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| + | == Chicharito scores twice as Mexico, Nigeria finish in 2 == | ||
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| + | <html>| | There was perhaps more talent on the Reliant Stadium pitch than any match in Houston history. | ||
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| + | And it was perhaps the best player in Mexican history who stole the show. | ||
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| + | Javier Chicharito Hernandez, who turns 25 on Saturday, scored twice including the game-tying shot in the 71st minute as Mexico and Nigeria tied 2-2 in a beautifully played match Friday night in front of 62,[http://daijingu.jp/keijiban/bbs/light.cgi?res=6226 In The Event That You Want A Substantial Volume Of],107 fans. | ||
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| + | Chicharito has 32 goals in 47 international appearances for the Mexican national team. | ||
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| + | Mexico played the final 61 minutes down a man after a Pablo Barrera drew a red card for handling the ball inside the box, leading to a penalty kick score for Nigeria. | ||
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| + | These same teams could meet in the FIFA Confederations Cup in Brazil next month if they advance beyond the group stage. | ||
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| + | The match was crucial for Mexico as it prepares to play three important World Cup qualifiers over the next two weeks. | ||
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| + | Chicharito scored his second goal of the night to tie it up at 2-2 in the 71st minute. He tapped in a ball with the outside of his foot past Nigerian keeper Austin Ejide off a feed from Carlos Salcido. | ||
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| + | Chicharito opened the match s scoring with a goal in the 21st minute. | ||
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| + | Barrera fired a cross in front of the net, and Chicharito booted the pass with his right foot in front of Nigerian keeper Austin Ejide. | ||
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| + | It was great movement off the ball by Chicharito. He set up goal with pass out wide and then rifled his shot from just outside 6-yard box. | ||
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| + | Nigeria evened the match at 1-1 with a penalty kick from Aide Brown Ideye in the 29th minute. | ||
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| + | Brown Ideye was given the penalty kick after a red card was called on Barrera, who handed the ball in the box. | ||
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| + | Nigeria took the lead in the 40th minute. | ||
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| + | John Ogochukwu s shot deflected off Diego Reyes and went by Mexican keeper Jesus Corona.</html> | ||
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| + | == ENTRECHAUX, France- Froome looks unbeatable in Tour de Franc == | ||
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| + | <html>ENTRECHAUX, France There appears to be little to stop Chris Froome from reaching the Champs-Elysees on Sunday in the yellow jersey and becoming the second straight British cyclist to win the Tour de France. | ||
| + | After another brutal attack in the mountains on Sunday, Froome leads Bauke Mollema and Alberto Contador by more than four minutes with only six stages left four of them suited to him. There is a time trial on Wednesday, followed by three straight days of tortuous climbs in the Alps. | ||
| + | But winning looks like the easy part. | ||
| + | The 28-year-old Froome's physical superiority at the 100th Tour has raised eyebrows,[http://wikipublic.icograda.org/index.php/User:Oranjijmm58#Five_Link_Building_Tactics_That_You_Should_Avoid_After_Panda Five Link Building Tactics That You Should Avoid After Panda], practically inevitable in the climate of suspicion that haunts cycling after Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven titles for serial doping. | ||
| + | This year's race is the first since Armstrong lost his titles, and Froome understands the tone of the questions. Still, he was unhappy that doping became a main topic of his news conference on Monday's rest day. That followed his stage win on Mont Ventoux, a mammoth climb in Provence that he tamed with two blistering attacks and where he left Contador the 2007 and '09 Tour champion lagging behind. | ||
| + | "I just think it's quite sad that we're sitting here the day after the biggest victory of my life ... quite a historic win, talking about doping," Froome said. "Here I am basically being accused of being a cheat and a liar and that's not cool. | ||
| + | "To compare me with Lance, I mean, Lance cheated. I'm not cheating. End of story." | ||
| + | With so many of cycling's recent exploits later shown to have been drug-assisted, people understandably want to know whether they should continue believing. Froome's performances are subject to intense debate on social media, cycling blogs and in mainstream media. | ||
| + | "I can assure you that we are thinking very, very hard about the optimal way of proving to you guys that we're not doping," Sky team manager Dave Brailsford said Monday, adding that the World Anti-Doping Agency could help by appointing an expert to scrutinize Froome. | ||
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| + | Brailsford and Froome would much rather be focusing on the Alps. | ||
| + | And judging by what Contador saw on the 21-kilometer (13-mile) ascent up Ventoux, the Spaniard has every reason to fear more misery there. | ||
| + | "My objective was to win the Tour, but (Froome) is a level above the rest," Contador said. | ||
| + | If Contador thinks Ventoux was tough, then he will be dreading Thursday's 18th stage featuring two big climbs up l'Alpe d'Huez, one of the Tour's most famed mountain passes. | ||
| + | That is bad enough, but Friday's 204.5-kilometer (127-mile) trek from Bourg d'Oisans to Le Grand-Bornand looks horrendous. | ||
| + | There is simply no respite. | ||
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| + | For good measure, Saturday's stage ends with a 10.7-kilometer (6.6-mile) HC climb up to Semnoz. | ||
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| + | "There are a lot of very eager racers in the peloton left with a lot still to prove," Froome said. "For us it's about keeping the yellow jersey and riding in whatever way we can to best defend (it). I don't think we are necessarily on a mission to try and win every mountain top finish." | ||
| + | There is a glimmer of hope for Contador, however, because Froome's Sky teammates have struggled at times. On two stages, Froome had to fend for himself. If that happens again in the Alps and if he has a bad day he could yet lose a serious amount of time. | ||
| + | "Yes, there is one stage I am looking at. It could be a good day to try something," Contador said through a translator. "I'm going to look for an opportunity. In one week's time you'll know which one it was." | ||
| + | Sky now has seven riders because Edvald Boasson Hagen retired with injury last week and Vasil Kiryienka missed the time cut on Stage 9. | ||
| + | "We lost a lot of our horsepower, our engine room," Froome said. "Since then it's been about managing the resources we do have and trying to get through each day as best we can. I feel the guys have done a fantastic job." | ||
| + | Froome may need a little bit more of a cushion, though, and could target the 32-kilometer (20-mile) time trial. | ||
| + | The race resumes on Tuesday with a medium mountain stage from Vaison-la-Romaine to Gap in the Alps. | ||
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| + | AP Sports Writer John Leicester in Orage and Associated Press writer Jamey Keaten in Avignon contributed to this report.</html> | ||
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| + | == Are Exchange Traded Funds Becoming Too Risky- == | ||
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| + | Several days of steep sell-off on the bond market, triggered almost two weeks ago after Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke announced that the central bank would like to slow down on its massive monthly asset purchases in the near future, hit all asset classes, and ETFs were by no means spared. | ||
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| + | == Ultimate Rockets McHale embraces task of elevating H == | ||
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| + | <html>By Corey Roepken | ||
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| + | Rockets coach Kevin McHale has always marveled at Dwight Howard’s ability. | ||
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| + | Now, the brilliant former Celtics big man will have the opportunity to mold a player he considers one of the dominant centers in the NBA. | ||
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| + | Howard had his lowest rebounding average since 2007 and his lowest scoring average since 2006. | ||
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| + | A new beginning | ||
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| + | The 2012-13 season didn’t go well for the Lakers. Coach Mike Brown was fired after five games. Two-time MVP point guard Steve Nash missed the first seven weeks with an injury. Kobe Bryant tore his Achilles tendon with two games left in the regular season and missed the playoffs. | ||
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| + | Howard described his most recent campaign as “very, very tough” and said he’s looking forward to the opportunity to start fresh in Houston. McHale said that’s a big reason he expects Howard to return to form when he puts on the Rockets uniform. | ||
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| + | “You have to play free of mind,” McHale said. “When you have a lot of stuff going on it’s hard to play. He’s at a great age where he has his athleticism and a lot of the youthful exuberance. | ||
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| + | Yet he has 10 years under his belt.” | ||
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| + | Even the best players need to be healthy to be effective. McHale said the Rockets got good reports about Howard’s shoulder and back, and that he will be fine when they begin working together Monday. | ||
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| + | Nothing new in the bag | ||
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| + | He said there are no specific moves he hopes to teach Howard. Rather, he wants him to use his quickness more because his combination of quickness and strength can be unstoppable. | ||
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| + | With scoring threats all around the court, Howard could find more room than ever to operate. If that’s the case, he said he’s looking forward to returning to his form as the most dominating big man in the NBA. | ||
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| + | == Ultimate Astros Astros report- Harrell to adjust aft == | ||
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| + | <html>Pregame, Lucas Harrell was shocked, stunned and unwilling to talk. | ||
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| + | Postgame, the Astros’ former No. 2 starter — now a long reliever indefinitely demoted to the bullpen — calmly and willingly answered questions about his new, undefined role and uncertain future with a rebuilding team. | ||
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| + | “It was just one of those things where you don’t really think it’s the best thing, but it’s just one of those deals where it is what it is,” Harrell said following the Astros’ 5-4 loss to the Rangers on Sunday. “You just kind of have to do it, and you just kind of wear it.” | ||
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| + | While Harrell’s move to the bullpen is being made in the hope he can regain his 2012 form, it’s also being done to send a message to the mercurial righthander, who has blamed everything from the club’s increased defensive shifts to a lack of offense for his 2013 struggles. | ||
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| + | Harrell, 28, was a candidate for the club’s No. 1 spot during spring training and the Astros’ best overall pitcher in 2012. This year, he’s alternately been one of the American League’s best and worst hurlers. | ||
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| + | Harrell is 5-9 with a 5.04 ERA. He’s allowed one or no earned runs in 10 of his 19 starts. But he gave up seven earned runs Friday during the Astros’ 10-5 loss to the Rangers and has allowed five earned runs or more in six outings. | ||
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| + | Harrell said he received no instruction about what he’s supposed to work on as a reliever and acknowledged his 10 strong outings this season make it “kind of tough to move a guy like (me) down to the bullpen.” | ||
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| + | The fourth-year veteran has long been mentioned in trade rumors. Harrell would likely be a No. 4 or 5 starter on a winning team, though, and everything from his age and unproven track record to his uneven 2013 season limit his value as the July 31 deadline approaches. | ||
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| + | The Astros will play five games in seven days before the All-Star break, and Bo Porter has yet to set the club’s rotation for a three-game series at Tampa Bay. | ||
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| + | The manager said a new fifth starter could be named, and a short-term move — promoting a pitcher already on the 25-man roster from the bullpen — is an option. However, the Astros could simply use four starters until the break. | ||
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| + | Bud Norris is scheduled to start Tuesday at St. Louis, and Jordan Lyles will face the Cardinals on Wednesday. Brad Peacock and Jarred Cosart are among the candidates for promotion from Class AAA Oklahoma City. But the Astros also have starters turned relievers such as Paul Clemens, Brett Oberholtzer and Travis Blackley in their bullpen. | ||
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| + | “It all depends. As the next couple days go along, Jeff (Luhnow) and Doug (Brocail) and myself and the staff, we’ll talk about it and try to figure out what’s the best move,” Porter said. “It really is one start before we finish the first half of the season before we head into the All-Star break. And then we basically will go back to a five-man rotation in earnest throughout the course of the regular season.” | ||
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| + | == WASHINGTON- Republicans drop food stamps from farm bill == | ||
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| + | <html>WASHINGTON House Republican leaders bruised by the defeat of a massive farm bill last month are working to quickly revive the measure with a vote on a pared-down version that avoids an immediate showdown on food stamp cuts. | ||
| + | Just hours before Thursday's expected floor vote, it was still unclear whether GOP leaders had the 218 votes needed to pass the new measure containing only farm programs. The food stamp part of the legislation would be dealt with separately at a later date. | ||
| + | The legislation faces a veto threat from the White House, and House Democrats have reacted angrily to the last-minute move by the GOP. | ||
| + | As late as Thursday morning, conservative groups and farm groups traditionally aligned with Republicans were also lobbying against the measure, as was the top Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee, Minnesota Rep. Collin Peterson. | ||
| + | In an apparent effort to stem that opposition to the bill, the leaders were planning to move quickly. The new legislation was released late Wednesday and a vote was expected in the afternoon. No amendments were to be allowed. | ||
| + | House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, acknowledged that the process was unusual but said "my goal right now is to get a farm bill passed." | ||
| + | The dropped food stamp section would have made a 3 percent cut to the $80 billion-a-year feeding program. Many Republicans say that isn't enough since the program's cost has doubled in the last five years. Democrats have opposed any cuts. The food stamp program doesn't need legislation to continue, but Congress would have to pass a bill to enact reforms. | ||
| + | The split bill is an attempt to gather support from conservatives who voted against the $100 billion-a-year farm bill. The House rejected the farm bill in June by a vote of 234-195, with 62 Republicans voting against it. | ||
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| + | Democrats opposing the bill called for procedural votes to delay the vote on the split bill and painted the legislation as taking the food stamps away from the hungry. | ||
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| + | The White House agreed that food stamps should not be left out of the bill and threatened to veto it. The Obama administration had also threatened to veto the original bill, saying it did not include enough reductions to farm subsidies and the food stamp cuts were too severe. | ||
| + | Few Democrats are expected to vote for the measure. Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer, the No. 2 Democrat in the House, called it a "bill to nowhere" since the Democratic Senate is likely to add the food stamp money back in. | ||
| + | "This dead-on-arrival messaging bill only seeks to accomplish one objective: to make it appear that Republicans are moving forward with important legislation even while they continue to struggle at governing," Hoyer said. | ||
| + | Peterson was urging his colleagues to vote no, saying he sees "no clear path to getting a bill passed by the House and Senate and signed by the president." | ||
| + | The Club for Growth and Heritage Action said they would use a vote for the bill against Republicans in upcoming campaigns, maintaining that the idea was a ruse to get the bill in conference with the Democratic-led Senate, where food stamps will be added back in with smaller cuts. | ||
| + | The Senate overwhelmingly passed a farm bill last month with only a half-percent cut to food stamps and would be reluctant to go along with a split bill or further cuts to the programs. | ||
| + | A memo sent out by Heritage Action Thursday morning targeted the only new provision in the revised farm bill - a repeal of farm laws from the 1930s and 1940s that kick in when current farm law expires. Farm-state lawmakers have kept those laws on the books so there would be incentive to pass new farm bills and avoid expiration, but the threat of outdated policies kicking in has been a headache for farmers who worry they can't depend on Congress to create new laws or extend more recent versions of the law. | ||
| + | Repealing those decades-old laws could mean that Congress would have little incentive to create new farm bills, however, and could make many farm programs permanent. The conservative groups seized on that point to try and dissuade Republicans from voting for the bill, saying many of those farm programs are costly. | ||
| + | "Market-distorting programs would continue indefinitely, like the government-imposed tariffs on sugar imports and quotas on domestic sugar production," read the Heritage Action memo. | ||
| + | American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman sent a letter to members Thursday morning saying that passing only half of the farm bill could make eventual passage of farm legislation impossible. | ||
| + | He said it was frustrating to the group's members that a broad agriculture coalition "appears to have been pushed aside in favor of interests that have no real stake in this farm bill." | ||
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| + | "Maybe the old dynamic of how we have done things since 1965 isn't valid anymore," he said. "Maybe it is time to try something different." | ||
| + | Lucas said as he left the meeting just before midnight Wednesday that he didn't know whether the leadership had the 218 votes necessary for passage. | ||
| + | Farm groups and anti-hunger groups have warned that separating the farm and nutrition programs after decades of linking them would be misguided. Rural lawmakers have long-added money for food stamps to the farm bill, which sets policy for agricultural subsidies and other farm programs, to gather urban votes for the measure. | ||
| + | In a letter to Boehner, more than 500 farm groups last week asked the GOP leadership not to split the legislation. | ||
| + | Lucas said he hopes a food stamp bill would come to the floor quickly, so the House and Senate can begin negotiations and get a farm bill passed. | ||
| + | "The quicker that second bill is passed the easier it is to complete the whole process," he said. | ||
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| + | == Ask Amy- Man ponders fleeting beauty; Amy blames '80s == | ||
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| + | <html>DEAR READERS: I'm marking my 10-year anniversary of writing the "Ask Amy" column by rerunning some of my favorite Q-and-A's from a decade of advice. Today's column features letters devoted to missed connections. | ||
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| + | Recently, I have become curious about a phenomenon I have noticed: It seems to me that women in their 20s are exponentially better-looking than they were when I was in my 20s and first moved to the city. | ||
| + | Don't get me wrong I fully realize I am too old to try to date them, and I seriously doubt that I have become less repulsive to them as I have grown older. I would just like to know if there has been an actual demographic change, if this is merely the glandular consequence of middle age, or if it is due to global warming? Perplexed in Chicago | ||
| + | DEAR PERPLEXED: I agree. Young people do seem to be exponentially better-looking than when you and I were in our 20s. | ||
| + | Perhaps we belong to a distinctly unattractive generation. Maybe we can blame this phenomenon on the style of the 1980s. No one can look good in a mullet. | ||
| + | Or perhaps it has to do with our eyesight and theirs because have you noticed that as you approach middle age, you seem to be growing ever more invisible? | ||
| + | Talk about macular de-generation. (2005) | ||
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| + | == ALBANY, N.Y.- Former Syracuse coach dropping ESPN lawsuit 0 == | ||
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| + | <html>ALBANY, N.Y. Former Syracuse assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine is dropping his defamation lawsuit against ESPN, his lawyers said Tuesday. | ||
| + | Fine sued over broadcasts aired by ESPN with claims by two former ball boys that Fine molested them more than two decades ago. Fine was fired in November 2011, days after the broadcasts. | ||
| + | The 67-year-old Fine was investigated by federal prosecutors and never charged and has maintained his innocence. | ||
| + | William Albert, spokesman for the Harris Beach law firm, said Fine voluntarily filed notice of dismissal Tuesday although both he and his attorneys believe his legal claim has merit. | ||
| + | "Mr. Fine desires to finally put all of the turmoil of the past year and a half behind him, so that he may concentrate on his future as well as the future of his family," Albert said. He added that Fine has been overwhelmed by the many friends who stood by him. | ||
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| + | Fine was fired Nov. 27, 2011, after Tomaselli came forward and the federal government began investigating Tomaselli's claim, the only one that fell within the statute of limitations. | ||
| + | Tomaselli was accused of sexually abusing a boy at a camp in 2010 and his father had said his son was lying about Fine. Tomaselli, who eventually was convicted of sexual abuse and sentenced to three years and three months in prison, insisted he was telling the truth. | ||
| + | Before he went to jail, Tomaselli took the media on a wild spin, repeatedly lying in a bid, he said, to keep his name in print.</html> | ||
