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Milford dumps Shelton in 7th
Jul 03, 2010
By Chris Hunn
Register Staff
MILFORD — Shelton seemed to have a good read on Milford pitcher Andrew Plaskon on Saturday, loading the bases in each of the first two innings
The pieces were in place to jump out to a sizeable lead early, but Shelton left the bases loaded in both innings, managing just one run in each frame.
Milford made Shelton pay.
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Nadal faces a new challenge in Wimbledon final
Jul 03, 2010
WIMBLEDON, England — While Roger Federer is at the start of a two-week vacation he wasn’t eager to begin, Rafael Nadal will be hard at work Sunday, facing a new sort of challenge in the Wimbledon final.
For the first time since 2002, the last round at the All England Club won’t include six-time champion Federer. Instead, Nadal will take on the player who eliminated Federer in the quarterfinals, first-time Grand Slam finalist Tomas Berdych.
They’ll be hard-pressed to equal the drama of the past three Wimbledon finals. Federer beat Nadal in 2007, Nadal beat Federer in 2008, and Federer beat Andy Roddick last year. All three matches were decided in the fifth set, including last year’s 16-14 thriller.
But Nadal’s Wimbledon comeback and Berdych’s Grand Slam breakthrough offer compelling story lines.
K-Rod comes up with big save for Mets
Jul 03, 2010
WASHINGTON — Francisco Rodriguez is one of baseball’s most reliable relief pitchers, saving 262 games in his career. This game-ending play was unique.
The Washington Nationals had rallied for two runs in the ninth inning and had the potential tying run on base with two outs when Rodriguez picked off Roger Bernadina at second for the final out of the New York Mets’ 5-3 victory Friday night.
Bernadina’s careless baserunning, which turned into a colossal blunder, was spotted by 20-year-old rookie shortstop Ruben Tejada, playing there only because Jose Reyes missed his third straight game with a stiff back.
Gardner, A-Rod lead Yankees
Jul 03, 2010
NEW YORK — Andy Pettitte kept ducking down the dugout tunnel between innings Saturday, trying to find some air conditioning on a steamy summer afternoon.
When he headed inside during the third inning, he might as well have taken a nap.
Brett Gardner hit his first career grand slam and Alex Rodriguez drove in four more runs during the Yankees’ biggest offensive outburst in five years, which took 37 minutes and carried New York to an 11-3 rout of the Toronto Blue Jays.
“You want your guys to keep scoring,” Pettitte said, “but it was a long inning.”
Readers pick a dream team of Yanks, Mets, Sox
Jul 03, 2010
Derek Jeter
By Sean Barker
Sports Editor
With the All-Star game approaching on July 13 in Anaheim, and several players from the Mets, Red Sox and Yankees in the running for starting positions, we wondered who would be selected if fans could just select from those three teams.
Manute Bol: Big memories of a jolly giant
Jul 03, 2010
AP photo/Manute Bol didn't shy from the public eye when he was trying to raise money for refugees in his native Sudan. One of the more memorable stunts was when he suited up in jockey silks in 2003 to become the tallest jockey ever licensed by the Indiana Horse Racing Commission.
Bob Ehalt, a copy editor for the Register covered the University of Bridgeport basketball season in 1984-85 for the Norwalk Hour and Stamford Advocate. He was the first reporter to meet Manute Bol and might have spent more time with him than any member of the media. He shares his unique memories of that season and Bol, who passed away June 19.
One of the joys of being a sports writer is the seat.
Your 37 ½ or 40 or 75 hours of work per week can sometimes give you a front row seat for some of life’s most incredible moments. You watch processions of joy and heartbreak, success and failure, humor and grief as you get a rare chance to view and detail life through the eyes of others and share in their experiences.
SOLOMON: A charitable suggestion for a sponsor
Jul 03, 2010
Dave Solomon is the Register's Sports Columnist. Email him at dsoloman@nhregister.com
I was thinking:
While Anne Worcester and the Pilot Pen tennis team scour the earth to save New Haven’s No. 1 sporting event in 2011 and beyond, I think the solution is right in their own back yard.
What if we could generate millions of dollars for cancer research and treatment through the tennis tournament and its title sponsor? What if Yale-New Haven Hospital, with its new 14-story, 497,000 square-foot Smilow Cancer Hospital, became title sponsor of the final leg of the U.S. Open Series with its extensive national and international tennis coverage?
Travelers getting a little fan-friendlier
Jul 03, 2010
Peter Casolino photo/Register. From left, Brook Soucy (7), Hannah Langlais (10) and Brianna Olandt (10) of Gymnastics Unlimited in Bristol, show off their skills in the Subway Fan Zone at the Travelers Championship last week. Below, Ava Marano (4) gets some help from her mom, Leeann, climbing a wall in the Fan Zone. When Travelers took over the tournament in 2007, it asked fans what it could do to improve the tournament. One of the more common responses was to have more things for kids.
By Joe Morelli
Register Staff
When Travelers took over title sponsorship of the former Greater Hartford Open beginning in 2007, the goal was to consult anyone and everyone affiliated with the tournament to ask how to improve it each year.
The tournament consulted the players first and foremost before taking over. One result of that was constructing one of the largest practice facilities at any PGA Tour event.
Minor League notes: Van Mil a big deal in Eastern League
Jul 03, 2010
By Chip Malafronte
Register Staff
NEW BRITAIN – Conformity is a concept all but lost on Loek Van Mil. The tallest player in affiliated professional baseball at a shade under 7-feet-2, the New Britain Rock Cats relief pitcher has always been one of a kind.
As a grade school student in the Netherlands, most of the children flocked to play soccer, the national sport. Van Mil took up judo. And dominated. Only 7 years old, he stood a foot taller and 30 pounds heavier than everyone. It was a scene out of a Seinfeld episode — Van Mil rolling over his peers much like Cosmo Kramer as the lone adult in a class full of children.
Lester shines again against Orioles, Sox win 9-3
Jul 03, 2010
BOSTON (AP) — Jon Lester pitched seven strong innings to remain undefeated against Baltimore in 12 career decisions, Kevin Youkilis homered and drove in three runs, and the Boston Red Sox beat the Orioles 9-3 on Saturday night.
Boston has won 17 of its last 19 games in Fenway Park against the Orioles.
J.D. Drew had three hits and drove in pair of runs with a first-inning double after connecting for a pair of solo homers in Boston’s win on Friday night.
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