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08/04/2010 - St. Louis, MO (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The St. Louis Blues have signed forward Dave Scatchard.
Terms of the two-way contract were not released.
Scatchard spent last season with Nashville and its minor league affiliate in Milwaukee. He registered three goals and two assists in 16 games for the Predators and tallied 20 goals in 36 games for the Admirals of the American Hockey League.
The 34-year-old Alberta native was originally selected by Vancouver in the second round of the 1994 NHL draft.
In 651 career NHL games with the Canucks, Islanders, Bruins, Coyotes and Predators, Scatchard has compiled 128 goals with 140 assists for 268 points.
<< Big Ben strikes again in Detroit
Auburn Hills, MI (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Detroit Pistons re-signed veteran
center Ben Wallace on Wednesday.
Per team policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the Detroit Free
Press reported it is a two-year contract worth jus
<< Lucky Chucky versus nine in $1.5 million Hambletonian
East Rutherford, NJ (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Champion colt Lucky Chucky will start
from post two in Saturday's 85th running of the $1.5 million Hambletonian at
The Meadowlands. The one-mile trot is harness racing's premier event.
The Hambleto
<< Seattle's Montero named MLS Player of the Month
New York, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Fredy Montero was voted Major League Soccer's
Player of the Month for July, it was announced on Wednesday.
Montero has been on fire recently, registering a goal or an assist in eight
straight league matche
<< Alex Rodriguez hits home run No. 600
NEW YORK (AP) -Alex Rodriguez became the youngest player to hit 600 home runs Wednesday, reaching the milestone after a 12-game drought - and exactly three years to the day after his 500th homer - with a drive off Toronto's Shaun Marcum in the first
McGee takes Brook Lopez's spot at Team USA camp >>
Colorado Springs, CO (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Brook Lopez, center for the New Jersey
Nets, withdrew from consideration for the 2010 USA Basketball World
Championship team due to a battle with mononucleosis.
JaVale McGee, center for the
Bills release Schobel >>
Pittsford, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Buffalo Bills have released veteran
linebacker Aaron Schobel.
The moves comes after the Bills announced Monday that Schobel was not in their
plans for the 2010 season, though did not outright
Bradley announces roster for Brazil friendly >>
Chicago, IL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - U.S. men's national team soccer coach Bob
Bradley officially named his 18-player roster for a Aug. 10 friendly against
Brazil at the New Meadowlands Stadium.
Fourteen players on the roster were part of
Janish leads Reds to series win over Pirates >>
Pittsburgh, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Paul Janish went 3-for-3 with four RBI and
hit a three-run homer to highlight a six-run seventh inning, as the Reds took
the rubber match of their three-game series against the Pirates, 9-4.
Juan Francis
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NEW YORK (AP) -By staying away from the cupcakes, Southern California earned itself a slim new ranking.
No. 1 always seems to fit USC.
Southern California jumped two spots to No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 on Tuesday, rewarded by voters for opening the season with a dominant performance on the road against a BCS conference opponent.
Georgia and Ohio State, the preseason Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, started their seasons with glorified scrimmages at home against FCS (formerly I-AA) teams. USC, however, traveled across country to face Virginia and could not have been more impressive in a 52-7 victory.
Georgia fell to No. 2 and Ohio State to No 3.
"We realize that rankings so early in a season are certainly fluid. But rankings do help establish a pecking order for things later in the season," USC coach Pete Carroll said in a statement. "As for moving into the No. 1 spot, it's nice to know that people think highly of our team."
Since reaching No. 1 on Dec. 7, 2003, the final-regular season AP poll of that season, USC has been No. 1 in 39 polls, by far the most of any team during that time.
"Some have said the voters are taking our schedule into consideration," Carroll said. "Our philosophy has always been to schedule outstanding opponents. We need to play challenging games like we just did, traveling across the country to open the season at Virginia. Games like that bring out our best and make us stronger as a team."
The latest voting was close. USC received 21 first-place votes and 1,539 points from the 65-member media panel. Georgia had 20 first-place votes and 1,506 points. Ohio State got 15 first-place votes and 1,497 points.
"I'd say we've evolved as pollsters," said Stewart Mandel of SI.com, who moved USC up to No. 1. "In the past, voters just kind of automatically moved teams up and kept teams where they were if they won."
Georgia beat Georgia Southern 45-21 on Saturday and Ohio State opened with a 43-0 win over Youngstown State.
"There's a bit of a growing backlash for the amount of teams that open with I-AA cupcakes," said Mandel, whose book "Bowls, Polls and Tattered Souls" chronicles college football's controversies. "To see a team [USC] go on the road and play a New Year's Day bowl team from last season, and not only play them but destroy them, how could you not reward that team?"
USC also jumped past Georgia to No. 1 in the USA Today coaches' poll, which has the same top five as the AP poll.
"It's definitely a privilege to be No. 1. But it's not heartbreaking to me if we drop," Georgia offensive lineman Josh Davis said. "It doesn't matter right now what we're ranked. What matters is our next game and right now, that's Central Michigan. The only time the polls matter is in December. That's when the polls matter."
While the Bulldogs opened easy, their schedule ultimately should be as difficult as any team's. Georgia's big nonconference test is at No. 15 Arizona State on Sept. 20. The Bulldogs also face six Southeastern Conference rivals that've been ranked in the first two polls.
As for Ohio State, the Buckeyes play at USC on Sept. 13 before getting into the Big Ten schedule.
But of the teams in this week's top 10, USC and Texas are the only ones that don't play an FCS opponent, and the Trojans are the only team that doesn't play a team from a non-BCS conference.
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The last team to drop from No. 1 after a victory was USC last season. LSU jumped from No. 2 to No. 1 when it beat Tulane 34-9, the same week the Trojans edged Washington 27-24 on the road.
The last preseason No. 1 team to lose the top spot after winning its opening game was Florida in 2001. The Gators beat Marshall 49-14, but preseason No. 2 Miami opened with a 33-7 victory over Penn State and the Hurricanes jumped to No. 1 with Florida slipping to second.
The next four teams in the new Top 25 stayed the same: No. 4 Oklahoma (two first-place votes), No. 5 Florida (five first-place votes), No. 6 Missouri (one first-place vote), No. 7 LSU (one first-place vote) and No. 8 West Virginia.
No. 9 Auburn and No. 10 Texas each moved up a spot, taking advantage of Clemson's big drop. Clemson, ninth in the preseason, fell out after losing 34-10 to Alabama on Saturday.
Also falling out after losses were Virginia Tech, Pittsburgh and Tennessee.
Moving into the rankings were No. 21 Fresno State, No. 22 Utah, No. 23 UCLA and No. 24 South Carolina.
Alabama moved up 11 spots after its big victory over Clemson.
The second 10 started with No. 11 Wisconsin, followed by Texas Tech, Alabama and Kansas. BYU and Arizona State were tied for 15th. Rivals BYU and Utah are both ranked for the first time since 1996.
South Florida was No. 17, ahead of Oregon, Penn State and Wake Forest at No. 20.
The final five were all the teams to move into the ranking, except for Illinois, which dropped four spots and tied South Carolina for No. 24.
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