Tuesday, June 24, 2008
The Washington Capitals placed Ben Clymer on waivers yesterday with the intention of buying out the final year of the former checking line winger's contract. Clymer, 30, spent all of last season with the team's minor league affiliate in Hershey, Pa., and is scheduled to earn $1.1 million next season.
If Clymer clears waivers today -- and it's expected that he will -- the buyout will count $250,000 against the Capitals' salary cap next season and $366,667 in 2009-10. Clymer signed a three-year, $2.9 million contract with Washington in July 2006.
· COLLEGE BASEBALL: Joey Lewis hit a tiebreaking double in Georgia's four-run eighth inning, and the Bulldogs came from three runs down to defeat Fresno State, 7-6, in Game 1 of the College World Series finals in Omaha.
Fresno State appeared to take control in the top of the eighth when it scored three runs to go up 6-3. But Georgia (45-23-1) wasn't finished, and now stands one win away from a second national championship to go with the one it won in 1990.
Fresno State (45-31), 4-0 in elimination games in the NCAA tournament, will try to keep its improbable postseason run alive when the teams meet in Game 2 today.
· BASKETBALL: Hours after becoming the second player to dunk in a WNBA game, Candace Parker received the Honda-Broderick Cup as the nation's top female college athlete. . . .
The Denver Nuggets suspended Carmelo Anthony for the first two games of the next season as punishment for his April arrest on suspicion of drunken driving. . . .
The Supreme Court has turned down property owners and tenants facing eviction to make room for a new NBA Nets arena in Brooklyn, N.Y.
The justices rejected an appeal that was intended to stop development of the Atlantic Yards project.
· HIGH SCHOOLS: The DeMatha-Good Counsel football game, which has become one of the Washington area's top rivalries, will get national billing this fall. ESPN2 plans to air the game, with the schools moving the kickoff up by one day, to Thursday, Oct. 2, to accommodate the broadcast. . . .
Drew Murphy has been hired as boys' basketball coach at Centreville High School.
Murphy replaces Brian Doyle, who recently stepped down to become an assistant principal at Centreville.
· PRO FOOTBALL: Michael Strahan is taking his gap-toothed grin to Fox.
The charismatic former New York Giants defensive end, who retired earlier this month, will join the network's NFL pregame show, a person with knowledge of the hiring confirmed to the Associated Press. . . .
Former Chicago Bears running back Cedric Benson was ordered to install an ignition-lock breath tester in his car after he was charged with drunken driving.
Benson was charged in separate incidents of boating and driving while intoxicated. The device prevents the car from starting if it detects alcohol.
· GOLF: Rocco Mediate says he's not bothered by NBC analyst Johnny Miller saying the 45-year-old golfer "looks like the guy who cleans Tiger's swimming pool," and "Guys with the name 'Rocco' don't get on the trophy" during last week's U.S. Open.
Miller apologized Friday for his description of Mediate, who is of Italian heritage. Miller said the comments had nothing to do with Mediate's ethnicity, and he meant to convey his affection and admiration for Mediate's "everyman qualities."
-- From News Services and Staff Reports
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