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tonight he was 1-3 with a double, a walk, a stolen base, and a run

Joakim Noah had more than one run-in with the law at the University of Florida on Memorial Day weekend. On the same day the Bulls center was arrested for possession of less than 20 grams of marijuana and having an open container of alcohol, he also was issued two traffic citations. Noah, 23, was issued citations for driving with a suspended license and for not wearing a seat belt by the University of Florida Police Department on Sunday. Noah's speeding Hummer was stopped, which led to the officer learning of the suspended license. Florida coach Billy Donovan told the Gainesville Sun that he talked to Noah. "He's realized he made a mistake," Donovan told the newspaper. "I want to see what happens with everything that went on there. In my conversation with him, he feels bad. "The thing I've tried to talk to him about is there are so many young kids who look up to him, and he's such a giving kid and he's always given his time. He needs to turn this into a positive and being able to help young kids because he has a great opportunity to really help a lot of people. I told him to try to turn this into a positive because he's got enough of a personality that he can do that." On Wednesday, Noah's father said he didn't understand the fuss being made about his son's arrest. "I don't understand all that fuss for just drinking a beer on the street," Yannick Noah said Tuesday at the French Open. Joakim Noah could face up to six months in jail and a $500 fine for the marijuana charge. "I talk to him every day on the phone," said Yannick Noah, who was at Roland Garros on Tuesday for the dedication of a walkway named after him. "He'll soon come over to France to see me." Joakim Noah led Florida to consecutive NCAA titles before being picked ninth by the Bulls in the NBA draft last year.

The US did not impress in this tourney, finishing 0-3.

also, with all of the crazy dimensions that some of the parks have now, i think replay will help. look at minute maid. there are places where the ball can hit wall on one side of the line and be in play, 3 inches to the right and it's a homer.

poor spurs... fight back only to lose at the end. nice rebound by horry... i've seen better hands on a clock.

Final line: 3/3 (2 singles, 1 double) 2 runs 2 rbi 1 sb 2 bb how many players start out their careers getting on base in all five plate appearances of their first major league game? the future certainly looks bright for mr. bruce!

RBI double to right one hell of a debut!

another run scored

RBI single, now 2-2

run scored... now 1-1, 2 BB, 1 SB, 1 R

another walk

he just singled

they stranded him, but still an EXCELLENT start for him, considering that the reds two major concerns about him were his plate discipline and his base running.

he walked on four pitches in his first plate appearance, and stole second. he's there right now with one out in the bottom of the first.

it's about time!

i hate to hear that. we'll certainly be thinking about you on here.

YAY!

I don't think it adds any time to the game... beeninnikes is right. if you can immediately correct it in the booth, you don't have five minutes of umpire/manager "discussion" over whether the call was right. This is an opportunity for the umps to get these calls right, as the replay will always be definitive. As long as they don't try to start replaying balls and strikes, or diving catches in the outfield, or bang bang plays at first, i think this will be good for the game.

thanks...

This is at least the 2nd time she's gotten in a wreck and gone and tried to fight someone. I'm all about equal opportunity for women, so does that mean that whenever SHE causes a wreck, whoever she wrecks with is perfectly in his rights to go find her after the race and knock her around a little bit? Seriously, she's eventually going to hit somebody who hits her back, and she'll be made out to be the victim and the person that pops her one is going to be villified in the media. Don't get me wrong, I'm in NO way against having women racers, but it's not really fair for the men on the circuit who have to put up with her tantrums without any retaliation. [Hidden Content]

if they can keep this core in place, i don't see them getting anything but better, at least for the next couple of years (eventually the boston 3 party is going to turn into the boston "can't control their pee" party).

i bet you if you go on www.espn360.com you can find it. you can get on there and watch pretty much anything that's come on any of the espn's recently.

The US was steamrolled in the first half... they were 4 v 7 every time they got into the offensive half, and they were basically a practice squad for Turkey to run counter attack drills against. it did get A LITTLE better in the 2nd half.

The US looked TERRIBLE in the 1st half against Turkey, but at least they fought back to make it interesting. Without their brainfart in the 2nd half to allow Turkey to score about 10 seconds after the US had just scored, this could've been a tie game.

i said 30, and it was only 25, but who's counting ;D