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Philadelphia vs. Cininnati
7:05 p.m., CSN
Pittsburgh at Houston
2:05 p.m., FSN
MLS
Chicago vs. Real Salt Lake
9:30 p.m., ESPN2
James to announce
early in show
Leßron to make announce
ment Thursday
An ESPN executive says
Leßron James will announce
his future NBA plans within
the first 10 minutes of
Thursday nights hourlong
broadcast.
Norby Williamson, the
cable network's vice president
of production, says sports
caster Jim Gray, will handle
the introduction, announce
ment and questions.
Williamson says Gray was
hand-picked by James' team,
who approached the network
last week about the special.
Durant tweets on 5-
year extension
Kevin Durant didn't go for a
spectacle in announcing
where he'll be for the next five
years.
Instead, Durant simply
posted an update on his
Twitter page Wednesday, say
ing he’d agreed to a five-year
contract extension with the
Oklahoma City Thunder.
Durant can't sign the deal
until Thursday and team
spokesman Brian Facchini
said he could not confirm the
deal under NBA rules.
Boozer signs with
Bulls
A person familiar with the
negotiations says Carlos
Boozer is headed to the
Chicago Bulls.
The person tells The
Associated Press that the
two-time All-Star forward
agreed to a deal on
Wednesday and is leaving the
Utah Jazz after six seasons.
The person, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity
because the contract doesn't
become official until
Thursday, did not reveal the
terms.
Leßron should sign
with...
The “King of Akron,” as he
tends to call himself, should
stay at home and re-sign with
the Cleveland Cavaliers.
In his seven NBA seasons,
the Cavs have been more
than willing to accomodate
James’ wishes. Whether it
was trading for Mo Williams,
acquiring Shaq or this year’s
midseason trade for Antawn
Jamison, Cleveland has done
all they can to give James a
winning cast.
The least James can do is
stay loyal to his fans.
While James is a business
man and wants to become a
globally recognized athlete,
he can do it from his home
state.
Nike knows marketable
athletes, and Leßron James
is marketable. He doesn’t
have to go to New York or
Chicago to suddenly become
popular in Asia, the NBA’s
largest growing market.
Free agents will want to
play with the “King” and they
will come to him.
No need for Leßron to
change his address, he’s got
it made in his backyard.
TRIVIA
Q: When was the last time
two teams that have never
won a World Cup met in the
World Cup Final?
Wednesday's answer
Gerd Muller is Germany’s all
time leading international
goal scorer.
Wade, Bosh sign with Heat
Dwyane Wade resigned with Miami
A TOWN OF TWO BENCSKOS
Siblings unite in State
By Jake Kaplan
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Playing sports at different col
leges that spanned different sea
sons, Justin and Whitney Bencsko
hadn’t seen much of each other the
last couple of years.
Oddly enough, that changed for
the better when Justin was select
ed by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the
20th-round on the second day of
the Major League Baseball
Amateur Draft on June 8.
Whitney, the junior co-captain of
the Penn State’s women’s gymnas
tics team, got a phone call from her
brother later that night. By that
time, however, Whitney had
already heard the news her
brother would be spending the
summer in State College.
“He was like ’Hey Whit, you
know how you said you wanted to
see me more this summer?’ ”
Whitney recalled of her conversa
tion with Justin the night of June 8.
Justin, who is three years older
than Whitney, had been assigned
to play for the Pirates’ short-sea
son Class A affiliate, the State
College Spikes. After four years of
collegiate baseball at Villanova,
Justin’s professional baseball
career was going to get its start in
the same town his sister Whitney
was spending her summer, rehab
bing her torn posterior cruciate
Whitney Bencsko competes on bars Feb. 20. Due to different schedules
the Bencsko siblings had not seen each other much before this summer.
Peavy goes on DL with detached muscle
By Rick Gano
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
CHICAGO - The Chicago White
Sox right-hander Jake Peavy was
put on the 15-day disabled list
detached muscle Ml a
in the back of his
right shoulder, an
injury that will almost certainly
end his season.
“Obviously this isn’t good news,”
Peavy said Wednesday after hav
ing an MRI. “You know ... having
something completely detached
from the bone that’s retracted
down in my lat. Not good.”
By Tim Reynolds
ASSOICATED PRESS WRITER
DAVIE, Fla. - Dwyane Wade
had already decided that if he
were to stay with the Miami Heat,
he would have either Leßron
James or Chris
Bosh as a team
mate.
He might get both.
Ending months of speculation,
Wade and Bosh made their deci
sions official on Wednesday, say
ing their trip through the world of
NBA free agency would end in
Miami. Wade is staying, Bosh is
coming, and now they’re waiting
like the rest of the league to
see what Leßron James will do
Thursday night when he unveils
his plans in a special to be tele
vised on ESPN.
“I’m so glad it’s over,” Wade said
in an interview with The
Associated Press.
ligament (PCL) and preparing for
the upcoming gymnastics season.
“Honestly, it was awesome when
we found out that’s where Justin
would be," Paula Bencsko, Justin
and Whitney’s mother, said.
“There was a one in a million
chance that he would end up play
ing baseball in the same town in
that same area as Whitney. It’s
pretty unbelievable if you ask me.”
Paula said before the draft,
Justin told his mother that if he
was drafted by the Pirates he
would probably play in State
College. But not knowing where he
would go in the draft or if he would
get selected at all for that matter,
the probability of that seemed slim.
“We just sort of laughed about
like what are the chances of that
ever happening and then low and
behold it did," Paula said. “So it
was like the perfect situation actu
ally.”
Justin and Whitney, natives of
Pompton Plains, N.J., and gradu
ates of Pequannock High School,
had been relegated to only seeing
each other on holiday breaks from
school since Whitney came to
Happy Valley in the fall of 2008.
Even during the summer they did
n’t see much of each other because
Justin would always play summer
baseball.
There is no doubt this summer
is different.
Peavy was hurt early in
Chicago’s victory over the Los
Angeles Angels on Tuesday night.
With two outs in the second inning,
Peavy delivered a 2-2 pitch to Mike
Napoli and then jumped off the
mound and raised his right arm
before walking straight to the
dugout with team trainer Herm
Schneider.
The team described the injury
as a detached latissimus dorsi
muscle in his right posterior shoul
der.
Peavy said the injury was so
rare that he would visit or consult
with two of the leading orthopedic
surgeons in the country, Dr. James
“I had to do what was best for
me. And I know I did that.”
Wade does not know what the
terms of the next contract he’ll
sign with Miami will be, nor when
he’ll sign the paper. Bosh doesn't
have terms of his next deal done
either. It’s all contingent on what
James says Thursday night, and
Wade insisted he knows nothing
about what the two-time MVP will
say or where he’ll be saying it
from.
“I expect us to compete for a
championship,” Bosh told ESPN.
“I think both Dwyane and I, we
both wanted an opportunity where
right away we would be compet
ing. ... We’sre ready to sacrifice a
lot of things in order to do that. It’s
not about the money. It’s not about
anything else except for winning.”
Regardless of whether James
comes to Miami, the Heat still
have only four players currently in
the picture for this coming season:
Wade, Bosh, Michael Beasley and
College this summer
Steph Witt/Collegian
Justin Bencsko lashes at a pitch on July 1. After playing collegiately at
Villanova, Bencsko began his professional career in State College.
Since Justin arrived, Whitney
has tried to catch as many of the
Spikes’ 11 home games as possi
ble. Justin has started in 10 of
those 11 games at Medlar Field at
Lubrano Park and has started all
eight road games. He is tied for
first on the Spikes with six stolen
bases thus far.
“I think the first game was the
coolest because we walked in and
it was like ‘Oh, wow. He’s actually
down there. He’s actually playing,’
” Whitney said. “It’s crazy. You
don’t think like ‘My brother is actu
ally going to be down there.’ And
it’s so convenient, so easy.”
When Whitney was younger, she
enjoyed going to her brother’s little
league games, especially when
Justin’s Little League All-Star
Team which was coached by
their father Doug won the New
Jersey state championship and
traveled to Bristol, Conn, to play
for a spot in the Little League
World Series. Justin’s team even
tually lost to the team from the
Bronx, led by Danny Almonte, and
failed to qualify, but Whitney along
with other girls who had brothers
on the team loved going to the
games.
Justin would do his best to
Andrews and Dr. Lewis Yocum, to
figure out what will be his next
step.
“Obviously surgery looks the
way that we probably have to go
and if that is it, we’ll just ride it, you
know,” Peavy said.
“We’re going to go the best road,
whatever the doctors think feels
best for me and my career. We’re
going to do it and obviously I’m
going to bust it in rehab and do all
I can to be back and be back feeling
better and healthier than I am.”
That’s likely not going to be this
season.
A former Cy Young Award win
ner with the San Diego Padres,
Thursday, July 8, 2010 I 3
Mario Chalmers. Miami is deeply
in discussions with several free
agents, including Brendan
Haywood, Mike Miller, Raymond
Felton and Udonis Haslem
whom Wade has played with in all
seven of his previous seasons.
Miami came into the free-agent
period with around $44 million of
cap space, not including $l6 mil
lion or so earmarked for Wade,
thanks to years of avoiding just
about any deal where money
would have been committed for
the 2010-11 season.
“We want to build a dynasty,”
Heat president Pat Riley had told
fans entering free agency.
Bosh and Wade would be a pret
ty good start.
“As much as I love Miami, I
would have done myself no justice
if I stayed here and no one came
with me,” Wade said.
“My career’s going to end in a
couple years if that happens. I
couldn’t do that.”
return the favor and go to
Whitney’s gymnastics meets, but it
was tough because he was busy
with baseball, not to mention soc
cer and basketball, sports he
played through high school.
“Gymnastics is tough because
you go to those meets and you’re
there for five hours and you watch
them do one event,” said Justin,
the only male of four Bencsko chil
dren. “So I made it some that I
could.”
However, Justin, has yet to
make it to Rec Hall to see his sister
compete for the Nittany Lions. The
one time he was ever in State
College before this summer was
last fall, when he witnessed Penn
State’s 21-10 loss to lowa at Beaver
Stadium. He hopes to make it to
one of his sister’s meets this com
ing winter, during the baseball off
season.
“The kids are all close,” Paula
said.
“Their close at times and then
their situations take them apart
like they were at different schools,
each of them very busy. They’d
keep in contact, but this is a nice
little bonding experience.”
To e-mail reporter: jyksl42@psu.edu
Peavy is 7-6 with a 4.63 ERA in 17
starts this season. The White Sox
had won 20 of their last 25 games
through Tuesday to climb back into
the AL Central race.
Peavy pitched through a sore
shoulder last month but said after
he was hurt Tuesday night he was
n’t sure if that was connected to
the latest problem.
“This was almost in an area dif
ferent from the other one,” Peavy
said of his earlier discomfort.
“I don’t think anybody made any
bad choices here. ... I don’t think
anybody is at fault here, myself for
wanting to be out there, the team
for letting me be out there.”