Kenny Florian defeats Diego Nunes for his 14th career victory
Sorry, I could not read the content fromt this page.Sunday, June 12, 2011
Reds beat up Lincecum, ride Leake gem in rout
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Leake leads Reds pitchers with seven hits. ... Lincecum allowed seven runs, but only three earned runs, on May 16 against Colorado and seven earned runs to Toronto on June 13, 2007. ... The Giants signed INF Bill Hall to replace injured 2B Freddy Sanchez. Hall entered the game in the fifth inning and walked in his first plate appearance for San Francisco. ... The Reds are the only NL team that Lincecum has not beaten, excluding the Giants. He is 0-1 in three starts against Cincinnati. Copyright by STATS LLC and The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO -- As good as it felt to shut out the World Series champions for eight innings, getting a pair of hits against two-time Cy Young winner Tim Lincecum really made Mike Leake's day.
Leake held the struggling San Francisco hitters in check and started two rallies with his bat as the Cincinnati Reds gave Lincecum one of his worst beatings ever in a 10-2 victory over the Giants on Saturday. "I take pride in my hitting," Leake said. "I don't like to get out. It's more fun to get hits than it is to pitch good sometimes. ... Anytime I'm squaring balls up, it's pretty fun." Brandon Phillips hit a two-run double and scored twice and Joey Votto knocked the San Francisco ace out with an RBI double in the fifth inning to give the Reds their second win in three games in San Francisco. Lincecum (5-5) matched his career worst by allowing seven runs in four-plus innings, marking the first time since his rookie year in 2007 that he had allowed seven earned runs in a game. "I was just kind of flying all over the place," Lincecum said. "I didn't have any command of the zone at all. To me, that's just kind of going back to the drawing board and getting my mechanics straight." With the Giants struggling to generate any offense of late, that cushion proved to be more than enough for Leake (6-2), who improved to 3-0 with a 1.93 ERA in four starts since a brief stint back in the minors. "Mainly my head is just back on straight a little bit," Leake said. "I think I lost it there for a little." Leake allowed four hits -- including an infield popup by Eli Whiteside that third baseman Scott Rolen lost for a single -- and struck out a career-high eight. Leake had a 21.21 ERA in two previous outings against the Giants, including giving up six runs while retiring one batter in a relief outing in his final appearance of the season last August. Leake also started a pair of rallies at the plate against Lincecum. Leake doubled to lead off the two-run third inning when the Reds scored on a groundout by Jay Bruce and a wild pitch by Lincecum to make it 3-0. Leake then singled to start the four-run fifth. Drew Stubbs followed with a walk and both players scored on Phillips' double to left field. Votto's RBI double ended Lincecum's briefest outing of the season and Rolen added a sacrifice fly to make it 7-0. "That was a rare outing by Lincecum," Reds manager Dusty Baker said. "That's a two-time Cy Young award winner. He's one of the best in the business. He wasn't as sharp today as he usually is." Lincecum allowed seven hits and walked four and struck out a career-low one batter. He struggled with his control all afternoon, throwing 37 balls compared to 36 strikes, and had two wild pitches. He generated only two swings and misses all day -- both to Stubbs, who struck out to open the game. That was the high point of the game for Lincecum who allowed an RBI single to Ryan Hanigan in the second inning, the two runs in the third and four runs in the fifth. Lincecum now has a 7.66 ERA in four starts since throwing 133 pitches in a shutout victory against Oakland last month. "More than anything his fastball command's off," manager Bruce Bochy said. "It was an off day for Timmy, I don't know how else to tell you, especially with his command. That's a good hitting ballclub and you're going to pay for it if you're off. There's not much else to it, really. He feels good, he's healthy. He's just having trouble getting the ball where he wants." The Reds, who went just 2-8 on their last road trip, have matched that total in three games in San Francisco. The pitching has had a big part in that with Johnny Cueto and two relievers combining on a 3-0 shutout Thursday night before Leake's strong start. Pat Burrell broke up the shutout with a two-run homer in the ninth off Carlos Fisher -- his first longball in 96 at-bats. Cincinnati has gone a season-high four games without a home run, winning two of them. Game notesLeake leads Reds pitchers with seven hits. ... Lincecum allowed seven runs, but only three earned runs, on May 16 against Colorado and seven earned runs to Toronto on June 13, 2007. ... The Giants signed INF Bill Hall to replace injured 2B Freddy Sanchez. Hall entered the game in the fifth inning and walked in his first plate appearance for San Francisco. ... The Reds are the only NL team that Lincecum has not beaten, excluding the Giants. He is 0-1 in three starts against Cincinnati. Copyright by STATS LLC and The Associated Press
Carroll: USC losing national title 'unfortunate'
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Pete Carroll, in the wake of the BCS stripping USC of the 2004-05 national championship, still chooses to remember the players and results on the field.
Mark Willard welcomes Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll. He comments on USC's sanctions, passes on Jim Tressel, talks of the potential NFL strike, getting ready for a possible shorten season, A Greater LA and the BREAKAWAY.
More Podcasts »"Just watch the comments of the players," Carroll said in an interview with Mark Willard of 710 ESPN. "They know who won, who didn't. [Matt] Leinart and Lofa Tatupu and those guys, they all know. The whole thing is so unfortunate."
In a decision handed down on Monday, the BCS officially stripped USC of its 2004 championship, the result of major infractions involving then star running back Reggie Bush. The BCS title has been vacated for that season. The AP, which also awards a national championship, previously said USC would retain its 2004 title.
Carroll, who left USC to become the head coach of the Seattle Seahawks on Jan. 11, 2010, expressed frustration over the fact that current Trojans players have been heavily impacted by the NCAA's sanctions.
"[The NCAA has] to do what they do. They figure out how the thing is supposed to work," Carroll said in the interview. "I don't agree with much of any of it. It's unfortunate that kids, years and years after, are punished for what the NCAA is dealing with from years and years before. That's the most unfortunate thing ... kids that were in junior high at the time, or in grade school, are paying the price for it."
For more news and notes on the Trojans, check out ESPNLosAngeles.com's blog. Blog
Has the Seahawks coach been paying attention to the scandal at Ohio State? And are there any similarities to the USC situation?
"I think this is a major challenge for the NCAA," Carroll said. "Because of what they have done in the past here recently. I don't know how they're going to possibly make sense out of all this. It's going to be very challenging."
Carroll was the coach at USC from 2001-09 and was 83-19 in those nine seasons. Fourteen of those victories have been vacated by the NCAA. In his first season as the Seahawks coach, his team went 7-9 and won the NFC West and a wild card game before being knocked out of the playoffs in a divisional round game by the Chicago Bears.
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Sorry, I could not read the content fromt this page.Ryan Villopoto wins AMA High Point National
Steve GibersonRyan Villopoto broke through to earn his first Lucas Oil AMA Pro Motocross Championship victory of the season Saturday.MOUNT MORRIS, Pa. -- Ryan Villopoto raced to his first AMA Motocross victory of the year, winning the first moto and finishing second in the second Saturday at High Point Raceway.
Villopoto, the Monster Energy Kawasaki rider from Poulsbo, Wash., beat Suzuki's Ryan Dungey by more than 8 seconds in the first 450 Class moto. After a rain shower, Australia's Chad Reed, the championship points leader and winner of the previous two rounds, took the second moto.
"It's nice to get my first win in a long time," said Villopoto, who's only previous victory in the class came in his 450 division debut in 2009. "I didn't feel good at Hangtown, but I felt good at Texas -- I just didn't have it. We had a weekend off and the team did a lot of testing.
"Now, I can ride my bike the way I need to ride it. I showed that in the first moto, but obviously the second moto was a little different with the mud. I just tried to get a good start and ride decent. The track got better, but it also got slippery. We had to be cautious the whole moto."
In the 250 Class, Monster Energy/Pro Circuit/Kawasaki's Blake Baggett, from Grand Terrace, Calif., captured his second win in three races, sweeping the motos.
Steve GibersonNot only did the win give Ryan Villopoto his first victory of the summer, he also gained six points on series leader Chad Reed in the standings. Cold Water Classic Canada cancelled for 2011
It seems that after some questions were raised about O'Neill bringing a 6-star Cold Water Classic event to Nova Scotia, to be held Sept. 19-25, the company has announced that there will be no Canadian event, at least not for 2011
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Nick LaVecchiaO'Neill had planned to bring it's Cold Water Classic to Nova ScotiaIn 2009 and 2010, O'Neill had Tofino, British Columbia on its CWC circuit, a successful mini-tour of high-rated, low temp events within the ASP's qualifying schedule. In late May, Nova Scotian surfers spoke out when the Halifax Regional Municipality was ready to give the surf company $145,000 to bring the event to breaks outside Halifax. The most vocal surfers, organized under the Nova Scotia Surfing Association, were not necessarily opposed to the event, but highly concerned that neither the local officials, nor O'Neill had contacted local surfers to address common sense issues about logistics in an area that had never seen an event of this magnitude.
The HRM eventually granted O'Neill the money as a tourism investment, but under the condition that the company would consult the surfers and local residents in the planning stages.
On May 26, Halifax Mayor Peter Kelly told ESPN Surfing, "We were concerned with the lack of communication. Part of our commitment moving forward is to involve the community -- surfers and community at large -- on transportation, traffic, impact and other issues."
While SANS President, Justin Huston was encouraged by the decision and O'Neill's willingness to reach out, the question of waves weighed on everyone's mind. An event of this size takes five days to run, and even three-day swells in the Atlantic are rare.
In a statement released Friday, O'Neill announced that the company "regrets to announce the cancellation of the O'Neill CWC Canada for 2011. Extensive consultation and discussion with key event stakeholders, along with a short period to properly prepare for the event, have led to this decision. During preliminary planning it became clear [that] a shorter than usual planning window jeopardized the success of a 2011 CWC in Nova Scotia."
The event is still on the ASP's Men's star schedule as of Friday, but Canada is no longer on O'Neill's Cold Water Classic site.
According to Huston, he's not sure whether his meetings with Pascal Moisan, Marketing Manager for O'Neill Canada, had anything to do with that decision. "It may have played some role. HRM put some pretty tight constraints about meeting with the community to move forward. O'Neill appreciated the approach we took, generally getting it out there and gauging the local consensus. But you can't take all this into account and put it to work in such a short amount of time," said Huston.
Courtesy ASPAdam Melling won the O'Neill CWC New Zealand and sits in second place with one more event this year.O'Neill's statement went on to say, "The beautiful and unique location would serve as an exciting new chapter to the CWC series. O'Neill intends to review Nova Scotia as a possible CWC location for 2012. O'Neill would like to thank the Halifax Regional Municipality, all local agencies, and the community for their support and input."
Huston and SANS remain neutral on this issue.
"If they intend to explore the options for 2012, SANS is willing to come to the table," he adds.
Unless O'Neill comes up with a new venue, this also means that the Cold Water Classic, offering $50,000 for the overall winner, is down one event in 2011. After the CWC New Zealand and CWC Scotland, Brent Dorrington of Australia, who won the Scotland contest, leads the series with 4,420 points. Aussie Adam Melling is in second with 3,500, followed by Joan Duru of France and Jay Quinn of New Zealand. The overall winner will now be decided at the ASP Prime Cold Water Classic California in Santa Cruz on Oct. 26-30.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Yastrzemski powers Vanderbilt past Oregon St.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Mike Yastrzemski and his Vanderbilt teammates approach two-out at-bats the same way: just extend innings.
On Friday night, the Commodores did just that. Led by Yastrzemski's four RBIs, Vanderbilt scored 10 runs with two outs on their way to an 11-1 victory over Oregon State in the opener of a best-of-three NCAA super regional series. "With two outs all we are trying to do is put the ball in play," Yastrzemski said. "When you see a good pitch to hit, all you got to do is be aggressive. That is what everyone did." Yastrzemski, the grandson of former Boston Red Sox star Carl Yastrzemski, started the scoring in a four-run first inning with a two-out single. He then gave Vanderbilt (51-10) an eight-run cushion in the fourth when he hit a three-run home run over the right-field wall. Jason Esposito added a two-run homer -- also with two outs -- in the sixth inning and knocked in three runs. The Commodores, playing in their third super regional, are one win away from reaching their first College World Series. On the other hand, the postseason road woes continued for Oregon State (41-18). Since winning back-to-back national championships in 2006-07, the Beavers have dropped seven straight NCAA tournament games on the road. They swept their Corvallis regional last weekend to reach their first super regional in four years. "If you told me 11-1 was going to be the final score, I don't know if I would have agreed with that right off the bat," Vanderbilt coach Tim Corbin said. "We were just fortunate we were able to push across some runs early. I think after that it carried some momentum into the middle part of the game. Oregon State's ace Sam Gaviglio (12-3) got into a bind early. The right-hander walked three and allowed three singles in the first inning. Yastrzemski and Esposito each drove in a run and Connor Harrell knocked in a pair with a shot through the right side of the infield. Gaviglio, a fifth-round selection by the St. Louis Cardinals earlier this week, was coming off a 136-pitch, complete-game performance against Creighton last week. He allowed 10 earned runs on 10 hits and walked six. "That doesn't happen to him," Corbin said. "That was an anomaly." In each of the first three innings, Gaviglio retired the first two batters but then allowed the inning to extend with two-out walks. "You can't give a good club extra outs," Oregon State coach Pat Casey said. "We didn't play well. Sam was not sharp. There is no question about that." Vanderbilt ace Sonny Gray (12-3), meanwhile, was sharp. Four days after being drafted 18th overall by the Oakland Athletics, he allowed four hits, walked two and struck out four in 6 2/3 innings. He retired the first seven batters and gave up just one hit through five innings. He worked out of a jam in the fifth, leaving runners stranded on the corners after striking out Brian Stamps. Gray spent most of the night throwing faster than 90 miles per hour. The stadium radar gun clocked him at 100 when Andrew Susac chased a high fastball in the fourth inning. "Our offense putting a four-spot in the first kind of gets you going," Gray said. "Playing behind an offense like this and pitching behind a defense like this makes it a lot easier on the pitcher." Reliever Corey Williams pitched the last 2 1/3 innings, retiring all seven batters he faced. Vanderbilt practically emptied its bench in the eighth inning. Not counting Gray and Williams, the Commodores used 14 different players and had hits from eight different batters. Yastrzemski, Esposito and Tony Kemp each had two hits. Jake Rodriguez accounted for three of Oregon State's four hits and also drove in the lone run, leading to Gray's exit in the seventh inning.
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