First pain, the gain
ANAHEIM - It was a Monday night that for the Angels
alternated between the sickening and the sublime - a night Vladimir
Guerrero got beaned in the head, Adam Kennedy suffered a possible
season-ending injury and Dallas McPherson showed that the future may, in fact, be now.
The Angels took a step toward staying in the postseason picture
with a wild 5-2 victory over the Seattle Mariners. The win snapped a
scoreless streak at two games and moved the Angels within 2 1/2 games of idle Oakland.
Photo Gallery: Angels vs. Mariners
When it's this late, players determine fate
Kevin Modesti: ANAHEIM -- At some point in a hard baseball
season, it must occur to even the best manager that the fate of his
club is out of his control, that the future is in the hands of the
players and dumb luck.
For Mike Scioscia, that point probably came Monday evening.
Before the game against the Seattle Mariners, Scioscia
restructured the Angels' batting order, working like a mad
scientist to apply an antidote to the team's recent spotty hitting. ...[MORE]
Culpepper has costly fumble
PHILADELPHIA - Donovan McNabb
didn't need much of Terrell Owens on Monday night. Daunte Culpepper could have used a lot more of Randy Moss.
In a strange game featuring lots of long drives but not many
points, the Philadelphia Eagles rode the running and passing of
McNabb to a 27-16 victory over the Minnesota Vikings. Of the four
big offensive stars, only McNabb glittered, and Culpepper hurt his team badly with a fumble inside the Philadelphia 1-yard
line.
Photo Gallery: Vikings vs. Eagles
• Giant run in September
Rising teams to cross paths
Two longtime San Fernando Valley high
schools who recently became football rivals square off Friday, when
Crespi (2-0) of Encino plays at Birmingham (0-2) of Lake Balboa.
Never mind the records -- these are two teams on similarly successful
paths.
Birmingham, a City Section champion in the 1960s, is enjoying a
tremendous resurgence under coach Ed Croson. The Patriots have three
league titles, a section championship and a 40-12 record in his
four-plus seasons. They qualify as one of the area's best programs
of the new millennium. ...[MORE]
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The combined passing yardage of Birmingham of Lake Balboa
quarterback Andrew Miramontes (349) and Valencia quarterback Michael
Herrick (335) in Friday's 43-26 Valencia victory, when the Vikings
overcame a 26-21 third-quarter Birmingham lead....[MORE]
• Glendale plans memorial for coach
• Montclair Prep RB gets high five
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Bush favors power play
Scenes from a late, late finish in
Provo, Utah, on Saturday night following USC's 42-10 blowout of
Brigham Young:
USC tailback Reggie Bush, exhausted and the last
player left in the locker room, received an ESPN banner following
his second sterling performance on the network this season. ...[MORE]
• Bing's passion tested
• USC leaves BYU gasping in thin air
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Young wideouts to be tested soon
Tab Perry has two catches in three
games and his impact on UCLA's offense hasn't yet been felt, but
that may change now that leading receiver Craig Bragg likely will be
out a month.
Bragg's dislocated left shoulder will sideline him "at least
three to four weeks," Bruins coach Karl Dorrell said Monday. It
opens a starting spot for Perry, and should give freshmen Marcus
Everett and Brandon Breazell more playing time at flanker. ...[MORE]
• Drew's feat stands apart
• Huskies short by a yard
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Big second half propels Valley
Edric Prim rushed for 152 yards on 20 carries and scored
three touchdowns Saturday to lead Valley College (2-1, 1-0) to a
44-29 Western State Conference Northern Division-opening win over
host Santa Barbara (1-2, 0-1) at La Playa Stadium....[MORE]
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Northridge loses tourney title game
Most men's soccer teams would be
discouraged after opening the season with two losses in its first
four games. Cal State Northridge, however, isn't one of them.
Sure, Northridge lost 3-2 on Sunday to New Mexico, ranked 19th in
the nation, in the title game of the annual Matador Soccer
Invitational. ...[MORE]
• CSUN mulls new master plan Growth by 2010 would be addressed
• UCLA pulls rank in win
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