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Peter Crouch was the villain on the night as Real scored four whilst over in Milan, the hosts took a drubbing against Schalke.

If ever there was a case of hero turning villain in football, it’s Peter Crouch. the England striker, who scored the only goal of the previous round as Spurs beat Milan, was sent off for two bookings after just quarter of an hour played at the Bernabeu this evening.

A couple of minutes earlier former Arsenal striker Emmanuel Adebayor had opened the scoring with a header from a corner after being matched at [7.8] on Betfair’s first goalscorer market. the Togo star added a second, also with a header, and there was no way back for the north Londoners who couldn’t cope with Madrid’s passing and movement playing with ten men. Ex-Benfica winger Angel Di Maria scored a third with a wonderful strike from the edge of the box and that man Cristiano Ronaldo rounded things off with a fourth. the Betfair “to qualify” market has pretty much decided there’s no way back for Tottenham with Real trading at 1.02 to go through. Jose Mourinho’s side remain the second-favourites to win but are now into just 4.5 now they are shoo-ins for the semis. Real traded at a high of [1.54] to win the game.

There was even more drama over in Milan where Inter were torn apart by Schalke. Some consider it a minor miracle the Germans have got even this far after a disastrous domestic campaign that has seen them become relegation candidates. A win in Milan would have been surprising enough, especially after going 2-1 down but after trading at [21.0] to win, they went off and scored three to take an astonishing 5-2 lead into the second leg. Schalke are [1.01] to qualify, having traded as high as [4.4] and are [19] to win the competition.

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SARASOTA, Fla. — When Netherlands native Rick VandenHurk was first signed as an unrestricted free agent in 2002, the 6-foot-5 teenager had dreams of reaching the Major Leagues as a catcher.

But it didn’t take long for the Florida Marlins to put the big backstop on the mound and have VandenHurk throw a few baseballs, an experiment that impressed the organization enough to convert him to a pitcher.

“I was also a terrible hitter,” VandenHurk recalled of his position player days.

“The [Marlins] liked the velocity I was getting, and with the size and everything, they said, ‘You know what? Let’s make him a pitcher.’”

The choice was easy, but the road to the Majors has been anything but for VandenHurk. He underwent Tommy John surgery on his right elbow in 2005 and never pitched above Class a until an injury to Marlins starter Ricky Nolasco allowed VandenHurk to make his big league debut in June 2007.

VandenHurk spent the next three seasons bouncing back and forth between the Marlins and their affiliates before being traded to the Orioles at last year’s Trade Deadline. this spring, he finds himself in a difficult situation: out of options and, on paper at least, on the fringe of the team’s rotation and bullpen plans.

“[Bullpen coach Rick Adair] and I have been taking about that a lot,” said pitching coach mark Connor, who has been working with VandenHurk on his body position on the mound.

“In fairness to him, we are going to sit down and talk with him a little more [on making mechanical adjustments]. But do you not do anything and let him try to make the club, or do you make adjustments knowing that he will get better and make the club? So it’s kind of a catch-22.”

Connor said he’s been impressed in his initial viewings of VandenHurk, who went 0-1 with a 4.96 ERA in seven games (one start) last season.

“There’s ability there,” Connor said. “I haven’t seen him pitch in a game, obviously, but I like what I see coming out of his hand. I think there’s more in there.”

Earlier this week, Connor placed a rosin bag under VandenHurk’s feet during his bullpen session to try to prevent him from coming down on his heel too much and better distribute his weight. It’s a practice Baltimore’s new pitching coach said he will use with several pitchers in camp to help with balance, and one that VandenHurk picked up pretty quickly.

“He’s athletic for a big guy; it’s not like all kinds of body parts falling all over the place,” Connor said of VandenHurk, who has been working out in Florida with some of the Marlins’ pitchers since early January.

“He has some aptitude, too, and that’s really big for a pitcher.”

VandenHurk said he is comfortable with the base he’s established on the mound and has just one goal this spring: making the team.

“Obviously that’s going to be either the bullpen or [as] a starter,” said VandenHurk, who hasn’t gotten any indication from manager Buck Showalter about what role he will be used in.

“Whatever it’s going to be, I want to make this team. So we will see how it plays out and what kind of opportunities I am going to get in games and stuff.”

“When I look at him, I go, ‘Starting pitcher,’” Connor said of VandenHurk, who is 8-10 with a 5.94 ERA in 33 career big league starts. “You look at a big strong kid [and] he’s got at couple different pitches, throws fairly hard. The delivery is not that bad to begin with, so obviously wherever our needs are would be where we put him.”

“[He's] had a lot of hamsters running in different directions than the wheels,” Showalter said of VandenHurk’s mechanics and different arm angles. “So we are trying to get those squirrels [to] come to a halt in his career.

“He’s what they look like; he’s what they act like — physically, makeup, everything. He’s a hard worker, great conditioned. He brings all the attributes you look for in a starting pitcher, or a pitcher in general. It just hasn’t happened for him.”

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Devyn Pryor broke two records on Tuesday as the Dartmouth girls cross-country team defeated Bishop Feehan, 25-30, earning a piece of the Old Colony League championship along with Barnstable and Bridgewater-Raynham. Pryor’s time of 19:12 on Friend’s Academy’s 2.97-mile path broke the Dartmouth High records and the course mark set in 2001 by Bishop Feehan’s Cali Chaisson.

Allison Mark took third overall for Dartmouth in 20:34, while Cali Warner (20:38) finished fourth, Mikayla Dreher (22:06) seventh and Devan Leite (22:38) 10th.

The Indians (5-2) run the OCL Meet on Friday at Borderland State Park in Easton.

SOMERSET 19, NEW BEDFORD 40

Running at Somerset, Courtney Neves finished second for the Whalers (1-6), who compete Saturday in the Big 3 meet at Durfee. Elli Bucknell and Julie Gerett finished eighth and ninth, respectively.

FIELD HOCKEY: BARNSTABLE 2, DARTMOUTH 0

Barnstable scored both of its goals in the second half to push the Indians to the brink of missing the tournament, and they will need to win each of their last two games to qualify. Katheryn Lowney played well in net, recording eight saves in the loss. Dartmouth (6-8-2, 3-2-1 OCL) hosts Somerset on Thursday.

WESTPORT 1, DURFEE 1

Jenny Sherman scored the lone goal of the game for Westport off an assist from Kate MacKillop to earn a tie. The Wildcats (6-7-4) will qualify for the tournament for the first time in 10 years with a victory in their regular-season finale when they host Case on Thursday.

SOCCER: DIGHTON-REHOBOTH 3, WAREHAM 1

Tara DiGiantomaso scored the lone goal of the game for Wareham off an assist from Liaghana Stuchlak to give the Vikings an early lead. Dighton-Rehoboth quickly responded, scoring three goals in a two minute span to take a lead they would never relinquish.

Wareham (2-9-4) hosts Fairhaven today.

GNB VOC-TECH 3, CASE 0

Led by a pair of goals from Tori Vargas, GNB Voc-Tech earned a home victory. Brenda Ayala scored the final goal for the Lady Bears off an assist from Charlayne Delgado, while Ana Mendonca and Sydney Mota did a nice job of creating scoring opportunities. Katie Lang recorded five saves for her fourth shutout of the season.

GNB Voc-Tech (4-7-5) hosts Diman today.

SWIMMING: BISHOP STANG 91, MILFORD 65

Kathryn Medeiros was a double-winner for the Spartans, taking first in both the 200 freestyle (2:01.48) and the 100 butterfly (1:00.01). Other winners for Bishop Stang were Kaya Flanagan in the 200 IM (2:34.63), Martha Lopez in the 50 freestyle (28.07), Kate Middleton in the 1 meter diving (231.55), Nikki St. Martin in the 500 freestyle (5:39.95), Lauren Zaknoun in the 100 backstroke (1:10.66) and Kirby Roberts in the 100 breaststroke (1:14.56). The Spartans also won the 200 (Middleton, Allison Pereira, Kara Brown, Medeiros, 1:54.77) and 400 freestyle relays (Olivia Decas, Ellie Blair, Allie Medina, Jill Boyle, 4:09.52).

Bishop Stang (10-2) will host the Southern Conference Championships at UMass Dartmouth on Nov. 4th and 5th.

NOTRE DAME 98, NEW BEDFORD 80

Mara Honohan placed first in the 50 freestyle (27.00) and swam a leg of New Bedford’s winning 200 freestyle relay team (1;56.65) along with Sara Rivard, Lauren Harris and Aubrey Williams. The 1-8 Whalers compete next Thursday and Friday at the Southern Conference Championship.

VOLLEYBALL: FAIRHAVEN 3, APPONEQUET 0

Led by a great game from Kara Charette, Fairhaven won in three games by scores of 25-17, 25-6 and 25-8. Charette went 33-for-35 from the service line with 29 points including 18 straight points in game two with eight aces while also recording nine kills. Kay Mullen recorded 11 kills, Sara Leidhold went 13-for-16 at the net with five kills and Kelsey Perron-Sovik recorded 15 assists to go along with 14 digs.

Fairhaven (15-3, 13-2 SCC) visits Dighton-Rehoboth on Thursday,

BISHOP CONNOLLY 3, OLD COLONY 0

The Cougars (8-9) fell in three games by scores of 25-12, 25-13 and 25-9 at the hands of Bishop Connolly.

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FRANCISTOWN: The Botswana Congress Party Women’s League (BCPWL) is expected to hold its elective national congress on November 6, 2010 in Selibe Phikwe.

According to the BCP publicity secretary Taolo Lucas the congress will elect the new BCP Women’s League Central Committee.

“Lobbying for positions for the women’s body is already underway with many women showing interest to stand for election,” said Lucas.

Lucas said the Women’s League national congress will be graced by the BCP leadership, the BCP youth league, invited non-governmental organisations and women’s organisations.

The BCP Secretary General Dr Kesitegile Gobotswang is the guest speaker at the event.

“Being the Secretary General of the Party, Dr Gobotswang will be expected to raise organisational issues which the women’s body should address to build a vibrant women’s league.”

Meanwhile Lucas has disclosed that his party will hold a leadership forum on November 6-7 2010 at the copper mining town of Selibe-Phikwe.

The leadership forum is a meeting of top BCP leadership which include the central committee members, the regional committees, constituency and wards chairpersons and secretaries, the women’s league and the youth league committees, as well as BCP members of parliament and councillors.

He said issues BCP leadership forum is expected to discuss include mass mobilization, membership recruitment, opposition co-operation and other organizational issues.

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CAMDEN Tigers under-18s team were deserved Football NSW Division One Youth League premiers but couldn’t cap it off with the championship crown on the weekend.

The Tigers went down 2-1 to Fraser Park in extra-time in the grand final at Ron Dine Reserve, Camden South, on Sunday.

While the loss was disappointing, it couldn’t take away from the Tigers’ outstanding and dominant season * 16 wins, two draws and the best attacking (71 goals) and defensive record (23 goals) conceded.

Fraser Park had been their bogey team all season, in head-to-head action having the upper hand with a 2-1 win in the first round and 2-1 in the second match-up.

GALLERY: Division One Youth League Soccer – Under 18s Final: Camden Tigers vs Fraser Park

Fraser Park opened the scoring midway through the first half, but Tigers gathered their strength before half-time with a cross from Matt Trotter finding Dean Stepian who stormed through for the equaliser.

Both teams had to dig deep in extra-time and the Tigers forced Fraser Park to come up with something special to break the deadlock.

A Camden Tigers Soccer Club spokesman said the day proceded without a hitch.

“We hosted five games,” he said. Conditions were perfect throughout the day. . . and the grounds staying immaculate through to the final game, finishing under lights,” he said.

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By Brett Marshall, The Garden City Telegram, Kan.

Aug. 05–Andy Connell and Derek Tolan reside in Denver and suburban Centennial, Colo.

1 Brad Nading/TelegramWes Stonestreet hits a fairway shot on The Golf Club at SouthwindÃ?s No. 2 hole on Wednesday during the first round of the Southwest Kansas Pro-Am. Stonestreet is a Sublette native and shot a 71.

Brad Nading/Telegram Wes Stonestreet hits a fairway shot on The Golf Club at SouthwindÃ?s No. 2 hole on Wednesday during the first round of the Southwest Kansas Pro-Am. Stonestreet is a Sublette native and shot a 71.

They both have fathers who are golf club professionals and they have known each other for years.

More than two months ago, competing in the same Riverton (Wyo.) Open, the two were paired together.

According to both Connell and Tolan, they each played horribly.

On Wednesday, in the opening round of the Southwest Kansas Pro-Am, the two Coloradoans were in the same grouping and came in with identical scores of 4-under-par 71 on The Golf Club at Southwind’s normally demanding layout.

Their rounds left them three shots back of Shawn Stefani’s 64 at Buffalo Dunes, but historically Southwind has played anywhere from one to three shots higher than the Dunes.

Both Connell and Tolan were happy but subdued with their first round efforts on the opening day of the Pro-Am because both of them have not had much success here recently with each tying for 29th a year ago with 54-hole totals of 218, 4-over-par.

“It wasn’t too windy today and that makes all the difference in the world,” Connell said of Southwind. “I love the courses here and the greens were perfect today and I got the ball rolling real good. I just putted real well.”

Connell blistered the front nine at Southwind with a 4-under-par 31, with birdies coming at the par 5s third and fifth holes, the par 3s sixth and ninth, and the par 4 eighth. His lone bogey came on the opening hole, a 468-yard, par 4 that played into an uncommon north wind.

“Everything felt good, I hit a lot of good wedges close and that makes it easier,” Connell said. “When you’re playing good, you expect to be there at the end.”

Connell made one miraculous par save on the 17th hole, a 452-yard, par 4 that played into the north wind. His drive sailed far right into the deep and thick native grasses. When he found the ball, he couldn’t advance it forward so he hit it backward to the nearby 15th fairway. A 5-iron from 200 yards away ended on the front fringe of the green and he knocked in a 40-foot putt for par.

“Just routine,” Connell laughed. “I stole one or two or three shots there. I was pretty darn lucky.”

His iron play was meticulous as he hit 14 of the 18 greens in regulation and came in with 30 putts.

Tolan, meanwhile, rode a hot putter to his 67, taking only 25 putts on the Southwind greens and hit just 12 greens in regulation.

“Without a doubt, it makes the game more fun when everyone is playing well,” Tolan said of being paired with Connell and Clay Devers of Shawnee, who had a 71. “You’re focused and seeing others play well, makes you able to relax and play well, too.”

Tolan had birdies at the third, seventh and ninth holes on the front nine and he added birdies at the 600-yard, par-5, 10th, and the par-4, 14th. At the 10th, he hit a gap wedge to eight feet and on No. 14 nailed a lob wedge to six feet and made both putts. His lone bogey came at the par-3, 16th where he three-putted from 30 feet.

Playing with Connell made the round more comfortable for Tolan, who said he had struggled with his game earlier this summer but has been playing better lately.

“I missed the Monday qualifier (Nationwide Wichita Open) by one shot so I know I’m playing well,” Tolan said. “I’ve enjoyed coming here, you’re playing two top-notch courses. I see Andy a lot and it’s always a bonus to play with him.”

In addition to Connell and Tolan, Blake Trimble of Houston and Tom Gempel, from Parker, Colo., shared low honors at Southwind with 67s. After the opening round, the 40th score was at 71.

Upon completion of today’s second round, the pro field of 105 players will be cut to the low 40 and ties for Friday and Saturday’s final rounds. They will be paired with amateur teams comprised of four players.

The lowest scores of the pro field after 36 holes will play at Buffalo Dunes on Friday and at Southwind on Saturday.

See results in Scoreboard, Page B2.

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Students’ lofty reveries of working as a powerful Wall Street banker or stock trader are now becoming a distinct possibility due to two determined Georgia State students that aid aspiring finance majors in reaching their own “Big Apple” dreams through their free weekly preparation meetings. While it is an unorthodox way to serve the community, their motivations are purely to help mold other students to take on the same opportunities that they were able to take part in.

Georgia State Junior Fred Difre and Senior Terrance Rogers were the first students from Georgia State to gain acceptance into a competitive internship pairing organization called the Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO), which places outstanding students of color in summer-long paid internships with one of the leviathan banks that rest on Wall Street in New York City.

These internships took two  Georgia State students and thrust them in the midst of the revved up atmosphere of the financial elite in New York City for a summer. The SEO organization that they were accepted into is the group that paired these students with the paid internships. For instance, in Rogers’ case, he accepted an internship at Deutsche Bank as an asset management analyst; but since the banks themselves do not have the opportunity to meet the interns prior to their arrival in the city, the SEO has to hold rigorous interviews to find students that are up to par. This is where Difre and Rogers’ advice for students comes in handy.

Prior to Difre and Rogers’ acceptance, the SEO rarely sent recruiters to most of the schools in the Southeast, opting instead to recruit from private and primarily Ivy League institutions. In an attempt to alleviate this disparity in applicant selection, Rogers and Difre created workshops every Saturday at Georgia State that help prepare students to be competitive contenders for this internship opportunity. They have changed the SEO’s selection precedent and have consequently changed the lives of students attending schools in and around the Atlanta area. These prep workshops that they hold are free and open to all.

Rogers and Difre recall memories such as joking around with the CEO of the major banks and getting advice and networking opportunities from other interns whom they looked up to as reasons why that summer internship was vastly different from anything that they had experienced before. In fact, when expressing his nostalgia regarding the impact of his experience as an intern, Difre candidly admitted that once he returned from the internship he felt as though “he was a blind man who was finally able to see.”

This mixture of the urge to share the experience of Wall Street with others plus the desire to see other students from Georgia State join the program has been potent. There have been three Georgia State students accepted into the SEO internship pairing program, and they have had another student who was accepted into the Panther Wall Street program. Students from other schools in or around Atlanta, including Georgia Tech, Morehouse, Emory, and Spelman have attended their meetings as well and have subsequently progressed on to a Wall Street internship or job.

In these meetings, Rogers and Difre work on non-formal and formal interviews, resume review and preparation, 30-second introductions, and general tips regarding how to gain acceptance into the SEO. They also provide suggestions and ideas of organizations to get involved with that make an applicant more competitive. This preparation, they feel, gives them the edge to help students succeed in the application process.

Both Rogers and Difre concede that the interviews are strenuous and take preparation to excel in. Difre and Rogers have been through the process before, so they know how the interviews are structured. This helps in catering each student’s preparation specifically towards succeeding in these formidable interviews. What makes these workshops different from career services, however, is that they are modeled specifically to provide for success in finance, particularly for Wall Street jobs and the SEO internship organization.

When Chris Cameron, a student who was accepted into the SEO program, discussed what he learned from Rogers’ and Difre’s workshops, he recalled a particularly unexpected question from the interview. Cameron noted that at one point while being asked questions, the interviewer placed a dollar bill on the table and asked him to expound on how the dollar affects financial markets. “Without getting practice in the workshops on how to come up with meaningful answers on the spot,” Cameron said, “I don’t think that I could have answered that question successfully.”

Difre and Rogers have dedicated anywhere from two to six hours in a week over the past few months speaking to students in their Saturday workshop meetings preparing them for interviews into this internship organization. While they hold general classes, the job often extends outside of the group workshops. They often end up mentoring the students and providing one-on-one help. Terrence commented that when they have a student who achieves their goals, they “feel like proud parents.”

The experience of embarking on an internship on Wall Street had more to it than one might intially imagine. One of the benefits from their internship is that each week, the major banks such as Goldman and Sachs held seminars that were hosted by the bank’s CEO. Getting a chance to speak with these bank executives and their retinue were particularly inspiring to many of these interns. They provided the impetus for working harder towards their goals, since the idea of success no longer seemed so distant.

Another of the benefits Rogers and Difre noted from working on Wall Street that they want to extend to others is that it has given them tremendous opportunities for networking and access. Often, Difre noted, students such as himself do not have a starting ground to connect with many of the often elite Wall Street workers. Being a part of the SEO is what connects students such as Difre and Rogers to the usually inaccessible world of the Wall Street powerhouses. Now, Difre notes, he “has friends from universities all over the place in the United States that he can get in touch with.”

“Those students,”  Difre notes, he “met through the internship.”

Since Wall Street internships are so unique, their time in New York City has served as a catalyst for other opportunities. For senior Rogers, this means a secured Wall Street job upon graduation and a two week MBA conference at Yale. For Junior Difre, this means a second paid summer internship at Wall Street and a multiplicity of other promising opportunities. As they prepare for the steps into the next part of their life, they remember to reach down to those younger and help prepare them for their own dreams.

While this year’s meetings are waning, Difre and student Cameron, among others, will be taking the reigns to prepare students for their financial internship dreams. If you are a finance student interested in getting advice and help on preparing for an internship with the SEO, contact Terrance Rogers at .

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