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Here are the voting procedures used to select rosters for all-star games by the major sports leagues. Major League Baseball
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IT SEEMS to have become an article of faith at the upper end of the New Jersey Turnpike that the sky is falling. And that as a result, the Mets' next three games, against the Phillies starting tonight at The Bank, will be a make-or-break series for the team many picked to topple the defending world champions this summer.
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WHEN I'M KING of the World . . . The deep thinkers who select the rosters for the All-Star break's showcase Futures Game - the intelligentsia of Baseball America, MLB Scouting Bureau and 30 big-league clubs - will lose the political agendas and select the best talent available . . . I kn
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Do you remember Dwight Carruthers? Not to challenge your fanhood, but even the most die-hard Flyers fans probably would not remember the name. He played in one game for the Flyers in their inaugural 1967-68 season as a last-minute call-up.
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It was the kind of late-inning buzz that none of the players had experienced before. The Houston Astros beat the San Diego Padres, 7-2, yesterday, but only after waiting out a 52-minute delay in the top of the ninth inning caused when a swarm of bees took over leftfield at Petco Park.
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ATLANTA - It happened in a matter of seconds, as these things often do. One moment, Pedro Feliz is at the plate in the eighth inning of a tie game, and Jayson Werth is on third base ready to run with two outs, and a high 2-2 pitch from Mike Gonzalez is bouncing off the webbing of Brian McCann's glove and caroming to the backstop.
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ATLANTA - The Phillies ended a week of speculation on Wednesday afternoon when they announced they would promote 33-year-old veteran Rodrigo Lopez in time to start tonight against the Mets at Citizens Bank Park. But just because the former Orioles righthander is the latest internal candidate to replace Brett Myers in the rotation doesn't mean he will be the last.
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WIMBLEDON, England - Richard Williams refuses to watch daughters Venus and Serena play each other. Says he simply can't bear to see it, no matter the setting, no matter the stage.
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Former New York Yankee Jim Leyritz will be spending the weekend in jail following his arrest early yesterday on charges of domestic battery, a Broward County (Fla.) judge ruled.
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7:05, Citizens Bank Park. TV: Comcast SportsNet. Radio: WPHT (1210-AM); WUBA (1480-AM) Spanish. Ticket info: The game is sold out.
- On eve of Tour, locals seem to embrace cycling star as never beforeFor all of Lance Armstrong's Tour de France victories, he still hasn't won the hearts of the French. That might be about to change.
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Marlins The Marlins' recent success is a little surprising, considering that gaping hole at the back of the bullpen, where injuries to Matt Lindstrom, Kiko Calero and Leo Nunez have left manager Fredi Gonzalez scrambling in save situations.
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MOVE OVER T.O. and Ocho Cinco: The Canadian Football League's Arland Bruce has you both beaten when it comes to unique end-zone celebrations.
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It was a quiet day in the office of Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren. That doesn't mean he wasn't on the phone talking about and to players in the second day of the NHL free-agency period. But there were no new additions yesterday.
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Another summer means another annual installment of the Sixers Summer Hoops Tour, which will tip off its 14th consectutive campaign Monday at the Freedom Valley YMCA in West Norriton.
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Mark Recchi joined the Boston Bruins hoping to win his fourth Stanley Cup ring. He decided to stay to take another shot at it.
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Nicaraguan investigators have released new evidence that points to suicide in the death of former boxing champion and Managua Mayor Alexis Arguello.
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The Boston Celtics offered free-agent forward Rasheed Wallace a 2-year contract, an NBA source told the Boston Globe. Wallace, who had played for Detroit since midway through the 2003-04 season, met with Celtics ownership, coach Doc Rivers, and All-Stars Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen yesterday in Detroit, the source said.
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Quote of the week White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen, on why the crowds were small at U.S. Cellular Field when his team hosted the first-place Dodgers during interleague play: "Because our fans are not stupid like Cubs fans. They knew we're [bleep] . . . Wrigley Field is just a bar."
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With a run that shocked the world in the FIFA Confederations Cup, the U.S. men's national team heads into the CONCACAF Gold Cup this weekend, fresh faced, but wiser and eager to prove the United States is a rising world soccer power.
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There were six winners in the Daily News Home Run Payoff contest last night. Each winning a Phillies Gift Pack in the sixth inning of the Phillies-Braves game were:
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