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Well, after the initial reports of Kelvin Sampson-to-the-Cavs surfaced a few weeks ago, the Cavaliers coaching search had taken on much greater proportions as owner Dan Gilbert dangled a lifetime’s fortune in front Michigan State coach Tom Izzo. Now that Izzo’s declined the offer, however, the Cavaliers go back to square one. Hey there, Kelvin Sampson! According to the Cleveland Plain-Dealer , it’s time to take Sampson seriously: The Cavs coaching situation is wide open at this point. He adds that Kelvin Sampson, formerly the coach at Indiana University and currently an assistant with the Milwaukee Bucks, is a legitimate candidate. It’s a throwaway note, but worth remembering. There are only so many “superstar” coaches out there, and until LeBron James commits to stay in Cleveland, it’s a longshot for the Cavs to land any of them. But in Sampson, the Cavs could land a well-respected coach for a modest salary, and he’s someone that’s likely to accept the job regardless of what James decides in two weeks. It’s still early, but don’t count out Kelvin.
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Bucks Assistant Kelvin Sampson Reportedly A ‘Legitimate’ Candidate For Cavs Coach
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Left fielder Jason Bay has been held out of the New York Mets’ lineup with a bruised left thigh. Bay was injured beating out a single in the second inning of Wednesday’s 8-4 victory at Cleveland. He collided with first baseman Andy Marte and was knocked to the ground. Bay got up limping, but stayed in the game.
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Mets’ Bay out of lineup against Indians (AP)
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US Open Golf Odds 2010 : Phil Mickelson’s TurnOne more ride on the golf course is about to come and go. The US Open Golf 2010 will be here before you know.
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US Open Golf Odds 2010: Phil Mickelson’s Turn
We went three years without a single team being penalized for violating OTA rules. This year there are four ( including two today ). The latest are the Detroit Lions, according to NFLPA spokesman George Atallah . The statements regarding OTA violations have said they ” violated the rules concerning the intensity and tempo of drills” during OTAs. The Lions will forfeit two days of OTAs on June 21 and 22.
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• Italian Guineas winner can keep up good work of Gallic raiders • Rainbow Peak rates the best bet on fourth day of meeting 3.50 Coronation Stakes François Rohaut can keep the tricolore flying at Royal Ascot by taking theCoronation Stakes with the bargain basement filly Evading Tempete . While she can expect to be surrounded by bluebloods on and off the track at the Royal meeting, it was for only 3,000gns that the selection changed hands as a yearling at the sales. However, having shown only limited promise as a juvenile, the Rohaut-trained filly found her feet on the all-weather at Cagnes-sur-Mer and Deauville at the start of the year and translated that progression back to turf when a close second to the useful Joanna in the Prix Imprudence at Maisons-Laffitte in April. Special Duty, who finished third that day, may not have been quite at her best but nevertheless it was a fine effort and the winner Joanna has since franked that form. Rohaut also believes her to be a better filly on today’s quicker ground. Fillies who have run in either the 1,000 Guineas at Newmarket or another country’s equivalent of that Classic have a fearsome record in this contest (18 of the last 21 winners) and it was in the Italian Guineas at Capanelle last month that Evading Tempete continued her upward curve of improvement when easily beating 18 rivals. While Maxime Guyon’s success aboard a fellow French raider, Byword, in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes came on his first visit to the track, Rohaut has been here before and missed out on a victory by two short-heads when Turtle Bowl finished third in the Queen Anne Stakes three years ago. 2.30 Albany Stakes Radharcnafarraige was a clear-cut winner on her latest start of the same Group Three event at Naas which Cuis Ghaire took en route to victory here two years ago. That was a hot heat and she appeared to score with plenty in hand. Richard Hannon’s juveniles have been running well all week, even in defeat, and Memory looked potentially smart when scoring at Goodwood on her debut last month. 3.05 King Edward VII Stakes Was At First Sight flattered by finishing second in the Derby? Dedicated clockwatchers will deny that the form of the race can possibly be suspect, given the impressive time recorded by the winner. Furthermore it is entirely conceivable that At First Sight had not been able to run up to his best in that race. But the dreadful record of Derby runners in this contest (four winners in the last 20 years) is enough to persuade me to take him on here with the battle-hardened Monterosso . He has four lengths to find with Green Moon on recent Newbury running but is 6lb better off this time. 4.25 Wolferton Handicap Rainbow Peak failed to handle the drop back in trip when second to Fareer at York last time but he can show his true colours returned to a mile and a quarter. That was only the fourth appearance of his career but Rainbow Peak showed plenty of tenacity to get as close as he did to the winner, given that he was ridden from off the pace in a contest where it paid to be prominent. Connections consider him a Pattern-race performer in the making. 5.00 Queen’s Vase Beaten on his first three starts, Corsica started his handicapping career on a lowly mark of 74 but quickly worked his way through the ranks before taking a Listed contest at Hamilton. He looked to have plenty on his plate off top weight in a red-hot handicap at Musselburgh on Derby Day but battled on courageously to finish third in a big field and the move up to two miles promises to suit. His trainer, Mark Johnston, targets this race and has won it in five of the last nine years. Horse racing Horse racing tips Royal Ascot Will Hayler guardian.co.uk
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Princes William and Harry are bringing the glitz Cape Town – but can Fabio Capello’s team reign supreme? Refuse gas and air, and proceed straight to the epidural – England’s next World Cup game is upon us. Finally, Fabio Capello’s two-and-a-half lions have the chance to exorcise last Saturday’s painful draw against the USA, by grinding out a nerve-shreddingly unconvincing 1-0 victory over Algeria. The setting for Friday’s crucial game is Green Point stadium, with the Cape Town match what you might call the glamour fixture in England’s first-round schedule. Which is to say, it will be attended by various people for whom one suspects other cities in South Africa are that bit too “authentic”. Spectators are to include London mayor Boris Johnson, who is on a five-day fact-finding mission for the 2012 Olympics, and the allegedly “football-mad” Princes William and Harry, who are on a joint tour of southern Africa. William is president of the Football Association – a role somehow even more pretend than Uncle Andrew’s job as UK trade ambassador – and he and his brother will stay on in Cape Town after the game to play a leading role in Saturday’s big event, which is a glitzy reception for England’s 2018 World Cup bid. Preparations for the soiree look solid at present – though obviously all could be derailed should Harry opt to go in fancy dress as PW Botha. Ultimately, though, Friday’s game offers England a chance to silence their footballing critics – an amusing number of whom seem to be German. First up was erstwhile Germany captain Michael Ballack, who reflected upon the difference between the two international sides. “We’re inspired by our history,” he explained, “whereas I sense England are intimidated by their past.” Next in line was the legendary Franz Beckenbauer. “What I saw of the English against the USA had very little to do with football,” schadenfreuded Der Kaiser, rightly judging that he had been watching not a football game, but some kind of psychological episode. Even German-born football fan Dr Henry Kissinger called the New York Times to offer his views on the World Cup – though sweetly he declined to add to England’s misery. “Brazil has played the most beautiful football,” the former US secretary of state apparently ruled, “while Italy has specialised in breaking the hearts of its opponents, and for Germany everyone attacks in a way suggestive of Erich von Falkenhayn’s huge flanking movements in world war one – and everyone defends.” Penetrating analysis there from the former comedy Nobel peace prizewinner. Perhaps ITV might consider Kissinger as a replacement pundit for the sacked Robbie Earle? The good doctor is already scheduled to attend the later rounds of the World Cup, South Africa being one of the countries to which he can travel without risking a connecting flight to the Hague. As for our own efforts to “move on” from Saturday, they have been mixed. If anything could make you yearn to be watching even the most lacklustre of England displays again, it is the manner in which Her Majesty’s press fills the gap between games. Lowlights since Saturday include Archbishop Desmond Tutu being presented with a Sun-branded vuvuzela, and the media pack besieging the home of hapless goalkeeper Robert Green’s parents, presumably waiting for them to emerge and disown him. The Greens have since appealed to the PCC for protection. What was needed, clearly, was something to Put Everything Into Perspective – and on Wednesday, Michael Dawson and Matthew Upson provided it. Escaping from what has been described predictably as England’s “gilded cage” of a team base, the two Tottenham defenders took a busload of hacks with them to visit an orphanage jointly funded by the FA and Spurs. According to Upson, “this puts everything into perspective” (that is, the orphanage does, not travelling everywhere with dozens of Boswells). So let us gird ourselves with that recalibrated perspective. After all, in a World Cup not short of early underperformers, England’s first result now demands to be reconsidered. According to the demented mathematics of the footballing optimist, favourites Spain losing to Switzerland pretty much bumps up our shabby draw with the USA into a triumph. Or something. The point is, it should be perfectly possible to await England v Algeria nursing the same level of mad hope with which you began this tournament, safe in the knowledge your despair will have its day. World Cup 2010 Prince Harry Prince William World Cup 2010 Group C England Marina Hyde guardian.co.uk
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Goals by Dimitrios Salpingidis and Vasilis Torosidis have given Greece their first goals in five World Cup matches, with their 2-1 win over a 10-man Nigeria giving the Greeks a historic victory. In their only other World Cup appearance, Greece went through the 1994 tournament without scoring a goal, losing all three matches.
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World Cup 2010, Nigeria Vs. Greece: First Goals, Win For Greece Keeps Knockout Stage Hope Alive
On the same day as Game 7 of the NBA finals, Darius Miles is running the floor alongside several players who have never been in the NBA and perhaps never will. It was hardly the place for a former No. 3 overall pick in the draft. But following what was once called a “career-ending” knee injury and off-court problems, Miles is determined to overcome the rustiness and his balky knee to play…
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Miles attempting another comeback (AP)
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