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THURSDAY OCTOBER 20, 2008
Three-day game results in World Series win for Phillies
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2008
BY BEN WALKER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
PHILADELPHIA From losing team to longest game, the Philadelphia Phillies are World Series champions.
Strange as it was.
Strange as that sounds.
Brad Lidge and the Phillies finished off the Tampa Bay Rays 4-3 in a three-inning sprint Wednesday night to win a suspended Game 5 nearly 50 hours after it started.
Left in limbo by a two-day rainstorm, the Phillies seesaw to their first championship since 1980. Pedro Feliz singled home the go-ahead run in the seventh and Lidge closed out his perfect season to deliver the title Philly craved for so long.
"It's over," Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins said. "It's over, man."
Bundled in parkas and blankets, fans returned in force to Citizens Bank Park and saw the city claim its first major sports championship in 25 years. No more references needed to those sad-sack Phillies teams in the past and their 10,000-
plus losses.
It was among the most bizarre endings in baseball history, a best-of-seven series turned into a best-of- $3 \%$ showdown when play resumed in the bottom of the sixth inning tied at 2.
Two Rays relievers warmed up to start, and there was a pinch-hitter before a single pitch. "God Bless America" was sung rather than the national anthem and the seventh-inning stretch came quickly.
Despite low TV ratings and minus the mairs' most glamorous teams, fans will always remember how this one wrapped up. And for the first time in a long while, kids saw a World Series champion crowned before bedtime.
While former NL MVPs Ryan Howard and Rollins drive the Phillies, it was others who won it on this chilly night and sent the young Rays home.
Tied at 3, Pat Burrell led off the seventh with a drive off the centerfield wall against J.P. Howell, Chad Bradford relieved and one out later Feliz singled home pinch-runner Eric Bruntlett.
Rocco Baldelli's solo home run
off Ryan Madson, who relieved Cole Hamels when the game resumed, made it 3-all in the top of the seventh. The Rays almost got more, but All-Star second baseman Chase Utley alertly bluffed a throw to first on a grounder over the bag and instead threw out Jason Bartlett at the plate.
Pinch-hitter Geoff Jenkins, the first batter Wednesday night, doubled and later scored on Jayson Werth's bloop single.
In all, there were six new pitchers, three pinch-hitters and two pinch-runners when play restarted.
Manager Charlie Manuel, whose NL East champions clinched a playoff spot in the final week, guided the Phillies 'second overall championship in six World Series tries.
Once known as a city of champions, Philadelphia sports fell on hard times after Julius Erving and Moses Malone led the Sixers to the 1983 title.
Since then, the Phillies, Eagles, Sixers and Flyers made it to the championship game or round seven times, in total — and lost all of them.
Philadelphia Phillies 'Brad Lidge is hugged by his teammates after their victory in Game 5 of the baseball World Series in Philadelphia, Wednesday, Oct. 29. The Phillies defeated the Tampa Bay Rays 4-3 to win the series.
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The finalists for the Draddy Trophy, college football's so-called academic Heisman, were announced Wednesday. Heisman Trophy contenders Graham Harrell, above, and Chase Daniel are among the most notable players in the running for $18,000 an scholarship toward post-graduate studies.
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Athletes with good grades nominated for Draddy Fifteen football players recognized for university academic achievements
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NEW YORK — Dumb jocks?
Not in this crowd.
The finalists for the Draddy Trophy, the so-called academic Heisman, were announced Wednesday. These 15 student-athletes blow away the negative stereotype that often gets pinned to college football players. They excel both at being students and athletes.
Star quarterbacks Chase Daniel from Missouri and Graham Harrell from Texas Tech are the most notable finalists selected by the National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame. Among the others is Ohio State receiver Brian Robiskie, Illinois offensive tackle Ryan McDonald and Georgia Tech defensive tackle Darryl Richard.
"So often, all the negative stuff commands the headlines," NFF President & CEO Steve Hatchell said Wednesday in a telephone interview, "but there are a lot of great kids doing great things."
"When you read what these kids are doing you say, 'Man, I didn't do anything when I was in college'"
Take Richard, for example, who didn't have time Wednesday to do a phone interview with The Associated Press because after classes and practice he was
scheduled to preside over a town hall meeting with athletic director Dan Radakovich and other university leaders. Richard, who majors in management and has a 3.5 grade-point average, is the president of the Student-Athlete Advisory Board.
The 290-pounder also is a team captain and three-year starter with 9½ career sacks.
"You've got to be a real player (to be a Draddy candidate)," Hatchet said. "You can't just be a backup with a great grade-point average."
The Draddy Trophy is named after Vincent dePaul Draddy, who played football for Manhattan College in the 1920s, was chairman of the board for the NFF for 19 years and brought Izod and Lacoste shirts to the United States. The trophy was first awarded in 1990, months after its namesake died.
Past winners include Peyton Manning and Chad Pennington.
This year's finalists were chosen from 164 semifinalists. To qualify, a player must be a senior or graduate student, have a GPA of at least 3.2, be a starter and demonstrate leadership qualities.
Players from all levels of college football are eligible.
Draddy Trophy finalists
The winner will be announced Dec. 9 at the NFF awards banquet in New York. All the finalists receive an $18,000 scholarship toward postgraduate studies. The winner's
Chase Daniel
Missouri quarterback
Graham Harrell
Texas Tech quarterback
Ohio State receiver
Ohio State receiver Ryan McDonald
Ryan McDonald
Darryl Richard
Illinois offensive tackle
Darryl Richards Georgia Tech defensive tackle
Harvard cornerback
Rvan Berrv
Ryan Berry South Dakota State quarterback
scholarship will be increased to $25,000.
Brian Freeman
Casey Gerald
Carnegie Mellon tackle
Casey Gerald Yale cornerback
Quin Harris
Louisiana Tech linebacker
Colorado State linebacker Rvan Kees
Jeff Horinek
St. Cloud State defensive end Alex Mack
For some of the finalists, that scholarship money might be put aside for while.
California center
Greg Micheli
But having grown-up in an NFL family, Brian Robiskite knows planning on a long career in football is no way to ensure a secure future.
Robiskie, the son of former professional running back and longtime coach Terry Robiskie, is projected to be an NFL draft pick.
"You never know what can happen with football, but if you get your degree you always have that to fall back on," said Robiskie, a
Mount Union quarterback
Utah kicker
marketing major with a 3.54 GPA in Ohio State's business school.
"Seeing first hand how the business of the NFL is, it was always something I thought about."
Robiskie credits his parents, especially his mother, with teaching him the importance of education. Mom's rule in the Robiskie home was bad grades equals no football. That was enough to make sure Brian stayed straight.
"I was always too scared that she would end up sitting me," said Robiskie, who has 30 catches and five touchdowns this season for No. 13 Ohio State.
NFL
Senate asks league to allow more broadcasts on free TV
The league has said it provided free broadcasts in the home cities of competing teams. But 13 lawmakers said in a letter this week to Roger Goodell that the NFL is too narrowly interpreting what a home city is.
WASHINGTON — Senators have asked the NFL commissioner to make game broadcasts on the NFL Network available on free television to more fans.
"The policy leaves behind NFL fans across the country simply because they live outside cities to which the NFL has granted franchises," according to the letter made public Wednesday. For example, the NFL does not consider the western Pennsylvania town of
Johnstown part of the Pittsburgh Steelers' home market, the letter said.
The senators want quick action so fans in every market receive free TV access to games played by their closest team or the team it has been historically aligned to. Eight games will air this season on the NFL Network, which is available in less than 40 percent of households. The league is in
a dispute with major cable companies over whether they should carry the channel as part of a basic package.
In a statement, the NFL said the goal was to provide the NFL Network to a national audience, but the "goal has been undercut by several of the largest cable operators."
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