Thursday, 14th Jan 2016 23:28 by Clive Whittingham
On the morning of May 21, 2008, police from a half-dozen state and local agencies, organized by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s office, burst into a series of gambling parlors spread across.
- The win snapped a two-game losing streak to Austin. And the game was in doubt until the final minute. “That kickoff return was huge,” Adcock said. “We had a lot of guys step up when.
- Perry defeated Sidney Wood 6-3 and Austin stopped Frank Shields 6-1 in the final matches. 1954 — First baseman Joe Adcock went five for five, hitting four home runs and a double that propelled.
- At the beginning of 2020, we experienced a brief period of normalcy in the world of athletics until all spring sports came to a screeching halt in mid-March due to.
- As Class 5A Decatur (8-1) prepares to face crosstown rival 6A Austin (4-5) on Friday at 7 p.m. At Ogle Stadium, Adcock said his team reminds him of the Red Raiders' last region championship team in 2005 — a team that began the season without much hype, but went undefeated in 6A, Region 8 and made it to the second round of the state playoffs.
Lancashire official James Adcock is the man in the middle on Saturday as QPR visit the New York Stadium in Rotherham for the first time.
Referee >>> James Adcock (Nottinghamshire), refereed QPR twice during the 2013/14 promotion season, but not since.
Assistants >>> Nick Greenhalgh (Lancashire) and Michael Denton (Lancashire)
Fourth Official >>>> Darren Drysdale (Lincolnshire)
As the half trundled laboriously to its conclusion, Assou-Ekotto neatly summarised the less than inspiring proceedings by foul throwing the ball five-year-old-style six inches from his head and watching it literally plop onto the ground – ground which he surely would have wished would swallow him up if he actually gave a shit.
The rest of the first half was for the most part fairly innocuous sparring. The lesser-spotted Luke Young blocked Rhodes with a last ditch tackle; Simpson earned a yellow for a rash challenge on Conway; Green saved from Rhodes after Gestede flicked on Spurr’s bullet throw; and Morrison had a sumptuous volley well saved by the reliable Robinson after a pull back from Benayoun.
Blackburn Rovers: Robinson 7, Keane 6, Hanley (c) 7, Kilgallon 7, Spurr 7, Cairney 6, Lowe 7, Williamson 6 (Etuhu 85’), Conway 7, Gestede 8, Rhodes 7.
Goals: Gestede, Spurr
QPR: Green 4, Simpson 6, Dunne 5, Young 5, Assou Ekotto 6 (Yun 77’), Hoillet 5, Henry 5, Benayoun 5, Carroll 5 (Maiga 68’), Morrison 7, Keane 5 (Austin 68’)7
Booked: Simpson
Referee: James Adcock 6
The introduction of Bobby Zamora for a hot-headed Austin, who needlessly got involved with Marc Tierney and picked up a booking, signalled QPR’s intent for the final 20 minutes. This is what Zamora does well, supposedly, holding the play up and slowing the game down by keeping the ball. It was hardly an inspiring cameo though, yet his work-rate couldn’t be questioned.
Bolton: A Bogdan 6; A Baptiste 6, Z Knight 7, D Wheater 7, M Tierney 6; T Ream 5 (R Hall 72 7), M Kamara 7, J Spearing 8, C Lee 7; J Beckford 5 (C Davies 67 6), D Ngog 5 (Moritz 67 6).
Subs Not Used: A Lonergan, T Mears, M Mills, O Odelusi
Bookings: Tierney 58 (unsporting behaviour)
QPR: R Green 8; D Simpson 7, R Dunne 7, N Onuoha 8, C Hill 8; S Wright-Phillips 6 (Traore 6), K Henry 8, J Barton 6, G O'Neil 7; A Johnson 7 (Jenas -) C Austin 6 (Zamora 71 6)
Subs not used: B Murphy, Y Suk-Young, T Hitchcock, A Faurlin.
Goals: Johnson 54 (assisted Hill)
Bookings: Dunne 8 (foul), Barton 21 (foul), Henry 49 (foul), Austin 58 (unsporting behaviour), Simpson 84 (foul), Onuoha 87 (foul).
Referee – James Adcock (South Yorkshire) 5 An early booking to Richard Dunne for some reason meant every other wrongly timed tackle was a booking. QPR picked up six yellow cards during a pretty timid affair.
Adcock has refereed 17 matches this season, but only four of those in the Championship. Ominously, he's yet to send a player off in 2015/16. He's booked 43 in those appointments, but never more than four in a single game – he's done that on four occasions so far.
Last season he showed 116 yellows and nine reds in 37 games. I'm not sure everything was alright at home over Christmas, because eight of those dismissals came in a prolific 12 match run over December and January. That included two sendings off at Wigan v Fulham in the Championship. His last Rotherham game was a 3-1 home defeat by Cardiff in March.
League One >>> Andre Marriner, who dropped out of the Swansea v Sunderland match this week with disastrous consequences, returns at Coventry v Burton this weekend.
League Two >>> Trevor Kettle has Accrington v Portsmouth.
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You need to login in order to post your comments© (Rusty Kennedy / Associated Press) Bart Conner, left, and Peter Vidmar, center, celebrate following the U.S. men's gymnastic team's gold medal triumph on July 31, 1984. (Rusty Kennedy / Associated Press)
The U.S. men’s gymnastics team touched off a wildly emotional celebration at Pauley Pavilion on this date in 1984 when it stunned China in the Summer Olympics by winning the team title — the men’s first gold medal in the sport in 80 years.
Mitch Gaylord of Van Nuys, Bart Conner of Morton Grove, Ill., and Tim Daggett of West Springfield, Mass., all got perfect 10s in, respectively, the rings, parallel bars and the high bar. UCLA’s Peter Vidmar was the high scorer.
The United States outpointed China 591.40 to 590.80, and Japan finished third at 586.70. Although China was heavily favored, the Americans built up confidence in the compulsory exercises, and it carried over to the optionals round.
“It has to be the biggest moment for all of us,” Conner said. “Now we’ve proved we’re at the level of China and Russia. Nobody is going to blow us away.”
Other memorable games and outstanding sports performances on July 31 through the years:
1934 — Led by Fred Perry and Bunny Austin, Great Britain beat the United States 4-1 on Centre Court at Wimbledon’s All-England Club in the finals of the Davis Cup. Handwriting help?teach to be happy. Perry defeated Sidney Wood 6-3 and Austin stopped Frank Shields 6-1 in the final matches.
1954 — First baseman Joe Adcock went five for five, hitting four home runs and a double that propelled the Milwaukee Braves to a 15-7 win over the Dodgers at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. Adcock set a major league record of 18 total bases that stood for 48 years until it was broken in 2002 by Shawn Green of the Dodgers in a game at Milwaukee. Adcock homered off Don Newcombe in the second inning, Erv Palica in the fifth, Pete Wojey in the seventh and Johnny Podres in the ninth inning.
1983 — Jan Stephenson nearly wilted in temperatures over 100 degrees but overcame the heat and beat JoAnne Carner and Patty Sheehan by a stroke to win the U.S. Women's Open at Cedar Ridge Country Club in Broken Arrow, Okla. Stephenson, 31, from Australia, fired a final round three-over-par 74 for a 72-hole total six-over 290, the highest winning score in an Open in six years. She is the first foreign golfer to win the women’s Open since France’s Catherine Lacoste, an amateur, did it in 1967.
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1984 — Alex Spanos, a real estate and construction magnate from Stockton, took control of the San Diego Chargers when he announced that he had matched another real estate developer’s bid to purchase the majority ownership of the team that was controlled by Gene Klein. As one of the Chargers' minority owners, Spanos had a right of first refusal on any sale of Klein’s controlling shares. He matched an offer of $40 million to $41 million that Dallas apartment developer Carl Summers Jr. had officially submitted to Klein over a month earlier.
1993 — Mike Aulby became the second bowler in the Professional Bowlers Assn. history to roll a perfect 300 in the title game of a tournament when he beat David Ozio in the $140,000 Wichita Open at Wichita, Kan. Aulby topped Ozio of Vidor, Texas, 300-279 for his second championship of the year and 22nd of his career. It was the highest-scoring televised match at the time.
1994 — Sergey Bubka set a world record in the pole vault for the 35th time in his career — including outdoor and indoor — at a meet in Sestriere, Italy, when he soared 20 feet, 1 3/4 inches, adding a half-inch to his old mark that he set in Tokyo in 1992.
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2007 — In a blockbuster move, Kevin Garnett was traded from the Minnesota Timberwolves to the Boston Celtics for five players and high draft choices. The Celtics obtained the former NBA most valuable player and 10-time All-Star for forwards Al Jefferson, Ryan Gomes and Gerald Green, guard Sebastian Telfair and center Theo Ratliff and two first-round picks. Garnett had played for the Timberwolves for 12 seasons, and was set to join a Celtics team that included Paul Pierce and Ray Allen.
2011 — Yani Tseng won the Women's British Open for the second straight year when she beat Brittany Lang by four strokes at Carnoustie Golf Club in Scotland. The victory made Tseng the youngest woman to win five major tournaments. The 22-year-old from Taiwan shot a three-under-par 69 to finish at 16-under-par 272 after she had trailed Germany’s Caroline Masson by two shots when the final round started.
2012 — Michael Phelps became the most decorated Olympic athlete of all time when broke the record for most medals after the United States swam to gold in the 800-meter freestyle relay at the Summer Games in London. With 19 career medals spanning three Olympics, Phelps moved ahead of gymnast Larisa Latynina, who collected 18 while competing for the Soviet Union in the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics.
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Sources: The Times, Associated Press