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| Rockies wins to Arizona and advances to his first World Series |
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| The Rockies celebrate the achievement. Who will the next one be?: Boston or Cleveland?. Photo: AP |
For ARNIE STAPLETON
AP
The Rockies of Colorado advanced to his first World Series with an impulse never seen in the Big Leagues.
With more impetus, and also with more I rest.
The Rockies conquered 6-4 to the Diamondbacks of Arizona on Monday night and swept them in four parties in the series of championship for the National League.
Matt Holliday, designated the most Valuable Player of the series, connected a quadrangular one of three careers on the central garden and unleashed the offensive of six careers in the fourth entry that it put to the Rockies on the way to his 21st victory in 22 parties.
The Rockies celebrated ardently in the field of game after there fell down the last out of the party that impelled them to dispute the championship of the Big Leagues for the first time since they made debut in 1993.
This way, the Rockies have a rest without precedent of eight days to begin on October 24 the World Series be against the Indians of Cleveland or You them Come up Red of Boston. The Indians are gaining for 2-1 the series of championship for the American League.
" It was entertained, it has been a big adventure. We do not finish yet", said the first baseTodd Helton de los Rockies. "We are going to support the step".
The Rockies, which came with wild-card to the series for the National League, and the Red ones of Cincinnati of 1976 — the Big Red Machine — are the only teams that advance in a postemporada with seven consecutive victories. Colorado has gained 10 parties in line of a way general and lost the only one from September 16.
" It is incredible. I never dreamed to have this opportunity", pointed out Holliday. "With this group of peloteros, I am much thrilled of form part. This award goes to the most Valuable Player in another 24 directions".
Although they were in a strike of not coming to the playoffs in the last week of the regular period, the Rockies have been erected in a pleased team that seems almost invulnerable.
Colorado had never gained any more than 83 parties until this period achieved a record of 90-73 and one strained the playoffs with a victory of 9-8 in 13 earnings on the Parents of San Diego in the play off for the wild-card. After sweeping the Filis of Philadelphia in the first round of the postemporada, the Rockies beat the Diamondbacks that had headed the league with 90 victories.
" Once the burning sensation of this abates, we will be able to reflect in what we did to have a big year", expressed manager Bob Melvin of Arizona.
Forward in the slate for 6-1, the Rockies resisted a quadrangular one of three careers that Chris Snyder gave in the eighth entry. Chris Young was still with a double with an out in the ninth chapter before the Panamanian lock Manny Corpas, but Stephen Drew had a high one that ended in out.
Eric Byrnes continued with a rola that the paracorto Troy Tulowitzki attacked. His throwing came before the plunge of head of Byrnes, and Helton celebrated with the arms in high place.
" I cannot believe it, what madness party", mentioned Helton in the middle of the cold that reigned in the stadium Coors Field.
The Rockies are the first team that 21 of 22 parties gain at least after September 1, since the Pups of Chicago achieved the prowess in 1935, in accordance with the statistics of EliasSpors Bureau.
Before this campaign, the Rockies only had gained a party in postemporada and it was in 1995 when they were eliminated by the Brave ones of Atlanta in the first stage.
Now, they penetrate into the World Series with an amazing strength.
The relevista Matt Herges, who re-stimulated his career in Colorado, worked two earnings without allowing notes and the victory took. The stellar bullpen of the Rockies closed strongly, although not before Brian Fuentes was allowing the Snyder vuelacercas. Corpas obtained his second rescue to the thread.
When the Rockies were losing 1-0 with two out in the fourth entry and with brokers in the second and third base, manager Clint Hurdle realized a bold maneuver: it replaced his pitcher star, the Venezuelan beginner Franklin Morales, with an emergent batsman.
Hurdle did not have to worry about exhausting his bullpen because the fifth possible party would be realized until the Wednesday night. So it incorporated Seth Smith, who only had eight times to the bat in his career when it was placed in the alignment for the playoffs.
Smith gave a double of two careers before the beginner Micah Owings who put forward Colorado for 2-1. The Dominican Willy Taveras sounded an easy vehicle — that Conor Jackson could not catch — and noted down with a simple one of Kaz Matsui.
Holliday maddened to 50.213 spectators that they filled the stadium when it connected a rapid Owings ball and sent it on the fence of the central garden to put the slate in 6-1.
Morales allowed a career — bootblack — with five unstoppable ones in four innings. Although it did not win, in his 10 openings in the biggest the Rockies they increased the sheet to 8-2.
For the Diamondbacks, the Venezuelan Alberto Callaspo of 1-0.
For the Rockies, the Dominican Taveras of 4-1 with the written down one. The Venezuelans Yorvit Torrealba of 4-0 and Mulberry trees of 1-0.
| Uruguay, Argentina and Venezuela, leaders |
| Turned out qualifying parties |
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| Although it takes two months without playing, Riquelme of all forms devised them to put two to free kick Chile. Photo: AP |
Uruguay 5 – Bolivia 0
Argentina 2 – Chile 0
Venezuela 1 – Ecuador 0
Peru 0 – Paraguay 0
Colombia 0 – Brazil 0
| World cup of Rugby |
| South Africa conquers 37-13 to Argentina and he is a finalist |
For Nancy Armour
AP
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| The South African Foire Du Prez taught to the Argentinians who dad is in rugby. Foto:AP |
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With his habitual physical fortitude taken shape of four tries of Fourie du Preez, South Africa conquered on Sunday, the 37-13th Argentina and next Saturday it will face England for the final of the World championship of Rugby.
Other one of the big figures was Percy Montgomery, with 17 points, with which it was consolidated like maximum annotator of the world cup with a whole of 84.
The Pumas South Americans, the big revelation of the tournament for having come to semifinals for the first time in his history, will measure themselves on Friday, the 19th before France for the third position.
England, current world champion, left in the way on Saturday France for 14-9.
The way scrum 25-year-old Du Preez and veteran of 36 test match, put three tries in the first part and one in the complement. Argentina only had allowed till now three tries and 46 points.
South Africa was gained 24-6 at the end of the first stage.
Argentina started with decision, but the Springboks surprised with forwards and backs gaining meters to pure skill and potency.
And it was so to 6 minutes Felipe Contepomi lost a ball in the center of the court and there made use of it Du Preez whom recluse covered and deposited it in the in goal. Montgomery was right in the conversion and the scoreboard remained 7-0 in favor of the Springboks.
Soon, Felipe Contepomi turned a penalty and 7-3 put the things, although Montgomery answered of penalty to the 15 then and stretched the difference for the South Africans.
With Argentina pressing with the maul, but with problems in the fixed formations, Australia was always controlling the party although another Contepomi penalty put the things 10-6 in favor of the South Africans.
To 31 minutes, South Africa there penetrated for the left sector and the right wing Bryan Habana, a species of the historical Brazilian soccer player Garrincha, played it of hat and ran towards a new try. Montgomery turned and the party stayed 17-6.
I joust with the closing of the stage, and after other swaying, Danie Rossouw supported a new trie, with which it went away to the rest winning 24-6.
Lost for lost, Argentina went out with everything in the starter of the complement and Manuel Contepomi supported it in the in goal and his twin brother Felipe Contepomi put the following kick so that Argentina was going away to 13 points against 24 of South Africa.
But a penalty of Montgomery and a trie of Havana they were stretching the differences for South Africa that in the long run went away victorious and celebrating 37-13.
South Africa has unconquered mark in 11 meetings against Argentina.
| Packers 17, Red Skins 14 |
| Redskins pays expensively offensive errors |
For Nancy Armour
AP
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| Charles Woodson has it in the sight. 20 seconds later it was celebrating the touchdown with which Wisconsin won Washington. Foto:AP |
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Charles Woodson made use of a fumble and advanced 57 yards for the touchdown of the difference with which Packers de Green Bay defeated on Sunday, the 17-14th to the Red Skins of Washington.
In a rainy day in Lambeau Field, Coking Williams took a ball from Santana Moss in the last years of the third quarter. Woodson recovered it and advanced up to the note area, putting in advantage the Packers.
Green Bay set on himself despite a bad day of the best offensive area of the league and that his field marshal Brett Favre spent to lead the statistics of more intercepted passes (278) in the history of the NFL with a pass caught in against in the third quarter.
Packers (5-1) recovered of his first defeat of the period against Chicago last Sunday. Washington (3-2) had to maltraer Green Bay, but his errors in the attack cost him expensively.
| Ex-star returned his Olympian medals for doping scandal |
| Heyday and fall of the athlete Marion Jones |
For Nancy Armour
AP
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| The athlete returned his Olympian medals for doping scandal. Foto:AP |
The athlete Marion Jones returned this Monday, the 8th five medals that it gained in the Olympics of 2000 of Sydney and accepted that he was annulled by all the results later to the 1st of September, 2000, like punishment after confessing that it had used drugs to improve his yield.
Three golden medals and two of bronze were dedicated to officials of the American Olympian Committee (USOC) and of the Agency Antidoping in the office of his lawyer in Austin, Texas.
The gems are in way to the head office of the ESOC in Colorado Springs and this one will deliver them to the International Olympic Committee.
“ We have done what we could”, said the CEO of the USOC, Jim Scherr. “We catch the person who was not clean. We have the medals and we will return them to the COI”, he added.
In the Olympics of 2000, Jones gained gold in 100 and 200 flat meters, 1.600 meters with relays, and bronze in jump in length and 400 meters relays. It corresponds to the COI to decide what will do with the medals and if it will annul the results in Sydney, in whose case his relays partners also would lose medals.
The plot
On Friday, the 5th, Jones pled guilty to lying to the federal district attorneys on the steroids consumption and admitted that it had taken the clear (the egg white) from September, 2000 until July, 2001. “The egg white” is a synthetic steroid linked with Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO), the laboratory that is in the center of the scandal for steroids in the professional sport.
In this investigation also there remained trapped ex-recordista Tim Montgomery, who has a son with Jones.
After the hearing, Jones announced his retirement, but on Monday he accepted a suspension of two years and accepted to give for all his results annulled from September 1, 2000 up to the present.
Also, the COI and the International Federation of Athletics announced on Tuesday, the 9th that they will continue with his procedures to discredit Jones and to correct the results of the Olympiads and the world cups.
The federation has control on the results in the Olympiads, but the COI controls the medals. “Now we need the official disqualification process and perhaps other measurements, like prohibiting to take part in other games and things for the style”, said the vice-president of the COI, Thomas Bach.
The COI and the federation are in the difficult position to have to deliver the Olympian golden medal to Ekaterini Thanou, who finished second in Sydney.
The Greek was in the axis of a scandal of doping in the Olympic Games of Athens 2004, where it did not appear to a doping test and then it was dismissed of the joust together with another athlete. Both were suspended two years.
Jones would have gained million dollars in awards, quotas for taking part in competitions and bonds for performance.
“ The regulation is it is there and it is clear”, said the spokesman of the federation, Nick Davies. “There is confiscated the money of the awards and the quotas by participation. We are going to try to recover it, but I cannot say if finally we will recover it”, it concluded Davies.
| Mexican politician loses marathon title for supposed pitfall |
| Madrazo and his excess |
For Jessica Bernstein Wax
AP
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| Did it do pitfall? This is the photo that woke up the suspicions of the pitfall of Madrazo. Foto:AP |
After a humiliating defeat in the presidential elections of 2006 in Mexico, Roberto Madrazo seemed to return to the first places on September 30 when it gained the category major than 55 years in the Marathon of Berlin, with a surprising time of two hours, 41 minutes and 12 seconds.
It could run, but without need to leave his reputation stained by the suspicion. The authorities of the career announced on Monday, the 8th that they discredited to Madrazo because apparently it took a short cut. In a taken photo when it crossed the goal, Madrazo raises the arms as a token of victory. The problem was that it was dressing a jacket in the raised neck, a cap and long sports pants, what some of them thought that clothes were too much for someone who had just run for almost three hours in a temperature of 16 grades Celsius (60 Fahrenheit).
The Madrazo clothing captured the attention of the photographer Victor Sailer, who was alert on a possible pitfall.
“ It was obvious, in the photo any world was dressing T-shirts and shorts, and the type was taking a jacket, a cap and who knows what more”, reported Sailer.
The organizers of the Marathon of Berlin discovered that the electronic device that was registering the time and the Madrazo trajectory did not show his step along the positions of control in the kilometers 25 and 30.
In accordance with the device, Madrazo covered 15 kilometers in only 21 minutes, with a speed that no human being can reach, pointed out the director of the career Mark Milde. “The one who possesses the world mark cannot even run so rapidly”, pointed out Milde.
| Nothing changes, Brazil and Argentina favorites |
| It rolls the ball with a view to the World cup of South Africa |
For Vicente L. Panetta
AP
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| It is a crack. Ronaldinho will command the attack of Brazil. Photo: Archivo/WH |
If the weight of the past and the present is true, Brazil and Argentina should avoid without major mishaps the regional qualifying rounds that begin on Saturday, the 13th for the world cup of South Africa in 2010.
Two years of activity will stop to four countries classified under direct form and other in a repechaje together with one of the CONCACAF, what represents a change in the system, since previously the square was dissolving it before a team of Oceania.
Uruguay and Bolivia will open the activity on Saturday evening in Montevideo, and of little there will be playing Argentina - Chile (Buenos Aires), Ecuador - Venezuela (Quito), Peru - Paraguay (Lima) and Colombia - Brazil (Bogota).
The duel between Uruguayan and Bolivian is between countries between which they did not qualify to the World Cup in Germany 2006.
In the remaining shocks a peculiarity happens: present teams will measure themselves in Germany against absent in this joust, like the case of Argentina, Ecuador, Paraguay and Brazil on the one hand, and Chile, Venezuela, Peru and Colombia for other
On Tuesday, the 16th it will start the second date between Venezuela - Argentina (Maracaibo) and one day later it will be done by Bolivia - Colombia (La Paz), Chile - Peru (Santiago), Paraguay - Uruguay (Asunción) and Brazil - Ecuador (Rio de Janeiro).
“ The qualifying rounds every time are becoming more difficult”, said the General Secretary of the Conmebol, Eduardo de Luca. “All the teams prepared themselves very well and that's why one notices that the thing will be equal for all”.
Nevertheless, for his soccer weight on a global scale, Brazil and Argentina seem to start with advantage and although they will be able to win or lose, in the long run they would make to cost his parchments having in all that that they have 18 parties to recover from some occasional slip.
The precedents
In the career towards the world cup of 2006, Brazil lost two times and Argentina four.
Brazil and Argentina qualified the firstly and the secondly, respectively, in the recent Cup America in Venezuela, and also both occupied the first two places in the last two qualifying rounds.
And if this was small, the quotation of the Brazilians Ronaldinho and Kaká, and that of the Argentinian Lionel Messi, they appear on the passes market between better five o'clock of the world.
On the other hand, Brazil is the only country of the world that was in 17 world glasses, of which it gained five, while Argentina, champion in two, was not in three appointments for proper will.
And in qualifying rounds, the Argentinians only suffered a big disappointment when Peru eliminated it of Mexico 1970, while for the United States 94 they went to a repechaje in which they conquered Australia.
Between other teams, Ecuador is outlined like a rival of supreme care since it is intoned by his consecutive pass to the last two world cups.
And his players have an extra incentive: there are the best full ones of South America, with 10.000 dollars for every victory of place, 12.000 of visit and half of these numbers for every tie, as said the president of the Ecuadoran Federation of Soccer Luis Chiriboga.
Paraguay is different of the strong selections since it qualified to the last three world cups, while Uruguay and Colombia, other teams emphasized from the South American soccer, drag the defeat of not having qualified to the last world cup. Colombia did not take part of the appointment of 2002 in Korea - Japan either. Uruguay ended I conscript in the past qualifying rounds, with a point more than Colombia, and then it fell down before Australia in a dramatic definition for penalties.
Chile, which appealed to the experience of the Argentinian Marcelo Bielsa like technician, will think about how to cut an adverse gust since it adds two consecutive world cups stay away, while Peru wrapped in problems for a battle between the leading organisms of the soccer, is different that inhales to return to the big hem of the one that took part for last time in Spain 82.
Venezuela, which has never been in a world cup, postponed Peru and Bolivia in the last qualifying rounds and was exhibited like a selection more than proper.
Finally, Bolivia drags the defeat of having ended last in the past qualifying rounds with 14 points on 64 possible ones.
| Organizations fight against the aberrations for parties arrangement |
| The tennis thinks about how to conquer the corruption |
Writing / agency
Washington Hispanic Four organizations of the professional tennis have formed an alliance against corruption acts in the sport. Two months later that the masculine tour initiated an investigation on bets during a tournament in Poland, the International Federation of Tennis (FIT) announced on Tuesday, the 9th that is collaborating with the ATP, the WTA and the Commission of Grand Slam to unify regulations against the arrangement of parties and illegal bets.
“ We have to preserve the integrity of the parties”, said Bill Babcock, spokesman of the FIT. “I believe that we have it, but there is a nubre that watches that it is necessary to remove”.
The suspicions on parties arrangement ignited when an agency of bets annulled done in a duel between the Russian Nikolay Davydenko, number four of the world, opposite to the Argentinian Martín Vassallo Argüello in Poland on having detected aberrations.
The bets did not stop favoring vastly the Argentinian, although Davydenko had gained him the first set. Finally the Russian left the party of August 2 at a height of the third set for an injury in a foot.
At present, the ATP is investigating the episode.
“ The tennis is vulnerable”, added Babcock, simultaneously manager of the commission that manages four big tournaments of the period.
After the party between Davydenko and Vassal Argüello, other players have admitted that they have been contacted by strangers eager to influence the results.
Last month, the Belgian Gilles Elseneer said that they offered him — and of step it pushed back — more than 100 thousand dollars to allow to lose a duel of the first round against the Italian Jar of baby food Starace in the first round of Wimbledon 2005.
| Washington Redskins and Green Bay Packers they face |
| Titanium shock in the NFL |
For Felipe Lagos
Washington Hispanic
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| His idol. Jason Campbell has said that it admires Favre. Foto:Reuters |
The party that they should face to the Washington Redskins against Green Bay Packers this Sunday, the 14th stands out for the shock between his two field marshals, Brett Favre, a veteran who is breaking records in his period number 16 in the NFL, and a star in ascent, Jason Campbell, who has always admired the quaterback of Wisconsin.
Favre threw his pass of touchdown number 423, absolute record of the NFL, in the party that the Packers lost before the Bears of Chicago 20 to 27 on Sunday, the 7th. While, Campbell for the first time overcame the ráting 100 in passes in the meeting that the Red Skins pulverized the Lions of Detriot for 34 to 3.
And this Sunday, both the faces will be seen for the first time.
Prognoses?, difficult, Green Bay lost his first party of the period last week, what means that they will want reinvindicarse with rapidity, since they want to do again history of the hand of Favre.
For the Red Skins it will be a complex party. Although the team will come to Wisconsin with the morality in high place after the extraordinary performance before Detroit, Green Bay will not leave space to them in defensive terms and Favre will make to weigh his biggest experience (he is 38 years old, while Campbell newly fulfilled 26) in the handling of the local attack.
In spite of everything, it will be a good party and the opportunity of the Red Skins to demonstrate that, already it is at home or of visit, they can face major challenges.
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