Thornton signs with Boston for three years BOSTON (AP) The Boston Bruins have reached an agreement with Joe Thornton, the first player chosen in the NHL amateur draft in June, on a three-year contract, the team announced yesterday. Thornton, 18, was expected to be in Boston by the end of the week to officially sign the contract. Terms were not disclosed. "Quite obviously, we're thrilled that this process has ended with this agreement," Bruins assistant general manager Mike O'Connell said. "He's big, strong and has all of the skills you look for in a player, with the attitude to match." Thornton is seen as a vital cog in the Bruins' rebuilding effort. The team finished with the worst record in the league last season, and missed the playoffs for the first time in 30 years. The 6-foot-4 center had 41 goals and 81 assists for the Sault St. Marie Greyhounds of the Ontario Hockey League last season. He was the youngest member of the 1997 gold-medal winning Cana dian World Junior team. Committee expects six bids for Winter Games ATHENS, Greece (AP) The International Olympic Committee expects five or six bids for the 2006 Winter Games, lOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch said yes- Dailll Trivia Daily Trivia: Who threw the last perfect game in Major Leage Baseball? Yesterdays Question: What freshman holds the record for most rushing yards in a single game? Answer: Marshall Faulk vs. Pacific in 1991, 386 yards. American League East Division W L 69 39 63 45 51 57 51 57 52 59 Central Division W L 56 49 54 54 53 56 Baltimore New York Detroit Toronto Boston Cleveland Milwaukee Chicago Minnesota 46 61 West Division W L 63 48 62 48 51 58 43 70 Sunday's Games Detroit 5, Toronto 2 Kansas City 5, Boston 2 N.Y. Yankees 6, Minnesota 5 Seattle 6, Milwaukee 5 Baltimore 7, Oakland 5 Anaheim 4, Chicago White Sox 1 Texas 8, Cleveland 7 Yesterday's Games Cleveland 7, Detroit 2 N.Y. Yankees 5, Kansas City 4 Minnesota 9, Toronto 3 Boston 11, Texas 5 Milwaukee 5, Anaheim 2 Today's Games Kansas City Anaheim Seattle Texas Oakland Cleveland (Juden 0-0) at Detroit (Thompson 9-8), 1:05 p.m. Toronto (Person 4-7) at Minnesota (Miller 0-1), 1:15 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Drabek 7-7) at Oakland (Karsay 3-11), 3:15 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Rogers 4-4) at Kansas City (Appier 6- 9), 8:05 p.m. Boston (Gordon 5-9) at Texas (Alberro 0-2), 8:35 p.m. Milwaukee (Florie 2-2) at Anaheim (Dickson 10-4), 10:05 p.m. Baltimore (Key 13-6) at Seattle (Olivares 6-6), 10:05 p.m. Tomorrow's Games Milwaukee at Anaheim, 4:05 p.m. Cleveland at Toronto, 7:35 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Texas, 7:35 p.m. Boston at Minnesota, 8:05 p.m. Detroit at Kansas City, 8:05 p.m. Chicago White Sox at Oakland, 10:35 p.m. Baltimore at Seattle, 10:35 p.m. Natidal League East Division W L 70 42 63 46 61 48 57 52 35 73 Central Division W L 61 50 55 56 52 58 46 62 45 67 West Division W L 61 50 60 51 53 58 52 60 Sunday's Games Pittsburgh 8, Colorado 4 Montreal 6, San Diego 3 Philadelphia 10, St. Louis 1 San Francisco 8, Cincinnati 3, 10 innings Houston 3, N.Y. Mets 2 Florida 8, Atlanta 4 Chicago Cubs 4, Los Angeles 3, 12 innings Yesterday's Games Florida 4, Houston 1 Atlanta 6, Pittsburgh 0 San Francisco 9, Cincinnati 1 Philadelphia 7, Colorado 3 N.Y. Mets 4, St. Louis 2 Atlanta Florida New York Montreal Philadelphia Houston Pittsburgh St. Louis Cincinnati Chicago San Francisco Los Angeles San Diego Colorado Joe Thornton Bruins' No. 1 pick terday at a news conference. Bids are expected from Sion, Switzerland; Jaca, Spain; Poprad- Tatry, Slovakia; Innsbruck, Austria; and possibly a three-country candi dacy involving Italy, Austria and Slovenia. If Stockholm is not selected to host the 2004 Games next month, Samaranch said there may be a joint 2006 bid from Sweden and Finland. Samaranch said Canada, which last hosted the winter games in Calgary in 1988, could have entered a bid but apparently decid ed not to. Samaranch said the relatively small number of candidates means the lOC will not have to select a shortlist of finalists as it did for the Houston (Kile 15-3) at Florida (Saunders 3-3), 7:05 p.m. Atlanta (Glavine 10-5) at Pittsburgh (Schmidt 6-6), 7:35 p.m. San Diego (Hitchcock 7-6) at Cincinnati (Remlinger 3-4), 7:35 p.m. Los Angeles (Astacio 7-7) at Montreal (Johnson 0- 0), 7:35 p.m. Colorado (Bailey 9-8) at Philadelphia (Schilling 11- 10), 7:35 p.m. St. Louis (Morris 8-6) at N.Y. Mets (Harnisch 0-0), 7:40 p.m. San Francisco (Darwin 0-0) at Chicago Cubs (Foster 10-6), 8:05 p.m. Tomorrow's Games San Francisco at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m Florida at Pittsburgh, 7:35 p.m. San Diego at Cincinnati, 7:35 p.m. Los Angeles at Montreal, 7:35 p.m. Houston at Philadelphia, 7:35 p.m. Colorado at N.Y. Mets, 7:40 p.m. St. Louis at Atlanta, 7:40 p.m. Pct. GB .639 .583 6 .472 18 .472 18 .468 18% AL Leaders Pct. AB Reggie Jefferson, BOS .363 311 Frank Thomas, CHI .355 355 Sandy Alomar Jr, CLE .349 307 Will Clark, TEX Pct. .568 .564 .468 .381 Paul O'Neill, NYY Joey Cora, SEA Edgar Martinez, SEA Mo Vaughn, BOS Tino Martinez, NYY Mark McGwire, OAK Ken Griffey Jr, SEA Jim Thome, CLE Jay Buhner, SEA Tony Clark, DET Frank Thomas, CHI Mo Vaughn, BOS Matt Williams, CLE Juan Gonzalez, TEX Rafael Palmeiro, BAL Carlos Delgado, TOR Ken Gritfey Jr, SEA Tino Martinez, NW Frank Thomas, CHI Tim Salmon, ANA Juan Gonzalez, TEX Tony Clark, DET Paul O'Neill, NW Mark Mcgwire, OAK Edgar Martinez, SEA Albert Belle, CHI Jay Buhner, SEA Jim Thome, CU Pitching Roger Clemens, TOR 16-4 Randy Johnson, SEA Jimmy Key, BAL David Cone, NYY Wilson Alvarez, CHI Justin Thompson, DET Kevin Appier, KAN Andy Pettitte, NW Mike Mussina, BAL Pat Hentgen, TOR Brad Radke, MIN Scott Erickson, BAL NL Leaders Pct. GB .625 .578 5 1 / 2 .560 7/2 .523 11 1 / 2 .324 33 Pet. AB R H Larry Walker, COL .393 400 103 157 Tony Gwynn, SDG .389 424 68 165 Mike Piazza, LOS .353 368 63 130 Kenny Lofton, ATL .343 312 56 107 Wally Joyner, SDG .340 312 44 106 Mark Grace, CHN .333 369 54 123 Edgardo Alfonzo, NYM .323 331 49 107 Ray Lankford, STL .320 316 61 101 Craig Biggio, HOU .319 436 100 139 Pct. GB 550 495 6 473 8 1 / 2 426 13 1 / 2 .402 161/2 Larry Walker, COL Jell Bagwell, HOU Barry Bonds, SF Andres Galarraga, COL Vinny Castilla, COL Raul Mondesi, LOS Eric Karros, LOS Todd Hundley, NYM Sammy Sosa, CHI Henry Rodriguez, MON Pct. GB .550 .541 1 .477 8 .464 91/2 Runs Batted In Andres Galarraga, COL Jeff Bagwell, HOU Tony Gwynn, SD Larry Walker, COL Chipper Jones, ATL Dante Bichette, COL Jeff Kent, SF Sammy Sosa, CHI Today's Games Batting Average R H 54 113 75 126 46 107 50 120 57 119 69 125 79 133 78 129 64 109 .331 378 329 404 .328 393 .328 332 Home Runs Runs Batted In 13-6, 11-5, 9-8, 9-8, Batting Average Home Runs 2002 Winter Games and 2004 Sum mer Olympics. "I think we will have a maximum of five candidates," Samaranch told reporters at the World Athlet ics Championships in Athens. "There will not be a pre-selection." With 11 cities bidding for 2004, the lOC reduced the field to five finalists: Athens, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Rome and Stockholm. The winner will be selected at the lOC session in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Sept. 5. Pittsburgh unveils new uniforms and logo PITTSBURGH (AP) Goodbye, brownish-yellow, hello Vegas gold. The University of Pittsburgh it no longer wants to be known as Pitt showed off new football uni forms yesterday that will be the first to incorporate the athletic department's newly standardized colors. When former coach Johnny Majors returned in 1992, he adopt ed a color scheme somewhat differ ent than the university's other sports teams, one that featured a brownish shade of gold and not quite dark blue. The new colors, chosen after ath letic director Steve Pederson ordered all teams to wear the same shades, are a near-black dark blue and a burnt gold called Vegas gold. The uniforms feature Pittsburgh across the front and the school's new snarling Panthers logo, which also incorporates the newly changed colors. Moises Alou, FLA Vinny Castilla, COL Pitching Pedro J. Martinez, MON Darryl Kile, HOU Greg Maddux, ATL Matt Morris, STL Rick Reed, NYM Alan Benes, STL Ismael Valdes, LOS Chan Ho Park, LOS Denny Neagle, ATL Francisco Cordova, PIT NFL American Conference East W L t Pct. PF PA 1 0 0 1.000 20 16 1 0 0 1.000 31 17 0 1 0 .000 OQ 20 0 1 0 .000 3 7 0 2 0 .000 27 51 Central Indianapolis N.Y. Jets Miami New England Buffalo 2 0 0 1.000 58 31 1 0 0 1.000 23 9 0 1 0 .000 20 21 0 1 0 .000 16 20 0 1 0 .000 12 21 Pittsburgh Jacksonville Baltimore Cincinnati Tennessee 1 0 0 1.000 31 10 1 0 0 1.000 34 27 1 0 0 1.000 20 13 1 1 0 .500 60 34 0 1 0 .000 14 28 National Conference East Denver Oakland San Diego Seattle Kansas City W L t Pct. PF PA 1 0 0 1.000 21 20 1 0 0 1.000 20 8 0 1 0 .000 6 34 0 1 0 .000 27 34 0 1 0 .000 17 31 N.Y. Giants Washington Arizona Philadelphia Green Bay Minnesota Detroit Chicago Tampa Bay 1 0 0 1.000 21 12 0 1 0 .000 17 20 0 1 0 .000 9 23 0 1 0 .000 6 24 0 1 0 .000 13 20 Saturday's Games Washington 20, Tampa Bay 8 Minnesota 24, St. Louis 6 New Orleans 21, Tennessee 12 N.Y. Jets 31, Philadelphia 17 N.Y. Giants 21, Baltimore 20 Pittsburgh 28, Kansas City 14 Chicago 20, Buffalo 17, OT San Diego 20, San Francisco 13 Seattle 34, Arizona 6 Sunday's Games Jacksonville 23, Carolina 9 Oakland 34, Dallas 27 New Orleans Atlanta Carolina St. Louis San Francisco Yesterday's Game Miami 38, Denver 19 Friday, Aug. 8 Cincinnati at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. Minnesota at Buffalo, 7:30 p.m. Baltimore at N.Y. Jets, 8 p.m. Dallas at New England, 8 p.m. Arizona at St. Louis, 8 p.m. Green Bay at Oakland, 10 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 9 Washington vs. Tennessee at Nashville, Tenn., 7 p.m. Tampa Bay at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. Denver at Carolina, 8 p.m. Jacksonville at N.Y. Giants, 8 p.m. Kansas City at New Orleans, 8 p.m. Seattle at San Francisco, 9 p.m. Indianapolis at San Diego, 10 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 10 Chicago at Miami, 8 p.m. (TNT) Monday, Aug. 11 Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 8 p.m. (ABC) Transactions HOCKEY National Hockey League BOSTON BRUlNS—Agreed to terms with C Joe Thornton on a three-year contract. MONTREAL CANADIENS—Re-signed LW Brian Savage and D Jassen Cullimore to one-year con tracts and D Craig Rivet to a two-year contract. PHOENIX COYOTES—Signed LW Jett Christian to a one-year contract. TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING—Re-signed LW Patrick Poulin. COLLEGE COLGATE—Named Rene Vidal men's and women's tennis coach. HAVERFORD—Named Sean Sloane men's tennis coach and men's and women's squash coach. Baseball result roundup Phillies 7, Rockies 3 PHILADELPHIA (AP) Tyler Green pitched seven solid innings for his second straight win and Scott Rolen hit a two-run homer to lead the Philadelphia Phillies to a 7-3 victory over the Colorado Rockies on last night. Green (2-1) missed all of last season with a shoulder injury and returned to the Phillies on July 13 after completing his rehab at Triple-A Scranton-Wilkes- Barre. Green allowed three hits in seven innings, including Vinny Castilla's three-run homer, while striking out seven and walking four The Phillies have won six of their last seven but still have the major league's worst record at 36-73. Rolen homered with two outs in the fifth off Frank Castillo (8-10), giving the Phillies a 4-3 lead. Rolen, who also doubled and scored in the second, currently Yankees 5, Royals 4 KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) David Wells came with in two outs of getting his third shutout in four starts, Charlie Hayes hit two home runs and the New York Yankees held on to beat the Kansas City Royals 5-4 last night The victory was the fifth in six games for the Yan kees (64-45), who moved a season-high 19 games over .500 and within 5 1 / 2 games behind idle Baltimore in the AL East. Indians 7, Tigers 2 DETROIT (AP) Manny Ramirez homered and drove in four runs, Jim Thome hit his 30th homer and Charles Nagy continued his domination of Detroit as the Cleveland Indians beat the Tigers 7-2 last night. Nagy (11-7) improved to 12-4 lifetime against the Tigers, his most wins against any club. Nagy, who is 2- 1 against the Tigers this season and was 3-0 last year, gave up two runs on seven hits and two walks with Marlins 4, Astos 1 MIAMI (AP) Rookie Livan Hernandez won his sixth straight game with 7 1-3 strong innings and Bobby Bonilla drove in three runs with a homer and single as the Florida Marlins beat the Houston Astros 4-1 on Monday night. 13-5, 1.76 15-3, 2.05 15-3, 2.28 8-6, 2.57 9-4, 2.76 9-9, 2.89 6-9, 2.90 10-5, 2.96 15-2, 3.02 8-6, 3.03 The Marlins, who ended the Astros' seven-game road winning streak, beat Houston for the 14th time in their last 16 meetings at Pro Player Stadium. Hernandez (6-0) became the first pitcher in the Marlins' five-year history to win his first six deci- Giants 9, Reds 1 CINCINNATI (AP) J.T. Snow drove in a career high five runs last night with a pair of homers, power ing the San Francisco Giants to a 9-1 victory over the Cincinnati Reds. The Giants moved 1 1 / 2 games ahead of idle Los Angeles in the NL West San Francisco took three of four in their first series since trading with the Chicago White Sox for pitchers Danny Darwin, Wilson Alvarez and Roberto Hernan dez. Alvarez and Hernandez got two of the three wins against Cincinnati, which has lost 12 of its last 16 games. After losing the second game of the series, the News from NFL training camps By the Associated Press Bruce Smith had his first work out of the preseason with Buffalo, then left the field unhappier than ever about his contract. The Defensive Player of the Year last season, Smith held out for three weeks before reporting to the team before its overtime exhibition loss to Chicago on Saturday night. He was fined $105,000, $5,000 for each day missed. "It's very difficult," the 34-year old defensive end said. "So far as the contract situation is concerned, I'm not going to talk about it any more. There's nothing else that can be said. I'm talked out." Smith has been complaining about a contract reworked in 1995 2 0 0 1.000 27 3 2 0 0 1.000 52 32 1 0 0 1.000 20 17 1 1 0 .500 37 47 0 1 0 .000 08 20 Congratulations Graduates! Come Celebrate With Us! has an 11-game hitting streak for the Phillies. Castillo lost his first game since coming to the Rockies in a July 15 trade with the Chicago Cubs. Castillo allowed five runs on nine hits in 5 1-3 innings. After Castillo walked Midre Cummings with the bases loaded to make it 5-3, Mark Hutton came on for the Rockies and allowed a sacrifice fly to Mickey Morandini and an RBI single to Gregg Jefferies. The Phillies took a 1-0 lead in the second when Rolen doubled and scored on Rico Brogna's RBI sin gle. Castilla's 29th homer of the season in the fourth gave the Rockies a 3-1 lead. The Phillies made it 3-2 on when Tony Barron's RBI double. _ . The game was delayed by rain for 56 minutes before the ninth inning. Ricky Bottalico came on and pitched a perfect ninth. Wells (12-5) took a three-hitter into the ninth but was relieved by Jeff Nelson with one out after allow ing a pair of singles and committing a throwing error that allowed Kansas City to score its first run. An RBI groundout made it 4-2 and Mike Sweeney hit a two-out, two-run homer before Mariano Rivera got the final out for his AL-leading 33rd save. Joe Girardi's run-scoring double in the eighth gave New York what turned out to be the winning run. seven strikeouts to get the win over Detroit. Ramirez had a two-run homer in the third, an RBI single in the ninth and a sacrifice fly in the first. Thome's homer came in the seventh and made him the first Cleveland left-handed hitter to hit 30 homers in successive seasons since Hal Trosky in 1936-37. Scott Sanders (3-9) gave up five runs on eight hits and two walks over 4 2-3 innings. sions. He allowed four hits and struck out four before Jay Powell went the final 1 2-3 innings for his second save. With the Marlins ahead 2-1 in the sixth, Bonilla hit a two-out, two-run homer his 12th of the season over the right-field wall. Earlier, Bonilla singled home a run in the fourth inning. Astros rookie Chris Holt (7-8) was the loser despite allowing two earned runs and four hits in seven innings. Giants won two in a row for only the second time since the All-Star break. San Francisco is 11-14 since the break. Kirk Rueter (8-5) allowed one run on seven hits over seven innings. Brian Johnson had a solo homer, his fifth, and an RBI single as the Giants pulled to a 4-1 lead against Giovanni Carrara (0-1), who lasted 5 1-3 innings. Snow hit a two-run homer, his 17th, off Richie Lewis to put the Giants ahead 6-1 in the seventh inning. He added a three-run shot in the ninth off Felix Rodriguez, a 431-foot drive into the third deck in right field. that calls for him to be paid $2.2 million this season. He wants to play out the final year in hopes of becoming a free agent. "There's nothing more than can be said. I've been over this ques tion 1,000 times," Smith said. "I played under a tremendous amount of stress last year, and look where it's gotten me basically, nowhere." Smith, who turned down a five year, $22 million offer in May, joined the Bills less than a week after he was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol near his home in Virginia Beach, Va. Chargers San Diego linebacker Junior Seau underwent arthroscopic surgery to repair torn cartilage in his left knee. He is expected to be 00000000000000000CD0000 O PENN STATE'S CD nationally ranked O it) O WOMEN'S CLUB SOCCER TEAM 0 0 invites you to ® CD OPEN TRYOUTS GI 0 Tryouts are being held: Aug. 29th 4:30 pm 0 O Aug. 30th 10 am sept. Ist 4:30 pm (i) If interested, call Marlon Laßlanc a 0 O 609-282-4013 (daytime until Aug. 22nd) ® after Aug. 23 - 235-9808 0 0000000000006D000000000 The Deily Collegian Tuesday, Aug. 5, 1997 9 out four weeks and will miss the regular-season opener Aug. 31 at New England. Originally diagnosed with a mild strain of his left knee, the six-time Pro Bowl player was injured Satur day night on the final play of the first quarter in the Chargers' 20-13 exhibition victory over San Fran cisco. Defensive tackle Don Sasa also underwent arthroscopic knee surgery, and is expected to be side lined for four weeks. New York quarterback Neil O'Donnell had good stats in Satur day night's victory over Philadel phia, completing 10 of 13 attempts for 112 yards, including a 39-yard touchdown pass to Keyshawn John son.
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