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“He’s definitely a leader out there,” outfielder Adam Engel said. “He was one of the guys in the outfield I was able to bounce ideas off of. He points out things that I hadn’t heard before in the outfield I thought were really, really good ideas. He’s been a part of the team since spring training, and losing a guy like that is just tough.”
“I always had the dream, but before (2012), women couldn’t dream of going to the Olympics,” Graham said. “I always wanted to go to the top and be a world champion, but when I saw those Olympics, I saw that must be a pretty great feeling. I just knew I wanted to do it, too.”
The Czech Republic’s Tomáš Satoranský, center, drives as Greece’s Giannoulis Larentzakis defends during the first half of the FIBA men’s Olympic basketball qualifying final at Memorial Arena in Victoria, British Columbia, on July 4, 2021. (Chad Hipolito/AP)
He scored eight straight Phoenix points later in the quarter, hitting a 3-pointer, dancing around Bobby Portis for a layup and hitting another 3. He then fired a pass to Ayton, who was fouled and made both free throws to make it 88-68 with 2:20 left.
“We don’t think mechanically it’s anything that he needs to work on,” Ross said over the weekend. “He needs to get in the zone a little bit more. He feels good, he just needs to get to expecting good outcomes. When things aren’t going well, even with a guy with his track record, you can get down on yourself. Things can start working a little quick.”
Sox outfielders Brian Goodwin and Adam Eaton couldn’t locate a ball hit by Nelson Cruz in the sixth and it fell for a single, giving the Twins runners on first and second with one out. Alex Kirilloff drove in a run with a single, with Cruz advancing to third.
“Right now we’re just thin, and he was the guy that’s here,” Ross said. “Having some length on the back side of a game, we’ll kind of assess as the All-Star break approaches. Things changed really fast from plans last night. So he’s in the bullpen as of right now. If we need some length, we have him down there. And if it goes too long, we’ll try to make a plan for him at that point.”
“It’s well-documented that he’s always been good (batting) from the right side. The left side, he started out trying to hook the ball a little too much, but he walked. And then three weeks ago, we saw him get base hits to left-center and still pull the ball. He was productive. He was hitting in the middle of the lineup and got a lot of big hits for us. Somebody else has to get them now.”
Mason Hill, 13, and his 11-year old brother Grant Hill, of Rockford, cheer on Italy at a watch party July 6 as the team beat Spain to make it to the 2021 European Championship final. The watch party took place in the parking lot of Piazza Italia, a small shopping center that houses Italian specialty businesses. (Bob Chiarito / Pioneer Press)
But where some professional leagues, such as the NFL, NHL and NBA, have greatly reduced enforcement of marijuana rules, with the acknowledgement that the drug does not enhance performance, the Olympic world continues to test for and punish use in some circumstances. According to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, in addition to substances that trigger performance enhancement, the banned list can includes drugs that can pose health risks to athletes or violate the “spirit of sport.”