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Thursday, July 4, 2013
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Murray rallies to make Wimbledon semis
Anja Niedringhaus/AP
Andy Murray reacts after defeating Fernando Verdasco in the Wimbledon quarterfinals
Wednesday in London.
By Eddie Pells
AP National Writer
LONDON — Andy Murray
had all of Britain on edge for five
sets.
Juan Martin del Potro only
took five points to get the fans
buzzing at Wimbledon.
Two victories in two very dif-
ferent matches Wednesday sent
Murray and del Potro onto the
semifinals at the All England
Club.
Murray completed his sev-
enth career comeback from two
sets down to top Fernando Ver-
dasco, 4-6, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4,7-5.
“Made some bad mistakes,
poor choices on the court,” Mur-
ray said. “And then, I turned it
around really well after that.”
Earlier on Centre Court, del
Potro hyperextended his left
knee and crumpled to the
ground on the fifth point, but
shook olf the injury for a 6-2,
6-4, 7-6 (5) victory over No. 4
David Ferrer.
“To be honest, I didn’t want
to retire [being] in the quarters
for first time at Wimbledon,” del
Potro said. “And that’s the reason
for continuing play. The doctors
gave me good anti-inflammato-
ries.”
Del Potro’s next match is Fri-
day against No. 1 Novak Djokov-
ic, who took down No. 7 Tomas
Berdych 7-6 (5), 6-4, 6-3 on
Court L
Murray will play No. 24 Jerzy
Janowicz, a 7-5, 6-4, 6-4 winner
over Lukasz Kubot in the first
Grand Slam meeting between
two Polish men.
Pro tennis
Wimbledon
Going against the 54th-
ranked Verdasco, Murray cer-
tainly made things interesting
for the British fans, looking for
one of their own to call a Wim-
bledon champion for the first
time in 77 years. He dropped the
first two sets, unable to handle
Verdasco’s pinpoint serves that
reached as high as 136 mph.
Slowly, though, he crept back
into the match. In the sixth
game of the fourth set, Murray
saved a pair of break points —
first with a service winner, then
with one of his 13 aces. Three
games later, he broke Verdasco,
then served out the set. In the
fifth set, the players held serve
for 10 straight games. In the 11th,
Murray broke, then served out
the match at love.
“I played at a very high level,”
said Verdasco, appearing in a
Grand Slam quarterfinal for the
first time since the 2010 U.S.
Open. “And to not be able to win
is painful, of course.”
It was Murray’s second
comeback from two sets down at
Wimbledon, adding to a 2008
victory over Richard Gasquet.
“Yeah, you’re obviously con-
cerned,” Murray said. “You’re
more concerned about losing
the match, not thinking so much
that, I’m going to lose at Wim-
bledon. You’re concerned how
the match is going and that you
may lose. But when you’ve been
in that position a lot of times,
you know how to think through
it and not get too far ahead of
yourself”
In the earlier match, it looked
as if del Potro would be done be-
fore he even broke a sweat.
His left knee mummified in
athletic tape, the 6-foot-6 Ar-
gentine chased an overhead into
the comer, but his left foot
slipped out from under him. His
already aching knee straight-
ened suddenly, then bent back-
ward. Del Potro cmmpled to the
ground and rolled twice — into
the far edge of the court.
“I don’t try [for] a spectacu-
lar fall, but that was really pain-
ful for me,” del Potro said.
After a break of about 10
minutes, del Potro was back on
the court. He broke Ferrer twice
in the first set, then moved easily
through the second and third
against one of the grittiest play-
ers in tennis.
“I have my knee problem, but
always the opponent, the other
players, can have different inju-
ries, too,” del Potro said. ‘You
have to be strong, more than the
rest.”
Across the way, on Court \
Janowicz beat Kubot to become
the first Polish man to reach a
Grand Slam semifinal.
After the match, the players
hugged at the net for more than
15 seconds, then exchanged
shirts the way soccer players of-
ten do at their games. A bit later,
Janowicz sat in his chair, clasped
his hands over his nose and
cried.
“Right now, I’m the most
happy person in the world,” Ja-
nowicz said.
About playing Murray, who
won his first Grand Slam tour-
nament last year at the U.S.
Open, Janowicz said: “I hope
Andy will feel some kind of pres-
sure. I’m sure he’ll feel some
kind of pressure because Great
Britain is waiting for the English
champion in Wimbledon.”
During a tournament with
more than its share of twists and
turns — to say nothing of slips
and slides — Djokovic and del
Potro have gone through virtu-
ally unscathed, on the score-
board at least. Neither man has
dropped a set.
Djokovic overcame a two-
break, 3-0 deficit in the second
set to cruise to his latest victory
over Berdych, the 2010 Wimble-
don runner-up. Djokovic is in
his 13th straight Grand Slam
semifinal and in search of his
seventh major title.
“Coming into the semifinals,
I feel physically fresh,” Djokovic
said.
No. 8 del Potro wouldn’t
quite use those terms to describe
himself.
He is, however, starting to
show the form he used to win his
only major championship, the
U.S. Open in 2009, which also
marks the last time he reached a
Grand Slam semifinal. He is 3-8
lifetime against Djokovic, though
one of those victories came here,
at the All England Club, when he
beat the Serb in the Olympic
bronze-medal match last year.
Del Potro also won their last
meeting, earlier this year on hard
court at Indian Wells.
“He struggled with injuries in
last few years, but every time he
comes back, he comes back very
strong because he just has this
talent,” Djokovic said.
Rangers add Manny Ramirez
with minor league contract
Rangers
Manny Ramirez
By Schuyler Dixon
Associated Press
ARLINGTON - Manny Ra-
mirez apparently is cutting his
long dreadlocks for another shot
at the major leagues.
The Rangers said Wednes-
day they had agreed to terms on
a minor league contract with the
41-year-old slugger, who hasn’t
played in the big leagues since
2011 with Tampa Bay.
Rangers general manager Jon
Daniels said part of the deal was
Ramirez, twice suspended for
testing positive for banned drugs,
agreeing to cut his hair and “com-
ply with our minor league rules
on appearance and discipline.”
Ramirez was set to report to
Triple A Round Rock today, and
he will be a designated hitter
whenever he is activated. He
played for three months in Tai-
wan before leaving the Rhinos
on June 20.
“It’s kind of a no-risk flier,” said
Daniels, indicating there was no
time frame for him to be called up
to the American League. ‘We like
giving guys second chances. We
know on and off the field the good
and bad in Manny’s career. But
we’re inclined to give him an op-
portunity here.”
Ramirez hit .352 with eight
homers and 43 RBIs for the
Rhinos. The team tried to keep
the 12-time All-Star, but he
wanted to return to his family in
New York.
Daniels said Ramirez was
looking for an opportunity to
play either in the United States
or Japan.
Ramirez was suspended for
50 games in 2009 while with
the Dodgers after testing posi-
tive for a banned drug. He re-
tired in April 2011 instead of
serving a 100-game ban for a
second positive test, but later
agreed to a reduced 50-game
suspension and played in the
minors for Oakland in 2012.
A lifetime .312 hitter, Rami-
rez is 14th on the career home
runs list with 555.
The Rangers didn’t see Ra-
mirez play in Taiwan, nor were
they among the teams that
worked him out in Florida re-
cently, Daniels said.
“We’re really just kind of go-
ing off the resume here a little
bit,” Daniels said. “If he’s produc-
tive and we feel he fits our cul-
ture here in the clubhouse, we’ll
give him an opportunity” Dan-
iels said. “If either of those ends
don’t pan out, then kind of no
harm, no foul.”
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UNT
been for games with a Texas ri-
val. The other four were for
games against Tulsa and a pair
of service academies in Army
and Navy that have a national
following.
Moving to C-USA will bene-
fit UNT with increased revenue
from the league and a better
television contract, but there is
little doubt one of the biggest
benefits for the program will be
the exposure the conference will
provide.
“It increases our visibility tre-
mendously with the media mar-
kets we will play in,” UNT wom-
en’s basketball coach Mike Pe-
tersen said when the school an-
nounced the move. “The
television package is significant-
ly better. Student-athletes want
to be recognized, and the way
they are recognized is through
media exposure. This is a great
step in that direction. There is
no question about that.”
UNT officials will be pushing
that idea tonight while trying to
educate Denton residents out-
side the program’s traditional
fan base about just what the
school’s move to C-USA will
mean. And, perhaps more im-
portantly, UNT will try to give
casual fans a better idea of
whom it will face on a regular
basis.
C-USA is undergoing a dra-
matic change in terms of its
members, a shift that will begin
this season and won’t be finished
until the 2015 football season.
From Page IB
Ginobili
ball-handler who can get in the
lane and score or find an open
shooter. He’s averaged 14.9
points, 4.0 assists and 3.9 re-
bounds in 11 seasons.
In last week’s draft, the Spurs
chose Iivio Jean-Charles and
Ohio State’s Deshaun Thomas
to beef up their front line,
though Jean-Charles is 19 and
SMU and Houston left C-
USA and will begin playing in
the American Athletic Confer-
ence this fall. Tulsa and Tulane
will leave C-USA for the AAC in
2014, when UNT’s old Sun Belt
rival Western Kentucky will
move in to help fill the void.
Villarreal said pretty much
everyone who has stopped him
to talk about the program over
the last few months has wanted
to talk about UNT’s move to C-
USA and how it will impact the
school.
While there is an excitement
about the move, one of the ques-
tions UNT officials have been
asked frequently is who will be
in the conference this fall and in
the future.
Tonight’s fireworks show will
offer UNT a chance to address
those questions as part of an on-
going promotional campaign
that began when the school first
announced the move in the
spring of 2012.
UNT already has been pro-
moting the move while building
its 2014 recruiting class.
Noah Joseph, UNT’s recruit-
ing coordinator and safeties
coach, said in the spring that
Texas high school coaches have
developed a positive opinion of
C-USA due to the league’s suc-
cess over the years. The respect
those coaches have for C-USA
has filtered down to their play-
ers.
“Conference USA means alot
more to those high school
isn’t expected to play in the NBA
for some time.
Thomas is expected to battle
for a spot on the roster next sea-
son. A first-team all-Big Ten se-
lection, Thomas averaged 19.8
points, 5.9 rebounds and shot
34 percent from 3-point range.
DeJuan Blair is an unre-
stricted free agent, Tiago Splitter
C-USA MEMBERS
The following is a look at the
membership of Conference USA
next season and in the future:
West Division (2013)
North Texas
Louisiana Tech
Rice
Tulane*
Tulsa*
UTEP
Texas-San Antonio
East Division (2013)
East Carolina*
Florida Atlantic
Florida International
Marshall
Middle Tennessee
Southern Mississippi
UAB
Future additions #
Charlotte
Old Dominion
Western Kentucky
* Leaving C-USA after the 2013-14 school
year for the American Athletic
Conference
# Western Kentucky and Old Dominion
will play in C-USA 2014, Charlotte in 2015
coaches,” Joseph said. “They’re
talking and the word is getting
out.”
UNT will look to spread the
word a little more tonight when
it will celebrate its move to C-
USA with thousands of mem-
bers of the Denton community.
‘We are going to have visibil-
ity that we haven’t had before,”
UNT President Lane Rawlins
said shortly after UNT was in-
troduced as a new member of C-
USA. “The door is open. The sky
is the limit.”
BRETT VITO can be
reached at 940-566-6870.
is restricted and Boris Diaw is
mulling a player option. The
Spurs are mindful of salary-cap
considerations: Two years ago,
they traded fan favorite George
Hill to Indiana for the rights to
Kawhi Leonard, who was the
15th pick in the draft and has
turned into a key player for San
Antonio.
From Page IB
Rangers
Rangers center fielder Leo-
nys Martin went 0-for-4 to end
the longest active hitting streak
in the majors at 15 games.
Holland, making his first
outing since a two-hit shutout in
a 2-0 win at Yankee Stadium,
gave up a leadoff home run to
Jason Bay on the fourth pitch of
the game.
The Mariners had runners at
first and third with no outs in the
second after singles by Seager
and Smoak, but Holland got a
shallow fly ball from Dustin
Ackley that forced Seager to
hold up after going a third of the
way down the line. Holland then
struck out Zunino and got Brad
Miller on a fly ball to center.
Holland struck out 10 and
had seven hits and two walks on
his line.
Hernandez gave up four ex-
tra-base hits, matching the
Rangers’ total from its previous
Tony Gutierrez/AP
Kyle Seager, right, rounds sec-
ond past Rangers shortstop
Elvis Andrus after hitting a go-
ahead home run for Seattle in
the 10th inning Wednesday
night in Arlington.
four games combined. Besides
the homers from Murphy and
Kinsler, Nelson Cruz doubled
with two outs in the first and
Beltre had a leadoff double that
was followed by three straight
outs in the sixth.
Elvis Andrus grounded into
an inning-ending double play
with two on in the seventh to
wrap up the night for Hernan-
dez, who gave up seven hits and
struck out seven in his third
straight no-decision.
Briefly...
Rangers RHP Alexi Ogando
came through a bullpen session
with no setbacks and will make a
rehab start Saturday at Round
Rock. He likely will make at least
two rehab starts. ... Hernandez
hasn’t won at the Ballpark in Ar-
lington since Sept. 28, 2010. ...
Martin stole a base for the sixth
straight game, matching a
Rangers record set by John Lo-
wenstein in 1978. ... Rangers
DH Lance Berkman returned
after missing four games with a
sore right knee and went l-for-4.
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Hernandez
In a bedroom, they found a
white hooded sweatshirt, ac-
cording to the documents. A
cranberry-colored cap, with a
light blue front panel and the
word “society” spelled back-
ward, was found on a kitchen ta-
ble, the documents said.
Surveillance video showed
Hernandez wearing a similar
sweatshirt the night Lloyd was
killed on June 17, the records
said.
And he was wearing “this
same unique hat” in a picture
shown on a local news station
taken outside a nightclub June
14, the Friday before the killing,
according to the documents.
Prosecutors say Hernandez ar-
ranged Lloyd’s shooting because
he was upset at him for talking
to certain people at the club.
“The white sweatshirt could
be used ... to assist in linking
Hernandez to the scene of the
crime,” wrote Trooper Michael
Bates, in an affidavit in support
of one of the search warrants.
“The baseball hat could help
provide the whereabouts of Her-
nandez on the Friday night before
the homicide,” Bates wrote. “This
night in particular is a critical as-
pect in the timeline of events lead-
ing up to the homicide.”
The searches also turned up a
magazine loaded with .45-cali-
ber ammunition and 11 boxes of
ammunition, including .22-cali-
ber, .45-caliber and 7.62 mm
rounds.
Besides the Odin killing,
Hernandez has been linked to
the investigation of a double ho-
micide in Boston.
Police in Bristol said Tuesday
that, based on evidence devel-
oped through the investigation
of Lloyd’s slaying, Boston police
asked for their help in their
probe of the 2012 murders. Po-
lice have since searched a house
in Bristol and seized a vehicle
from that address.
Boston police have declined
to comment on whether Her-
nandez is being looked at as a
possible suspect in that case.
And over the weekend, a
man who is reportedly married
to Hernandez’s cousin was killed
in a car crash in Connecticut.
Thaddeus Singleton III, 33, of
Bristol, was driving the car when
it went airborne early Sunday
and crashed into the wall of the
Farmington Country Club.
Farmington police said they
had no knowledge that the crash
was linked to the Hernandez
case.
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