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5129. wabbit - 9/7/2006 2:54:00 PM 
Anibal Sanchez was standing behind the mound when the scoreboard caught his eye, confirming what he already knew: He was one out from a no-hitter. He froze. For a couple of seconds, the Florida Marlins' rookie didn't move. Then he collected himself and, in this year of sensational rookies, finished up the greatest performance yet. The 22-year-old Venezuelan brought the longest period without a no-hitter in major league history to a close Wednesday night, benefiting from three defensive gems by teammates to lead the Marlins over the Arizona Diamondbacks 2-0. One of four rookies in the Florida rotation, Sanchez (7-2) walked four and pitched around an error. He struck out six and threw 103 pitches in his 13th career start. It was the first no-hitter in the majors since Arizona's Randy Johnson threw a perfect game to beat Atlanta 2-0 on May 18, 2004.
Stick a fork in the Red Sox, they are done. Jose Contreras turned a tweaked Chicago lineup and a little clubhouse chat into the perfect remedy for the White Sox. Contreras pitched eight strong innings and Jim Thome went 4-for-4 with his 39th homer in a revamped White Sox lineup to carry Chicago to an 8-1 win over the Boston Red Sox Wednesday night. The win was the second in seven games for the defending World Series champion White Sox, who moved to a half game behind the Twins in the AL wild-card chase. The Red Sox remained six back with Minnesota's 4-2 loss to Tampa Bay. Contreras (12-7), who was 0-3 in his previous four starts, held the Red Sox to one run and four hits with nine strikeouts and one walk. He fanned five consecutive batters in the first and second innings.
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5130. wabbit - 9/7/2006 2:55:22 PM Andy Roddick whipped a winner on the run past Lleyton Hewitt, raised his arms and yelled to celebrate, then basked in the standing ovation. Exactly the sort of stuff Jimmy Connors used to do to fire up U.S. Open crowds, right? Roddick, now coached by Connors, capped a busy day at Flushing Meadows by beating fellow former champion Hewitt 6-3, 7-5, 6-4 Wednesday night to reach the semifinals for the first time since he won the tournament in 2003.
And there was more good news for Roddick: He won't have to play Rafael Nadal next. The second-seeded Spaniard was upset by 54th-ranked Mikhail Youzhny of Russia 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (5), 6-1, meaning Nadal and No. 1 Roger Federer will not become the first pair of men to meet in three consecutive Grand Slam finals during a season.  A day after rain allowed only one match to finish, Federer and No. 5 James Blake set up a quarterfinal showdown with straight-set wins, and that half's other quarterfinal will be No. 7 Nikolay Davydenko against No. 14 Tommy Haas.
There still could be a No. 1 vs. No. 2 final for the women, because top-seeded Amelie Mauresmo and Justine Henin-Hardenne advanced with relative ease. Henin-Hardenne's 6-4, 6-4 win over Lindsay Davenport means this is the first year in the Open era -- which began in 1968 -- that no American woman reached any Grand Slam semifinal.
Mauresmo beat No. 12 Dinara Safina 6-2, 6-3 to move a step closer to her third Grand Slam title of 2006. Her next opponent is No. 3 Maria Sharapova, whose shrieking during her 7-6 (4), 7-6 (0) quarterfinal victory got to No. 27 Tatiana Golovin.
5131. jexster - 9/8/2006 3:05:27 AM [via my fireballing 12 yo nephew]
This is like deja vu all over again.
--Yogi Berra
Half the game is 90% mental.
--Yogi Berra
If I didn't wake up, I'd still be sleeping.
--Yogi Berra
Slump ? I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hittin.
--Yogi Berra
Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical
--Yogi Berra
"You can observe a lot just by watching."
--Yogi Berra
"He must have made that before he died."
-- Referring to a Steve McQueen movie.
--Yogi Berra
"I want to thank you for making this day necessary."
-- On Yogi Berra Appreciation Day in St. Louis in 1947.
--Yogi Berra
"I'd find the fellow who lost it, and, if he was poor, I'd return it."
-- When asked what he would do if he found a million dollars.
--Yogi Berra
"Think! How the hell are you gonna think and hit at the same time?"
--Yogi Berra
"You've got to be very careful if you don't know where
you're going, because you might not get there."
--Yogi Berra
"I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early."
--Yogi Berra
"If you don't know where you are going, you will
wind up somewhere else."
--Yogi Berra
"If you can't imitate him, don't copy him."
--Yogi Berra
"You better cut the pizza in four pieces because
I'm not hungry enough to eat six."
--Yogi Berra
"It was impossible to get a conversation going;
everybody was talking too much."
--Yogi Berra
"A nickel isn't worth a dime today."
--Yogi Berra
"Nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded."
--Yogi Berra
"It gets late early out there."
-- Referring to the bad sun conditions in left field at the stadium.
--Yogi Berra
"Glen Cove." -- Referring to Glenn Close on a movie review television show.
--Yogi Berra
Once, Yogi's wife Carmen asked, "Yogi, you are from St. Louis,
we live in New Jersey, and you played ball in New York.
If you go before I do, where would you like me to have you buried?"
Yogi replied, "Surprise me."
--Yogi Berra
"Do you mean now?" -- When asked for the time.
--Yogi Berra
"I take a two hour nap, from one o'clock to four."
--Yogi Berra
"If you come to a fork in the road, take it."
--Yogi Berra
"You give 100 percent in the first half of the game,
and if that isn't enough in the second half you give what's left."
--Yogi Berra
"90% of the putts that are short don't go in."
--Yogi Berra
"I made a wrong mistake."
--Yogi Berra
"Texas has a lot of electrical votes."
-- During an election campaign, after George Bush
stated that Texas was important to the election.
--Yogi Berra
"Thanks, you don't look so hot yourself."
-- After being told he looked cool.
--Yogi Berra
"I always thought that record would stand until it was broken."
--Yogi Berra
"Yeah, but we're making great time!"
-- In reply to "Hey Yogi, I think we're lost."
--Yogi Berra
"If the fans don't come out to the ball park, you can't stop them."
--Yogi Berra
"It ain't the heat; it's the humility."
--Yogi Berra
"The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase."
--Yogi Berra
"You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise,
they won't come to yours."
--Yogi Berra
"I didn't really say everything I said."
--Yogi Berra
"Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel."
--Yogi Berra
"It's never happened in the World Series competition, and it still hasn't."
--Yogi Berra
"How long have you known me, Jack? And you still don't know
how to spell my name." -- Upon receiving a check from
Jack Buck made out to "bearer."
--Yogi Berra
"I'd say he's done more than that." -- When asked if first baseman
Don Mattingly had exceeded expectations for the current season.
--Yogi Berra
"The other teams could make trouble for us if they win."
--Yogi Berra
"He can run anytime he wants. I'm giving him the red light."
-- On the acquisition of fleet-footed Ricky Henderson.
--Yogi Berra
"I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat, and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?"
--Yogi Berra
5132. OhioSTOPAS - 9/9/2006 10:13:33 PM Enough about baseball - we're less than three hours from THE GAME!!! 5133. robertjayb - 9/9/2006 10:33:17 PM Hook 'em, Horns! 5134. OhioSTOPAS - 9/9/2006 10:38:43 PM Yeah, we're afraid of a quarterback named Colt (snicker) McCoy. 5135. jexster - 9/10/2006 1:13:15 AM The Eyes of Tejas Fanfare
The Bevo Marching Band
 5136. jexster - 9/10/2006 2:20:02 AM 'show iyuz purty
 5137. OhioSTOPAS - 9/10/2006 12:54:14 PM Every dumpster in Columbus is in flames. Life is good. 5138. jexster - 9/10/2006 3:23:36 PM BBQ Bevo? 5139. wabbit - 9/10/2006 3:55:35 PM  In the first regular-season matchup of No. 1 vs. No. 2 in a decade, quarterback Troy Smith riddled Texas for 269 yards passing and two touchdowns, leading the Buckeyes to a 24-7 win Saturday night. The victory keeps the Buckeyes (2-0) in perfect position for a run to a national title. Keep winning and they should stay right where they are.
Brady Quinn and the Notre Dame offense were as good as advertised in Week 2. After an unimpressive opening game, Quinn, Jeff Samardzija and Co. returned to their fantastic form of last season in a 41-17 victory over No. 19 Penn State on Saturday. Quinn, the Heisman hyped quarterback, was 12-of-16 passing for 150 yards and two touchdowns in the second quarter alone as fourth-ranked Notre Dame opened a 20-0 lead. The defense and special teams chipped in, too, breaking the game open in the third quarter by scoring one touchdown and setting up another as the Fighting Irish cruised. The game was essentially over at halftime.
Clemson's kicks kept winding up in the wrong hands. Jeff Smith returned one kickoff for a 96-yard touchdown and had three other long runbacks to help Boston College force overtime on Saturday, then Jolonn Dunbar blocked an extra point in the second OT to lead BC to a 34-33 victory over No. 18 Clemson.
NCAA football
5140. wabbit - 9/10/2006 3:58:26 PM Maria Sharapova has long insisted she's more about substance than style and now, at age 19, she owns a second Grand Slam title to prove it. Better on the biggest points all night, the third-seeded Sharapova beat No. 2 Justine Henin-Hardenne 6-4, 6-4 in the U.S. Open  final Saturday to add a follow-up championship to her breakthrough title at Wimbledon in 2004.
After the singles final ended, Martina Navratilova, who's 49, collected her 59th Grand Slam title by teaming with Bob Bryan to win the mixed doubles final 6-2, 6-3 over Kueta Peschke and Martin Damm.
5141. wabbit - 9/11/2006 3:53:04 PM  Laurence Maroney finished New England's 19-17 victory with a game-high 86 yards on 17 carries (a 5.1 average), but how he looked amassing those numbers was the most impressive part. A 27-yard gallop on his first regular-season NFL carry, on which he broke it outside to the left and left a string of tacklers in his wake, followed by a 22-yard burst down to the Buffalo 3 on third-and-5 the second time he touched the ball from scrimmage. Two carries, 49 yards, and Maroney was making it look easy. All of last season, New England had just two rushes longer than either of Maroney's first two runs.
Peyton Mannine and the Indianapolis Colts outlasted Eli and the New York Giants 26-21 on Sunday night. The brothers played well and so did their teams, though the Giants made far too many mistakes to win the first NFL game to feature two brothers starting at quarterback. Peyton finished 25-of-41 for 276 yards, a touchdown and an interception. The two-time MVP also led the Colts to scores on five of their first seven possessions. Eli was 20-of-34 for 247 yards and touchdowns passes to Plaxico Burress and Jeremy Shockey. He also had two costly second-half mistakes -- a fumble and an interception, both of which came with New York down two points. Both led to Indianapolis scores.
A healthy and happy Donovan McNabb threw for 314 yards and three touchdowns, including one to Donte' Stallworth, to lead the Philadelphia Eagles to a 24-10 win over the Houston Texans on Sunday. The Eagles, looking to move past their post-Terrell Owens hangover, got a great game from Stallworth in his debut after a trade from the Saints. It was also McNabb's regular-season return after missing the final seven games of last season for surgery to repair a sports hernia.
NFL scores
5142. wabbit - 9/11/2006 3:54:26 PM  By beating Andy Roddick 6-2, 4-6, 7-5, 6-1 Sunday for a third consecutive US Open championship at Flushing Meadows, Federer took another step toward being regarded as the best tennis player in history. This was Federer's third Grand Slam title of the year and the ninth of his career, moving closer to Pete Sampras' record of 14. The No. 1-ranked Federer went 27-1 at this year's Grand Slam tournaments, the only setback coming against Rafael Nadal in the French Open final. Federer became the first man since Ivan Lendl in 1985-87 to win three consecutive U.S. Open titles -- and the only man in tennis history to win Wimbledon and the U.S. Open back-to-back three years in a row. He's won nine of the last 14 Grand Slam tournaments, dating to Wimbledon in 2004.
5143. robertjayb - 9/12/2006 6:04:05 AM UT gets its thugs back...
AUSTIN -- Texas cornerback Tarell Brown and backup safety Tyrell Gatewood were reinstated to the team today, coach Mack Brown said.
The two players were suspended for the Ohio State game after being arrested last week. Brown was arrested on misdemeanor drug and weapon charges; Gatewood was arrested on a misdemeanor drug charge. The drug charges, which involved possession of marijuana, were dropped Friday.
Brown still faces a charge of unlawful possession of a handgun.
Mack Brown said he met with both players today and they reached a verbal agreement that will remain confidential.
5144. robertjayb - 9/13/2006 4:00:57 AM Armstrong teammates acknowledge drug use...
(NYTimes) - Two of Lance Armstrong’s eight teammates from the 1999 Tour de France have admitted for the first time that they used the banned endurance-boosting drug EPO in preparing for the race that year, when they helped Armstrong capture the first of his record seven titles.
Their disclosures, in interviews with The New York Times, are rare examples of candor in a sport protected by a powerful code of silence. The confessions come as cycling is reeling from doping scandals, including Floyd Landis’s fall in July from Tour champion to suspected cheat.
One of the two teammates who admitted using EPO while on Armstrong’s United States Postal Service team is Frankie Andreu, a 39-year-old retired team captain who had been part of Armstrong’s inner circle for more than a decade. In an interview at his home in Dearborn, Mich., Andreu said that he took EPO for only a few races and that he was acknowledging his use now because he thought doping was damaging his sport. Continued doping and denial by riders may scare away fans and sponsors for good, he said.
“There are two levels of guys,” Andreu said. “You got the guys that cheat and guys that are just trying to survive.”
The other rider who said he used EPO spoke on condition of anonymity because he said he did not want to jeopardize his job in cycling.
5145. robertjayb - 9/13/2006 4:11:07 AM Armstrong pissed at NYTimes report...
(AP) -- Lance Armstrong bristled Tuesday at a report that two former teammates admitted using performance-enhancing drugs, calling it ''a hatchet job ... to link me to doping through somebody else's admission.''
Frankie Andreu and another former Armstrong teammate who requested anonymity because he still works in cycling told The New York Times they used the endurance-booster EPO to prepare for the 1999 Tour de France, when Armstrong won the first of his seven titles.
Neither rider has ever tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs and both said they never saw Armstrong take any banned substances.
''I think it's a pretty nasty attempt by The New York Times to link me to doping through somebody else's admission. You have to read way down in the article until Frankie says, 'I never saw Lance do anything.'
5146. robertjayb - 9/13/2006 6:52:09 PM Authorities search Jan Ullrich's home...
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- Former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich's home in Switzerland was searched Wednesday by authorities, along with nine other homes and offices of people suspected of involvement in a Spanish doping scandal.
A statement by Germany's Federal Crime Office did not say whose homes or offices were searched. But Ullrich's manager, Wolfgang Strohband, confirmed that his and Ullrich's homes were raided.
The searches -- both in Germany and abroad -- were part of the fraud investigation by prosecutors in connection with the probe of Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes.
5147. wabbit - 9/17/2006 12:56:55 PM  No. 11 Michigan finally put a Big Blue bruising on the second-ranked Fighting Irish in a 47-21 rout Saturday -- the most points scored against Notre Dame at home in 46 years. Chad Henne threw three touchdown passes to Mario Manningham, and Michigan intercepted Brady Quinn three times, forced him to fumble and shut down the rest of the Irish offense.
Eric Brock's game-saving tackle just a few yards from the goal line on the final play preserved No. 3 Auburn's 7-3 win over sixth-ranked LSU on Saturday. He also tipped away a fourth-down pass to end another late LSU threat as Auburn turned away the visiting Tigers again and again. What has become the Southeastern Conference's most rugged rivalry had all the usual elements: two punishing defenses, an pivotal officials' call that left both sides a bit perplexed and some follies in the kicking game. The call went Auburn's way. With LSU facing fourth-and-8 from Auburn's 31 and 2:43 left, JaMarcus Russell fired the ball to Early Doucet near the goal line. A diving Brock deflected the pass, but Zach Gilbert was called for pass interference that would have kept the drive alive. The officials overturned the call, although replays showed the contact came before the ball was tipped by Brock.
Dennis Dixon and Oregon rallied for two touchdowns in the final 72 seconds - with help from a disputed onside kick - and the Ducks blocked a field goal on the final play to seal a wild 34-33 victory over No. 15 Oklahoma on Saturday. Dixon's 16-yard keeper with 1:12 left brought the 18th-ranked Ducks within 33-27 and set up the onside kick attempt. The Ducks (3-0) recovered the bouncing kick on their own 48, but Oklahoma (2-1) argued that an Oregon player touched the ball before it went the required 10 yards, which would have given the Sooners possession. Officials delayed play for an instant replay review, but the call stood.
NCAA football
5148. wabbit - 9/17/2006 12:57:24 PM  Waiting in Alfonso Soriano's locker after Saturday night's game was the final piece of what is surely going to be an impressive display: the stolen base that entered him into the elite 40-40 club. Soriano became the fourth player in major league history to record 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in a single season when he swiped second in the first inning of the Washington Nationals' 8-5 win over Milwaukee. Soriano has 40 steals to go along with 45 home runs. Soriano is going to add the base and the spikes he was wearing to his personal collection, which includes the bat and batting gloves he used when he hit his 40th home run Aug. 19. Jose Canseco (Oakland, 1988), Barry Bonds (San Francisco, 1996) and Alex Rodriguez (Seattle, 1998) are the only other players who have topped 40 in each of those categories in a single season. He also leads the league with 21 outfield assists.
The Pittsburgh Pirates are proving they sure know how to ruin a party - or at least delay one. For the second night in a row, the Pirates prevented the New York Mets from clinching the NL East when Ronny Paulino hit an RBI double with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning for a 3-2 victory Saturday night. The Mets' magic number for clinching their first division title since 1988 remained at one. New York could've won it Friday night, too, but lost to Pittsburgh 5-3.
After splitting a day-night doubleheader Saturday, the New York Yankees and the Boston Red were exhausted. And on Sunday, they get to do it again. Jason Giambi 's go-ahead double in the seventh inning lifted the Yankees to a 7-5 win Saturday night that lowered to four the magic number for New York's ninth straight AL East title. The Yankees (90-57) and Boston will play another split doubleheader Sunday - making it four games in a span of about 36 hours. New York maintained a season-high 11 1/2-game lead over the second-place Red Sox , who dropped eight games back of Minnesota in the wild-card race. With a sweep Sunday and a loss by third-place Blue Jays , the Yankees would clinch the division before they head to Toronto early Monday for the start of a road trip.
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