Fan's Planner 2B RENO TUESDAY, JULY 9, 2002 Subiect to change without notice; 'live TV Looking Ahead LastAll-Star appearance was special for Aaron MORNING miffs 1 TODAY BASEBALL All-Star Game(KRXI) 5 p.m. BOXING Trujillo-Valenzuela(ESPN2) 5 p.m. BICYCLING Tour de France(FSBA) 11 a.m. RODEO Reno Rodeo(ESPN2) 9 :30 p.m. WEDNESDAY BASEBALL Triple A All-Star Game(ESPN2) 5 p.m.
BASKETBALL WNBA-Fire-Lynx'(KRXI) 5 p.m. BICYCLING Tour de France(FSBA) 1 1 a.m. AWARDS 2002 ESPY Awards (ESPN) 6 p.m. Radio July 11 Baltimore 4:05 p.m. July 12 at Baltimore 4:05 p.m.
July 13 at Baltimore 4:05 p.m. www.athletics.mlb.com July 11 w. Colorado 7:15 p.m. July 12 vs. Colorado 7:35 p.m.
July 13 vs. Colorado 1:05 p.m. www.giants.mlb.com July 15 in. Tucson 7:05 p.m. July 1 6 vs.
Tucson 7:05 p.m. July 17 vs. Tucson 7:05 p.m. Sacramento Rivercats baseball: www.rivereats.com July 20 vs. Chlco Rooks 5:30 p.m.
July 21 vs. Chlco Rooks 5:30 p.m. July 26 vs. Arizona Sahuaros 5 p.m. at California Gold July 10 vs.
Nevada Yankees 7:30 p.m. July 12 vs. Sacramento 7:30 p.m. July 13 vs. Sacramento Noon Games at Moana Stadium RIVERCATS ACES BASEBALL All Star game pregame(630 AM) 5 p.m.
Today in History LOS ANGELES TIMES The last time the All-Star game was played in Milwaukee, in 1975, it was also the 24th and last appearance of Hall of Famer Hank Aaron, whose career had begun in Milwaukee with the Braves. In his final game, he represented the Milwaukee Brewers and lined out as a pinch-hitter. "I was just a shell of myself," he said. "But I still considered it an honor to have played my last game in Milwaukee." It was his only appearance as an American League player. In his 23 All-Star games as a Milwaukee Atlanta Brave, Aaron batted .179 with two home runs in 67 at-bats.
Home, sweet home: Jarrod Washburn, the Anaheim Angels' southpaw with a 9-2 record, is in Wisconsin, but not for the All-Star game. He took the red-eye home to tiny Danbury in the northwestern part of the state but will be back with the team to pitch in Thursday night's game in Kansas City, Mo. He told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel he was disappointed that Garret Anderson was the only Angel selected for tonight's game. "I don't think it was right that we only got one guy picked, with as well as we've played and as many guys as we have doing well," he said. Jackets is not short on confidence.
When asked to describe his strengths, the left wing from the Ontario Hockey League said, "Go in the corners, dig the puck out, fore-checking, can score in front of the net, a good talent, and still comes back in our own end and plays a defensive role too. I think I bring an all-around game, a Brendan Shanahan type." Seen in Cincinnati: A fan carrying a sign in Cinergy Field that read: "4 Reds Tickets $30, 4 Sodas $10, 4 Hot Dogs $15, Ken Griffey worthless." Fair warning: "Clip and save," said Blackie Sherrod of the Dallas News. "Your grandson will see the day of the 8-foot center in the NBA." Trivia answer: Kirk Gibson, the Los Angeles Dodger who was named National League MVP in 1988. And finally: After Brazil had won the World Cup over Germany, all of CART's Brazilian drivers cut their hair to match the style of soccer star Ronaldo, but Rubens Barrichello, their countryman in Formula One, decided against it. "I couldn't risk it," the Ferrari driver said.
"The way my hair is thinning, I was afraid it wouldn't grow anymore." Reno Astro Who is baseball's only most valuable player who never played in an All-Star game? Mr. Everything: When Cincinnati Reds outfielder Adam Dunn was told that he would be the youngest player in the All-Star game, at 21 years 8 months, and the biggest, at 6-foot-6 and 245 pounds, he grinned and replied, "And, I'm the best looking, and the smartest." Amie's advice: Senior tour pros are permitted to ride in carts, but Arnold Palmer vehemently opposes the practice. "When you start complaining about the heat and humidity, the hell with that," he told USA Today. "Just fo home, sit in front of the TV and ave a beer." Another opinion: Then there is comedian Joe E. Lewis, who when asked how he played golf, said, "I play in the low 80s.
If it's any hotter than that, I won't play." Talking the talk: Rick Nash may be only 1 8, but the first pick in the NHL draft by the Columbus Blue What's Your Opinion? wmmmmmmewmewmmmmmmmmmmmmmammmmawmamatmewm The Reno Gazette-Journal wants readers' opinions on topics in the world of sports. Keep an eye open daily, as the questions may change. Ted Williams: Hall of Fame outfielder Ted Williams died last week at the age of 83. Do you have any memories of the "Splendid Splinter" or thoughts you'd like to share? Where does Williams rank among baseball's all-time hitters? Baseball: A lot has been said this year and every year about some of the players added to as well as 1967: Mark Spitz and Catie Ball, both 17, swim to world records and Debbie Meyer, 14, sets two records in one race in the Santa Clara International Invitational swim meet. Spitz sets a 100-meter butterfly record at 56.3 and Ball becomes the first U.S.
swimmer to set a world record for the breaststroke with a 2:40.5 time for 200 meters. Meyer breaks the 800-meter freestyle record in 9 minutes, 35.8 seconds on the way to a record 1 8:1 1 .1 in the 1 ,500. 1989: Boris Becker and Steffi Graf claim a West German sweep of the Wimbledon singles crownsinthefirst double finalsday in 1 6years. Becker wins his third Wimbledon title in five years, rolling past defending champion Stefan Edberg 6-0, 7-6, 6-4, while Graf takes her second straight championship over Martina Navratilova 6-2, 6-7, 6-1. 1991: South Africa is readmitted to the Olympic movement, ending decades of sports isolation and clearing the way for its participation in the 1992 Games.
1995: Pete Sampras becomes the first American to win Wimbledon three straight years by beating Boris Becker in four sets. 1999: Mario Cipollini becomes the first rider since 1948 to capture three consecutive stages of the Tour de France, though only after Tom Steels of Belgium is stripped of the first-place finish in the sixth stage for dangerous riding. 2000: Pete Sampras passes Roy Emerson for the most Grand Slam championships and ties Willie Renshaw, a player in the 1 880s, for the most Wimbledon titles with a four-set victory over Pat Rafter. Sampras, winner of en Wimbledon titles, 13 Grand Slam championships and 28 straight matches at Wimbledon, extends his mark there to 53-1 in the past eight years. Reno Line left off of the All-Star game rosters.
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July 31: Last day to trade players without first securing waivers. Aug. 31: Deadline for postseason rosters. Sept. 1: Active rosters increased to 40 players.
Oct. 1: Division series begin. RAIDERS 4.5 Rams 3 BRONCOS Cowboys 4.5 TEXANS Sept. PATRIOTS Sleelers GOLF Odds to win 2002 British Open At Muirfleld Golf Links East Lothian, Scotland July 18 Woods 75 Mickelson 81 Els 151 Garcia 151 Singh 181 Goosen 201 Duval 251 Leonard 251 Toms 251 DiMarco 301 Love III 301 Cink 351 Clarke 351 Parnevik 351 Weir 351 Furyk 401 Harrington 401 Price 451 Maruyama 451 Bjorn 601 Hoch 501 Lehman 501 Olazabal 501 Roberts 501 Allenby 601 Calcavecchia 601 Kelly 601 Verplank 601 Woosnam 601 Lions 81 Argonauts 81 Roughriders 181 Renegades 351 NFL Weekl Sept. 5 49ers 2.5 GIANTS Sept.
8 REDSKINS 6 Cards PACKERS 8 Falcons Ravens 1 .5 DOLPHINS .7.5 Lions Colts 2.5 JAGUARS BROWNS 3 Chiefs BEARS 4,5 Vikings Jets 1 BILLS Eagles 1 TITANS BENGALS 1 Chargers BUCS 6 Saints Field 41 BOXING July 20 WBC Welterweight Title Forrest Mosley July 27 WBA Heavyweight Title Ruiz 2.20 Johnson Sept. 14 WBC 1 WBA Super Welterweight Vargas 2.00 DeLaHoya Odds arid spreads provided tyHar-rati Reno Race aim Sports Book. BASEBALL Today All-Star Game NATIONAL ....1.20 BASKETBALL WNBA Today STING 7.5 Sol MYSTICS 6 Mercury COMETS 9.5 Storm FOOTBALL CFL Odds to win 2002 Grey Cup Blue Bombers 52 Alouettes 31 Stampeders 92 Eskimos 61 Tiger Cats 671 Rodeo Bicycling Reed High grad Harry cruising up team roping standings i Rodeo GUY CLIFTON Smokeless Tobacco Company Cup Finales and the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, no other single week has so much prize money up for grabs. Canadian cowboy Glenn O'Neill, of Didsbury, Alberta, raked in $29,734, second only to Bail. At the timed-event end of the arena, Cash Myers roped in $1 8,365, the third- largest sum of the weekend.
Myers won money both by calf roping and steer wrestling, his biggest wins coming in Greeley and Prescott, Ariz. RODEO IN ELKO: The annual Silver State Stampede will be held Friday and Saturday in Elko. This is a PRCA rodeo and will feature many familiar names. Guy Clifton covers rodeo for the Reno Gazette-Journal and is author of the book, "Reno Rodeo: A History. He can be reached at (77 S) 788-6337 or fcliftonrgj.com.
The book can purchased at www.renorodeo.com, Sundance Books in Reno, Borders Books in Reno, the University of Nevada, Reno bookstore or the Nevada Historical Society bookstore. they said 'you're not going he said. On Tuesday, he had a four-way bypass. He was released on Saturday and has been taking it easy at home since. "It went pretty well," he said.
"I'm just kind of taking it day to day and seem to be getting a little better every day." BAIL BIG WINNER OVER COWBOY CHRISTMAS: South Dakota multi-events hand Jesse Bail won $33,456 over the past seven-day span, known as Cowboy Christmas, the second-highest total for the Fourth of July run by a PRCA cowboy ever. In 1 999 Ty Murray set the record for Fourth of July earnings with $37,630. Bail's conquest moved him past Cash Myers and into the top spot in the world all-around standings with $1 22,961 The week's work also moved him into second place in saddle bronc riding and fourth place in bull riding. In a week in which ProRodeo sanctions 38 PRCA rodeos in 1 9 states and two Canadian provinces from New Jersey to California, Bail won money at seven rodeos. His biggest paycheck came from the Greeley (Colo.) Independence Stampede, where he earned $1 1 ,409.
The Fourth of July run is significant for cowboys because so many rodeos end during the week. Other than the U.S. Pyramid Lake's Clint Harry is one half of the hottest team roping tandem in professional rodeo. Harry and his partner, Jason Handy of Billings, have been moving steadily up the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association world standings since they partnered up in the spring and both cowboys appear headed for their first berths in the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. Handy is ranked eighth in the team roping heading standings with $35,102 and Harry is ranked 16th in the heeling standings with $19,912.
They have won more than $10,000 each over the past week a stretch revolving around the Fourth of July known as "Cowboy Christmas" because of the number of rodeos and amount of prize money available. Their success also includes strong showings in the Tour Rounds of the first three rodeos what we have now, we've got a real shot at (making the NFR)." Harry, a 1998 Reed High School graduate, is in his third year on the PRCA Tour. A member of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Indian Tribe, he grew up in Nixon, a third-generation cowboy. "My whole family ropes," he said. "My dad, my uncle, my grandpa, everybody ropes." Harry won his first all-around buckle when he was 6 years old at a rodeo in Fallon.
Now in his third season on the PRCA circuit, he and Handy hooked up in March at the Laughlin River Stampede. They won a round at the Red Bluff Round-Up in April, then won the average at the Clovis (Calif.) Rodeo the following week. Harry said it's been a good partnership. "Our styles kind of match," Harry said. "We have the same goals and it kind of works out pretty good like that." Their Summer Tour points, and much of their winnings, came at the Reno Rodeo, the Greeley Independence Stampede and the St.
Paul (Ore.) Rodeo, where they won the average and collected more than $3,000 apiece. Harry said they will hit all the remaining Summer Tour rodeos, and as many other rodeos as they can over the remainder of the season in hopes of making the NFR. "We'll try to go to everything and hopefully see where we're at at the end of the season," he said. IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: ESPN2 televised the final round of the Reno Rodeo on Sunday night. For those who missed it, the program will be re-broadcast tonight at 9:30 on ESPN2.
ON THE MEND: Two days after the Reno Rodeo closed the gates on its 2002 show, Garry Jackson, president of the Reno Rodeo Association, was in the hospital undergoing emergency bypass surgery. Jackson said he went in Monday for a stress test. "I guess it didn't go very well because of the Wrangler ProRodeo Summer Tour. With seven Tour rodeos left, Harry and Handy are in first place with 23 points. The top 12 point-getters in each event advance to the $750,000 U.S.
Smokeless Tobacco Summer Finale in October. "We've got the Tour finals pretty much made," Harry said Monday from Casper, Wyo. "If we can do good there, with TOUR DE FRANCE Armstrong relaxes as Spaniard Freire wins Tour's second stage ASSOCIATED PRESS SAARBRUECKEN, Germany SAARBRUECKEN, Germany (AP) A was 29th and retained the leader's yellow jersey. Defending champion Lance Armstrong, of U.S. Postal Service, was 61st, dropping to fourth overall.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Today, I had a bit of luck to retain the yellow jersey for a second day. If I hold it again after tomorrow's stage, I'm going to go buy a lottery ticket." Bertogliati. race moves into France for a 108.19-mile run from Metzto Reims. look at Monday's second stage of the Tour de France: STAGE: A 1 12.2-mile stretch from Luxembourg to Saarbruecken, Germany. WINNER: Spain's Oscar Freire, of the Mapei-Quick Step team, In 4 hours, 19 minutes, 51 seconds.
A pack of 177 other riders finished with the same time. HOW OTHERS FARED: Rubens Bertogliati of Switzerland, riding for Lampre-Daikin, ft. i -JU: I Freire said riders can't always win on their home turf. "In cycling, when you arrive in your home country, you indeed have more desire to win," Freire said. "But the other rivals also want to win we're all racing out there to win." There were four crashes in Monday's stage.
One of them involved Armstrong's U.S. Postal Service teammate Benoit ioachim, who wasn't seriously urt. Spain's Samuel Sanchez of Euskaltel was taken to a hospital in Saarbruecken for X-rays after injuring his right knee and right elbow in the second crash. Bertogliati said he hadn't expected to retain the lead. "Today, I had a bit of luck to retain the yellow jersey for a second day," Bertogliati said.
"If I hold it again after tomorrow's stage, I'm going to go buy a lottery ticket." The riders were to move into France for today's third stage, a 108.19-mile run from Metz to Reims, the capital of the Champagne region. .4. Lance Armstrong enjoyed a relaxed ride in Monday's stage of the Tour de France, while some struggled to get to the finish. "It was nervous today, but quite easy," the three-time defending champion said. Armstrong finished the second stage in 6 1 st place, and slipped to fourth in the overall standings.
He isn't expected to bid for the lead until the race reaches the mountains next week. Oscar Freire of Spain won the 1 12.2-mile trek, sprinting over the line just ahead of the main pack that included Armstrong. Swiss rider Rubens Bertogliati retained the leader's yellow jersey he took from Armstrong on Sunday. The Texan is taking the early, flat stages easy. But for some, even Monday's ride was nearly too much.
Norway's Thor Hushovd shared the lead for much of the day but finished last after stop- But Freire, the world road champion, spoiled the party by outflanking the German in the final few yards to win in 4 hours, 19 minutes, 51 seconds. Australia's Robbie McEwen placed second and Zabel finished third, in the same time as Freire. The main pack alsohad the same time. Zabel, who turned 32 on Sunday, was wearing the green jersey awarded to the Tour's fastest sprinter as he entered Saarbruecken. "To return to my country in the green jersey, it's still not too bad," he told France-2 Television.
ping several times with cramps. At one point, he hunched over his handlebars in pain and had to have his thigh massaged by a trainer. He was cheered on by fans as he struggled to the finish line. "I was surprised by the huge crowds I was impressed," said Armstrong, who is favored to win a fourth straight title. Thousands lined the stage route between Luxembourg and this west German city to cheer him and other riders, particularly Erik Zabel.
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