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BALTIMORE - If you followed Maryland racing in the 1970s into the '80s, three men dominated the daily racing programs at Bowie, Laurel and Pimlico - trainers Bud Delp, King Leatherbury and Dick Dutrow. There were few races without a horse trained by one of them, two of them or all of them.
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BALTIMORE - A look at some of the important races at Pimlico Race Course today: Galorette Handicap Race 6 - Post 1:24 p.m., Grade III, $100,000, 1-1/16 miles, 3YO & up, fillies & mares
- Eight Belles, who suffered two broken ankles after finishing second to Big Brown in the Kentucky Derby, tested negative for all banned substances, including steroids, according to test results from the Kentucky Horse Racing Authority's official laboratory at Iowa State University.
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THERE WERE times over the past 3 years when Jayson Werth thought moments like this would never arrive; that the wrist injuries that plagued him for parts of two seasons would spell his end, that he'd never end up in a dugout in a major league park with a home crowd standing and roaring and imploring him to re-emerge with a tip of the cap.
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RYAN HOWARD hasn't heard a whole lot of boos in his first 3 years in the major leagues, during which he has been Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player. But he has heard a smattering of them over the past couple of weeks, as he slowly works his way out of a long slump that started the season.
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Phillies vs. Blue Jays, 7:05 Citizens Bank Park. TV: Comcast SportsNet. Radio: WPHT (1210-AM); WUBA (1480-AM) Spanish. Ticket info: The Phillies have sold more than 30,000 tickets for tonight's game.
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KIMMO TIMONEN can't really explain how it happened, how he went from being done for the playoffs to very probably being in the lineup for tomorrow's Game 5, assuming all goes well when the Flyers' top defenseman practices today.
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Generally in hockey, it's the losing team that looks to get a tussle going in the final seconds, to leave a message for the next meeting. Yet the Flyers being the Flyers, and the Penguins being the Penguins, Pittsburgh coach Michel Therrien was asked yesterday if he'd had any second thoughts about having young superstar Sidney Crosby on the ice toward the end of Game 4.
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PITTSBURGH - There are some really swell things about winning the first three games in a best-of-seven series. The best is that a team can have as many as four - count 'em, four - chances to earn the fourth victory it needs to advance to the next round.
- LeBron James scored 32 points - 19 in the second half - and had 12 rebounds and six assists as the Cleveland Cavaliers forced a decisive and fitting finale to this home-sweet-home playoff series with a 74-69 win last night over the visiting Boston Celtics, who have gone from regular-season road kings to postseason road kill.
- BELLEFONTE, Pa. - Penn State defensive tackle Chris Baker was sentenced to 2 years' probation yesterday after entering guilty pleas in two cases involving two separate fights.
- Mets manager Willie Randolph called a closed-door meeting in response to the latest remarks by closer Billy Wagner, who said he was being critical of the media, not his teammates.
- Rick Nash scored the go-ahead goal to put Canada in the title game of the World Ice Hockey Championships with a 5-4 win over Sweden in Quebec City last night, setting up a championship showdown with Russia tomorrow.
- Chicago Olympic organizers are on track to spend about $58 million trying to lure the 2016 Summer Games to the Midwest.
- Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius won his appeal yesterday, and can compete for a place in the Beijing Olympics. The Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland, ruled that the 21-year-old South African is eligible to race against able-bodied athletes, overturning a ban imposed by the International Association of Athletics Federations.
- It's déjà vu all over again for Penn's women's lacrosse team, which, for the second straight season, will need to get past Boston University to advance in the NCAA Division I tournament.
- The 34th annual Daily News-Eagles City All-Star Football Game, featuring the best senior players from Philadelphia high schools in a Public/Non-Public format, will be held tonight at 7 o'clock at Northeast High.
- NFL owners could opt out of their agreement with the players union next week, leaving open the possibility of a 2010 season without a salary cap.
- There were five winners in the Daily News Home Run Payoff contest last night. Each winning a Phillies gift pack in the sixth inning were:
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Flyers avoid elimination, beat Penguins, 4-2, in Game 4
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MOMENTS BEFORE the start of what could have been the Flyers' final game, injured defenseman Kimmo Timonen was led into the locker room by coach John Stevens.
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- PLAYOFF GAMES are decided by moments and by momentum. It has been true in the National Hockey League since Conn Smythe. Moments and momentum - and pucks that bounce oddly in the night.
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Flyers 4, Penguins 2 How it happened: The Flyers made their lives easier last night by scoring first. Joffrey Lupul's deflected shot midway through the first period gave the Flyers their first lead of the series since the first period of Game 1. Later, they would make it adventurous.
- HE WAS the savior you didn't see coming, unless you put much stock in words spit out in disgust and amid utter futility.
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For the first three games of the series, the referees could have given the Flyers 2 minutes for politeness. After making life miserable for the opposing goalies in the first two rounds, the Flyers seemed to treat the Penguins' crease as if it were being guarded by Martha Stewart watering petunias.
- Marty Turco has quite an opportunity in front of him. The Dallas goalie is 0-9-2 in the NHL at Joe Louis Arena, where he will have a chance to stop nagging questions and extend the Western Conference finals against the Detroit Red Wings.
- DULUTH, Ga. - David Duval got started on the next tournament in his latest comeback at one of his favorite restaurants.
- After a day of hope, the decision came down yesterday morning that Braydon Coburn, who took a 50-stitch cut around his left eye in Game 2, would not be able to play in Game 4 last night.
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Before John Stevens put his top two centermen on the same line for a last-ditch effort to extend the Eastern Conference final series, the Flyers' coach met with Mike Richards and Danny Briere to talk over the shakeup.
- JIMMY ROLLINS is sporting some brand recognition on the heels of his MVP season. Likability? That's another matter, at least outside Philly. The shortstop for the first time has a "Q" score, which in the case of athletes measures how much consum
- ALAMEDA, Calif. - JaMarcus Russell just laughed when he heard reports that his weight had ballooned to more than 300 pounds in the offseason.
- NEW YORK - The memories are painful for Tonya Harding, and somehow liberating. They fill a new book, "The Tonya Tapes," in which she speaks frankly, if a bit confusingly, about the Tonya and Nancy Kerrigan scandal at the Lillehammer Olympics in 1994. She writes about being abused as a child, contemplating suicide, having a gun placed to her head and being raped. She says she paid a price for not fitting the mold of American figure skaters.
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It's a good bet that Charles Barkley will pay back the $400,000 he admits he owes Wynn Las Vegas LLC.
- SALT LAKE CITY - Happy to be home, the Utah Jazz is desperate for another chance on the road. Utah hosts Game 6 of the Western Conference semifinals tonight against the Los Angeles Lakers, who lead 3-2 and can wrap it up by becoming the first road team to win in the series.
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Tim Donaghy and two accomplices in an illegal betting ring are scheduled to be sentenced within 3 days of one another this summer after the former NBA referee's sentencing date was postponed yesterday - for a fourth time.
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SEVERAL HOURS before last night's game, a Phillies attendant walked into the home clubhouse at Citizens Bank Park and deposited an autographed Braves jersey in the locker next to Cole Hamels'. The young lefthander had sought to collect signed jerseys from each of the Big Three Atlanta starters who dominated the National League during his formative years, and last night he completed the collection.
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To the casual observer, particularly one unfamiliar with the ramifications of doling out guaranteed contracts, the opportunity to strike a long-term deal with a rising star might seem like a no-brainer.
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Phillies vs. Blue Jays, 7:05 Citizens Bank Park. TV: Comcast SportsNet. Radio: WPHT (1210-AM); WUBA (1480-AM) Spanish. Ticket info: About 10,000 tickets remain for tonight's game.
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INTERLEAGUE play has arrived once again as the Phillies prepare to play their natural American League rivals. That, of course, would be the Toronto Blue Jays. While waiting for the first pitch, please select the appropriate video clip from the following menu. Press 1 for Plague of Locusts. Press 2 for Doomsday Thunderclouds. Press 3 for Owners Sitting Around Counting Money.
- Jason Bergmann never got a chance to plead his case to stay in the game after seven shutout innings. No matter. The pinch-hitter who replaced him made Bergmann a winner.
- Music blared in the Tampa Bay clubhouse and four large, flat-screen televisions mounted around a column in the middle of the room were tuned to the same in-house channel displaying the AL East standings.
- Quote of the week Angels centerfielder Torii Hunter, on losing three straight to the surprising Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field: "You come in here and think you should get a sweep or at least win the series. Psych! They will knock you out. Come in here thinking you're the man, they'll knock you back to earth."
- BALTIMORE - Even if you thought Big Brown was a cinch in the Kentucky Derby and knew that millions of dollars would be bet on that theory, there were ways to make money because of the 20-horse field. Now that the depth of Big Brown's talent has been fully exposed, making money on the proposition that Big Brown can't lose tomorrow's Preakness becomes quite a bit more complicated.
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What: Preakness Where: Pimlico Race Course, Baltimore When: Tomorrow, Post time, 6:09 p.m. TV: Channel 10 Distance: 1-3/16 miles Weight: All carry 126 pounds
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Ed Barkowitz 7 - Big Brown 5 - Behindatthebar 13 - Hey Byrn 9 - Stevil Start with Big Brown and build exactas, tris and supers around him. Behindatthebar is well rested after winning most recently at Keeneland on April 19. Hey Byrn put to rest his rough start in the Florida Derby to rebound and win the Holy Bull Stakes, a Gulfstream feature run at the same 1-3/16 miles as the Preakness. I'll throw in the Nick Zito-trained Stevil to round out the superfecta.
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1. Joffrey Lupul, Flyers: His first-period goal ignited the team. Also had empty-netter. 2. Jordan Staal, Penguins: Two goals in third put scare into Wachovia Center.
- Penn State coach Joe Paterno was taken by ambulance yesterday from his State College residence to Mount Nittany Medical Center after complaining of nausea.
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John Gallagher, chairman of the Pennsylvania Boxing Hall of Fame, didn't need much time to consider the question. Is Sunday's group of inductees at Romano's Caterers the most accomplished ever to be enshrined at the same time?
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In some ways, the LPGA Tour faces the same problem that has hovered over men's golf for the better part of the last decade. Or ever since Tiger Woods came along. If you want to call that a dilemma. Still, his presence has created a singular story line. With the women it was Annika Sorenstam, who just announced that she will retire at the end of the season. Now it's Lorena Ochoa, who essentially has owned her sport over the last 18 months.
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Renowned golf instructor Hank Haney got a surprising wake-up call the other day. The voice on the other end belonged to his most renowned pupil, Tiger Woods, who is recovering from arthroscopic surgery on his left knee. Tiger dialing his number is hardly news. But the timing was.
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Two parts of Luke Moscinski's glove-hand pinkie were pointing in the same direction. That means the other part was not, of course, and we'll wait while you wince.
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