Friday, July 1, 2016

Pacific Association's Sonoma Stompers sign two female players and other top stories.

  • Pacific Association's Sonoma Stompers sign two female players

    Pacific Association's Sonoma Stompers sign two female players
    Your teams. Your favorite writers. Wherever you want them. Personalize SI with our new App. Install on iOS or Android.​ The Pacific Association’s Sonoma Stompers are adding two female players to their roster. The independent league club announced Wednesday that it has signed Kelsie Whitmore, 17, and Stacy Piagno, 25. Both will start Friday’s game against the San Rafael Pacifics, Whitmore in left field and Piagno on the mound. “This isn't a one-day event,” Stompers general manager Theo Fightmaste..
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  • As A Poor Kid From The Rust Belt, Yale Law School Brought Me Face-to-face With Radical Inequality

    As A Poor Kid From The Rust Belt, Yale Law School Brought Me Face-to-face With Radical Inequality
    This post is excerpted from Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. During my first round of law school applications, I didn’t even apply to Yale, Harvard, or Stanford—the mystical “top three” schools. I didn’t think I had a chance at those places. More important, I didn’t think it mattered; all lawyers get good jobs, I assumed. I just needed to get to any law school, and then I’d do fine: a nice salary, a respectable profession, and the American Dream. Then my best friend,..
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  • Blazers extend qualifying offers to Leonard, Harkless, Crabbe

    Blazers extend qualifying offers to Leonard, Harkless, Crabbe
    Blazers extend qualifying offers to Leonard, Harkless, Crabbe Max Barr, KGW 11:33 AM. PDT June 29, 2016 Portland Trail Blazers forward Maurice Harkless (4) dunks the ball against Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki (41) (Photo: Steve Dykes-USA TODAY Sports) PORTLAND, Ore. – The Portland Trail Blazers ensured that they will have the right to match contract offers from other NBA teams to three players who contributed to last season’s success.The Blazers extended ..
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  • NASCAR spokesman Tharp named president of Darlington track

    NASCAR spokesman Tharp named president of Darlington track
    AP 7:11 p.m. EDT June 29, 2016DARLINGTON, S.C. (AP) — NASCAR spokesman Kerry Tharp has been hired to be the new president at Darlington Raceway.The track announced Wednesday that Tharp will start his new job July 18.Tharp has worked with NASCAR media relations since 2005, rising to become the organization's senior director of racing communications.Tharp has lived in South Carolina for 30 years, working as a spokesman for the University of South Carolina athletics from 1985 to 2005.T..
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  • Michael Phelps still seeking his personal best

    Michael Phelps still seeking his personal best
    OMAHA, Neb. -- Michael Phelps chuckled. He paused. Then he looked away. He needed a second. The man who had spent almost his entire career hiding his true emotions was about to break down in tears. A few minutes earlier, in the arena where he has created so many memories over the past eight years, he had just qualified for his fifth consecutive Olympic team, a first for a U.S. male. And without much time to process, he struggled to articulate exactly what it meant."That was probably harder than ..
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  • Michael Phelps qualifies for record fifth Olympic Games

    Michael Phelps qualifies for record fifth Olympic Games
    Story highlightsMichael Phelps qualifies for record fifth OlympicsBaltimore Bullet wins U.S. trial in 200m butterflyPhelps is most decorated Olympian of all timePhelps, who has 22 Olympic medals to his name, clocked a time of one minute 54.84 seconds to take first place in the final of the 200 meter butterfly at the U.S. swimming trials in Omaha, Nebraska.In doing so, Phelps became the first man to make a fifth U.S. Olympic swimming team.Although he announced his retirement after the 2012 Games ..
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  • Warriors make qualifying offers to Harrison Barnes, Festus Ezeli

    Warriors make qualifying offers to Harrison Barnes, Festus Ezeli
    OAKLAND, Calif. -- The Golden State Warriors have extended qualifying offers to forward Harrison Barnes and center Festus Ezeli.Editor's PicksThe moves, which were made Wednesday, mean Barnes and Ezeli will be restricted free agents in July, and the Warriors will have the right to match any offer sheet that Barnes and Ezeli sign with another team.Golden State didn't extend qualifying offers to guard Ian Clark and forward James Michael McAdoo, making them unrestricted free agents.Barnes, 24, aver..
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  • Andrew Luck got paid, but he should have held out for more

    Andrew Luck got paid, but he should have held out for more
    The numbers are eye-popping at first, sure. But within the context of the NFL quarterback market, Andrew Luck's new deal is a pretty big letdown.This is a deal that has been anticipated for more than a year now by people around the NFL. Agents have been drooling in anticipation of a contract they believed would set new benchmarks and really drive the top of the quarterback market upward for the first time in years. Team executives have been watching to see how much of his considerable leverage L..
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  • Despite flurry of action, little change for Canadiens, Oilers

    Despite flurry of action, little change for Canadiens, Oilers
    On a day when everything changed, it became clear that some things never do. The Edmonton Oilers are a bad team seemingly doomed to stay that way. And the Montreal Canadiens will always eat their own. In a span of an hour on Wednesday afternoon, both teams agreed to stunning, self-destructive deals. First, the Oilers sent All-Star left wing Taylor Hall to the New Jersey Devils for underperforming defender Adam Larsson, a trade that looked to be the NHL's most lopsided since the Boston Bruins s..
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  • Sources: Knicks strong favorites to sign free agent Joakim Noah

    Sources: Knicks strong favorites to sign free agent Joakim Noah
    4:56 AM ETMarc SteinCloseMarc SteinESPN Senior Writer• Senior NBA writer for ESPN.com • Began covering the NBA in 1993-94 • Also covered soccer, tennis and the OlympicsIan BegleyCloseIan BegleyESPN Staff WriterCovers the New York Knicks for ESPNNewYork.comThe New York Knicks have emerged as the strong favorite to sign free-agent big man Joakim Noah, according to league sources.Sources told ESPN that multiple teams interested in Noah have all but conceded that the Knicks are his runaway preferred..
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