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06/25/2010 - Boston, MA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Boston Bruins brought back 42-year-old forward Mark Recchi on a one-year deal Friday.
The Boston Herald reported the deal is for $1 million with possible incentives.
Recchi posted 18 goals and 43 points in 81 regular-season games with the B's a season ago. He added six goals and 10 points in 13 playoff contests as Boston reached the conference semifinals before suffering an epic collapse against Philadelphia.
A seven-time NHL all-star and two-time Stanley Cup Champion with Pittsburgh and Carolina, Recchi has played in 1,571 regular-season games over 21 seasons.
The native of Kamloops, British Columbia has piled up 563 goals and 922 assists for 1,485 points. He has recorded 16 career 20-goal seasons, seven 30- goal seasons, four 40-goal seasons and one 50-goal season to his credit. In 164 career playoff tilts, the diminutive winger has tallied 56 goals and 77 assists.
The Bruins have the second-overall pick in the 2010 NHL Draft, which kicks off later Friday in Los Angeles. The club was able to get the coveted slot in the deal that sent Phil Kessel to Toronto last off-season. Highly-touted Canadian junior forwards Tyler Seguin and Taylor Hall are expected to be selected with the first two picks.
<< Columbus signs Carroll to four-year extension
Columbus, OH (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Columbus Crew signed midfielder Brian
Carroll to a four-year contract extension on Friday.
Carroll has been a stalwart in the Crew's midfield since joining the club,
starting and appearing in 73
<< Chivas USA signs midfielder Nagamura
Carson, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Chivas USA signed midfielder Paulo Nagamura, who
had eight goals and seven assists in 73 matches with the team from 2007-2009,
on Friday.
Nagamura spent the last six months playing with Mexican First Divisio
<< Tubert versus McCloskey at U.S. Women's Publinx
South Bend, IN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Emily Tubert and Lisa McCloskey both won
their semifinal matches on Friday to set up the 36-hole final of the U.S.
Women's Amateur Public Links Championship.
The first 18 of the championship match
<< Bobcats make qualifying offer to Tyrus Thomas
Charlotte, NC (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Charlotte Bobcats have extended a
qualifying offer to forward Tyrus Thomas, making him a restricted free agent.
The move allows the Bobcats to match any offer Thomas receives from another
team.
Bucknell announces recruiting class >>
Lewisburg, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Three quarterbacks are part of head coach Joe
Susan's first recruiting class at Bucknell.
The 29-member class includes quarterbacks Derek-London Dierkes (6-foot-3,
185 pounds) of Woodsfield, Ohio; Austin
Baylor, Rojoas named managers for Futures Game >>
New York, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Don Baylor and Cookie Rojas have been
named managers for the Futures Game, which will be a part of the All-Star Game
festivities in Anaheim.
The contest will take place on Sunday, July 11 at An
White Sox down Cubs, win 10th straight game >>
Chicago, IL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Carlos Quentin's three-run homer in the first
inning sent Cubs starter Carlos Zambrano into a frenzy, while Jake Peavy and
the White Sox continued to roll with a 6-0 decision to reach 10 straight wins
for the
Rose cruising at Travelers >>
Cromwell, CT (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Justin Rose fired an eight-under 62 on Friday
to take a commanding lead after the second round of the Travelers
Championship.
The Englishman established a new 36-hole record with his 14-under 1
NEW YORK (AP) -By staying away from the cupcakes, Southern California earned itself a slim new ranking.
No. 1 always seems to fit USC.
Southern California jumped two spots to No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 on Tuesday, rewarded by voters for opening the season with a dominant performance on the road against a BCS conference opponent.
Georgia and Ohio State, the preseason Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, started their seasons with glorified scrimmages at home against FCS (formerly I-AA) teams. USC, however, traveled across country to face Virginia and could not have been more impressive in a 52-7 victory.
Georgia fell to No. 2 and Ohio State to No 3.
"We realize that rankings so early in a season are certainly fluid. But rankings do help establish a pecking order for things later in the season," USC coach Pete Carroll said in a statement. "As for moving into the No. 1 spot, it's nice to know that people think highly of our team."
Since reaching No. 1 on Dec. 7, 2003, the final-regular season AP poll of that season, USC has been No. 1 in 39 polls, by far the most of any team during that time.
"Some have said the voters are taking our schedule into consideration," Carroll said. "Our philosophy has always been to schedule outstanding opponents. We need to play challenging games like we just did, traveling across the country to open the season at Virginia. Games like that bring out our best and make us stronger as a team."
The latest voting was close. USC received 21 first-place votes and 1,539 points from the 65-member media panel. Georgia had 20 first-place votes and 1,506 points. Ohio State got 15 first-place votes and 1,497 points.
"I'd say we've evolved as pollsters," said Stewart Mandel of SI.com, who moved USC up to No. 1. "In the past, voters just kind of automatically moved teams up and kept teams where they were if they won."
Georgia beat Georgia Southern 45-21 on Saturday and Ohio State opened with a 43-0 win over Youngstown State.
"There's a bit of a growing backlash for the amount of teams that open with I-AA cupcakes," said Mandel, whose book "Bowls, Polls and Tattered Souls" chronicles college football's controversies. "To see a team [USC] go on the road and play a New Year's Day bowl team from last season, and not only play them but destroy them, how could you not reward that team?"
USC also jumped past Georgia to No. 1 in the USA Today coaches' poll, which has the same top five as the AP poll.
"It's definitely a privilege to be No. 1. But it's not heartbreaking to me if we drop," Georgia offensive lineman Josh Davis said. "It doesn't matter right now what we're ranked. What matters is our next game and right now, that's Central Michigan. The only time the polls matter is in December. That's when the polls matter."
While the Bulldogs opened easy, their schedule ultimately should be as difficult as any team's. Georgia's big nonconference test is at No. 15 Arizona State on Sept. 20. The Bulldogs also face six Southeastern Conference rivals that've been ranked in the first two polls.
As for Ohio State, the Buckeyes play at USC on Sept. 13 before getting into the Big Ten schedule.
But of the teams in this week's top 10, USC and Texas are the only ones that don't play an FCS opponent, and the Trojans are the only team that doesn't play a team from a non-BCS conference.
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The last team to drop from No. 1 after a victory was USC last season. LSU jumped from No. 2 to No. 1 when it beat Tulane 34-9, the same week the Trojans edged Washington 27-24 on the road.
The last preseason No. 1 team to lose the top spot after winning its opening game was Florida in 2001. The Gators beat Marshall 49-14, but preseason No. 2 Miami opened with a 33-7 victory over Penn State and the Hurricanes jumped to No. 1 with Florida slipping to second.
The next four teams in the new Top 25 stayed the same: No. 4 Oklahoma (two first-place votes), No. 5 Florida (five first-place votes), No. 6 Missouri (one first-place vote), No. 7 LSU (one first-place vote) and No. 8 West Virginia.
No. 9 Auburn and No. 10 Texas each moved up a spot, taking advantage of Clemson's big drop. Clemson, ninth in the preseason, fell out after losing 34-10 to Alabama on Saturday.
Also falling out after losses were Virginia Tech, Pittsburgh and Tennessee.
Moving into the rankings were No. 21 Fresno State, No. 22 Utah, No. 23 UCLA and No. 24 South Carolina.
Alabama moved up 11 spots after its big victory over Clemson.
The second 10 started with No. 11 Wisconsin, followed by Texas Tech, Alabama and Kansas. BYU and Arizona State were tied for 15th. Rivals BYU and Utah are both ranked for the first time since 1996.
South Florida was No. 17, ahead of Oregon, Penn State and Wake Forest at No. 20.
The final five were all the teams to move into the ranking, except for Illinois, which dropped four spots and tied South Carolina for No. 24.
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