Wednesday Nonsense
Tonight's Reds vs. Phillies lineups....
REDS
Taveras CF
Hairston 3B
Phillips 2B
Bruce RF
Hernandez 1B
Gonzalez SS
McDonald LF
Hanigan C
Harang P
Phillies
Rollins SS
Utley 2B
Ibanez LF
Howard 1B
Werth RF
Victorino CF
Feliz 3B
Coste C
Moyer P
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Reds drop opener to Phillies, 4-3
- First an injury update....LHP Bill Bray this morning had "Tommy John" surgery to repair the torn ulnar collateral ligament in his left elbow (Dr. Timothy Kremchek)...he is expected to miss 10-12 months...Bray has been on Class AAA Louisville's disabled list since 4/16.
- As for Joey Votto....The Reds still don't know what's wrong. He had more tests Tuesday in here in town, and more were scheduled for the next few days to try to determine what is causing the dizziness.
- Quite an interesting lineup last night....without Votto in again, they use Rosales at 1B, Hairston at 3B, and Darnell McDonald in LF. Anyone else wonder why Johnny Gomes is still sitting in Louisville?? Doesn't make much sense to me. He's gotta be more productive off the bench than McDonald right? When you're losing 1 run games in the later innings...you need to have guys off the bench that can produce.
- Johnny Cueto came in hot as any pitcher in baseball....his 1.93 ERA entering last night was 3rd best among all pitchers. But Cole Hamels pitched with an early lead and finished with 6.0 IP, 5 H, 3 R, and 7K...which was enough to earn the rain. The Phillies bullpen allowed just two hits in the final three innings.
- What you hope is that a loss to a division leading team with a very, very good pitcher doesn't shake the confidence of a team that has played very well the last two weeks (excluding the 3 game sweep in SD). Especially with Cleveland and Houston coming in at the end of the week...the Reds would ill afford to lose the momentum they have gained since the beginning of May.
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News from the Bengals OTA's
Joe Reedy
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Andre Smith will play RT....Whitworth to play LT....Bengals coach Marvin Lewis moved guard Andrew Whitworth to left tackle for the start of the team's voluntary offseason workouts Tuesday. Andre Smith, the team's top draft pick, will line up at right tackle when he reaches a contract agreement. Smith has never played right tackle.
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NFL Power Rankings
USA Today
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Calipari works his magic again......Top point guard recruit John Wall has told Kentucky coach John Calipari that he will sign with the Wildcats, according to multiple sources, ending a highly publicized courtship with the game-changing player.
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And speaking of the Wildcats....UK head men's basketball coach John Calipari announced his three assistants on Tuesday, naming Orlando Antigua, John Robic and Rod Strickland to his basketball staff. All three men were on Calipari's staff at Memphis last season, where they helped lead the Tigers to a 33-4 record, the Conference USA title and an NCAA Sweet 16 appearance.
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Sean Miller quickly adapting to life out west
Mike Decourcy, Sporting News
Sean
Miller has been in Tucson less than two months, and already he talks
like a Chamber of Commerce lifer. Perhaps it is force of habit. Part of
his job description as Arizona head coach is to sell the place to
recruits, and now he is pitching a visit to the desert to an old
acquaintance.
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Big Ten Football Roundup
Sporting News
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Longer NFL season not coming just yet.....The prospect of more NFL games is apparently going to require more talking. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said Tuesday he doesn't anticipate a vote at this week's spring meeting in South Florida on lengthening the regular season to 17 or 18 games.
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New Orleans to host Super Bowl in 2013....NFL owners voted Tuesday to play the 2013 Super Bowl in New Orleans, the first time the championship game will be played there since Hurricane Katrina shredded parts of the Louisiana Superdome. The hurricane caused 1,600 deaths and devastated the Gulf Coast four years ago.
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Good to see Michael Strahan isn't going to commit reputation suicide....oh wait......In the new sitcom, "Brothers," Strahan plays an retired football player named Mike living it up in New York , thereby showing off his range. But you better believe hijinks will ensue. And with the help of his wacky family, Mike will surely teach us all to laugh, and love.
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Weirdest video game you'll see today...
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Don't mess with Betty "F**king" White....
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MTV hasn't rolled out a new crap-tacular reality series in a while.....so this is long-overdue....MTV Monday announced plans to air a new reality series called "16 & Pregnant," which will document the true stories of several pregnant teens. The series is slated to debut June 11 and will be comprised of six one-hour episodes, the network said.
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I didn't know this many people had money to throw away.....the economy must be much better off than I thought. Sweet.
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A-Rod goes from Madonna to Kate Hudson.....now THAT makes more sense....
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Today's Definition of Duh (or Genius).....A Reading, Pa. man has pleaded guilty in federal court in Philadelphia to a book fraud -- forging famous authors' signatures and selling the books on Ebay as signed originals. Prosecutor Mark Dubnoff says there were at least a thousand victims over several years, and defendant Forrest Smith, 47, took in over $300,000 from the scam.
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Note to parents....this is probably not a good way to bond with your son....
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Today's great police work story comes courtesy of the state of Michigan.....Thanks Big Blue! Police in Michigan responding to a report of a cougar on the loose said they ended up shooting a large toy cat with a Taser stun gun. Warren police said the 911 caller said a huge animal resembling a 150-pound cat was spotted in an old cement drainpipe in Bates Park and 10 officers were sent to the scene, WDIV-TV, Detroit, reported Monday.
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