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Dynamo play FC Toronto to scoreless draw Toronto FC (5-7-4) went a man down late in the fist half after Maurice Edu drew a red card for an elbow to Dynamo midfielder Brian Mullan. As a consolation prize for the Dynamo (10-5-3), the tie extended their unbeaten streak to 10 games and their shutout streak to seven, with the latter setting a league record for consecutive minutes without allowing a goal at 695 minutes and counting. The previous record was 681 minutes posted by the Kansas City Wizards in 2000. After a grueling 10-day stretch that had the team playing five matches including a U.S. Open Cup game, the Dynamo will enter the MLS All-Star Break as the best team in the Western Conference and one of the top sides in the league. Despite the one-man advantage, the Dynamo never were able to put one past Toronto keeper Srdjan Djekanovic. It wasn't for lack of trying. The Dynamo outshot Toronto 16-4 with most tries coming in the second half and with the visitors bunkered down in their 20 first yards. Trapped in their territory, Toronto attempted only one shot in the second half. Forward Nate Jaqua, who replaced Joseph Ngwenya in the second half, nearly put the Dynamo ahead twice with a 10-yarder in the 62nd minute and a header in the 83rd that went wide. Ricardo Clark also had a clear shot from the right deflected by the Toronto defense in the 60th minute. Brian Ching had the best chance of the first half go off the far post in the 32nd minute.

Stewart captures first Nextel Cup win of 2007 Comments Recommend JOLIET, Ill. — Tony Stewart finally broke through for his first victory of the season, holding off Matt Kenseth on several late-race restarts Sunday to win the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series race at Chicagoland Speedway. Stewart broke a 20-race winless streak dating to last season thanks in part to a hard crash by contender Jimmie Johnson, who was running second behind Stewart with 45 laps left when his tire went flat. Johnson walked away from the crash into the wall without any serious injuries beyond a sore elbow, but it left his car mangled and ruined his chance at a victory. The accident jumbled pit strategies for the race leaders, most of whom only needed a splash of fuel to make it to the end when they pitted with 40 laps left. After a quick pit stop, Stewart came out of the pits with the lead, ahead of Kenseth, Kurt Busch and Kevin Harvick. Kenseth pulled side-by-side to challenge Stewart on the restart, but Stewart held him off until another caution flag came out for a crash by J.J. Yeley 20 laps later. Kenseth was glued to Stewart's back bumper when the race restarted with 18 laps to go - and Joe Nemechek crashed two laps later, forcing Stewart to fend off the field on yet another late restart. But Stewart squirted away on the final restart with 12 laps to go, and Kenseth wasn't able to mount another challenge in the closing laps. Kenseth held off a charge from teammate Carl Edwards to finish second. Edwards finished third, followed by Kevin Harvick and pole-sitter Casey Mears. What was shaping up as a good day for Dale Earnhardt Inc. quickly fell apart in the final stages of the race. Dale Earnhardt Jr. was running third with 58 laps to go when he fell off the pace with an apparent power steering failure - remarking over his in-car radio how ``funny'' it was that he couldn't really steer his car. Teammate Martin Truex Jr., who also had been running in the top 10, pulled off the track with engine problems three laps later and rolled back into the garage. Earnhardt stayed on the track, but dropped out of the top 10 and finished 19th. Sunday's victory broke a 20-race winless streak for Stewart, whose last victory came Nov. 5, 2006, at Texas Motor Speedway. Stewart did win two non-points-paying events leading up to the season-opening Daytona 500 this year, and certainly has had his chances to win races this year at Atlanta, Bristol, Phoenix and Charlotte. Meanwhile, Hendrick Motorsports' dominance in the first half of the season seems to be fading slightly. Hendrick drivers Johnson, Jeff Gordon, Kyle Busch and Casey Mears won 10 of the first 14 races. But Hendrick has been shut out of victory lane for the past five races.

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0-3 since the break!

We'll be broadcasting that game here on the site.

Depth would certainly be an issue here!

I agree! Great Coach and person.

LC-M camps The Lady Bear Volleyball camp is July 16-19. Incoming 5th, 6th and 7th graders will participate from 9 a.m.-noon. Incoming 8th and 9th graders will participate from 1 p.m.-4 p.m. The cost is $50. For more information contact Vicki Castino at 745-3102. The Lady Bear Basketball staff will have a fundamental camp, which will be held July 30-Aug. 2 for incoming 2nd – 9th graders. Incoming 2nd-5th grade will participate from 9 a.m.-11 a.m., the afternoon session will be from 1 p.m.-4 p.m. For more information contact Amanda Ellerbee at 673-8471.

OYBS Registration The Orange Youth Baseball and Softball League will have Fall Ball registration and board elections soon. The registrations will take place Saturday, Aug. 4 from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. and Saturday, Aug. 11 from 9 a.m.-noon at the Memorial Field Fieldhouse. The cost is $45 for all players ages 5 through 14 and that includes hat and shirt.

Hunter Education Class coming soon Van Wade The Orange Leader A Texas Parks & Wildlife Hunter Education Safety Class will be taught Friday, July 27 from 5:30 p.m.-8 p.m. and Saturday, July 28 from 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at the DERA. Applicants must attend both sessions and pass the exam to become certified. The course teaches Texas hunting laws, ethics, safe firearm handling for rifles, shotguns, pistols, muzzleloaders, archery, first aid, wilderness survival and care of game. Certification is good for life and is accepted in all other states, Mexico and Canada. Certification is required if you are at least 17 years old and were born on or after Sept. 2, 1971 to hunt in Texas. You can become certified if you are at least 12 years old. The cost is $15 per person. Call instructor Danny Odom to register at 883-8118.

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According To Player, MNW Team Doesn't Need Coaches Another Interesting Article; Football power in disarray after firings By BEN VOLIN Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Saturday, July 14, 2007 MIAMI — Brett Perriman, Antonio Bryant and Vernon Carey are just three of a long list of Miami Northwestern Senior High football players who starred in college and later in the NFL. The 2007 team, coming off an undefeated state championship season, could be the school's best collection of talent yet. "They've got what, 14 or 15 Division I NCAA prospects?" said South Fork coach Dennis Lavelle, who coached at Miami-Columbus for 27 years and was a district rival of Northwestern. "They're returning everybody." Off the field, however, it is a program in turmoil. The head coach is gone. So are all of his assistants. The principal resigned in March. The longtime athletic director did the same earlier this month. Quietly, the players continue to work out in preparation for defending their state title. "We don't even need a coach," junior defensive end Alex Johnson said Friday in the school's parking lot. "We just stand by each other." Head coach Roland Smith, who compiled a 69-13 record in his six seasons, was dismissed from the team and school Wednesday by Miami-Dade Superintendent Rudy Crew. So was Smith's entire staff, and a total of 21 teachers, coaches and counselors who helped cover up a sex scandal involving Antwain Easterling, the team's star running back. Crew announced the decision Wednesday at a packed school board meeting, opting to punish the adults instead of canceling the Bulls' 2007 season, which he previously had threatened. Instead, the Bulls were put on one year of probation, and each player must achieve a 2.5 GPA to stay eligible instead of the normal 2.0. "I couldn't believe it," Johnson said of Smith's dismissal. "I thought they were lying until I heard it on the news that night." Several upset players discussed transferring to another school Thursday, though FHSAA guidelines make that difficult because the players already have participated in summer drills. Easterling, who scored 32 touchdowns last season, was arrested Dec. 7 on charges of lewd and lascivious battery on a minor. He admitted to having sex with a 14-year-old girl in a school bathroom after a September game. The school board recommended a 10-day suspension, but Easterling, 19, received no punishment from the school. Instead, administrators allowed him to play in the state championship game two days later, and he rushed for 157 yards in a 34-14 victory. The coverup was discovered in February, and in June, a Miami-Dade grand jury concluded that administrators "allowed for the glory of football to trump the needs and safety of a little girl." Easterling completed a 26-week pre-trial diversion program, and his conviction did not go on his record. He was heavily recruited by Florida and Miami, but instead signed with Southern Mississippi. Palm Beach Gardens coach Kevin Fleury, whose team won the 2005 Class 6A state championship, said "without a doubt, it was the right call" to fire the coaching staff. "If that's what football is about in this state, then I'm going to resign right now, because it's not worth it," Fleury said. Northwestern is an F-graded school located in the heart of the crime-ridden Liberty City neighborhood in northwest Miami. The freshman class of 2005-06 had 924 students, but only 430 students graduated that year. Female students said Friday they are in fear of sexual predators. Police officers often are stationed outside the school, and were present Friday. Even with all of the challenges the school faces, athletics remain a serious matter. Under Athletic Director Gregory Killings - a school employee for 23 years - the Bulls won three state football titles and five track and field titles. A documentary about the football team, Year of the Bull, debuted in 2003, and the school has its own merchandising line. The 2007 Bulls have 14 players ranked by Scout.com as NCAA Division I prospects, and they are ranked pre-season No. 1 in the nation by one high school sports magazine. "Football is king, and they've been good forever and ever," said Lavelle, whose Bulldogs never have faced Northwestern. "When we played them, it was as classy a program as you could imagine." Crew and new principal Charles Hankerson - the school's sixth principal in three years - are searching for a new coaching staff with the season less than a month away. The two have dodged interview requests since Wednesday's meeting, while Northwestern players and coaches offered stern "no comments" throughout Friday's conditioning workout at the school. A school board spokesman said he received requests from 30 different media outlets Friday, including ESPN, Fox and USA Today. "This one incident has been so overwhelming. It just doesn't want to go away," said Ildiko Matchus, a media specialist at the school who never misses a football game. "We're all just tired of it."

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:o Happy B Day!!

Man Leeland was good!

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Wade-fishing loses luster With hazards such as stingrays, bacteria out there, boat's much safer A nice school of trout was strung out along the edge of a stretch of the Intracoastal Waterway in the Lower Laguna Madre early last week. They'd eased out of the channel onto the slight submerged ridge adjacent to the flats, and we could regularly pinpoint their location from the occasional scatterings of piggie perch, bay anchovies and a mullet or two. Wading a little more than belly-deep in the wind-churned, murky (for the Lower Laguna) water, Walt Kittelberger and I sniped at the edge of the school, taking a fish now and again on soft-plastic baits hopped through the water column. The fishing was good, considering the hideous conditions — more than a foot of rain had fallen a couple of days before, and the south wind had been howling at 20-plus knots for days. But I was uneasy. I'd have much rather been fishing from the boat.

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I'm one of very few who like for 3 teams to get in.

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This will be an exciting District again!!