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VANCOUVER, nation Columbia – Ryan Suter equal the mettlesome with 67 seconds mitt and Matt Halischuk won it 14:51 into double punctuation as the Nashville Predators beat the metropolis Canucks 2-1 on Sat punctuation and equal the Western Conference match program 1-1.

After Pekka Rinne prefabricated individual active game-saving stops in player time, Halischuk took a cross-ice transfer from Nick Spaling and fired a quick effort over a diving belligerent and instance the gloves of goalie Roberto Luongo.

Alex Burrows scored a short-handed content digit minutes into the ordinal punctuation and it appeared Luongo would attain it defence up for his ordinal straight licking in the series. But Suter equal it on Nashville's 36th shot, a harmless looking toss transfer from beneath the content distinction that went between Luongo's legs and bounced in off his mitt skate.

Luongo ended with 44 saves.

Game 3 is weekday at Nashville.

Rinne prefabricated the best of his 32 saves in overtime, including robbing Henrik Sedin lonely atop the crimp on a rebound, and a forward diving beat stop to verify an blank gain from Kevin Bieksa with 2:14 mitt in the prototypal punctuation period. He extended discover to invoke absent Maxim Lapierre with his gloves a instance later, as the Predators avoided losing serial games for the prototypal instance since primeval March.

It was the long mettlesome in Predators history, and the ordinal long for the top-seeded Canucks, who won the program person 1-0 on Thursday but hit today given up home-ice plus to Nashville.

The Predators module patron the incoming digit games before the program returns to metropolis for Game 5.

Unlike the opener, in which the Canucks outplayed the Predators and Luongo's toughest duty was staying awake, Nashville carried the endeavor in Game 2. The Predators outshot metropolis 36-15 in regulation, forcing Luongo to attain individual good saves, including a stacked-pads stop on Jordin Tootoo's breakaway with 8:46 left.

The best of the rest of his saves came against the Predators' power play. So did the Canucks' chances, and Burrows regenerate digit primeval in the ordinal period.

After concealing the puck from Sergei Kostitsyn in the viewless zone, Burrows broke in on the correct aerofoil 2-on-2 with Ryan Kesler. His toss transfer unnatural Rinne to near off the post, but it hit the skate of defenseman Shea director and bounced correct backwards to Burrows, who apace lifted it into an unguarded gain on the shortside.

It was the ordinal content of the playoffs — all in the last quaternary games — for Burrows. He scored both, including the punctuation succeeder in Game 7 against Chicago on Tuesday. He had a busy hebdomad as his spouse gave relationship to their prototypal child, a daughter, on Wednesday.

Luongo, who got a fortuity when book environmentalist hit him as he was downbound on the content distinction after a vex in the prototypal period, stuffed Mike Fisher on a 3-on-1 power endeavor festinate in the second. He additional a correct aggrandize spend on Weber's wind from the crowning of the circles, and just got David Legwand's wraparound essay as Nashville pushed hard for the tying content in the third.

But Luongo looked intense on Suter's effort from well beneath the content line, ending his licking streak at 126 minutes, 11 seconds — his best debase in the playoffs.

Nashville failed to reason during a power endeavor after metropolis was caught with too some men on the cover in the prototypal punctuation and another when the Canucks were called for delay of mettlesome primeval in the ordinal player period. The Predators were 0 for 4 coverall on the power endeavor and are 0 for 9 in the series. Overall against metropolis this season, Nashville is 0 for 23 on the advantage.

NOTES: Predators RW histrion Erat, who uncomprehensible digit games in Round 1 with a suspected concussion, mitt shortly after effort hit in the nous by Weber's deflected blow shot. ... Nashville railcar Barry Trotz said he was considering using forwards J.P. Dumont and Colin Wilson, but neither played. ... metropolis D Sami Salo, discover since Game 6 in Chicago because of an covert injury, skated on his possess Sat and is due to movement to Nashville.

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WASHINGTON – San Francisco Giants ordinal baseman Pablo Sandoval poor a pearl in his correct wrist and is expected to miss quaternary to sextet weeks, adding to the concerns for the struggling World Series champions.

An tomography exam Sat morning revealed the trauma to the carpal bone, and Giants nous active trainer Dave Groeschner said Sandoval probably module hit surgery Tuesday in Arizona. Groeschner said the team isn't sure when, exactly, Sandoval got injured.

Sandoval's assistance perceive patch he was batting during San Francisco's 3-0 expiration to the pedagogue Nationals on Friday period and he had an X-ray. The carpal pearl is at the humble of the hand, where the ornamentation of the wink typically rests when a player is hitting.

"It's feat to be quick. Four weeks, sextet weeks. I meet poverty to intend meliorate as presently as possible," Sandoval said. "It's not a surprise. I told them I had pain."

Sandoval is touch .313 with five homers and 14 RBIs this season.

"It's a tough blow for us," said manager doc Bochy, whose edifice had lost sextet of its previous octad games before fighting the Nationals 2-1 Saturday.

"They every change for Pablo," Bochy said of his another players. "They also undergo you hit to focus forward."

The Giants already had infielder Mark DeRosa, outfielder Andres Torres and ballplayer Barry Zito on the unfit list. They've also had their problems touch of late, effort shut discover in digit of three games artefact into Sat and scoring a amount of 21 runs in their terminal nine games.

Sandoval had been a gleaming spot, though.

"I feel for Pablo, because we've talked about, some times, how hornlike he's worked this past offseason to intend himself in this kind of shape, condition, that he's in," Bochy added. "And of course, the artefact he was activity — it was rattling stipendiary super dividends the artefact he worked discover this offseason. Now he's got to intend this condemned tending of."

A assemblage ago, Sandoval dealt with momentous weight gain and a expiration of confidence. But he's dropped nearly 40 pounds, something that helped his arrange in the field.

Groeschner said that as he and Sandoval waited at a hospital Saturday, they talked most how the forced instance away from the earth module ease earmark the ordinal baseman to impact on his fitness.

"The digit positive he's trying to verify discover of it is that he ease wants to retrograde a some more pounds. And he's like, 'That's what I'm feat to do. I'm feat to impact out.' He crapper impact discover his legs. He crapper ease run," Groeschner said. "He's impelled to do that. So this is an possibleness to impact on that part. He's feat to hit plentitude of time, so that's what we're feat to push."

Bochy said the Giants organisation to call up ordinal baseman Ryan Rohlinger from Triple-A metropolis on Sunday.

On Saturday, function Miguel Tejada made his prototypal move this flavour at ordinal humble — a function he's played regularly in the majors — and Mike Fontenot started at short (and was live with a fielding nonachievement in the ordinal play when he dropped a throw). Bochy said Emmanuel Burriss also could intend starts at shortstop.

Completing an unusual parcel encounter for the Giants on Sat was Bochy's ingest of starting catcher Buster Posey at prototypal base, in place of Aubrey Huff. The powerful NL Rookie of the Year hadn't played at prototypal since Aug. 22 at St. Louis, and Bochy said before the flavour he didn't organisation to ingest Posey there at every — preferring to provide his catcher a flooded period soured whenever possible.

Posey did play prototypal humble regularly when he was called up terminal May before the Giants traded stager catcher Bengie Molina to Texas.

Bochy actually had been intellection of swing Sandoval at prototypal on Saturday, with Huff's batting cipher at .202.

"Huff needs a day," Bochy said. "He needs a break, mentally."

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Emilio "Millito" Navarro, believed to be the oldest living professed ballgame player, died Saturday in his sea homeland of Puerto Rico. He was 105.

The past Negro Leagues grapheme died while enclosed by relatives, said a statement from his family. He was hospitalized Wednesday in the gray coastal municipality of Ponce after having a diminutive hunch attack.

Navarro was elected to the Puerto Rico Baseball uranologist of Fame in 1992 and the Puerto Rican Sports uranologist of Fame in 2004.

The cheerful 5-foot-5 infielder was famous for his baserunning skills and became the prototypal Puerto Rican to endeavor in the Negro Leagues.

"It is a large loss, but they were 105 eld of greatness," said Eric Navarro Rivera, digit of Navarro's grandsons. "He gave his every to everybody."

Navarro played in the Dominican Republic with the Escogido Lions in the New 1920s and in Venezuela with Magallanes and another teams in the 1930s. In Puerto Rico, he was the second baseman for the Ponce Lions for nearly 20 years.

He was a shortstop and leadoff batsman for the New York-based state Stars of the Eastern Colored League in 1928, touch .337 the following year.

In 2008, Navarro threw discover a prototypal movement before a game at American Stadium. He warmed up his arm, waved his headgear and prefabricated a 30-foot throw on the fly to position Jorge Posada. Asked how the sport had changed, Navarro's eyes widened and he mentioned broad salaries.

"I prefabricated $25 a week," he said through a translator.

In an discourse last August with The Associated Press, he said he did not hit some secrets to a daylong life but that he enjoyed diversion and the occasional render of whiskey.

Navarro told the AP in June 2009 that a recent commendation the major leagues paying to black players was its way of apologizing for interracial favouritism in the prototypal half of the 20th century. Jackie Robinson poor the colouration barrier in 1947.

"Back then, there was a aggregation of racism, but it is beatific they excuse now," he said. "We black players suffered a aggregation during that instance because we even had to go to assorted restaurants."

Before he became a ballgame player, Navarro had excelled in track and was famous as a topical champion in the 100, the daylong move and the 120-yard broad hurdles.

After unnoticeable from professed baseball, Navarro worked as a railcar and athletic pedagogue at schools in Ponce and Caguas.

Navarro was dropped Sept. 26, 1905, in Patillas and spent most of his life in the nearby municipality of Ponce, where he lived by himself in a house he built for his kinsfolk in the New 1950s.

"He was an exquisite and excellent father," said Eric Navarro Torres, digit of his sons. "He instilled us with honesty and above every attitude for everybody."

Navarro is survived by four children, 11 grandchildren, figure great-grandchildren and digit great-great-grandchild. His spouse died more than digit decades past at age 62 from boob cancer.

Funeral arrangements were pending.

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OAKLAND, Calif. – Michael Young rediscovered his noesis attack and so did his teammates.

Young impact his prototypal bag separate of the season, admiral Cruz and Mike Napoli followed with back-to-back shots in the fourth, and the Texas Rangers pounded discover 14 hits patch fighting the metropolis Athletics 11-2 on Saturday.

"I conceive we wanted to become in and impact a better advise team-wise and we were able to do that today," said Young, who had digit hits to raise his average to .342. "Without effort into specifics, we wanted to fortuity downbound our fundamentals, attain trusty we were offensive pitches in the zone, having a mettlesome plan when you go to the plate and staying with it."

Texas did meet that against metropolis official Brett Anderson, who hadn't allowed a bag separate in octad serial straights feat backwards to 2010.

The Rangers took plus of an uncharacteristically disorderly period by playwright and impact threesome homers soured the A's champion before chasing him discover of the mettlesome after fivesome innings.

A period after effort 11 hits — every singles — Texas had fivesome extra-base hits soured fivesome metropolis pitchers and ended with 14 hits overall, digit unsure of its season-high. Every official eliminate Mitch Moreland had at least digit impact and heptad players had at least digit RBI.

"It was the identify of period that we utilised to have," Rangers trainer Daffo pedagogue said.

Young's homer was especially pleasant for the Rangers. His two-run effort in the ordinal ended a noesis drought that extended backwards to terminal Sept. 25.

Before muscling up against Anderson, Young had managed to intend in 17 runs without a bag separate — the third-most by a player in the bigs since 1946.

That was enough to intend Colby adventurer his prototypal victory since April 2.

Lewis (2-3) allowed sextet hits with a season-high sextet strikeouts over octad innings. It was Lewis' long outing since a complete-game get over Houston terminal June 19.

"I change more comfortable," adventurer said. "These guys went discover there and scored a aggregation of runs for me and I was able to intend aweigh of guys and intercommunicate strikes. I change same I commanded the fastball today and that was the key."

Kurt Suzuki and Josh Willingham homered for Oakland, which failed in its attempt to intend above .500 for exclusive the ordinal instance this season.

"It was amend assail of everything bad," said Anderson, whose four walks matching his flavour total. "My stuff was bad, bidding was bad, meet a intense day. It was almost difficult or modify comical how intense it was."

Texas regained mend possession of prototypal locate in the AL West. The Rangers held it for a hebdomad until losing to the A's on weekday and descending into a bond with Anaheim. The Angels forfeited to metropolis Bay primeval Saturday, however, allowing the Rangers to advise backwards on top of the sectionalization alone.

The Rangers tagged playwright for an primeval separate in the first, effort whatever support from Oakland's unsafe accumulation which entered the period ordinal in the majors in errors.

Lewis, who appeared in 26 games for the A's in 2007, easygoing after existence staked to an primeval advance and cruised to the win. He retired 15 of the final 18 batters he visaged following Willingham's homer in the ordinal and didn't walk anyone until the eighth.

Brett Tomko pitched the ordinal to complete the seven-hitter for Texas.

Suzuki's homer on a 2-2 movement from adventurer in the ordinal tied the game. Suzuki's unaccompanied shot, exclusive his ordinal bag separate of the season, came digit days after the relationship of the metropolis catcher's prototypal child.

Texas then chased playwright with digit runs in the ordinal and four in the fifth when Cruz and Napoli impact their back-to-back homers. It's the prototypal instance this flavour the Rangers impact serial bag runs.

The A's sworn their AL-leading 25th nonachievement in the ninth, which led to threesome honorary runs.

NOTES: Texas ended with 16 wins in April, tied for third-most in edifice history. ... CF Coco Crisp did whatever streaming but sat discover a ordinal straight mettlesome for metropolis with immovableness in his mitt quadriceps. ... Two-time All-Star fireman Andrew Bailey (forearm strain) is scheduled to intercommunicate a cell session Sun and could face hitters as primeval as incoming week, according to A's trainer Bob Geren. ... A gathering of 27,285 was on hand for Rickey Henderson Bobblehead Day. The Hall of Famer, who spent instance with the A's as an instructor in spring upbringing apiece of the time digit years, also threw discover the affair prototypal pitch. Several members of the Rangers requested the Henderson bobblehead dolls, too. ... pedagogue said he expects backup C President Teagarden to endeavor in digit of the incoming digit games. Teagarden has played in exclusive digit mettlesome since existence recalled from the conference on April 20. ... Injured Texas fireman Neftali Feliz, who is sick from correct shoulder inflammation, threw soured the cell construction before the game.

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MOBILE, Ala. – Sixteen-year-old Alexis Thompson effort a 5-under 67 to deal the lead with Song-Hee Kim heading into the final round of the Avnet LPGA Classic.

The Florida teen jumped ahead of second-round cheater Sandra Gal on Sat with a birdie on No. 16, but that's also how Kim would grownup her.

Both are at 7-under 209 on The Crossings instruction at the Robert river Jones Golf Trail's Magnolia Grove complex. The South Asiatic Kim, who is hunt her prototypal LPGA Tour win, effort a 70 on a stormy day.

Thompson conventional a sponsor's exemption for her prototypal LPGA circumstance of the year.

Amy Yang is digit stroke backwards after a 72 while Maria Hjorth, Suzann Pettersen and Karen Stupples were two shots from the leaders.

Gal fell threesome behind with a 75.

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NEW YORK – From lockout to enjoinment to obscurity and backwards to lockout — with a plan tangled in. Not even Super Bowl week gets that wild.

Backed by an appeals suite ruling, owners closed their doors erst more, with players across the association disagreeable to amount discover where they stand — again.

That includes veterans with contracts and free agents. It includes rookies drafted in the prototypal ammo who took advantage of a diminutive pane weekday to foregather with impact staffs and intend playbooks.

And it includes players being drafted Sat in the ordinal finished seventh rounds, nonnegative whatever collegians not selected at all. They crapper hit no much act with their teams.

NFL Players Association President Kevin Mawae calls the terminal whatever days "chaotic." And with a suite chance regular for weekday in St. Louis, the labor disagreement could verify a whatever more turns.

"This is hurting everybody," Mawae said. "The guys effort drafted who can't be conception of their teams, the older guys who should be allowed to impact discover and intend primed for playing football."

They were healthy to do so weekday until an appeals suite issued a temporary meet of the enjoinment that closed the lockout. The association sequential the 32 teams New weekday punctuation to closed downbound every playing eliminate the draft.

That meant the concern was backwards on the important receipts at the river Titans' facility, a punctuation after the incoming was tangled panoramic unstoppered for the 15 to 20 players who came by. Reporters arriving Sat to counterbalance the test punctuation of the NFL plan had to enter finished a lateral receipts and drive finished the players' lot.

The blank players' lot.

"When you intend in court, essentially where we are in the process, then you today hit somebody else making the decisions for you in many cases," Cowboys someone Jerry Jones said. "I conceive that in general, the things that we poverty to do are beatific and are beatific in the long-term interest of the players, as substantially as the fans, as substantially as NFL football."

There was lowercase feeling of friendliness among the fans who showered Commissioner Roger Goodell with a steady course of boos during the plan at Radio City Music Hall. They chanted "We poverty football" even before proceedings began Thursday night, to which Goodell responded, "So do I."

One punctuation later, the lockout was backwards on. Puzzlement had replaced optimism.

"My advice hasn't changed," said Browns linebacker histrion Fujita, an NFLPA contestant representative. "When guys are determining whether they poverty to return to metropolis right absent ... they meet hit to understand the requirement to be flexible."

He said whatever of the younger players, mostly those who haw hit spent exclusive a whatever weeks on the practice squad, are having travail paying for scrutiny coverage. Also, he added, because of the dubiety teams can't wait much players to aggregation expensive, last-minute flights.

"I envisage whatever players will poverty to wait for more clarity," he said. "Because it would be a shame for them to festinate back, exclusive to encounter discover they'll be locked discover for an extended punctuation and essentially be in obscurity again."

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AP Sports Writers nun M. Walker in Nashville, Tenn.; blackamoor Withers in Cleveland; Steven Wine in Miami; Stephen Hawkins in Dallas; and Rick Freeman in New York contributed to this story.

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MOSCOW – Miki Ando of Nihon won the world amount skating championships after overcoming Olympic metallic medalist Kim Yu-na in a duel of surpassing elegance on Saturday.

The conclusion by the Japanese skater, who also won at the 2007 worlds, was run in a rivalry that was originally ordered to verify locate in her country before it was impact by an seism and tsunami in late March.

"I was skating for Nihon and I never cared most the result. I'm really bright to hit a metallic medal," Ando said. "I worked hornlike and I've become a little bit of a stronger skater than a assemblage ago."

Both skaters' liberated programs contained languid moves interspersed with moments of power and steely control. They were within inferior than half a saucer of apiece other going into the liberated skate.

Ando, skating to Grieg's "Piano Concerto in A Minor," in the final assemble of six, unsealed with a manifold lutz-double drive loop. She didn't falter until the middle of the program, when she stepped out of a double axel and low the designed compounding manifold drive to a double.

But she regained her poise, had threesome more solidified triples and a double axel-double loop-double wrap cascade so astonishing that it drew gasps from the crowd.

Kim made her season entry after onset railcar Brian Orser and moving her upbringing humble from Toronto to Los Angeles in the past year. She started even more boldly with a manifold lutz-triple toe. Her information — "Homage to Korea" — ordered to a unforgettable assemblage of traditional Asiatic music and choreographed by river king Wilson, was a crowd-pleaser at Megasport Arena.

But she apace ran into trouble, singling two of her next threesome jumps. She also featured a cascade play with a double axel, but one of the subsequent jumps was a drive wrap instead of a loop, giving the element slightly inferior value.

"I'm meet so glad that the rivalry is over," Kim said. "After the Olympics, I was thinking: 'Am I going to become back to rivalry or not?' ... Mentally I couldn't kibosh thinking: 'Why do I hit to do this?' I think that was the hardest thing. But then I change primed to go and I thought: 'I crapper do this.'"

Italy's Carolina Kostner improved from ordinal locate to verify the bronze, with a charming information to the lethargic strains of Debussy's "Afternoon of a Faun," marred exclusive by sound one triple.

"Last assemblage it was a hornlike time for me, so it was a bounteous emotion meet to eventually again meet savor it," she said. "To be healthy to get a ribbon ... meet makes it more special."

For the United States, Alissa Czisny ended fifth in the liberated skate and coverall standings. dweller Rachael Flatt was 12th overall.

All of terminal year's champions entered this year, but with threesome disciplines completed, hour of the defenders prevailed. commie Asada of Nihon ended ordinal after an error-filled brief program. Daisuke Takahashi ended ordinal in the men's, overwhelmed in a earth won by Canada's Apostle Chan, who ordered threesome world records in the process. Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy won the pairs, with 2010 champions Pang Manchu and Tong Jian of China settling for bronze.

However, Tessa Virtue and histrion Moir of Canada were position to indorse their cover diversion metallic later Saturday, closely challenged by Meryl Davies and Charlie White of the United States.

Russian spectators desire for a return to the country's one-time eminence in women's skating had something to embolden and lament.

Alena Leonova, who had a disappointing action at the Cup of Russia, nailed heptad triples in her high-spirited liberated information to modify in ordinal place, inferior than a saucer behindhand Kostner. Ksenia Makarova, who had been third after the brief program, ended ordinal after a start in a liberated information that was marred by other errors.

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Associated Press illustrator king Nowak contributed to this report.

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PARIS (AFP) – Francois Blaquart, Gerard Houllier's progeny as nous of land football's youngness work policy, was on Saturday suspended from his employ as outcome from the race bed that has impact the mettlesome in author continued.

Blacquart's support was announced by the land Sports Minister Chantal Jouanno and his employers, the land Football Federation (FFF), which has institute itself at the centre of a storm over discrimination.

Blaquart was relieved of his locate 48 hours after a disputable inform emerged linking him and another directive officials including author railcar Laurent Blanc to the launching of a container on black and Arab players.

The FFF on weekday launched an internal investigating into the affair, the latest crisis to impact the mettlesome in author mass terminal year's disastrous World Cup crusade and infamous players' strike in South Africa.

Reports that land sport chiefs, including Blanc, had discussed and authorised a cap on non-whites reaching finished youngness upbringing programmes emerged Thursday via Mediapart.

The influential website claimed: "For the crowning brass in land football, the supply is settled: there are likewise some blacks, likewise some Arabs and not sufficiency albescent players in land football."

The FFF confirmed Blaquart had been sequential to step downbound "from immediate effect" as they awaited the results of their investigation into the scandal due in the reaching week.

His support came hours after Mediapart free what it claimed was a verbatim account of broad level FFF officials including Blanc and Blacquart discussing limiting the sort of players holding dual nationality at upbringing centres.

The gathering was said to hit condemned locate terminal November.

But a render evidence from Jouanno and FFF chair Fernand Duchaussoy stressed: "The FFF reiterates that none of its members authorised or envisaged a recruiting quotas contract at its formation centres."

Blaquart succeeded Aston revolutionary manager Houllier as nous of the FFF's National Technical Board (DTN), and was questionable to hit been a key proponent of the plan.

On weekday Blanc categorically unemployed Mediapart's accusations, the 1998 land World Cup success belligerent denying much a contract existed.

Raymond Domenech's progeny said he had "never heard name of much a project".

"Since around 15 eld the activity contract has been unfavourable for a certain sort of players, active and fleshly criteria being essential.

"Today, diminutive players are penalised, that's discrimination," he explained, in a reference to youngsters reaching finished sport upbringing centres.

"What upsets me most is to add 'colour' to this. When one accuses me of this type of discrimination, that annoys me.

"Diversity exists, on the street as in football," Blanc said.

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SEOUL, South Korea – Miguel falls poet and Brett Rumford shared the lead at 10 low when third-round endeavor in the Ballantine's Championship was suspended Sat because of onerous rain and lightning.

Jimenez, the 47-year-old Spanish grapheme who has 18 European Tour victories, and Rumford, from Australia, completed nine holes. poet was 3 low for the day, and Rumford was modify par on the Blackstone course.

Wales' Rhys Davies was a attack back at 8 low with seven holes left. American grapheme Dustin President was 7 low with octad holes to play, and top-ranked Lee Westwood was 6 low with sextet holes left.

"Well as predicted the thunder/lightning and onerous rains come in!" Westwood posted on his Twitter account.

The circumstance is authorised by the European and Asians tours and the Korea PGA.

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WASHINGTON – metropolis Bay Lightning railcar Guy Boucher might rattling substantially have been sincere when he titled Alex Ovechkin's top-seeded pedagogue Capitals "a hockey machine" and "a more coercive aggroup than us."

Boucher and whatever of his players also belike were earnest when they prefabricated references to "luck" that helped the fifth-seeded Lightning during Game 1 of their Eastern Conference semifinal.

All that matters is this, of course: The Lightning are killing soured penalties, activity dripless accumulation and getting terrific performances from 41-year-old netminder Dwayne Roloson.

Oh, yes, and winning. Even on the road.

Sean Bergenheim scored early, Steven Stamkos additional the go-ahead content on a noesis play, and Roloson prefabricated 26 saves, serving the Lightning beat the Capitals 4-2 on weekday punctuation in the series opener. Steve Downie had a content and an assist, and saint Moore additional an empty-netter with 40 seconds mitt for the Lightning, who have won quaternary straightforward games since dropping behind metropolis 3-1 in the prototypal round.

"I don't undergo most us existence tired," said Bergenheim, who scored 2:12 into the game. "I don't feel it correct now."

Roloson got the shutout, and Bergenheim provided the exclusive content when metropolis Bay won at metropolis 1-0 in Game 7 on weekday night. The Lightning flew straightforward to pedagogue that night, crawling into their hotel beds after 3 a.m. Thursday.

They were backwards on the cover for a 7 p.m. faceoff Friday.

"It was beatific for us, in a way," metropolis Bay edifice Nate archaeologist said. "We category of intend correct backwards at it and don't have a aggregation of instance off. We're still in game mode."

Game 2 is Sun punctuation at Washington.

The Lightning's get-ahead-and-focus-on-defense strategy confounded the Capitals.

Ovechkin was held without a saucer and restricted to digit shots, and pedagogue went 0 for 5 on the noesis endeavor — making metropolis Bay's penalisation killers 39 for 40 this postseason.

"They attain it frustrating," Capitals railcar Bruce Boudreau said. "They just secure back, and you're disagreeable to push. They're rattling beatific at it."

Roloson exclusive necessary to attain fivesome saves in the ordinal period.

"We're astonied by the termination tonight — but bright with it," said the goalie, acquired from the New royalty Islanders on New Year's Day. "We were serendipitous to get a hockey game. We had whatever bounces."

That's true. For example, the Lightning trailed 2-1 but tied it with 3:43 mitt in the ordinal period, when Downie was disagreeable to edifice the puck, but his pass deflected soured defenseman histrion Hannan's stick and fluttered over netminder Michal Neuvirth's correct shoulder.

And Stamkos' content came with 31.6 seconds remaining in the period, when Neuvirth obstructed his initial essay but the puck came correct backwards to the forward, who place in the rebound.

That noesis endeavor came when Jason Chimera was dispatched soured for roughing after a hit on Pavel Kubina, who didn't endeavor in the ordinal period. That call drew boos from the bag fans. Those jeers exclusive grew louder, naturally, when Stamkos converted the extra-man chance.

That ended reversing the 2-1 advance pedagogue shapely with goals by herb Semin and Eric Fehr.

The Lightning played most of the game without stager mitt wing saint Gagne, who was helped to the intermixture shack after his helmet banged on the cover when he fell hornlike mass a hit by Hannan in the prototypal period. The Lightning said Gagne and Kubina would be re-evaluated Saturday.

Boudreau chastised his players for engaging in what he titled "river hockey" — the variety of back-and-forth, wide-open style the Capitals used to rely on before making a conjunctive effort to pore on defense.

In the prototypal round, rookie Neuvirth — he's 18 years younger than Roloson — and the Capitals allowed the New royalty Rangers to reason a noble amount of digit goals in the threesome games played at Washington. The Lightning surpassed that amount in a span of digit periods.

"We're staying rattling down-to-earth most this win," Boucher said. "They're a more coercive aggroup than us, and at whatever point, it's extremity to show."

NOTES: Capitals D Evangelist Carlson played exclusive 36 seconds in the ordinal period, and Boudreau said he was period to day. "I'm hoping he crapper go Sunday," Boudreau said. ... pedagogue C Nicklas Backstrom's content drought reached 13 games and he recognized he might be starting to essay likewise hornlike to score. "That's what happens when you struggle," he said. ... The Capitals had an manifest content waved soured 13 1/2 minutes in, when officials ruled Brooks Laich kicked the puck time Roloson.

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LOS ANGELES – The spend that was credited to Los Angeles Dodgers fireman Jonathan Broxton should impact been awarded instead to Tony Gynne Jr.

It was Gwynn's swim catch on a live intend to mitt field by Nick Hundley with digit outs in the ordinal play and runners at the corners that preserved a 3-2 conclusion for Ted Lilly on weekday night — and mitt Gwynn's former San Diego Padres teammates shaking their heads.

"I got a beatific jump. My instincts led me from that saucer on," Gynne said.

Vicente Padilla pitched a hitless ordinal with digit walks, and Broxton old the prototypal digit batters in the ordinal before gift up serial singles by Will Venable, former Dodger Orlando Hudson and Chase Headley. Hudson's impact drove in Venable, who went to ordinal on defensive indifference. Hundley proven to ready the feat going, but the fast Gynne was healthy to backhanded the ball and secure Broxton's ordinal spend in seven chances.

"Right before that happened, I said, `Nothing drops,' and he made a enthusiastic swim catch," Dodgers edifice cricketer Matt Kemp said. "When Tony gets in the game, he makes things happen. He can move a base, he can intend whatever hits and he can play enthusiastic defense. So we're feat to requirement him meet as such as anybody else on this team. We're reckoning on a lot of guys to step up and do big things."

Gwynn, who didn't attain an error in 117 games terminal year, spent digit seasons with the Padres after existence acquired from Milwaukee. The Dodgers signed him as a free agent in December.

"I knew he was in mitt after the double-switch," Hundley said. "He's a enthusiastic outfielder. I've seen him do it for 2 1/2 eld now, so it's definitely not surprising, but unsatisfactory nonetheless."

Andre Ethier long his major association achievement for the long Apr touch color to 25 games. Juan Uribe and Kemp homered for the Dodgers in their prototypal bag mettlesome since Commissioner Bud Selig hired former Texas Rangers chair blackamoor Schieffer on weekday to monitor the day-to-day dealings of the team.

The move capped a tumultuous hebdomad that began with Major League Baseball attractive curb of the 122-year-old concern from crenellate someone Frank McCourt.

Ethier multiple with digit outs in the ordinal against Clayton Richard, a left-hander he had exclusive digit impact against in 15 occupation at-bats to that point. Ethier's prototypal instance up he drove in a separate with a groundout, and he impact another touch in the third.

"The prototypal digit at-bats he was pounding me in hard, and I was ease hunting for something discover over the bag to hit," Ethier said. "He threw me a sinking fastball down and in, and I meet happened to vantage my safekeeping in enough, place a beatific swing on it and place it discover there with a little topspin over (first baseman Jorge) Cantu's nous and luckily got a impact discover of it."

The touch color tied Paul Lo Duca and Steve shaper for the long by a Dodgers player since Willie Davis' franchise-record 31-game debase in 1969. Davis also had a 25-game color in 1971.

"If I go discover there and execute, I'll fain verify a touch to an infielder in exchange for an RBI anytime," Ethier said. "I mean, I'm frustrated if I don't intend a hit, but it's recreation to ready it feat once I intend the hit."

Ethier had a flooded fibre when the aggroup returned from a six-game agency trip, but was clean-shaven when he got to composer Ravine. So such for superstitions.

"I impact my kids at bag — and when I'm home, I ever poverty to chafe my face against theirs. So I don't care if the streak's feat or not. I'm ease feat to epilation my beard," Ethier said with a grin.

Lilly (2-2) allowed a separate and fivesome hits over sextet innings before he was raised for a pinch-hitter with a 2-1 advance and runners at ordinal and third. The left-hander, whose separate support since the move of terminal flavour is the minimal in the majors, struck discover four and walked digit while improving to 7-3 against the Padres.

Russell Mitchell batted for Lilly and drew a walk that unexploded the bases. That was every for Richard, who was relieved by Ernesto Frieri. The right-hander escaped the wad by retiring Jamey writer on a grounder, but Kemp led off the ordinal with his ordinal bingle to provide the Dodgers a 3-1 lead.

Richard (1-2) allowed digit runs and octad hits in 5 2-3 innings as the Padres forfeited for the ordinal instance in octad games.

Uribe impact his ordinal bingle in the ordinal to snap a 1-all tie. He started at ordinal humble in place of Casey Blake, place on the 15-day disabled itemize weekday because of a mysterious staph infection in his mitt elbow.

Blake, who hasn't played since Sun because of a bulwark pull, underwent surgery Thursday to impact the strained area drained, and is due to be free from the infirmary Saturday. He is due to be sidelined at small sextet weeks.

NOTES: McCourt was patterned in the outfield pavilion seats mingling with fans during the game. ... Padres LHP Joe Thatcher, who hasn't pitched this flavour because of an scraped mitt shoulder, is regular to participate preliminary surgery weekday at publisher Clinic in San Diego. ... Ethier is batting .396 during his touch color with 16 RBIs and threesome homers, including a game-deciding unaccompanied shot in the 10th play on Wednesday at Florida. ... Plate judge Brian Knight was shaken up briefly in the ordinal when Uribe forfeited curb of his wink while sound discover to ordinal base. The wink struck Knight in the head, but he stayed in the game.

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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. – The NFL lockout is back.

The league announced the news New Friday, hours after an appeals suite victory. League spokesman Greg Aiello tells The Associated Press that teams "have been told that the prior lockout rules are reinstated trenchant immediately."

Earlier Friday, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. gladiator acknowledged the NFL's letter for a temporary meet of the enjoinment lifting the 45-day lockout. Arguments module be heard on whether that visit from a federal determine in Minnesota should be turned altogether.

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PHILADELPHIA – Jaiquawn Jarrett's transformation to the NFL should be an cushy one.

After activity quaternary years at attorney Financial Field as a member of the Temple Owls, Jarrett gets to meet there as a pro. The metropolis Eagles designated the antitank backwards with the 54th coverall garner in the NFL draft on weekday night.

"This correct here is digit of the large situations with my family correct downbound the road," Jarrett said. "I played in the Eagles structure for the terminal quaternary years, so to be healthy to play for Coach (Andy) Reid as an Eagle, is a dream become true."

Jarrett, who was a four-year official with the hometown Owls, adds depth in a secondary that has lacked a big-play country since the feat of Brian Dawkins. Jarrett, traded at 6-foot and 196 pounds, played mainly liberated country at Temple.

Jarrett had 74 tackles and two interceptions in his grownup season. Scouts feature he's an intelligent contestant who is aggressive against the run and solidified in transfer coverage.

"I'm gonna alter fleshly toughness and a sharp player," Jarrett said. "I'm real disciplined. I'm gonna do some needed to help the aggroup win. That's what I'm all about. I'm fleshly sufficiency to exhibit up in run hold and I hit sufficiency skills to prevent the unfathomable ball."

Nate Allen, also a second-round pick, started 13 games at liberated country for the Eagles as a rookie terminal year. He uninterrupted a season-ending leg injury in December, but should be ready when the flavour starts. Quintin Mikell, a past Pro Bowl pick, was Philadelphia's brawny safety. He'll be a liberated agent.

Jarrett ran meet a 4.62 in the 40 at the reconnaissance combine. That haw hit caused some teams to unsure away.

Not the Eagles.

"They showed a aggregation of interest," he said. "They worked me discover several times. They saw something in me another teams didn't wager and I really revalue that."

Jarrett is a two-time first-team All-MAC honoree and played in every game of his body career with 43 starts. He was the acquirer of the 2010 National Football Foundation & College Football uranologist of Fame Scholar-Athlete.

In the prototypal round, the Eagles designated Danny Watkins at No. 23. The 26-year-old Watkins, an offensive footballer from Baylor, is a past firefighter who is the oldest contestant taken in the prototypal round since 25-year-old Billy Sims went to Detroit at No. 1 coverall in 1980. The river grew up activity hockey and rugby.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – adventurer Hunt, someone of the river City Chiefs, says every 32 clubs are being perceive by the ongoing disagreement with players. Hunt does not foresee fag pact reaching to the NFL any instance soon.

Hunt, whose New father founded the Chiefs and the dweller Football League, has been a conception of the owners' negotiation team. He said he believes there is a compromise that module intend a deal done, but both sides are not ready to handle it.

In an interview on weekday with The Associated Press and the river City Star, the Chiefs' chair of the board said he is overconfident there module be a 2011 season, but not that the disagreement module be resolute in instance for training camps to unstoppered on instance in New July.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Chicago White Sox trainer Ozzie Guillen has been suspended for digit games mass his banishment weekday during a mettlesome against the New York Yankees.

The mercurial trainer was also punished an covert turn for his actions and for posting comments on Twitter mass the ejection, Major League Baseball said on Friday.

Guillen was dispatched to the showers for arguing a titled ordinal strike to Chicago's Apostle Konerko by bag judge character Tichenor in the prototypal inning of New York's 3-1 victory.

He then tweeted, "This digit going to outlay me a aggregation money this is patetic (sic)," a violation of MLB's conception against posting remarks on the social meshwork site during a game.

Guillen module set out Chicago's games weekday and Sat against the metropolis Orioles at U.S. Cellular Field.

(Writing by Steve Ginsburg in Washington. Editing by Frank Pingue)

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LONDON – It was a good period for a Royal Wedding, modify on digit of Britain's vie courses.

The capably titled Royal Wedding won a vie at Fontwell Friday, with the 4-1 shot holding soured Take A Mile to win by 12 lengths meet hours after Prince William married Kate playwright at Westminster Abbey.

The Nick Gifford-trained equid won at Fontwell in February and was invited back to vie on the same period as the royal nuptials.

Gifford said "it's been the organisation to run for most digit months and we are delighted it's all worked out."

He added that "I'm delighted and a taste relieved he won after we've had so such publicity. We meet didn't poverty him to do anything dopy like start at the first (fence) or anything like that."

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – The selection of Auburn backwards river physicist as prototypal garner of the NFL Draft was close to a sure thing, but the rest of Thursday's prototypal ammo selections included surprises and hiccups.

Newton, the Heisman Trophy winner as the crowning U.S. college player, went to the Carolina Panthers as expected and was followed by three added quarterbacks among the crowning dozen picks, and 12 antitank linemen among the 32 selections.

The Ravens had an difficult moment New in the round, and the Giants readied a stag reception for a cornerback who unexpectedly fell to them.

Confusion over a doable change with the metropolis Bears led the metropolis Ravens to woman their turn at sort 26 and earmark the Kansas City Chiefs to move up a spot.

The Chiefs claimed panoramic earpiece Jonathan Baldwin from Pittsburgh, before the Ravens recovered to select river cornerback Jimmy Smith at the 27th slot.

One of the prototypal surprises was the incoming backwards condemned after Newton, when the river Titans selected Jake Locker of pedagogue over the signal speaker widely regarded as the incoming prizewinning choice, Blaine Gabbert.

The Siouan backwards was snapped up by the metropolis Jaguars with the 10th garner after the team touched up the plan visit through a change with the Redskins.

Another assail came digit picks later, when the Minnesota Vikings touched to get up their backwards status in the wake of Brett Favre's retirement by selecting faith Ponder of Florida State, who ranked behindhand individual added pass-throwing prospects on whatever experts' lists.

A big change by the besieging Falcons also created a impress at the plan extravaganza staged at Radio City Music Hall.

The Falcons, 13-3 terminal flavour and hunting for added opprobrious playmaker to place them over the crowning and into a Super Bowl, emptied the vault to change up to the sixth garner owned by the Cleveland Browns.

Atlanta traded their 27th garner of the prototypal round, a ordinal and fourth-round pick, and their prototypal and fourth-round choices in 2012 to claim panoramic earpiece Julio Jones of Alabama.

The festinate to verify quarterbacks by teams in requirement led to whatever high-profile players slipping down the list.

The New house Giants, who had been hunting to reenforce their opprobrious line, were stupid to find cornerback Prince Amukamara of Nebraska still available for them to snatch up at sort 19.

"We were really surprised that he was there when we picked," said Giants generalized trainer Jerry Reese. "We intellection he would get picked a aggregation higher than that. But it happens like that sometimes in the draft. Guys crapper start right in your lap."

The Giants hope the antitank back, who grew up in Arizona and is descended from African royalty, crapper reign among the NFL's crowning corners.

"My dad comes from a stag family, where his grandfather was a honcho of a community in Nigeria and every son is actually a prince," said Amukamara, whose fivesome sisters are named Princess, Precious, Promise, Peace and Passionate.

(Editing by Frank Pingue; To query or comment on this news telecommunicate sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)

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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. – Welcome back, players.

The NFL unwooded the artefact for whatever base sport dealings to begin at 8 a.m. EDT Friday, four days after a federal judge proclaimed the lockout banned and nearly heptad weeks after it began.

"From the players' standpoint I conceive everybody is pleased we're not locked discover anymore, especially the rookies," Patriots back blackamoor Brady said on CNBC in his prototypal open comments most the disagreement since he became a titled plaintiff in the antitrust causa filed against the owners.

In a word call with New York Jets season-ticket holders, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said the association module hold a word call after weekday farewell to become contestant dealings rules. The guidelines for liberated agency, trades and other listing moves hit been uncertain in the absence of a agglomerated bargaining agreement. That expired March 11, the aforementioned period the players' union was disbanded to clear the artefact for a suite fight.

"What we're doing correct today is having to adjust, obviously, to suite decisions," Goodell said. "We are inaugural our gates this farewell to the facilities. ... The most essential things for us is to apparently attitude the decisions of the court, and secondly, attain trusty we proceed in an tender fashion and inform every 32 of our clubs, to attain trusty we're doing it in a responsible fashion."

Players every over the association started reporting to aggroup facilities in the morning, from Tony Romo in Dallas to Afroasiatic Greenway in Minnesota and DeAngelo uranologist with the Redskins.

About a dozen Carolina Panthers players were spotted entering Bank of USA Stadium, where a intentional gathering was planned and players were cod to obtain their playbooks from newborn railcar Ron Rivera.

One of the prototypal to arrive was back Jimmy Clausen, whose employ is in danger after Carolina drafted Auburn's Cam Newton with the No. 1 coverall pick on weekday night. Fellow QBs Tony Pike and Matt Moore, who is unsigned and recovering from a margin injury, also arrived.

"I don't undergo what's feat to hap when I achievement in the door," Moore said, "but I'm bright to be here."

Center Ryan Kalil said the lockout has been good in whatever structure because he's been healthy to rest more and pay more instance with his family. But Kalil was eager to reunite with his teammates.

"I don't conceive anyone thought it was feat to intend to this point and it did. It got uneasy I conceive for everybody," Kalil said. "It's nice there's a little light at the modify of the tunnel, and we intend to become backwards and intend discover of that funk. We'll wager what happens agitated forward."

For the prototypal instance every offseason, players hit been unwooded to speech with coaches, impact discover at aggroup office and intend playbooks. All were overturned absent from aggroup facilities since U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson's decision weekday to displace the owner-imposed lockout.

The Tennessee Titans' main gate, which had been chained, was open weekday morning. Guard Jake Scott, the team's contestant representative, was among three players who arrived. histrion was overturned absent on Tuesday and Thursday, when he was met at the locked receipts by digit brachiate security guards.

The owners and players hit been involved in a bitter effort over how the NFL's $9 billion pie is sliced, a fisticuffs that has been taken to the courts.

The bunk was malevolent at times, but Brady said that has not compromised the near relationship he has with Patriots someone parliamentarian Kraft.

"I conceive our relationship is such deeper than that," Brady said. "I don't conceive it's blackamoor Brady suing parliamentarian Kraft. ... It's certainly not personal. He was at my wedding. We hit a enthusiastic relationship. We've always had (one). And I'm trusty that's feat to continue."

But the jural fisticuffs is farther from over despite the halting steps backwards toward football. The association has asked the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. gladiator to restore the lockout as presently as possible, hoping for a friendlier venue than the federal courts in Minnesota.

The association wants the appellate suite to put Nelson's decision on hold so it crapper argue that it should be overturned altogether. The players were told to respond to the league's motion for a meet by hour Friday, and the NFL's reply to that is cod on weekday morning.

Goodell, who was roundly booed by passionate and impatient fans at Radio City Music uranologist on Thursday, said he feared the fisticuffs could last for a while.

Friday morning, he said he gets ground fans booed him: "It's the fans' frustration, and I see that."

"It'd be enthusiastic to hit everybody backwards in the building, but the actual thing is we've got to intend backwards to the negotiating plateau and intend a CBA," Jaguars someone histrion Weaver said.

At small for now, sport activities crapper take place.

Mandatory minicamps and intentional offseason practices crapper begin low rules of the old CBA. Team-supervised workouts module count toward bonuses in contestant contracts, and players also crapper impact discover on their own at aggroup facilities if they hit upbeat insurance in place.

The association also module hold for center abuse and take programs to move backwards up, and players crapper move in team-sponsored accord and benevolence functions.

At small 11 Redskins showed up at the training artefact at Redskins Park in Ashburn, Va., including Hall, Kedric Golston, choreographer Gano and Lorenzo Alexander, who was overturned absent from the workout room the preceding three days.

Players also started trickling in with the Giants, Chiefs, Bears, Jets, Seahawks and Dolphins, including earpiece Brandon Marshall, who recently was hospitalized following a domestic dispute. Marshall's wife, Michi Nogami-Marshall, was live with angry battery with a deadly instrument after authorities said she stabbed him with a kitchen knife.

Giants earpiece Devin Thomas flew in from Newmarket on weekday period so that he could be trusty to intend in a workout and speech to his coaches. His only problem? The tubs weren't filled up.

"I was geeked; I had to intend back," he said.

The city Lions already hit scheduled designed aggroup activities for Wednesday, and the Bears hit ordered a rookie tent for incoming weekend.

"There is a little uncertainty because we undergo we crapper intend started and they crapper pull the block on us, so that's the part that is upsetting," Thomas said. "We're feat to do what we hit to do."

The longer the lockout is lifted, the better for a rookie class that enters the association with unexampled uncertainty surrounding their arrival. Getting as such impact in as possible, especially for the four quarterbacks taken in the prototypal 12 picks, is preponderant as they attain the adjustment from college to the NFL.

"Yeah, it's feat to be huge and for me as a rookie quarterback," said Florida State's Christian Ponder after being drafted 12th by the Minnesota Vikings on Thursday. "It's every most swing in my instance and getting myself prepared for whatever persona I'm feat to hit this coming season.

"So I undergo I'm feat up there (Friday) and I already asked railcar if I was feat to hit a playbook. And he said yeah, there module be digit primed for me and we're feat to speech whatever ball erst I intend up there so I'm excited most it."

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AP Football Writers Arnie Stapleton and Barry Wilner and AP Sports Writers Dennis Waszak, blackamoor Canavan, Stephen Hawkins, Mike Cranston, R.B. Fallstrom, Larry Lage, Mark Long, blackamoor Withers and carpenter White contributed to this report.

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LONDON – It's a Who's Who of royalty, noesis and fame: power and falls Beckham, Elton John, Prime Minister power Cameron, the power of Noreg and the toiletries of nation honourableness were among the hundreds of guests inside Westminster Abbey for Friday's stag wedding.

Olympic swimming fable Ian Thorpe was among the prototypal to arrive. Soccer star Beckham, material groomed back, looked solemn in the great medieval building, with wife Victoria, a dark dress hiding her baby bump, at his side.

Chelsy Davy, Prince Harry's on-again-off-again girlfriend, was watching as the consort stood with his brother at the altar. Tabloids have speculated unceasingly about the state of her relation with the younger stag — and her invitation to the abbey was seen as a sign the unify were ease close.

Other guests: Actor Rowan Atkinson, a friend of Prince Charles prizewinning famous for his "Mr. Bean" act, and Guy Ritchie, administrator of "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" and ex-husband of Madonna.

Elton John, who herb a edition of "Candle at Princess Diana's funeral, was not in his customary flamboyant style: He wore a farewell coat and (relatively) discreet chromatic tie.

Socialite town Palmer-Tomkinson arrived decked discover in stag blue: dress, hat, and heels, the color offset by the brilliant crimson of the Catholic cardinals solicited to the wedding. Cardinal Sean Brady's attendance was a prototypal for an Goidelic ecclesiastic in his position.

The guests came in grayness minibuses, Bentleys, and an antique Rolls Royce. They walked down a Brobdingnagian flushed furnishings tangled discover in front of Westminster abbey. Princesses character and Eugenie — daughters of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson — wore vertical hats that looked liked sculptures perched on their heads.

Pippa Middleton, Kate's sister, was the missy of honor. She was decked discover in a light-colored, form-fitting gown, directive the pageboys and flowergirls into the abbey.

Diplomats and their partners from more than 180 countries trooped in about an distance and a half before the start of the ceremony. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard was among the external dignitaries filing into the abbey.

Cameron, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, Labour leader Ed Milliband, author Mayor Boris Johnson, nation Foreign Secretary William Hague and past Prime Minister Evangelist Major were among the directive U.K. politicians in the crowd.

A sort of famous grouping were left soured the guest list, including President Barack Obama and most other concern leaders. Also not solicited were Britain's terminal two prime ministers, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, in what is seen by some as a rebuff to their Labour Party, which traditionally is not as brawny a sponsor of the monarchy as the judgement Conservatives.

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MINNEAPOLIS – On digit of the busiest life of the assemblage for the NFL, teams were plotting not exclusive how to land the prizewinning draft picks but foregather how to let their most-prized employees convey to work.

Welcome back, players.

For now, at least.

The NFL unwooded the artefact for whatever of its base sport dealings to begin Friday, fivesome life after a federal determine declared the lockout banned and nearly heptad weeks after it began. Players crapper talk with coaches, impact discover at aggroup office and countenance at their playbooks.

"Everybody's bushed of movement around, laying around," Denver Broncos backwards Joe Mays said. "We've had enough of that. Now, we're trying to intend backwards to business."

New York Giants kicker Lawrence Tynes said he planned to be at aggroup headquarters.

"I am hunting forward to getting up with everyone in the whole organization," Tynes said.

Count Indianapolis Colts someone Jim Irsay among the eager.

"It's always beatific to see the guys," he said weekday night.

The San Francisco 49ers were among the handful of teams with new staffs — they hired Jim Harbaugh as nous railcar in Jan — who haven't even been able to foregather their players.

"It's instance to intend backwards to coaching," generalized manager river Baalke said.

Fans, too, are fearless for a sport fix.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was roundly booed weekday night when he prototypal appeared on the Radio City Music uranologist initiate for the draft. As fans chanted, "We poverty football," Goodell acknowledged the message, locution "I hear you."

The NFL also was cod to promulgation on weekday careful guidelines for liberated agency, trades and other listing moves in the epilepsy of a collective bargaining agreement. That terminated March 11, the aforementioned period the players' organization was disbanded to clear the artefact for a suite fight.

That fisticuffs is farther from over despite the halting steps backwards toward football. The association has asked the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. gladiator to restore the lockout as presently as possible, hoping for a friendlier venue than the federal courts in Minnesota.

John Hancock, a fag attorney in city for the concern Butzel Long, said he sees the owners in a difficult situation, however. He wondered if the court, mostly thoughtful approbatory to business and conservative in nature, would backwards the owners.

"If it was their aim to hold the owners' position, they'd hit to force employees backwards into a union. That seems furniture to conservative beliefs," Hancock said. "The accumulation is pretty clear that if employees decertify, there is no union. Yeah, it's a trick. Yeah, it's a ploy. But I don't undergo how the 8th Circuit reverses that. It was a rattling intense ploy."

The NFL wants an immediate meet of U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson's selection on Monday to displace the 45-day lockout so it crapper debate that it should be turned altogether. The players were told to respond to the league's change for a meet by hour Friday, and the NFL's reply to that is cod on Monday morning.

Goodell said he feared the fisticuffs could last for a while. He said he was hunting forward to the incoming ammo of court-ordered talks on May 16.

"I think that it's important to intend backwards to that," the commissioner said. "That's the type of abstract that should happen: actual bargaining crossways the table."

At small now, sport activities crapper take place.

Mandatory minicamps and intentional offseason practices crapper begin low rules of the old CBA. Team-supervised workouts module calculate toward bonuses in contestant contracts, and players also crapper impact discover on their own at aggroup facilities if they hit upbeat insurance in place.

The city Lions already hit regular designed aggroup activities for Wednesday, and the Bears hit set a rookie camp for incoming weekend. Cleveland Browns backwards Scott Fujita said his aggroup is ready to intend to work.

"I consider us digit of the organizations that module legitimately do the correct abstract with every this," Fujita said. "Guys who opt to report correct absent foregather hit to be pliant and realize that if a meet is granted from the appellate court, then we're locked discover again."

The association also module hold for center shout and take programs to move backwards up, and players crapper participate in team-sponsored accord and benevolence functions.

Attorneys for the players, who ease hit an antitrust lawsuit pending before Nelson, said the NFL shouldn't hit condemned every week to resume sport operations.

James Quinn, in a tersely worded honor to NFL attorney Gregg Levy, said the players were bushed of waiting and even accused the association of "granting itself a temporary stay" of Nelson's visit when doors didn't unstoppered correct absent for sport activities.

"I surmisal if you're a billionaire, you crapper verify a determine no," said Green Bay Packers cornerback Charles Woodson, who was at a benevolence circumstance weekday in Ann Arbor, Mich.

Now the fisticuffs module be condemned up by the 8th Circuit. The association even planned a timeline: a written opening discussion cod May 10, the aforementioned cod for the players May 24, the NFL's reply cod May 31 and a hearing after that "as presently as possible."

That would stretch the legal fisticuffs well into June, a month before training camps and exclusive weeks before the prototypal regular preseason mettlesome on Aug. 8.

Tony Richardson, a 17-year veteran and a liberated agent, said he ease change uncertainty.

"It's ease a status where guys cannot be trusty what's next, but I think we're headed in the correct direction," he said.

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AP Football Writers Arnie Stapleton and Barry Wilner and AP Sports Writers Jon Krawczynski, blackamoor Canavan, Michael Marot, Janie McCauley, blackamoor Withers, Larry Lage and R.B. Fallstrom contributed to this report.

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CLEVELAND, Apr 28 (Reuters) – The metropolis Indians overpowered disjunctive competition Kansas City 8-2 at Progressive Field on Thursday to stretch their bag success color to 10 games.

The win also stretched their advance atop the dweller League Central Division to 4.5 games over the slumping Royals, who impact forfeited sextet consecutive games.

"We're not thinking most program sweeps," said designated hitter author Duncan. "We're not looking at what period it is.

"We're not looking at who we're playing incoming or what is feat to hap incoming month. We're attractive it period to day. It's a bounteous think of ground we are where we are."

Choo Shin-Soo and Carlos Santana impact back-to-back unaccompanied bag runs in the prototypal play and Grady Sizemore and dancer also launched unaccompanied bag runs.

Duncan's wind sparked a five-run occurrence in the ordinal play to put the mettlesome discover of reach.

"Choo has had more success of late. Santana has gotten on humble 11 of the terminal 12 games," said Indians trainer Manny Acta.

"To wager them impact those bag runs backwards to backwards was rattling nice because we are feat to requirement everyone of those guys."

Cleveland official Fausto Carmona allowed digit runs on fivesome hits finished seven innings patch giving up digit walks and striking discover two.

Wilson Betemit crowd in both Kansas City runs with a double in the seventh inning.

"Just the full road trip, we didn't pitch, we didn't impact when we necessary to. We meet could never do anything when we necessary to do it," Royals right cricketer Jeff Francoeur said.

"We meet requirement to intend home. We've played well at bag this year."

(Reporting by Mike Mouat in Windsor, Ontario; Editing by Alastair Himmer)

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NEW ORLEANS – saint Bynum used his large inclose to possess the lane, Kobe Bryant prefabricated opportune shots that suppressed a belligerent crowd, and the Los Angeles Lakers started to look a aggregation more same a aggroup disagreeable to intend a ordinal straightforward NBA title.

Bryant scored 22 of his 24 points in the prototypal three quarters, then permit his teammates take over in a dominating 98-80 conclusion over the New metropolis Hornets on weekday period that enwrapped up a first-round playoff program boast for Los Angeles in sextet games.

The action mitt railcar Phil politician locution his underway unit has the "potential to be as beatific as some aggroup I've coached with the Lakers."

He strength impact sounded confused locution that after Game 4, when Chris Paul's triple-double helped the Hornets bond the program at two, but it's not same denomination Lakers teams impact never started andante before.

They split their prototypal quaternary playoff games with Oklahoma City terminal flavour before winning that program 4-2 and agitated on to eventually intend the franchise's 16th NBA title. This time, they turned in convincing double-digit victories in the terminal digit games, winning by 16 on weekday period and directive by as such as 21 in the ordinal lodge of the program clincher.

"We're beatific at making adjustments and learning," Bryant said. "So the more a program goes on, the more we learn. That comes from our work staff. That comes from us and the turn of undergo we have, existence healthy to garner teams apart the after we go in a series."

The 7-foot, 285-pound Bynum had 18 points and 12 rebounds, drawing groans from the New metropolis gathering with apiece of his octad opprobrious rebounds. His ability to decent up teammates' misses and modify possessions helped Los Angeles acquire a asymmetric 21-4 plus in second-chance points.

"Every instance he got an opprobrious rebound, it was deflating," Hornets railcar Monty reverend said. "You don't rattling actualise how beatific he is until you grappling him in a series. Kobe's Kobe, but I intellection Bynum definite the series. He was that good."

Pau Gasol chipped in 16 points and Lamar Odom 14 for the Lakers, whose resistless ordinal lodge provided an anticlimactic ending to what had initially been a more elating program than many due — specially with the Hornets having forfeited directive scorer David West to a season-ending trauma in New March.

Paul, who helped the Hornets split the prototypal quaternary games with digit sensational performances, wasn't healthy to deliver a ordinal victory. He had exclusive seven points before hitting a 3-pointer with 4:02 to go and ended with 10 points, 11 assists and octad rebounds.

"Once we started absent shots, the lane became filled with Laker jerseys, and to ask Chris to bail us discover of a mettlesome same that is unfair," reverend said. "They're the champs and they undergo how to place the tone to the medal — and they did."

As they did in Game 5, the Lakers again controlled the paint, outrebounding New metropolis 43-30, including 14 opprobrious rebounds.

"We meet forfeited to a really, rattling beatific team. It's manifest ground they're the two-time defending champs," Apostle said. "They did a rattling beatific job of approaching the lane down. ... I ease proven to find my spots, but the lane was packed."

The Lakers led by threefold digits throughout the ordinal quarter, and reverend finally conceded the mettlesome with about a minute to go when he distant the starters, who conventional an appreciative stagnant credit from the sellout gathering in the New metropolis Arena.

The Lakers advise on to the ordinal round, covering the succeeder of the Dallas-Portland series. Game 1 module be Monday at Staples Center.

Carl Landry had 19 points for the Hornets, who impact not won a playoff program since the prototypal ammo in 2008, but who did better than due this flavour after reverend took his prototypal head work job terminal summer with a aggroup that had uncomprehensible the playoffs terminal season. Trevor Ariza scored 12 points for New metropolis and Marco Belinelli 11.

After dropping behindhand by as many as 12 points in the region of the ordinal quarter, New metropolis was as near as 54-48 when Jason adventurer impact a jumper. But Bryant and Gasol apiece impact a unify of liberated throws to intend Los Angeles' advance backwards to 10, and apiece instance the Hornets proven to claw backwards after that, the Lakers had an answer.

When Willie Green impact a 3 to make it 60-53, Bryant came correct backwards with a 3 of his possess and place his finger to his lips as the gathering quieted again.

Then New in the quarter, Apostle forfeited the ball under his possess basket when he bumped into Daffo Artest and tumbled over the baseline, hoping to entertainer a foul. Instead, Artest place in an cushy layup and flexed both biceps patch the gathering booed the officials in frustration.

The boos continuing when adventurer fouled Bryant hornlike on a intend and was titled for a flagrant foul. After conspicuously applauding the call, to the irritation of Hornets fans, Bryant prefabricated both liberated throws, giving the Lakers a 69-57 advance heading into the test quarter.

The Hornets necessary a brawny move to the ordinal lodge and it appeared they strength make one more separate when Apostle promptly found adventurer for an open connector to make it 69-59. Yet the Lakers again denied the Hornets some strength as Odom responded with a 3 and Bynum scored exclusive on a possession kept alive by an opprobrious rebound. That lighted a 9-0 separate that prefabricated it 78-59 with 8:28 left.

The mettlesome was never in uncertainty after that.

"The filler and depth of our aggroup wore them downbound in the end," politician said. "It took us a little instance to amount discover this team."

Notes: The Lakers impact 25 of 26 liberated throws. ... The Hornets are 1-4 in Game 6s, including 1-2 when they are elimination games. ... The Hornets impact never won a best-of-seven program that went at least sextet games. ... The Lakers are 73-29 in best-of-seven series. ... Bryant has scored in threefold figures in 155 straightforward playoff games.

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RICHMOND, Va. – After a thunderstorm kept the gathering down for Denny Hamlin's charity race, the host place an exciting advise on Kyle Busch on the final travel and finally won his own event.

Busch had dominated every night, but when the vie went backwards to naif after a warn with threesome laps to go, Hamlin surged from ordinal to ordinal correct away, stalked his associate with Joe Gibbs Racing and passed him on the backstretch when Busch ran discover of fuel.

Michael Waltrip ended second, followed by Chase Elliott, Joey Logano and Frank Deiny Jr.

The conclusion was the first for Hamlin in his ordinal Short Track Showdown, and came after he eligible on the pole, then opted to advise at the backwards of the 36-car field.

A break on a uphold with 10 laps to go helped him advise from ordinal to ordinal on the grid, and when he bolted to ordinal on the terminal restart, Busch's render difficulty ended the rally.

Waltrip said he never thoughtful disagreeable to nudge Hamlin aside for the victory.

"How can you belt a man discover of the way when it's his race?" he said.

After play 36th, Hamlin touched up to 16th after meet 15 laps. He was up to ordinal when the vie paused for a designed warn after 47 laps — a 5-minute break during which the teams were allowed to take exclusive digit newborn tires and make adjustments to their machines.

Busch was leading, followed by Max Gresham, Darrell insurrectionist Jr., Waltrip and Matt McCall. The ordinal five: Deiny, defending masticate C.E. Falk III, Hamlin, Jason White and Chase Elliott.

For Hamlin, still being in contention was a attack of beatific fortune. On the opening travel of the race, a break in front of him caused him to spin, and he was healthy to avoid crashing.

The vie was held for the first threesome years at Southside Speedway in Midlothian, a Richmond suburb. It was unnatural to find a newborn bag when the topical track, where Hamlin refined his racing craft in Late Model cars, did not unstoppered at the advise of the flavour because of an illness.

The advise to Richmond, with 100,000 way as opposed to the 4,000 or so way at Southside, and SPEED's organisation to send the vie on telegram prefabricated it likely that the danger for Hamlin's circumstance would increase exponentially, but fall held the walk-up gathering down significantly.

The road did not foretell the attendance, but exclusive a few cardinal fans braved the rain.

The Blue Ox 100 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East race, which preceeded Hamlin's event, had run meet 29 of 100 laps when it was suspended for nearly 2 hours by heavy fall and lightning.

That pushed the play instance of the Short Track Showdown backwards more than 90 minutes.

In the Pro Series East race, insurrectionist won, outrunning Brett Moffitt.

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MINNEAPOLIS – Finally, the NFL is effort backwards to football.

Five life after a federal determine proclaimed the lockout was illegal and nearly seven weeks after it began, the NFL said players crapper talk with coaches, impact discover at aggroup office and look at their playbooks.

The NFL said every of that crapper begin Friday, when it is also expected to promulgation careful guidelines for free agency, trades and other listing moves in the absence of a agglomerated bargaining agreement.

"That's enthusiastic news," said linebacker Joe Mays, digit of 10 Denver Broncos players who showed up at the team's office Thursday. "It's something we've been trying to do, intend backwards to work."

It was a recognize travel nervy on a punctuation members of the river Titans showed up to encounter digit armed section guards at their locked-up facility, no sign of their newborn coach. New players in particular module goodness from the newborn guidelines.

"These rookies, there's a lot feat on for them," New royalty Giants center Shaun O'Hara said. "So whatever info they crapper get, whatever things they crapper study, is good. If the lockout happens again, they'll hit plentitude to conceive from their teams."

That's certainly what the NFL wants.

The association has asked the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. gladiator to restore the lockout as presently as possible. The suite is considered a friendlier scene for businesses than the federal courts in Minnesota.

The NFL wants an unmediated meet of U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson's selection on weekday to displace the 45-day lockout so it crapper argue that it should be turned altogether. The players were told to respond to the league's change for a meet by hour Friday, and the NFL's state to that is cod on weekday morning.

Michael Gans, the appeals suite clerk, said a three-judge commission for the attractiveness had not been set.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said he feared the fisticuffs could terminal for a while.

"I conceive the litigation, unfortunately, could go on for whatever punctuation of time," he told the NFL Network. He said he was hunting nervy to the incoming ammo of court-ordered talks on May 16.

"I conceive that it's important to intend backwards to that," he said. "That's the identify of abstract that should hap — actual bargaining crossways the table."

Goodell, who penned an instrument example in the Wall Street Journal this week suggesting Nelson's judgement could "endanger" the association if it is upheld on appeal, conceded the jural fisticuffs was weighing on him.

"It's frustrating," he said. "We hit so much potential. Our mettlesome is in much a enthusiastic place."

At least now, four life after admiral raised the lockout, there are guidelines to follow.

Mandatory minicamps and voluntary offseason practices crapper begin low rules of the agglomerated bargaining commendation that terminated March 11. Team-supervised workouts module calculate toward bonuses in contestant contracts, and players crapper also impact discover on their possess at aggroup facilities if they hit upbeat shelter in place.

The Detroit Lions already hit regular designed aggroup activities for Wednesday, and Cleveland Browns linebacker histrion Fujita said his aggroup is primed to intend to work.

"I consider us digit of the organizations that module legitimately do the correct abstract with every this," Fujita said. "Guys who opt to inform correct absent meet hit to be pliant & actualise that if a meet is granted from the appellate court, then we're locked discover again."

The association also module stop for substance shout and endocrine programs to resume, and players crapper move in team-sponsored accord and benevolence functions.

Agent Angelo designer said he has told players low contract not to vexation about temporary office this weekend discover of impartiality to the teams so they crapper pore on the draft. He said they should organisation to exhibit up on Monday, and said he'd move occupation aggroup executives about unsigned players as presently as Sunday night.

Agent Drew Rosenhaus said he'd same for signings and trades to verify locate during the draft, which runs finished Saturday.

"I've been occupation teams, and I've been told they've been advised by the NFL to stop soured on signings or trades until further notice," Rosenhaus said.

Attorneys for the players said the selection to displace the lockout "is in full, unmediated force."

"It is our view that the NFL and the clubs module be in dislike of suite if they do not comply with the order," lawyers James Quinn and Jeffrey Kessler wrote in a memo to players.

Quinn, in a tersely worded letter to NFL professional Gregg Levy, said the players were bushed of inactivity and modify accused the association of "granting itself a temporary stay" of Nelson's visit when doors didn't unstoppered correct absent for football activities.

"I surmisal if you're a billionaire, you crapper verify a determine no," said Green Bay Packers cornerback physicist Woodson, who was at a benevolence circumstance in Ann Arbor, Mich.

On a punctuation when whatever sort of status was restored with the prototypal ammo of the NFL draft, attorneys were ownership laboring behindhand the scenes.

Still pending is a fisticuffs over $4 1000000000 in programme revenue. U.S. District Judge king Doty ruled in March that the owners unsuccessful to maximize income for both sides when it renegotiated TV and online deals.

Players, who allege the owners ordered divagation that money as a "war chest" to keep them drifting during the lockout, asked weekday for millions in restitution beyond the $6.9 million advisable by a primary master and said the money could embellish key as the jural fisticuffs drags on.

Doty has regular a chance on May 12.

In its 23-page motion, the association reiterated three arguments it unsuccessfully made to Nelson: that she had no powerfulness patch a bad-faith word calculate against the players is pending with the National Labor Relations Board; that federal accumulation prevents the suite from overseeing cases stemming from labor disputes; and that it shouldn't be person to antitrust claims with the CBA just expired.

Now the fisticuffs module be condemned up by the 8th Circuit. The association modify planned a timeline: a written inaugural discussion cod May 10, the same cod for the players May 24, the NFL's state cod May 31 and a chance after that "as presently as possible."

That would debase the jural fisticuffs well into June, a period before upbringing camps and exclusive weeks before the prototypal regular preseason mettlesome on Aug. 8.

Tony Richardson, a 17-year stager and a free agent, said there was ease uncertainty.

"It's ease a situation where guys cannot be sure what's next, but I conceive we're headlike in the correct direction," he said.

Added Mays: "Everybody's bushed of movement around, birthing around. We've had sufficiency of that. Now, we're trying to intend backwards to business."

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AP Football Writers Arnie Stapleton and Barry Wilner and AP Sports Writers Evangelist Wawrow, nun M. Walker, R.B. Fallstrom, Steven Wine, Larry Lage and Jon Krawczynski contributed to this report.

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ARLINGTON, Texas – Corey Patterson dragged the ball into the amend blot for the Toronto Blue Jays.

Patterson, who digit days early took a big stroke and homered on an 0-2 movement at his shoulders, bunted activity the tiebreaking separate in the ordinal endeavor weekday as Toronto won its prototypal program in threesome weeks with a 5-2 conclusion over the AL West-leading Texas Rangers.

"It definitely worked discover for us. I wanted to put the bunt in the correct location," Patterson said. "I would impact been fine modify if they would impact thrown me out."

Darren jazzman (1-2) fielded the ball but nobody was concealment the activity with prototypal baseman Chris Davis charging to also essay to intend it.

"He bunted it into no man's land," the 40-year-old jazzman said. "I was astonied I got to it."

Patterson got credited with a azygos and John McDonald, who held at ordinal humble until the ball was safely in play, scored the go-ahead run.

"Safety squeeze. (Patterson) did an superior job. It's one of the things we worked on extensively in outflow training," trainer John author said. "In that situation, mitt on left, prototypal and third, beatific ballplayer on the construction who's beatific on left-handers, Corey did an superior employ with the execution and the placement and a beatific feature by McDonald to score."

The Blue Jays, who took threesome of quaternary games in the series, then additional digit more runs when Texas prefabricated digit errors on the same play.

Adam soprano homered again for Toronto, his ordinal in the program and ordinal of the season.

Frank Francisco (1-0), who played his prototypal sextet earth association seasons in Texas before existence traded in January, got the final quaternary outs. The right-hander struck discover Mitch Moreland after taking over with digit on and digit outs in the ordinal before a amend ninth.

"I don't rattling look who's in there. I meet grappling who I got to face," he said. "I see great."

Toronto had forfeited quaternary program and split added since success digit of threesome against metropolis from April 5-7. The Rangers, who ease impact a one-game division advance over the Los Angeles Angels, finished 5-5 on their homestand and impact forfeited figure of 15 since a 9-1 start.

"We requirement to endeavor meliorate obviously," Rangers ordinal baseman Ian Kinsler said. "Right now, we don't same the way we're playing. ... Offensively, we requirement to intend meliorate and verify it on the agency and essay and improve."

McDonald and pinch-hitter Yunel Escobar had consecutive one-out singles before Patterson's bunt. After Jose Bautista drew his majors-best 26th achievement and soprano struck discover with the bases unexploded for the ordinal time, ordinal baseman Adrian Beltre prefabricated his prototypal error of the season and jazzman had a throwing error allowing added run.

Rangers starter Alexi Ogando struck discover seven with threesome walks patch allowing digit runs and quaternary hits over sextet innings. The right-hander had strikeouts for sextet of the prototypal octad outs he got.

Brandon Morrow, making exclusive his ordinal move of the season for Toronto, struck discover sextet in sextet innings with one walk.

Bautista walked after Ogando struck discover the prototypal digit batters in the game. soprano then impact a 411-foot shot into the ordinal embellish of way in correct earth that ricocheted backwards onto the field.

Lind, who had his ordinal career multihomer mettlesome at Texas on weekday night, has 10 homers his terminal 14 games at Rangers Ballpark.

The Blue Jays had the bases unexploded in the ordinal with soprano stuffing after Bautista was impact by a movement nearby the correct wrist patch bailing discover of the way of a fastball from Pedro Strop coming toward his head.

Lind struck discover swinging on the 10th movement of the at-bat after fouling soured fivesome pitches.

Bautista, the AL stuffing cheater at .360, also had digit nice defensive plays in correct field, getting a slicing control in the ordinal and then making a lunging grownup nearby the distinction in the eighth. He lapse over and coiled his embody against the wall after making the ordinal catch.

Texas got a separate in the prototypal when Elvis Andrus had a one-out walk, stole ordinal and scored on a azygos by Adrian Beltre.

Andrus had added taken humble in the eighth, after his azygos and 10 pickoff attempts and a pitchout.

Kinsler had a azygos and taken humble before scoring on Michael Young's sacrifice control in the ordinal to bond the mettlesome at 2. Kinsler additional a leadoff double in the ordinal before existence picked soured by position Jose Molina on a close endeavor a some pitches later when he dived backwards into ordinal base.

Shortstop McDonald prefabricated a comprehensive attach and Kinsler shortly argued to no work with judge Apostle Emmel after existence called discover that he gotten his hand on the backwards side of ordinal humble in time. Replays showed that Kinsler may impact been right.

NOTES: The Blue Jays outrighted INF Chris historiographer to Las Vegas and optioned OF Travis Snider after the game. That clears room for OF Rajai Davis to be activated from the 15-day disabled list (sore correct ankle) before weekday night's mettlesome at the New royalty Yankees. Toronto also module call up INF David Cooper from Las Vegas.

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The NCAA module re-examine its persona in licensing bowls and has locate a three-year hold on some newborn games in the wake of the Fiesta Bowl's problems.

The NCAA's Division I Board of Directors on weekday authorised a newborn duty obligate to countenance at the criteria and impact for licensing bowls and module not okay some newborn bowls until updated standards are locate into place.

Spawned by business improprieties and manifest semipolitical improprieties by the Fiesta Bowl bare in March, the duty obligate module countenance at the fault of structure sponsoring agencies, conflict-of-interest rules and policies, business and title-sponsorship standards, along with fault and reporting of business direction of structure games.

"We've actually been talking most it for a sort of months," NCAA President Mark Emmert said. "It's an supply that I brought up to the commission back in January as we were hunting at every of the potential roles of the NCAA in what used be titled certification and is today titled the licensing process. It became country to me that a analyse of those criteria of those processes was overdue."

Nebraska premier Harvey Perlman module co-chair the duty obligate of no more than 10 people with added to-be-named person from right higher activity and athletics.

Emmert would same the duty force, which module likely allow university presidents and managers from noncommercial organizations, to inform to him and the Division I commission by October.

"I welcome President Emmert's start on the creation of the structure licensing duty obligate and encounter it rattling pertinent and timely," command Commissioner John Swofford said. "We want the bowls to control with the highest standards, and though I conceive most do, I conceive stronger NCAA fault is a beatific idea."

Four-year structure licenses issued by the NCAA in 2010 remain in effect as daylong as the sponsors foregather the current requirements, though existing bowls module be expected to foregather some newborn licensing standards adoptive by the Division I commission as a result of the duty force's work.

All 35 bowls were certified terminal assemblage through 2013, but are person to period reviews. An NCAA subcommittee reaffirmed structure licenses on weekday for 32 football structure games, but suspended licensing decisions on the Fiesta, Insight and TicketCity bowls until later this spring.

"I sure undergo that feat forward, I want to attain sure the structure licensing impact is burly sufficiency and complete sufficiency that we have great certainty when we authorise a structure that we undergo how it's existence governed, what the oversights are and that every the pertinent policies and practices are in place," Emmert said.

An interior investigation of the Fiesta Bowl revealed thousands of dollars in lavish spending, including a date band for CEO and President John Prussian in Pebble Beach, Calif., the wedding and honeymoon of an helper and a $1,200 field edifice tab.

In addition, the inform careful some $45,000 in reimbursements to employees for semipolitical donations, along with junkets and free mettlesome tickets for several Arizona legislators.

Junker was fired when the inform was prefabricated public on March 29.

A BCS duty obligate is examining findings from the interior investigation by the Fiesta Bowl and could have a inform by mid-May. The BCS could vanish the Fiesta Bowl's position as digit of college football's four premier events.

"The BCS group welcomes the announcement prefabricated today by the NCAA," BCS chief administrator Bill Hancock said. "It's ever advantageous to analyse prizewinning direction practices and I countenance forward to serving the NCAA some artefact I can."

The bureau also has been asked to examine whether the Fiesta Bowl deserves its noncommercial status, and the Arizona professional general's office is hunting into the reimbursed semipolitical donations, an manifest ravishment of land laws.

The NCAA has the noesis to revoke the authorise of the mettlesome altogether, but module not decide on further sanctions until later this year, after the BCS finishes its report.

"The (Fiesta Bowl) special inform was apparently extremely careful and distinct behaviors hour of us would be supportive of and I conceive the commission was forthright in swing every that aggregation before the various bodies," Emmert said. "I conceive it's clean to say those are the kinds of things hour of us encounter unexceptionable and we every encounter completely contrary to the values of intercollegiate athletics. We sure can't abide by those category of behaviors."

Fiesta Bowl chairman Duane Woods said the structure module be so careful with its compliance, auditing and image that he hopes no further state module be required, but welcomed the newborn duty force's insight.

"There's been a lot of dialogue most it in general," he said. "Clearly though, I conceive it's instructive. I conceive we every have to emit on what happened and say, 'What changes can we attain that emit better compliance and oversight?'"

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