lostl 3-7
Chicago Cubs 28 47 .373 14 12-21 16-26 290 384 Lost 4 2-8
Pittsburgh 26 51 .338 17 18-20 8-31 346 403 Lost 11 0-10
WEST
W L PCT GB HOME ROAD RS RA STRK LlO
LA Dodgers 40 36 .526 - 23-16 17-20 409 352 Lostl 4-6
San Diego 39 36 .520 .5 19-21 20-15 327 318 Lost 2 5-5
Colorado 38 38 .500 2 20-18 18-20 348 349 Lostl 4-6
San Francisco 37 38 .493 2.5 20-20 17-18 351 '346 Lostl 4-6
Arizona 37 39 .487 3 19-20 18-19 370 378 Won 1 2-8
Monday's Major League Linescores
By The Associated Press
Philadelphia 000 000 501 001-7 13 1
Boston 000 006 000 002-8 14 0
lidle, Geary (6), Fultz (6), RFranklin (7), Cormier (9).
Gordon (10), Condrey (12) and Coste Wakefield, Seanez
(7), Lopez (7). Timlin (7), Papelbon (8). Tavarez (10),
Delcarmen (11). Hansen (12) and Mirabelli, Varitek (10).
W-Hansen 1-0. L-Condrey 1-2. HR-Philadelphia. Utley
(14).
Tampa Bay 201 000 020-5 12 1
Florida 200 050 10x-8 13 0
Shields, Harper (6), Switzer (8) and Paul Johnson,
Tankersley (7), Kensing (8). Borowski (9) and Olivo
W-dohnson 7-4 L-Shields 4-1. Sv-Borowski (14) HR-
Tampa Bay. Baideiii (3).
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BRIEFS
Cims win Booz Men Classic
POTOMAC, Md. (AP) - The comple
tion of the Booz Allen Classic - and Ben
Curtis' long-awaited first victory since
the 2003 British Open - was postponed
for yet another day, setting up the PGA
Tour’s first Tuesday finish in 26 years
and making for a cruel, exasperating end
to a tournament that seemed doomed
from the start.
Curtis was on the 17th green with
a seven-stroke lead when play was
stopped for the day by the latest of
several menacing thunderstorms. If it
weren’t for Curtis’ stellar play - he's at 22
under and on pace to set a tournament
record - the only thing anyone would
remember about the tournament is that
it took six days to complete.
Not since the 1980 Tucson Open has
the tour finished on a Tuesday.
Ttanas grt* ultimatum
NEW YORK (AP) - Isiah Thomas has
one year to turn around the Knicks -
something Larry Brown couldn't do. And
if Thomas doesn't, he’ll be gone, too.
The remarks by Madison Square Garden
chairman James Dolan were his first
since firing Brown as coach Thursday
and replacing him with Thomas, the
team president and general manager.
New York (AL) 230 000 00x-5 9 1
THudson. Barry (6) and Pratt RaJohnson, Proctor (8).
MRivera (9) and Posada. W-RaJohnson 9-6. L-THudson
6-7. Sv-MRivera (17). HRs-Atlanta. CJones (8) New
York. Giambi 2 (22).
Houston 100 011 100-4 11 0
Detroit 005 100 13x-10 14 0
WRodriguez, Borkowski (7), Springer (8) and Munson
Miner. Colon (6). JWalker (6), Rodney (7), Grilli (9) and
IRodriguez W-Miner 4-1. L-WRodriguez 8-5 HRs-
Houston, Munson (4). Detroit. IRodriguez (7).
Los Angeles (NL) 011 000 000-2 6 0
Minnesota 130 002 02x-8 12 0
Billingsley, Kuo (6). DBaez (8) and Martin CSilva, Crain
(9) and Mauer. WdiSilva 4-8. L—Billingsley 0-1.
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Dolan acknowledged that the team
“made a mistake' hiring Brown. Thomas
assembled the roster that went 23-59
to tie the franchise record for losses in
a season.
Scot! doses in on extension
EDMOND, Okla. (AP) - Coach Byron
Scott was close to signing a contract
extension with the New Orleans Hornets
that could keep him with the team for
three more seasons. The new deal would
guarantee the two remaining option years
on Scott's four-year contract and add an
option for 2008-09, Scott said.
Umpire throws tantrum
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Once the
umpire called Roger Clemens' kid safe,
a minor league manager threw a major
league tantrum that would have made
Lou Piniella, Earl Weaver and Tommy
Lasorda proud.
It also cost Asheville Tourists manager
Joe Mikulik a seven-day suspension and
SI,OOO fine.
Mikulik, who used to write. “Never
Surrender' on his wristbands when he
played in the minors, put on a throwing,
kicking and screaming show Sunday that
was still the talk of baseball a day later.
The South Atlantic League also spent
a lot of time talking about his antics and
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Upset with umpire Andy Russell’s call
in the fifth inning of Asheville’s 5-2 loss,
Mikulik rushed onto the field. The man
ager of the Colorado Rockies' Class
A affiliate made a headfirst dive into
second base and later pulled up the bag
- taking a few tugs to get it done - before
throwing it into right field. He also threw a
resin bag, several bats and blocked the
umpires' locker room.
Armstrong denies threat
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Lance
Armstrong denied that he threatened
three-time Tour de France champion
Greg LeMond, calling the allegation
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SPORTS
Monday’s Sports
Transactions
By The Associated
Press
■ BOSTON RED SOX-Released
LHP Mike Holtz.
■ NEW* YORK YANKEES-Sent
RHP Aaron Small outright to
Columbus of the IL.
■ SEATTLE MARINERS-Signed
"■ ,O Chris Tillman.
■ CINCINNATI REDS-Optioned
RHP Mike Burns to Louisville
of the IL.
■ NEW YORK METS-Signed
INF Ritchie Price, C Jason
Jacobs, RHP Timothy Stronach,
RHP Richard Sparks, C Bradley
Roper-Hubbert, INF James
Newman, RHP Edgar Ramirez
and RHP Joshua Stinson.
■ WASHINGTON NATIONALS-
Agreed to terms with OF Chris
Marrero.
■ MONTREAL CANADIENS-
Signed G Cristobal Huet to a
two-year contract.
■ PHILADELPHIA FLYERS-
Signed RW Brad Tapper.
■ PHOENIX COYOTES-Traded
D Paul Mara and a 2007 or
2008 third-round draft pick to
Boston for D Nick Boynton and
a 2007 fourth-round draft pick.
■ SAN JOSE SHARKS-
Extended qualifying offers to
D Rob Davison, 0 Christian
Ehrhoff, D Jim Fahey, C Marcel
Goc, D Doug Murray, RW
Scott Parker, C Tomas Plihal,
RW Patrick Rissmiller, C Mark
Smith, D Garrett Stafford, F
Grant Stevenson and C Craig
Valette.
St. Louis 001 100 100- 3 12 0
ClLee, Carmona (7). FCabrera (9) and VMartinez
Marquis. Hancock (7), TJohnson (7). Thompson (8) and
YMolina. W-ClLee 7-5. 1.-Marquis 9-6. HRs-Cleveland,
Sizemore (15), Hatner 2 (21). Hollandsworlh (3).
Colorado 200 001 001-4 5 0
Los Angeles (AL) 000 000 05x-5 8 1
JJennings. Mesa (8), TMartin (8), RRamirez (8) and
Torrealba Lackey, Frßodriguez (9) and Napoli. W-Lackey
5-5. L-Mesa 0-2. Sv-Frßodriguez (19). HRs-Colorado,
Helton (8). Piedra (2)
Milwaukee 200 000 301-6 8 1
Chicago 000 000 000-0 7 0
Capuano, Tumbow (9) and DMiller Maddux, Aardsma
(8), Ohman (9) and HBlanco W- Capuano 9-4. L-
Maddux 7-8. HRs-Milwaukee, CaLee (24), Fielder 2
(16), Gross (7).
He said it...
’’Right now I look for
ward to it because it is
a restrictor-plate track
and that seems to be
the one part of our pro
gram right now where
we aren’t struggling.
We’re not dominating
but we are capable of
being decent and know
that we have all of the
parts and pieces we
need to perform well
there for the most*
part.”
- Dale Jarrett, on
Daytona
“The important thing is
that the goal came and
we’re in the quarterfi
nals."
- Italian forward
Alberto Gilardino on
the team’s 1-0 win
over Australia
"ridiculous.”
LeMond told the French weekly edi
tion of L'Equipe Dimanche that he had
testified in a recent legal dispute involv
ing Armstrong. LeMond told the news
paper that Armstrong “threatened my
wife, my business, my life,” and that he
would “find 10 people to testify that I
took EPO.”
America’s top cyclists have had a
public feud since 2001 when LeMond
said he was unhappy about Armstrong’s
association with Italian doctor Michele
Ferran, who had been linked to doping
accusations but later was cleared by an
appeals court.
Equal pay, cold beep and
a roof over Centre Court
By TIM DAHLBERG
AP Sports Columnist
For those of us who live
on the other side of the
pond, the Brits have always
seemed a quirky sort.
They break for afternoon
tea, drink warm beer, and
endure endless queues and
bad plumbing without com
plaint.
They cling stubbornly to
their own money, and share
a strange fascination for the
sun when it shines.
And, more often than not,
they love their sports figures
better when they fail than
when they succeed. Tim
Henman has never made it
past the Wimbledon semi
finals, but he’ll always be
known in England as “Our
Tim.”
So how surprising is it
that, in an age of equal
ity and political correctness,
they continue to pay women
less money to play tennis
than men?
About as surprising as the
rain that fell Monday, dis
rupting the first round of
play at the All England Club
for yet another year.
You see, the people who
run the most famous tourna
ment in tennis tend to be a
stuffy sort.
They make players wear
white, continue to play ten
nis on green grass, and until
only recently required every
one to make a cute little
curtsy whenever the royals
were in town.
Pay women the same as
men? Jolly well, mate. Next
they’ll want cold beer and a
roof over Centre Court.
Actually, they are putting
a roof over Centre Court,
though it won’t be ready for
another three years. And,
for the first time, on-court
officials and ball kids are
wearing blue uniforms.
Even at stodgy old
Wimbledon, the times are
changing.
Some traditions die harder
. than others.
So, once again this year,
Maria Sharapova will be
playing for less than Roger
Federer, and Venus Williams
won’t have a chance to make
as much as Andre Agassi.
The other major tennis
championships - the U.S.,
French and Australian
Opens - all pay their champi
ons the same. But their win
ners are men and women.
At Wimbledon, the titles are
won by ladies and gentle
men.
Some of those ladies don’t
exactly act ladylike when
it comes to wanting prize
check equality.
“For us, it’s not about
earning more money or
becoming any more well-off;
it’s really about an equal
ity issue,” Williams said. “At
this point it’s become really
that we represent women
around the world. We’re the
premier sport for women.
We would like to empower
women around the world by
showing that we are willing
to fight for equality.”
This isn’t exactly a fight
for equality, though. More
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Fellow Perry club member
Chuck Poole could sympa
thize, if only slightly.
He, too, was involved in a
pitch-off in the D Class. He
ended up finishing second
with a 4-2 record. He had 67
ringers out of 240 possible
and a 27.92 ringer percent
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like a chat about it.
The draw sheets still show
Williams and the other top
players in the world sched
uled to play Wimbledon.
There’s no talk of a boycott,
no chance of anyone not
playing because they believe
so much about the social
issue of equal pay.
When you look at the
money involved, you under
stand why. The men’s cham
pion wifi earn some $1.2
million this year, and the
women’s winner will pocket
$1.15 million.
You have to be awfully
committed to the notion of
equality to pass up a chance
at that.
Why the All England Club
can’t throw an extra 50
grand into the ladies’ pot is
a mystery known only to the
gentlemen in blazers who
run it.
Sell a few more strawber
ries and cream and the thing
will pay for itself.
The mere suggestion
of equal pay is met with
such astonishment that
you would think someone
wanted to begin driving on
the right side of the road.
The blazers the other day
defended themselves by trot
ting out statistics showing
last year’s women quarterfi
nalists earned $2,635 a game
to $1,827 for the men.
That’s because, they said,
the men work harder for
their wins. They play best
of-five-set matches to best
of-three for the women.
The blazers also noted that
Wimbledon pays women 87
percent as much money as
men, while the top women’s
regular tour events pay just
63 percent as much as the
top men’s tournaments.
The lope of the English
can sometimes be as baffling
as their love of bad food. But
they have a point.
In an entirely politically
correct world, women would
be earning the same as men
in all sports. Sharapova
would make as much as
Federer, the WNBA would
be paying Sheryl Swoopes
sl4 million, and women soc
cer players would be super
stars instead of being unem
ployed.
None of that is happening
because women’s sports is
still, well, women’s sports.
They’re worth less because
men in general don’.t watch
them and they have yet
to gain a big footing even
among their own gender.
That’s why the women’s
pro soccer league failed, and
the WNBA is kept alive only
by the grace of NBA own
ers.
Women’s golf exists only
as a niche sport, and even
the Williams sisters and the
telegenic Sharapova haven’t
been enough to make wom
en’s tennis must-see TV
The concept of equality in
sports is an admirable one.
Unfortunately, a very dif
ferent reality exists in the
marketplace.
It will take a lot longer than
a fortnight at Wimbledon to
change that.
age.
And then there was Buddy
Ayer.
He would have loved to
have had a pitch-off but
Jimmy Spencer’s 4-0 record
didn’t make that an option.
Ayer ended up finishing
third behind Lee Howington
at 3-1.
Ayer came in at 2-2. He
made 41 ringers out of 200
horseshoes thrown for a
20.50 percentage.
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