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Monday 7-12-10 Monday

940, 615, 618, 587, 583, 459, 430, 107, 073

543, 582, 693, 154, 289, 750, 348, 580, 613

362, 657, 726, 413, 436, 386, 855, 455, 405

367, 370, 208, 109, 222, 444, 555, 777, 888

1556, 6116, 1156, 4701, 6138, 8501, 3964

Midday & Evening

** until 7-15-10 **

430, 541, 652, 763, 874, 985, 096, 107, 218, 329

553, 676, 799, 812, 935, 058, 171, 294, 317, 430

Midday 7-12-10 Evening

** until 7-15-10 **

0125 0129 0134 0138 0147 0156 0179 0237 0246 0269 0278 0345 0359 0368 0458 0467 0489 0579 0678 1236 1245 1259 1268 1349 1358 1367 1389 1457 1479 1569 1578 2348 2357 2379 2456 2469 2478 2568 2789 3459 3468 3567 3689 4589 4679 5678 6789 0012 0017 0026 0035 0039 0048 0057 0089 1106 1124 1128 1137 1146 1169 1178 2204 2208 2213 2217 2235 2249 2258 2267 2289 3302 3306 3315 3324 3329 3347 3356 3369 3378 4409 4413 4418 4427 4436 4458 4467 5502 5507 5516 5529 5534 5538 5547 5579 6605 6609 6614 6618 6623 6627 6645 6659 7703 7712 7716 7725 7734 7739 7748 8801 8805 8814 8819 8823 8837 8846 8859 9903 9908 9912 9917 9926 9935 9948 9957 0003 0008 1110 1115 1119 2226 3338 4440 4445 4449 5552 5556 6663 6668 7770 7775 7779 8882 8886 9993 9998 0044 0066 1133 1155 2244 4499 5588 6677 6699 7788 2222 3333

TIW 7-11-10 IL Evening

Winning Numbers: 831 & 1785

 

528, 632, 765, 724, 783, 846, 019, 354
2640, 3261, 4983, 1096, 1573, 0327, 0147
5924, 5821, 5830, 5346, 9287, 6847, 7965

632, 743, 854, 965, 076, 187, 298, 309, 410, 521

783, 894, 905, 016, 127, 238, 349, 450, 561, 672

3260, 3261, 3262, 3263, 3264, 3265, 3266, 3267, 3268, 3269

0261, 1261, 2261, 3261, 4261, 5261, 6261, 7261, 8261, 9261

0287, 1287, 2287, 3287, 4287, 5287, 6287, 7287, 8287, 9287

9280, 9281, 9282, 9283, 9284, 9285, 9286, 9287, 9288, 9289

 

18, 17, 87, 63, 62 and/or 23 pairs

Updated: July 11, 2010, 6:24 PM ET

Fish comes back to win Hall of Fame

Associated Press

NEWPORT, R.I. -- Mardy Fish captured the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, rallying for a 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 victory over fourth-seeded Olivier Rochus of Belgium.

Fish overcome his frustration at a close line call at the end of the first set Sunday to win his fourth career title. The fifth-seeded American entered the week ranked 79th. 

"You've got to keep the goal in mind," he said of the point. "Not every call is going to be perfect. Everybody's trying to do their job. I felt like I was on the tough end [of that]."

On the final point of the first set, Rochus hit a return to the back corner. Fish appeared ready to play the ball and let it go. The chair umpire said Rochus won the game and set. Fish argued and waved his racket to the chair.

Fish took control in the best game of the match, breaking in the ninth of the third set to go up 5-4. He squandered three break points before closing it out with a forehand cross at the net.

"I wanted to play this match on my terms. I wanted to win it or lose it on my racket," he said of the key game. "I've certainly lost a lot of heartbreak finals. It certainly feels great to win one."

In the final game, Rochus failed on a pair of break point chances. On the final point, Rochus lunged on a wide serve, barely getting a backhand over the net before Fish put an easy forehand cross in to end it. He raised both arms in triumph, turned to the fans at all four sides of the court and gestured with a hug.

"You're bound to have a lot of nerves, I knew that," Fish said. "I've been in just about every situation, but it's been a long time."

His last title was in 2009 at Delray Beach, Calif.

The 29-year old Rochus entered the week ranked 65th. He hadn't lost a set this week until the finals.

"I can't say I did play a bad final, didn't go for it," Rochus said. "I went for it. The last two games were so close. Mardy was pushing hard at the end."

It's the first time since 2002-03 that Americans won on Newport's grass courts two straight years. Rajeev Ram won in 2009. Taylor Dent won in 2002 and Robby Ginepri the next year.

Fish had 24 aces in the match. Rochus had just two.

"That was the key of the match," Rochus said. "We know Mardy has a great serve."

Fish played in his second final in a month, improving his career mark to 4-11 with his first title on grass. He lost to Sam Querrey at Queen's Club in June.

Rochus fell to 2-6 in ATP finals. It was his first on grass.

Fish won $75,700 and Rochus earned $39,780.

Sunday, July 11, 2010
NHRA's Niver dies after crashing

By Terry Blount
ESPN.com

KENT, Wash. -- Top Alcohol Dragster driver Mark Niver was killed Sunday during the Northwest Nationals when his car buckled after slamming into the netting at the end of the track.

 

The NHRA says it's investigating Sunday's accident and is extending its sympathies to Niver's family. A spokesman for the association declined comment when asked for more information about what happened, saying the investigation had just started.

 

The parachutes immediately ripped off the dragster when deployed as Niver, 60, crossed the finish line. Niver couldn't get the car stopped before going into the sand pit at the end of the asphalt surface at Pacific Raceways.

 

When the dragster hit the catch netting, it buckled the chassis back into the driver <snip>pit.

 

A sheriff was on site at the track and shut down the event at 4:15 p.m. PT before the start of the final round. The event was delayed for more than an hour after the accident and briefly restarted before law enforcement officials halted the racing.

 

Niver, a 30-year NHRA veteran, is a Minnesota native and former Alaska resident who now lives in Phoenix. Niver built all his own cars and engines. He had two national event victories in Top Alcohol Dragster, including 2008 at Seattle.

 

Niver's death was the second in a month at an NHRA event. Top Alcohol Funny Car driver Neal Parker, 58, died of head injuries in Englishtown, N.J. on June 11 when his parachutes did not deploy after his run and he crashed in the shutdown area.

 

Funny Car driver Scott Kalitta was killed at Englishtown in a similar accident in 2008.

 

The Top Alcohol dragster class is the top feeder circuit for the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing series.

Updated: July 11, 2010, 9:06 PM ET

Sources: No probe from Cavs, Raptors

By Marc Stein
ESPN.com
Archive

 

The Cleveland Cavaliers have no plans to push for an NBA probe into the circumstances that led to LeBron James joining Team USA colleagues Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh in Miami, according to sources with knowledge of the team's thinking.

 

 

NBA commissioner David Stern said Sunday that the league would investigate the Heat's signings of James and Bosh for any illegal negotiating or planning before free agency officially started if the Cavaliers or Toronto Raptors make that request.

 

 

Reached Sunday by ESPN.com, Stern said: "Whenever a team lodges a tampering charge, it is investigated."

 

 

The Cavaliers declined official comment Sunday, but one source briefed on Cleveland's intentions told ESPN.com that -- in the wake of owner Dan Gilbert's vitriolic open letter to Cavs fans that slammed James for leaving his home-state team -- the organization wants to try to keep the focus from here on its post-James future as much as possible.

 

 

Toronto likewise declined comment, but one source with knowledge of the Raptors' thinking indicated that they will not press for an inquiry, either, preferring to let league officials decide if any sanctions are warranted with regard to recent acknowledgements from the three players that they have been talking about teaming up for some time.

 

 

Stern also declined further comment but is expected to expound on the subject Monday night when he is scheduled to meet with reporters in Las Vegas following an owners meeting devoted to the league's ongoing labor negotiations with the NBA Players Association.

 

 

Although labor matters were initially expected to dominate the agenda, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said Friday that he intends to push for renewed discussion about the league's tampering rules and how they are enforced.

 

 

 

Concerns about this issue have been mounting since an ESPN.com report in late June that James, Wade and Bosh met face-to-face before free agency to discuss their plans. Yet the league's general position has been that players are not subject to the same tampering restrictions as teams except for "the most egregious cases," when it can be proven that a player was operating as a direct extension of team management.

 

 

Miami's counter to any tampering claims figures to center on the premise that James, Wade and Bosh have openly dreamt of playing together at some level since the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and that the Heat turned out to be the only team in the league in the long-anticipated summer of LeBron that had the requisite salary-cap space to sign all three players.

 

 

The Heat will also undoubtedly point to the fact the Cavaliers and Raptors -- to ensure that neither team lost its franchise player without compensation -- just willingly completed sign-and-trade deals with Miami for James and Bosh.

 

 

The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported in Sunday's editions that James, Wade and Bosh actually hatched the idea of playing together in the summer of 2006 after Team USA's triumph at the World Championships in Japan, which led to each of them signing new contracts in 2007 containing an opt-out clause after three seasons to become unrestricted free agents in the summer of 2010.

 

 

Tensions nonetheless remain high in various cities around the league, starting obviously with Cleveland, some 72 hours after James announced in a one-hour special on ESPN that he would be leaving the Cavaliers after seven seasons to play alongside Wade and Bosh.

 

 

A comment made by Bosh at a welcoming rally Friday night in Miami has only fueled accusations that the three stars began plotting their joint move to South Florida well before they were technically allowed to. Bosh initially told the assembled crowd that the trio had been talking about landing with the same team for "months" before catching himself and amending that statement to "days."

 

 

Cuban told a group of reporters Friday at the NBA's annual summer league in Las Vegas that he would urge Stern to look into the matter whether or not Cleveland or Toronto asks, saying: "I'm going to bring it up to the league that we really do have to re-evaluate the issue of player tampering. Who knows what will happen? But I have to suggest it to them because there has to be more definitive rules.

 

 

"It's not just the Cavs," Cuban continued. "It could be any team. It could be the Heat in a couple years. I'm not saying it's going to be easy. But there has to be a way to keep these guys away from each other for the last week anyway."

 

 

Wade and Bosh are represented by the same agent -- Chicago-based Henry Thomas -- and were together throughout the league's moratorium period between July 1-7 when teams and free agents could meet and negotiate deals to the point of reaching agreements in principle. Thursday was the first day that teams and players could actually execute new contracts.

 

 

James and two of his closest advisors -- business manager Maverick Carter and agent Leon Rose -- took a different approach, inviting six teams to the Cleveland area to make their pitches over a three-day span before committing to the Heat.

 

 

But James and Wade acknowledged at a press conference Friday night that the three players were in frequent contact as they finalized their decisions where to sign, with the information flow also facilitated by the fact that Thomas joined Rose at CAA in July 2009.

 

 

Wade acknowledged Friday night that what he termed as "the possibility" that all three stars could someday wind up on the same team was established "a long time ago."

 

 

Stern, however, has made it clear that he would not punish player-to-player interaction with the same vigor that the league threatens to punish team contact with players that they don't employ, suggesting that it is unrealistic to try to put limits on or police player fraternization.

 

 

At the NBA Finals, when asked about the prospect of various top free agents holding a so-called "summit" -- as Wade playfully suggested to the Chicago Tribune in late May -- Stern said he would not try to stop it or punish participants for getting together.

 

 

"They can have it," Stern said on June 3.

 

 

ESPN.com reported June 28 that James, Wade and Bosh held a scaled-down version of the summit to seriously discuss the prospect of playing together with the Heat.

 

 

Sources in the initial report told ESPN.com that the sitdown took place in Miami during the weekend before July 1, which was subsequently denied strenuously by Thomas. But sources close to the process reconfirmed to ESPN.com on Wednesday that the players convened at least one face-to-face meeting before July 1, except that sources now acknowledge that the meeting was on James' Northeast Ohio turf on the Saturday before the NBA draft.

 

 

The Plain Dealer reported in Sunday's editions that Wade flew with Bosh to Akron to meet at James home, where Wade-- still under contract to the Heat -- pointed out that only Miami had the cap space to afford all three players.

 

 

The newspaper also reported that the Cavaliers were aware of a November meeting Heat president Pat Riley had with James and Michael Jordan in Miami, with Jordan in town to do some Nike work with Wade. But Cleveland, according to the Plain-Dealer, did not register a tampering complaint with the league about the meeting, believing that Riley's primary purpose was convincing James that more modern players need to pay homage to Jordan, who at the time had not yet become majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats.

 

 

After James' Cavaliers beat Wade's Heat on Nov. 12, with Riley and Jordan watching together courtside, James made the announcement that he no longer wants to wear No. 23 and that all players, in a bow to Jordan, should forsake that number.

TIW 7-10-10 NC Evening

Winning Numbers: 394 & 4415

 

648, 734, 176, 140, 183, 807, 952, 360
8591, 7850, 9637, 0165, 0247, 1784, 1094
2689, 2380, 2371, 2795, 6834, 5394, 4652

176, 287, 398, 409, 510, 621, 732, 843, 954, 065

0371, 1371, 2371, 3371, 4371, 5371, 6371, 7371, 8371, 9371

2370, 2371, 2372, 2373, 2374, 2375, 2376, 2377, 2378, 2379

 

62 and/or 17 pairs

Spain grab World Cup with extra-time goal

By Barry Moody

Sun Jul 11, 7:30 pm ET

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Spain stunned the Netherlands to win their first World Cup on Sunday in sensational fashion with a goal in the last minutes of extra time.

With the scoreless match inching toward a penalty shootout, and the Netherlands down to 10 men, Andres Iniesta collected a pass from Cesc Fabregas to fire home from close range and break Dutch hearts four minutes from the final whistle.

It was the first time the European champions had reached a World Cup final and a bitter disappointment for the Netherlands who finished runners-up for the third time after previously losing the 1974 and 1978 finals.

It was also the first triumph by a European side outside their continent.

The result caused agony in the Netherlands and ecstasy in Madrid where fans shed tears of joy and fireworks went off all over the city. More than 10O,000 people had gathered to watch on giant screens and many went hoarse with screams of joy.

In contrast, Dutch cities became deadly silent as their dream of finally winning the trophy evaporated. Some 180,000 fans trudged away quietly from Amsterdam's museum square.

The game was far from the classic final to Africa's first World Cup that many had hoped for from the two most impressive teams in the tournament.

Spain looked dominant for long passages but a ferociously physical Netherlands broke up their rhythm and their renowned precision passing in midfield, often reducing the game to a sterile stalemate.

BRUISING ENCOUNTER

In a bruising encounter in the huge Soccer City stadium, referee Howard Webb showed 13 yellow cards -- a record for the final -- and sent off Dutch defender John Heitinga in extra time.

Despite the disappointing quality of the match, it was a triumphant end to a highly successful tournament for South Africa who confounded years of pessimistic predictions that it would be ruined by violent crime and chaos.

To cap their pride, Nelson Mandela, much loved father of post-apartheid South Africa, briefly toured the pitch waving to the 85,000-strong crowd just before the match began.

Mandela, 91, who is in frail health, was driven around in a golf cart surrounded by bodyguards and greeted by an adoring crowd chanting his clan name Madiba.

The former president, who led South Africa out of apartheid in 1994, was unable to attend the opening ceremony because of the death of his great grand-daughter in a car accident the night before.

Spanish coach Vicente del Bosque told television: "It was a very difficult match. We have fantastic players. We could have scored another goal or two. But I think the result was deserved. It's a very happy day for me."

Dutch coach Bert van Marwijk said the better team had won in the end: "It is very sad. These three or four final minutes and then you lose. I really had thought even with 10 we would be able to do the penalty shoot out.

"It is bitter but that is sport. It is harsh."

Both sides missed good goalscoring opportunities, most notably Dutch winger Arjen Robben who was twice denied by brilliant saves from Spanish goalkeeper Iker Casillas.

TELEVISION AUDIENCE

FIFA said a worldwide television audience of more than 700 million had been expected to watch the final.

The victory will raise spirits in Spain which is torn by bitter political infighting over how to address Europe's highest unemployment and crippling debt.

Despite being the first host nation knocked out at the group stage, South Africans have remained enthusiastic spectators, helping this tournament to be the third best attended, with three million seats sold, behind the United States in 1994 and Germany in 2006. President Jacob Zuma dubbed them true champions.

Chief local organizer Danny Jordaan said the tournament had brought the races together and enabled South Africans to walk tall after being told for years they were inferior.

But African joy at a tournament credited with rebranding both South Africa and the continent was blighted by two bomb blasts in the Ugandan capital Kampala that killed at least 23 people watching the final in bars, police said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

Carmelo Anthony, actress LaLa Vazquez wed in NYC

1 hr 10 mins ago

NEW YORK – Denver Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony and actress LaLa Vazquez have tied the knot in New York City. Michael Gagliardo, a publicist for Vazquez, confirms that the wedding took place Saturday night at the Manhattan restaurant Cipriani. He provided no details.

Us Magazine first reported the nuptials on its website.

The magazine says 30-year-old Vazquez and 26-year-old Anthony were escorted down the aisle by their 3-year-old son, Kiyan.

Vazquez wore a Vera Wang gown and carried red and hot pink flowers.

Kim Kardashian, Serena Williams, Spike Lee and LeBron James were among the roughly 300 guests.

Vazquez, a former MTV VJ, and Anthony, an All-Star forward, were engaged in 2004.

TIW 7-11-10 FL Evening

Winning Numbers: 901 & 9746

 

407, 590, 354, 306, 379, 765, 218, 946
1604, 2163, 0582, 3456, 3972, 4217, 4307
9510, 9813, 9824, 9206, 5187, 6807, 7569

407, 518, 629, 730, 841, 952, 063, 174, 285, 396

0604, 1604, 2604, 3604, 4604, 5604, 6604, 7604, 8604, 9604

1600, 1601, 1602, 1603, 1604, 1605, 1606, 1607, 1608, 1609

 

95 and/or 40 pairs

"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom."                               - Francis Bacon -

Chronos' Day 7-10-10 Saturday

328, 978, 414, 999, 138, 436, 011, 467, 111

629, 326, 821, 115, 774, 589, 488, 386, 905

067, 508, 023, 819, 369, 805, 193, 409, 357

172, 906, 921, 652, 262, 018, 278, 789, 411

587, 583, 285, 168, 302, 799, 903, 703, 776

7037, 1556, 2776, 7991, 0903, 4411, 5488