National LeagueAtlanta 4, Washington 0, 1stWashington 5, Atlanta 2, 2ndL.A. Dodgers 8, N.Y. Mets 5San Francisco 6, Philadelphia 5, 10 inningsPittsburgh 5, Miami 1Cincinnati 6, Milwaukee 2St. Louis 12, Chicago Cubs 0

Houston at Arizona, (n)Colorado at San Diego, (n)

American LeagueDetroit 7, Chicago White Sox 1Texas 9, L.A. Angels 2Baltimore 3, Cleveland 1Kansas City 7, Minnesota 3Seattle 2, Tampa Bay 1Toronto 7, Boston 3

SCOREBOARD CYCLINGBritish rider nearly clinches Tour

With his victory in the individual time trial on Sat-urday, Britain’s Bradley Wiggins nearly clinched the Tour de France overall title heading into today’s final race. Wiggins would be the first British rider to win the crown, a perfect setup for the 2012 London Olympic Games.

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LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England — The ball tumbled over the edge of a pot bunker and appeared to put Adam Scott in the worst spot he had been all day at the British Open.

All he saw was opportunity.From the wet sand right of the

17th green, Scott had to clear two more pot bunkers to reach the green, with the fl ag only fi ve paces from the edge. Scott was thinking about birdie, not trying to save par, so he confi dently told caddie Steve

Williams, “I can handle this.” The shot came out pure, trickled by the cup and settled a foot away.

The more relevant questions are one round away.

Can he handle a four-shot lead, knowing this is a year when no lead appears safe? Can he handle a leaderboard with four major champions among the top six names, including Tiger Woods? Can he handle the wind that is expected to fi nally arrive at Royal Lytham & St. Annes?

Scott takes 4-shot lead into Open final round

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Jerry Price fi gures it’s only a matter of time before Cameron Carrico brings out the braggado-cio.

“There will probably be some-thing,” Price said. “He talks a lot of trash, so we’ll see.”

Price and Carrico shot fi rst-round 66s to lead the professional division of the 76th annual Pepsi/Super Valu Irvin Cobb Champion-ships at Paxton Park Golf Course on Saturday. They have a 1-shot lead over fi ve golfers heading into today’s fi nal round.

The pair were teammates at Murray State and both have since turned pro, but haven’t lost their friendship; Carrico will be a groomsman in Price’s October wedding. Last year, Carrico and Price were part of a three-way tie for second in the Cobb.

“Me and Cam played a million times together, so we’re pretty relaxed playing with each other,” said Price, who had the lowest

score of the pros on the front nine holes with a 3-under par 32. “It seems like we tie all the time, so it’s funny that we tied again to-day.”

Carrico, who turned pro at last year’s Cobb, hasn’t played since making the cut for the May 20 NGA Tour Cherry Blossom Clas-sic where he injured his back. Putting this weekend is his main focus.

“The last hole was my longest putt of the day and it was like 6 feet,” Carrico said. “So that just shows you how well I’ve been put-ting. My speed is just 6 inches too short, so I’ll probably work on that and just enjoy myself.”

Michael Brice, Bradley Farmer, Adam Gary, Britt Pavelonis and John Riegger all came in with scores of 4-under 67 to zap any breathing room Carrico and Price hoped to achieve.

Riegger, a Metropolis native who now hails from Las Vegas and has played in the PGA and NGA tour events, hit a clubhouse low 31 on the back nine, tallying three birdies and an eagle on the par-5 No. 15.

“For me, I played about as bad as I could play today,” said Rieg-ger, who won the 1993 Cobb and hasn’t been back since 1999. “I’m just not used to the slow greens. If I make some putts, I’m not wor-ried about it, to be honest with

Friendly competition: Carrico,Price share lead, friendship

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Cameron Carrico of Owensboro putts at hole No. 9 at the Paxton Park Golf Course on Saturday. Carrico shares the lead in the Pep-si/Super Valu Irvin Cobb Championships professional division with Jerry Price.

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Josh Rhodes of Paducah, an amateur golfer in the Pepsi/Super Valu Irvin Cobb Championships, swings with force at the Paxton Park Golf Course on Saturday.

Pepsi/Super Valu Irvin Cobb Championships

Saturday top scores professional division 1. Cameron Carrico ........33-33—66Jerry Price .....................32-34—663. Michael Brice .............33-34—67Bradley Farmer ...............34-33—67Adam Gary ....................33-34—67Britt Pavelonis ................34-33—67John Riegger ..................36-31—678. Richard Smith ............33-35—689. Lucas Cromeenes ......34-35—69Jamie Frazier .................35-34—69Tyler Mitchell ..................35-34—69Jason Stilley ..................36-33—69

Much of the amateur division leaderboard at the Pepsi/Super-Valu Irvin Cobb Championships has sort of “A Christmas Carol” feel to it with a convergence of for-mer and future members of Mur-ray State’s golf program.

Josh Rhodes of Paducah, who fi red a “stress-free” 66 to become part of a three-way tie for second place, represents the ghost of Rac-ers Past, having worn the school’s colors a little less than a decade ago.

Sharing the spotlight at 66 as the ghosts of Racers Future are two players who will join the pro-gram this fall, Murray native Jor-dan Smith and incoming fresh-man Preston French of Lexington.

“We have a mob of them here,” said Murray State coach Eddie Hunt, who motored around Pax-ton Park throughout the day with the look of a proud father, watch-ing several former and present

Racers establish position in the top 10. “We’ve got a lot of guys playing well.”

Also among the Racers’ contin-gent in the top 10 are Brock Sim-mons and Chris Griffi n, who shot 70 and were part of a three-way tie for eighth. Simmons will be a sophomore for the Racers this fall while Griffi n, who played in the program and is now an assistant coach with the school’s women’s program, followed up last week-

end’s win at the Rolling Hills In-vitational with a score that keeps him within striking distance.

In the midst of it was a surpris-ing 65 by Scott Carpenter, a former player at Tennessee-Martin, Mur-ray’s Ohio Valley Conference rival, that represented the best round of the day in both the amateur and professional divisions. Carpenter, 31, will tee off in the leader group today with French and Rhodes at 1:36 p.m.

Josh Earnest of Lawrenceburg shot a 68 and is in fi fth place, one shot ahead of former Heath team-mates and current college players Eric Straub (Missouri State) and Matt Poat (Northern Kentucky). Local veteran Mark Knecht shot a 70, and a fi ve-way tie at 71 in-cludes nine-time champion Jim-my Brown and Shane Andrus of Murray, who was a placekicker in the National Football League as recently as the 2010 season.

Racer-heavy leaderboard chases Cobb amateur leader

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Pepsi/Super Valu Irvin Cobb Championships

Saturday top scores amateur divi-sion Scott Carpenter ............ 32-33—65Josh Rhodes .................. 33-33—66Jordan Smith ................ 32-34—66Preston French .............. 33-33—66Josh Earnest ................. 32-36—68Matt Poat ...................... 32-37—69Eric Straub .................... 35-34—69Chris Griffi n ................... 35-35—70Brock Simmons ............ 35-35—70Mark Knecht .................. 34-36—70

ST. LOUIS — Jake Westbrook worked seven innings of three-hit ball and the St. Louis Cardinals fi nally backed him — and then some — by tying a 76-year-old major league record with seven doubles in a 12-0 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Saturday night.

Rafael Furcal’s go-ahead single in the seventh turned out to be a mere appetizer as the Cardinals also matched an 86-year-old franchise record for runs in an in-ning. St. Louis totaled 10 hits with

multiple hits by three players in-cluding pinch-hitter Allen Craig, who doubled twice with an RBI.

The Cardinals managed fi ve hits the fi rst six innings before jump-ing on Justin Germano (0-1) and three other relievers. They tied the major record for doubles in an inning by the Boston Bees at St. Louis in the fi rst inning of Game 1 of a doubleheader on Aug. 25, 1936.

They tied the franchise record for runs in an inning set Sept. 16,

Cardinals’ record-tying 7th whips Cubs 12-0

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Adam Scott of Australia plays a shot at Royal Lytham & St. Annes golf club during Satur-day’s third round of the Brit-ish Open Golf Championship at Lytham St. Annes, England. Scott holds a 4-shot lead.

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LONDON — A stateless refugee from South Sudan and three athletes from the Dutch Antilles can compete as indepen-dent athletes under the Olympic fl ag in London, the International Olympic Com-mittee said on Saturday.

IOC spokesman Mark Adams said that the executive board agreed on Saturday to let marathon runner Guor Marial of South Sudan compete at the July 27-Aug. 12 Games.

“We will contact the athlete as soon as possible and expect him to come to Lon-don for the opening ceremony,” Adams said.

Marial is based in Florida. South Sudan is recognized as a state, but the war-torn country has no Olympic structures.

The Dutch Antilles trio of sprinter Churandy Martina, Philip Elhage (shoot-ing) and Rodion Davelaar (swimming) also got the IOC nod.

Located in the Caribbean, the Dutch Antilles was an independent territory of the Netherlands until 2010 and had its own Olympic Committee and team.

The islands are now part of the Nether-lands as special municipalities and have had no National Olympics Committee since 2011. Their athletes will compete within the Dutch team in the future.

Martina was disqualifi ed at the 2008 Games in Beijing after originally fi nish-ing second in the 200 meters behind Ja-maican Usain Bolt.

Athletes from former Yugoslavia com-peted under the Olympic fl ag 1992 in Barcelona, and so did athletes from East Timor at the 200 Games in Sydney.

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you.”Gary, a Bowling Green

golfer who owns the 2005 title, has been more focused on his teaching gigs at Indi-an Hills Country Club and Kenny Perry’s own Country Creek Golf Club, and joked that maybe having lower expectations for the Cobb helped propel him to the top of the list.

While Paxton Park didn’t debut any large changes to the course since the last Cobb, new irrigation on the fairways has added a dif-ferent feel for some of the golfers.

“This is probably the best I’ve seen the golf course ever, and I’ve been play-ing since 2005,” Gary said. “The greens are good. The fairways are great. I was expecting it to be really dry with the drought situations, but it was perfect.”

For Pavelonis, a regu-lar Cobb participant out of Harrisburg, Ill., a 67 means things are getting back to normal.

The spring tornadoes that hit the southern Illinois town destroyed the home

of Pavelonis’ parents and much of his own, and it’s taken some time for golf to resume its place on his list of priorities.

“It’s been so much per-sonal stuff and it wears you down,” Pavelonis said. “It’s been hard to focus.”

Richard Smith, of Dres-

den, Tenn., hit a 3-under 68, while 2011 winner Lu-cas Cromeenes, Jamie Fra-zier, Tyler Mitchell and Jason Stilley came in with scores of 69.

Call Dusty Luthy Shull, a Paducah Sun sports writer, at 270-575-8662.

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LONDON — The athletes and the Olympic torch have arrived in London — and so has the party.

For those keener on ce-lebrity-spotting or dancing the night away than medal counting, the British host city has plenty of action to offer during games time. Away from the track and fi eld, Hollywood royalty such as Brangelina and Ni-cole Kidman will be rub-bing shoulders with diplo-mats and businessmen at the city’s glitziest clubs and grandest historic buildings. Meanwhile, Dizzy Rascal, Snow Patrol and other mu-sicians will keep crowds entertained at outdoor con-certs across the capital — though there won’t be cock-tails and canapes.

The party vibe kicks off Saturday with the sold-out “River of Music” festival, which features six stages along the Thames, each named for a different con-tinent. Musicians from the Americas, for example, are taking over London’s iconic Tower of London, head-lined by a gig by the Scissor Sisters. Other performers from across the globe in-clude Baaba Maal, Wynton

Marsalis and the Kronos Quartet.

One of the most glamor-ous bashes in town will be a charity gala dinner at the Victoria & Albert Museum on Wednesday, two days before the Olympic opening ceremony. Angelina Jolie,

Brad Pitt, Christopher Lee and Bob Geldof are expect-ed to attend the black-tie event, which is organized by the charity Sports for Peace and held in honor of boxing great Muhammad Ali.

Others reportedly attend-ing include Michael Doug-

las, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Prince Harry. The orga-nizers did not immediately confi rm the reports, but judging from the list of ce-lebs sitting on the charity’s committee — George Cloo-ney, Catherine Deneuve and Hilary Swank, to name

a few — there will defi nitely be no shortage of VIPs.

In Soho, London’s buzz-ing restaurant and nightlife district, luxury watchmaker Omega, the Olympics’ of-fi cial time-keeper, will be hosting its own A-list soirees in a specially-refurbished

townhouse until the end of the games on Aug 12. Kid-man is expected at a launch party on July 28, while a space-themed bash on Aug. 2 will feature American as-tronauts Buzz Aldrin, Gene Cernan and Tom Stafford. A publicist said other guests will include swimmer Mi-chael Phelps and Bollywood star Abhishek Bachchan.

Other celebrities will make appearances during the games — but only on video. “Harry Potter” stars Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson, actress Helen Mir-ren and boxing star Amir Khan are among those who recorded a “goodbye” video that will be played on screens as fans leave the Olympic venues at the end of each sports session.

It’s not just the celebrities who know how to party.

The Russians are plan-ning to bring Moscow nightlife to a VIP pavilion in Kensington Gardens, which for the duration of the Olympics will be home to all things Russian. Not on the guest list?

“Russia Park,” as it is called, will be free to en-ter during the day, and the public can enjoy the coun-try’s food, music, or have a go at ice curling.

Celebs descending on London for Olympic bashesBY SYLVIA HUIAssociated Press

Associated Press

The sun sets behind the Tower Bridge with a display of Olympic rings on Saturday in London. With the Olympic Torch finally in town, London is gearing up for the 2012 London Olympics which opens July 27.

Also at 71 are Paducahans Nick Jones (Northern Ken-tucky) and Ryne Burnett (Lindsey Wilson) and Dan-iel Taylor of Princeton, who posted the best score in the junior division.

Rhodes has only recently seen his game come around after breaking his hand in a snowboarding accident in February. He missed the cut at the Kentucky State Ama-teur and fi nally had a break-through last week, fi nishing in a tie for second at Rolling Hills.

“It’s the fi rst bogey-free

round I’ve ever played here,” said Rhodes, who carded an eagle on No. 15 with a driver and 8-iron that gave him “a putt my mother would’ve made.”

Smith was the high school regional champion for Mur-ray in 2010, then spent his freshman year at Southeast-ern University, an NAIA col-lege in Florida, before elect-ing to transfer to Murray State for the upcoming sea-son. French, who prepped at Lexington Henry Clay and had a pair of top-20 fi n-ishes in state 2010 and 2011 state tournaments, will en-roll at Murray State this fall.

Defending champion Kody Alexander fi nished with a 76.

About the only prominent Racer who was absent was two-time Kentucky State Amateur champion Patrick Newcomb, who had a spot in the tournament fi eld but missed the event because he was competing in the Southern Amateur in Little Rock, Ark. Newcomb fi n-ished 14th in the Southern Amateur, which concluded on Saturday.

Call Joey Fosko, a Paducah Sun sports writer, at 270-575-8661.

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Amateur Division65: Scott Carpenter (33-32)66: Preston French (33-33), Josh Rhodes (33-33),

Jordan Smith (32-34)68: Josh Earnest (32-36)69: Matt Poat (32-37), Eric Straub (35-34)70: Chris Griffi n (35-35), Mark Knecht (34-36),

Brock Simmons (35-35)71: Shane Andrus (35-36), Jimmy Brown (36-35),

Ryne Burnett (36-35), Nick Jones (36-35), *Daniel Taylor (36-35)

72: Roy Boisture (36-36), Tyler Brown (36-36), Ben Simpson (35-37), Sammy Thompson (35-37), Carson Ward (35-37), Hunter York (37-35)

73: Mike Shelbourne (35-38)74: Michael Bevis Jr. (39-35), Seth Blann (36-38),

Jeff Chandler (38-36), Jason Goins (36-38), Jonathan Martin (38-36), Derek Riley (37-37), Nick Thompson (34-40), *Matthew Zakutney (38-36)

75: Matt Armstrong (38-37), Daniel Harper (35-40), Josh Jones (35-40)

76: Kody Alexander (38-38), Buddy Bryant (37-39), Adam Butler (38-38), Trenton Hillis (35-41), Mason Jacobs (38-38), Dayton Jones (40-36), Rick Loyd (35-41), Andrew Mitchell (37-39), James Wistrom (36-40)

77: *Wes Averill (40-37), Hubert Clemmer (39-38), Tommy Fike (39-38), Parker Page (37-40), Wade Thompson (40-37)

78: Bobby Godwin (40-38), *Joey Mayo (38-40), Neal Millay (39-39), David Rambo (38-40), Matt Scott (39-39), Chris Thurman (40-38)

79: Judson Brewer (40-39), Kerry Creason (41-38), Mitchell Grooms (40-39), Kevin Westerfi eld (41-38)

80: Bo Brien (39-41), *Lance Davis (40-40), Ste-phen Gallimore (37-43), Chad Leatherwood (40-40), Joe Scholl (44-36), Scott Sinor (42-38), Eli Towery (38-42)

81: Josh Burks (40-41), *Marc Cox (39-42), Na-thaniel Hantle (44-37), Jordan Jansco (42-39), David Stroup (43-38)

82: Bobby McAllister (46-36), *Dustin Schultz (40-

42)83: *Fant Carpenter (38-45), Michael Hogancamp

(40-43)84: Ryan Mitchell (42-42), Zachary Rambo (40-44),

*Brandon Roberson (43-41), Travis Thompson (38-46)

85: Craig Niemeyer (42-43)86: Kyle Landrum (42-44), Ben Godwin (43-44),

Kent Gregory (39-48), Austin Smith (40-47)

Professional Division66: Cameron Carrico (33-33); Jerry Price (32-34)67: Michael Brice (33-34); Bradley Farmer (34-33);

Adam Gary (33-34); Britt Pavelonis (34-33); John Riegger (36-31)

68: Richard Smith (33-35)69: Lucas Cromeenes (34-35); Jamie Frazier (35-

34); Tyler Mitchell (35-34); Jason Stilley (36-33)70: Mark Faulkner (34-36); Ben Fuqua (34-36);

Danny Lewis (36-34); Nick Newcomb (35-35)71: Eddie Carmichael (35-36); Michael Craft (36-

35); Chris Erwin (35-36); Hunter Ford (36-35); Kyle Hosick (36-35); Rob Long (36-35); John Mullendore (33-38); Kyle Reddington (37-34); Bryan Shumate (37-34)

72: Richie Head (37-35); Kevin Jones (33-39); Mark Mallard (35-37); Kyle Ramey (36-36); Andrew Stephens (35-37)

73: Rick Cochran (37-36); Jason Gandy (39-34); Pat Nanney Jr (38-35); Alex Wright (36-37)

74: Jordan Blann (36-38); Ryan Britt (36-38)75: Brian Belden (36-39)76: Jon Stanely (36-40)77: Jeff Gumm (37-40); Nathan Wolfe (36-41)78: Lee Childress (38-40); Bobby Pavelonis (39-

39); Duane Withrow (41-37); Griffi n Wood (41-37)79: Alex Volpenhein (42-37)80: Jan Jansco Jr. (42-38)83: Cody Martin (43-40)85: Tyler Wilson (39-46)93: John Willoughby (45-48)

Irvin Cobb Championship scores

Irvin Cobb Championships tee times* Professional player

6:24 a.m. – Kent Gregory, Austin Smith, *John Willoughby. 6:33 – Ben Godwin, Kyle Landrum, Craig Niemeyer. 6:42 – Zach Rambo, Brandon Roberson, Travis Thomp-son, 6:51 – Fant Carpenter, Mi-chael Hogancamp, Ryan Mitchell.

7 a.m. – *Jan Jansco Jr., *Cody Martin, *Tyler Wilson. 7:09 – Bob-by McAlister, Dustin Schultz, Davis Stroup. 7:18 – Marc Cox, Nathan-iel Hantle, Jordan Jansco. 7:27 – Josh Burks, Scott Sinor, Eli Tow-ery. 7:36 – Lance Davis, Stephen Gallimore. 7:54 – Bo Brien, Chad Leatherwood, Joe Scholl.

8:03 a.m. – Kerry Creason, Mitchell Grooms, Kevin Wester-fi eld. 8:12 – Judson Brewer, Chris Thurman. 8:21 – Neal Millay, David Rambo, Matt Scott. 8:30 – *Alex Volpenhein, *Duane Withrow, *Griffi n Wood. 8:39 – Bobby God-win, *Bobby Pavelonis. 8:48 – Joey

Mayo, Parker Page, Wade Thomp-son, 8:57 – Wes Averill, Hubert Clemmer, Tommy Fike.

9:15 a.m. – *Lee Childress, *Jeff Gumm, *Nathan Wolfe. 9:24 – Rick Loyd, Andrew Mitch-ell, James Wistrom. 9:33 – Tren-ton Hillis, Mason Jacobs, Dayton Jones. 9:42 – Kody Alexander, Buddy Bryant, Adam Butler. 9:51 – *Brian Belden, *Jordan Blann, *Jon Stanley.

10 a.m. – Matt Armstrong, Daniel Harper, Josh Jones. 10:09 – Derek Riley, Nick Thompson, Matthew Zakutney. 10:18 – Jeff Chandler, Jason Goins, Jonathan Martin, 10:27 – *Ryan Britt, *Pat Nanney Jr., *Alex Wright. 10:36 – *Rick Cochran, *Jason Gandy, *Andrew Stephens. 10:54 – *Kevin Jones, *Mark Mallard.

11:03 a.m. – *Richie Head, *Kyle Raney, *Bryan Shumate. 11:12 – Michael Bevis Jr., Seth Blann, Mike Shelbourne. 11:21 –

Sammy Thompson, Carson Ward, Hunter York. 11:30 – *Rob Long, *John Mullendore, *Kyle Redding-ton. 11:39 – *Chris Erwin, *Hunt-er Ford, *Kyle Hosick. 11:48 – Roy Boisture, Tyler Brown, Ben Simpson. 11:57 – Ryne Burnett, Nick Jones, Daniel Taylor.

12:06 p.m. – *Eddie Carmi-chael, *Michael Craft, *Nick New-comb. 12:24 – *Mark Faulkner, *Ben Fuqua, *Danny Lewis. 12:33 – Shane Andrus, Jimmy Brown, Brock Simmons. 12:42 – Chris Griffi n, Mark Knecht, Eric Straub. 12:51 – *Jamie Frazier, *Tyler Mitchell, *Jason Stilley.

1 p.m. – *Michael Brice, *Lu-cas Cromeenes, *Richard Smith. 1:09 – *Bradley Farmer, *Adam Gary, *Britt Pavelonis. 1:18 – *Cameron Carrico, *Jerry Price, *John Riegger. 1:27 – Josh Ear-nest, Matt Poat, Jordan Smith. 1:36 – Scott Carpenter, Preston French, Josh Rhodes.

ALLIE DOUGLASS | The Sun

Jerry Price of Louisville, a pro golfer in the Pepsi/Super Valu Irvin Cobb Championships, contemplates his putt at hole No. 9 at Paxton Park Golf Course on Saturday. Price shares the first-round lead with Cameron Carrico with a 5-under 66.

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JOLIET, Ill. — Chicago-land Speedway is about the closest thing Danica Pat-rick has to a home track in NASCAR.

Although the 1.5-mile oval on the outskirts of Chicago’s southwest sub-urbs didn’t play a part in her early racing career — it didn’t open until 2001 — it’s only about 100 miles away from her hometown of Rockford, Ill.

That means she’ll have plenty of family and friends here for Sunday’s NASCAR Nationwide race.

“As a kid, I loved going into the city, downtown Chicago,” Patrick said be-fore Saturday’s practice. “It’s a beautiful place. I know we’re a little bit away from there, but I’ve got some friends coming out to the track this weekend, so it’ll be a couple extra peo-ple than normal. But it’s close to home, and that’s good, and I’ll see a few fa-miliar faces.”

And based on her 10th-place run last June, she’ll also have a shot at a pretty good fi nish. Patrick was second-fastest in Saturday afternoon’s fi nal practice session.

As Patrick continues her transition from IndyCar to NASCAR, she said she’s most comfortable on inter-mediate-length tracks with

banked turns such as Chi-cagoland.

Although racing a stock car is much different than racing an IndyCar at any track, Patrick said the way a stock car handles on a track such as Chicagoland is the most similar sensa-tion to what she experi-enced in Indy racing.

In addition to running a full Nationwide Series schedule this season, she’s also running part-time in the Sprint Cup Series. She recently added a track that’s similar to Chicago-land — Kansas Speedway — to her Sprint Cup sched-ule.

“For me, I feel like mile-and-a-half, bigger tracks, and the higher-grip tracks of those, I feel like there’s

just a little bit more of a similarity to where I came from,” Patrick said. “With the way that it loads up in the corner and the way that you can feel car pick up G-forces in the corner and you can feel the (sus-pension) load. As opposed to the slippery or fl atter tracks, slower tracks.”

Patrick acknowledges that she isn’t yet as com-fortable at short tracks or tracks without banking. But she said she felt better when Kasey Kahne, a fel-low driver from an open-wheel background, told her that he had a tough time learning fl at tracks as well — not that it showed much last week, when Kahne won the Sprint Cup Series race at New Hampshire.

Patrick hopes for another good run at Chicagoland

BY CHRIS JENKINSAssociated Press

LYTHAM St. ANNES, England — The last time Brandt Snedeker had this kind of a round when it re-ally mattered, he sobbed into a towel after blowing his chance at a green jacket at the Masters.

He fi nished this time with a smile on his face, still in the hunt in the British Open after refusing to let another wayward round get away from him like it did four years ago at Augusta Na-tional.

Two birdies in the fi nal three holes can do a lot for a

guy’s frame of mind.“It’s just kind of one of

those things where you’ve got to fi nd out if you have some guts or don’t,” Sne-deker said. “I could have packed up and gone home today, but I didn’t.”

Snedeker’s 3-over 73 got him a date with Tiger Woods in the next-to-last group, within shouting dis-tance of the lead held by Adam Scott.

Not exactly where he pictured himself entering the day after two rounds of playing bogey-free golf at Royal Lytham & St. Annes. But good enough to get a

shot at the claret jug should he get off to a fast start in the fi nal round from four shots behind.

“I still have a chance,” Snedeker said. “This course is not playing easy. I showed that today. If you don’t keep the ball in play, you’re going to struggle, and I did not do that today. So you never know what might happen.”

What happened Saturday might have crushed Snede-ker just a few years ago. The fact it didn’t showed a lot about his maturation as a golfer and a competitor.

He led the Masters early in the fi nal round in 2008

only to balloon to a fat 77 that left him disconsolate outside the media center. He stood next to a golf cart, buried his head in towel, and had a good cry before explaining how it all went so wrong so fast.

The image of him break-ing down won support from a lot of fans, including country music star Vince Gill, who told him: “It’s OK. Life goes on.”

There were plenty of rea-sons to think about shed-ding a few tears Saturday, including a bad break on the sixth hole that forced Snedeker to play a shot

backward from the green-side bunker before fi nally making bogey. He found himself often in some of the 206 bunkers that litter Royal Lytham, missed short puts and fought his swing the entire round.

After shooting 66-64 the fi rst two rounds and not coming close to even sniff-ing a bogey through his fi rst 40 holes, he made six over the stretch of the next 10 holes.

“It’s just kind of what I’ve been doing so well I did so poorly today. That’s why it was frustrating,” Snedeker said. “I didn’t hit the ball

very solidly. I didn’t putt the ball very well. Just one of those days where you shake your head and wonder what you’re doing out there, and I hate those.”

Snedeker, who began the round with a one-shot lead over Scott, was six shots back and fading fast when he made only his second birdie of the day on the 16th hole.

He fi nished the round off with a 30-footer for birdie on the 18th hole and broke out in a wide smile before cheering fans packed into the giant grandstands sur-rounding the fi nal green.

Snedeker hopes for happier finish at British OpenBY TIM DAHLBERG

Associated Press

“I’m just happy to be in this position,” Scott said. “To be honest, I’m really ex-cited about tomorrow.”

Scott has never had a bet-ter chance to end his long wait for a major — and he owes much of that to his long putter. He stayed in the game early with two key par saves, pulled away with three birdies around the turn and was solid at the end Saturday for a 2-un-der 68 and a four-shot lead over Graeme McDowell and Brandt Snedeker.

It’s the fourth time in the last nine majors that a play-er had a four-shot lead with one round to go. Rory McIl-roy at the 2011 Masters is the only player who didn’t win. Scott has been so steady all week that he has put himself in position to become only the fourth Open champion with all rounds in the 60s.

“It was all pretty solid stuff, considering the cir-cumstances and how much trouble there is on this golf course,” Scott said.

Scott narrowly missed a 20-foot birdie putt on the fi nal hole that would have given him a share of the 54-hole Open scoring record. He settled for 11-under 199 and will play in the fi nal group with McDowell, who had a 67 to get into the fi nal group for the second straight time at a major.

Snedeker, who went from a one-shot lead to a six-shot defi cit in seven holes, bird-ied two of his last three holes to salvage a 73.

Right behind them were three major champions, starting with the guy who has won 14 of them. Woods recovered from a sloppy start and was within three shots of the lead on the front nine until Scott pulled away. Woods missed a short par putt on the 15th and didn’t give himself many good looks at birdie on the back nine for a 70, leaving him fi ve shots behind. Woods has never won a major when trailing going into the last

round.Three-time major cham-

pion Ernie Els was solid in his round of 68 and was six back, along with former Masters champion Zach Johnson, who had a 66.

Even so, the biggest chal-lenge might be the weather. If the forecast holds true — and there’s been no reason to believe that — the greatest defense of links golf could fi nally arrive with wind pro-jected to gust up to 25 mph.

“It will be in Adam’s hands tomorrow if the condi-tions are as straightforward as they have been the last few days,” McDowell said. “Throw a bit of wind across this course like perhaps they are forecasting, he will have to go and work a lot harder, and he will have to go win it.

“He’s going to have to go win it anyway, for sure.”

McDowell was seven shots behind as he walked up to the 13th green and found three birdies coming in to get into the last group, just as he was at Olympic Club last month in the U.S. Open, where he was one putt away from forcing a playoff.

Snedeker opened this championship by playing 40 holes without a bogey, and then he couldn’t buy a par. He had to blast backward out of a bunker, chunked a pitch shot from the fairway, missed short putts and was reeling.

Snedeker rolled in a birdie on the 16th and stretched out his arms in mock won-der, and then fi nished with a birdie that could bode well for Sunday.

“It’s just one of those things where you’ve got to fi nd out if you have some guts or don’t,” he said. “I could have packed up and gone home today, but I didn’t.”

Scott was becoming a for-gotten star until he switched to the long putter in Febru-ary of last year, and it has been the biggest reason for the turnaround — his run-ner-up at the Masters last year, winning his fi rst World Golf Championship at Fires-

tone, and now on the cusp of his fi rst major.

Showing nerves on the opening tee, he hit into a bunker and played a beauti-ful shot from the back of the wet sand to 8 feet, holing the putt for par. Scott made an-other par putt from the same distance on the third hole. And in the middle of his run of birdies — including a 30-foot putt on the eighth — he escaped with par on the 10th hole by making one from 18 feet.

“To make a nice putt like that on the fi rst and make par is obviously very set-tling,” Scott said. “And then to do the same thing on 3, that’s been a hole that I haven’t parred this week. From there on, I was very settled into the round and started hitting fairways and greens.”

He played it safe on the back nine, giving himself a few good looks, but mostly making sure he didn’t get into position for big num-bers.

“That’s what I felt I need-ed to do,” Scott said. “I didn’t need to take any risks out there.”

The only drama left at the end of the round was the size of Scott’s lead and whether Woods could get into the fi nal group for another re-union with Williams, the caddie he fi red last summer in a split that remains acri-monious.

McDowell took care of that with a late surge, start-ing with birdies on the 13th and 14th holes, and a 15-foot birdie putt on the 17th.

“I kind of felt the tourna-ment perhaps slipping away from me a little bit and re-ally had to dig deep for some patience,” McDowell said. “From about the 14th tee on-wards, it’s probably about as good as I’ve swung the club all week.”

Snedeker’s bogey-free streak — the longest to start a major championship since at least 1995 — ended with a three-putt from just short of the fi fth green, and it spi-raled from there.

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Adam Scott of Australia chips onto the third green at Royal Lytham & St. Annes golf club during Saturday’s third round of the British Open Golf Championship at Lytham St. Annes, England. Scott retook the overall lead in the tournament by four shots with a 68.

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ST. LOUIS — General manager John Mozeliak said the St. Louis Cardinals will be buyers at the trade deadline despite a slow start to the second half of the sea-son.

The World Series cham-pions came into Saturday’s game against the Cubs fi ve games back in the NL Cen-tral at 48-45. Last year they were 49-44 at the same point, then won the NL wild card on the fi nal day of the season before upsetting the Phillies, Brewers and Rang-ers.

Mozeliak said there is pay-roll fl exibility for the short and long term but indicates

the team will most likely seek bullpen upgrades. The relievers were a collective 9-15 with a 4.37 ERA and 14 blown saves in 35 chances.

Mozeliak won’t comment on rumors of a deal for ei-ther of the Cubs starters ex-pected to be on the market, Ryan Dempster and Satur-day starter Matt Garza. He wasn’t opposed to trading inside the division, as long as the Cardinals weren’t shipping a top prospect who might haunt them for sev-eral seasons.

The GM referenced last summer’s deal that sent for-mer top prospect Colby Ras-mus to the Blue Jays that brought starter Edwin Jack-son and lefty reliever Marc

Rzepczynski in a three-team trade, as one that made more sense.

“It’s one thing when you do a trade with, say, Toron-to, where it’s sort of out of sight, out of mind, vs. you’re going to see somebody 16 times a year,” Mozeliak said.

The rotation has been strong, even with Chris Car-penter out for the season. Lefty Jaime Garcia is ex-pected back in mid-August and heads to Jupiter, Fla., Sunday to start a rehab stint. There are durabil-ity concerns, with Adam Wainwright coming off re-constructive elbow surgery and Lance Lynn a fi rst-time starter.

“It’s not overstated. It’s

certainly not something we’re going to ignore or run from,” Mozeliak said, before adding, “Right now both guys appear to be strong, stronger.”

The emergence of rookie Joe Kelly, who’s 1-2 but with a 2.75 ERA in seven starts, has lessened the need for starting pitching.

“Our starters have been great,” Mozeliak said. “Who are you really bouncing out, and how are you improv-ing?”

The offense has been more problematic despite leading the NL with a .273 average and 445 runs, scoring three or fewer runs every game of a 1-5 trip coming out of the break.

Cards GM says St. Louis will buyBY R.B. FALLSTROM

Associated Press

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COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame shortstop Ozzie Smith said he “passed the torch” to Barry Larkin on the fi nal day of the 1996 season, Smith’s last, when Larkin and the Cincinnati Reds played in St. Louis. That torch offi cially will be accepted Sunday when Larkin becomes the fi rst player who was exclusively a shortstop to be enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame since Smith in 2002.

The late Ron Santo, elected through a veter-ans’ committee process, also will be honored. And normally, this day marks the start of speculation on what will happen in De-cember in the election by the Baseball Writers’ Asso-ciation of America for the Hall of Fame class of 2013, but that conversation be-gan long ago. This will be the fi rst year of eligibility for some prominent play-ers associated with base-ball’s steroids era, includ-ing Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds and Sammy Sosa, who will join such other newcomers on the ballot as 3,000-hit man Craig Big-gio, Mike Piazza and Curt Schilling.

Clemens and Bonds, who have been part of fed-eral trials that ended in lit-tle or no punishment, are the most common subjects of conjecture.

How would the Hall of Fame handle it if either or both were elected? How many Hall of Famers who customarily attend the cer-emonies would stay away, as some have pledged in recent years? Will the writ-ers even vote for these

players?Hall of Fame president

Jeff Idelson said: “The writers hold the keys to the elections. We’re very comfortable with the rules we’ve put forth. Whoever the writers select, if any-one, we’ll honor them, and they’ll be represented just like anyone else in the Hall of Fame gallery. You’re either a Hall of Famer or you’re not.”

No “steroid era” label will be attached to any such inductee.

“When you walk through the plaque gallery, you see that we don’t discern any-where between different eras of baseball and I don’t see any reason why we would start today,” Idelson said, who noted he hadn’t heard “huge” sentiment lately about resident Hall of Famers not showing up if a new one with a fairly tarnished image would be inducted.

“Having the mantel of Hall of Famer supercedes any one point in time or any one event, and I feel that our guys take that role seriously and love com-ing back to Cooperstown,” Idelson said.

Smith, who did his an-nual fundraiser — he starts double plays with donors at $600 or $800 a pop — for the Hall of Fame Mu-seum’s education program Friday morning, said he didn’t mind passing the torch to Larkin.

“You give people credit when they’re good at what they do, and he certainly was one of the people who was good at what he did,” said Smith. “We played shortstop differently, but he was a great player none-theless.”

Next Hall class faces steroids uncertainty

BY RICK HUMMELMcClatchy-Tribune news service

Calipari keeps eyes on potential recruits

LEXINGTON — John Calipari has been keeping his eye on potential recruits at this week’s Nike Peach Jam in South Carolina.

The Lexington Herald-Leader reports 2014 star An-drew Wiggins has laid claim to the title “best player in high school basketball” and the University of Ken-tucky coach has seen just about every minute.

But Calipari has also been paying special attention to 2013 wing James Young and 2014 point guard Tyus Jones. Young scored 34 points and made five of six three-point attempts in Saturday’s morning ses-sion. He added 12 rebounds and seven assists.

Jones has cemented his place as the No. 1 point guard in the class of 2014 and had 24 points and nine assists in the Saturday morning session. Jones says he has an offer from UK.

— Associated Press

UK introduces football ticket mini-packages

LEXINGTON — The University of Kentucky has in-troduced new football season ticket mini-packages of three and four games.

UK spokesman Tony Neely told the Lexington Her-ald-Leader the packages are meant to be an economi-cal option for fans who can’t afford season tickets or who live out of town and can’t make it to every home game.

The four-game packages include two Southeastern Conference games and two non-conference games.

The three-game packages include either the South Carolina or Georgia game and either the Mississippi State or Vanderbilt game plus one non-conference game.

A review of season ticket sales since 2003, found the most renewals came in 2009 when UK reported 56,440. Last season’s 48,405 was the fewest renew-als in that time frame.

— Associated Press

Bird’s back and US women rout Croatia

ISTANBUL — Sylvia Fowles scored 15 points and Candace Parker added 14 to lead a balanced U.S. of-fense in the Americans’ 109-55 win over Croatia in an exhibition game Saturday.

The contest marked the return of Sue Bird to the team. She left the women’s basketball squad Sunday after the death of her stepfather Dennis and missed the team’s exhibition wins over Brazil and Britain.

Bird got to Istanbul early Saturday morning, but didn’t look jet-lagged at all. She didn’t start, but en-tered the game four minutes in.

She finished with eight points and five assists in 19 minutes.

— Associated Press

Wiggins all but clinches Tour de France

CHARTRES, France — For Bradley Wiggins, the champagne on the Champs-Elysees is about to flow.

He all but locked up the Tour de France title with a tour-de-force performance to win the final time trial — putting him on the cusp of becoming the first Briton to win cycling’s showpiece race.

Wiggins blew away the field in Saturday’s race against the clock in Stage 19, his second Tour victory this year in a time trial, his specialty.

“I really wanted to go out there and finish with a bang, and fortunately I was able to do that,” said Wig-gins, noting he realized the breadth of emotion when he spotted his mechanic in tears.

Even before the Tour started, Wiggins was the fa-vorite. The 32-year-old rider took the yellow jersey in Stage 7. Then came questions about the unity of his Sky Team, pre-race preparations and his ability to get up mountains — all of which he put to rest.

There was also the absence of two-time Tour cham-pion and cycling superstar Alberto Contador, who is serving a doping ban.

That led many to wonder whether Wiggins was really the sport’s best.

Wiggins has been vocal in his criticism of doping in cycling and said the sport may be changing after the sport’s governing body put tough controls in place.

— Associated Press

1926, against the Phillies, in the third inning of the opener of a doubleheader in Philadelphia.

Cubs starter Matt Garza was taken out after three scoreless innings with cramping in his right tri-ceps, an injury that wasn’t obvious and prompted speculation that he had been traded.

The Cubs added a bit of intrigue, waiting until the bottom of the sixth to an-nounce the injury and the fact X-rays were negative.

Germano got unlimited warmups in the fourth, an indication he was entering because of an injury or ejec-tion, although the rule book also allows for an unspeci-fi ed sudden emergency. Germano allowed a run in three-plus innings before the roof caved in on the Cubs.

James Russell gave up six runs on four hits in two-thirds of an inning. Manuel Corpas gave up four runs without getting an out, sur-rendering three doubles and a walk.

Previously, the Cubs hadn’t allowed more than six runs in a single inning. The Cardinals topped their previous season best of eight runs April 27 against the Brewers.

Westbrook (8-8) escaped a bases-loaded jam in the fi rst, falling behind 3-0 in the count against Geo-vany Soto before inducing a groundout. The sinker-baller permitted only two baserunners his last six in-nings, a leadoff single by David DeJesus in the third and a walk by Luis Valbue-na in the fi fth, and neither of them made it second.

NOTES: Garza is 2 for 30 at the plate with 23 strike-outs after fanning in the sec-ond. ... Soto is 0 for 5 with the bases loaded. ... Bryan LaHair had two strikeouts and a walk against West-brook after entering the game 3 for 3 with a homer against the right-hander. ... The Cubs have lost 12 of their last 16 in St. Louis. ... The fi rst two games of the series were sold out, with attendance of 43,424 the Cardinals’ 16th sellout over-all.

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St. Louis Cardinals’ Rafael Furcal (15) celebrates with teammate Allen Craig after they both scored on a triple by Skip Schumaker during a 12-run seventh inning against the Chicago Cub on Saturday in St. Louis.

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BY LINDA ROBERTSONMcClatchy Newspapers

Triathletes swimming in HydePark’s Serpentine. Volleyball play-ers diving onto a makeshift beachat the Horse Guards Parade.Marathoners running pastBuckingham Palace. Tennis starsnot wearing white at Wimbledon.

Athletes will transform iconiclandmarks into sporting venues atthe London Olympics, a summerspectacle that promises to be richin pomp, circumstance and histo-ry.

Expect to see Queen ElizabethII waving from the royal box dur-ing opening ceremonies July 27.And perhaps the Rolling Stonesperforming at closing ceremoniesAug. 12.

Who will light the cauldronflame? Sir Steve Redgrave? DameKelly Holmes? Roger Bannister?Daley Thompson? DerekRedmond and his father? Or itcould be a young athlete symbol-izing London’s theme — “inspirea generation.”

Much stickier questions con-front the 2012 Games. Securityhas been a concern since July 6,2005, when London upset Paris inthe bidding to be host. Less than24 hours later, celebration turnedto horror when suicide terrorists’bombs ripped through three sub-way trains and a double-deckerbus, killing 56 people.

Transport worries are growingin traffic-choked London, wherethe creaky Tube system experi-enced yet another breakdown inMay when a train stalled under-ground on the Jubilee Line, amain Olympic artery, and passen-gers had to walk through the tun-nels to safety.

As for competition among the10,500 athletes from 204 nationsin 26 sports, can the U.S. keep itsplace at the top of the medalstable, or will China — which sur-passed the U.S. in the gold medalcount four years ago — assert itsmight? How many golds willswimmer Michael Phelps win inhis last Olympic hurrah? WillJamaican sprinter Usain Boltbreak any of his world records?How will the audiences react towomen’s boxing and SaudiArabia’s insistence on an all-maleteam? Will the home team —known by its self-deprecating pub-lic for excellence in the “sitting-down sports” of cycling, rowing,sailing and equestrian — make

Great Britain proud?London is the first city to host

the modern Olympics three times.In 1908, the games were reas-signed to London from Romeafter Mt. Vesuvius erupted.Following 12 years without theOlympics, the post-war 1948“Austerity Games” were held inLondon. Athletes stayed in mili-tary housing, Germany and Japanwere banned, and Bob Mathiasand Fanny Blankers-Koen werebig winners.

Sandwiched between the 2008Beijing and 2016 Rio de JaneiroGames, London has also used theOlympics as a lever for redevelop-ment. The former industrial waste-land and garbage dump of EastLondon and Stratford have foundnew life. The 500-acre OlympicPark, hub of the Games, is dottedwith birdhouses and bat boxes.Surrounding neighborhoods ofartists, immigrants and street mar-kets are blossoming.

Sport venues will be an assort-ment of historic, temporary andnewly constructed facilities. Somewill be taken down and moved,others downsized and many con-verted for community use. Theemphasis is on practical sustain-ability and avoidance of the whiteelephants that have saddled previ-ous hosts with enormous debt andlittle-used arenas.

“Our vision is to use the powerof the Games to inspire change inthis country,” said Sebastian Coe,the gold-medal-winning middle

distance runner and formerParliament member who ledLondon’s bid to the finish line.

The sleek aquatics venue willbe the stage for the world’s topswimmers and divers, includingswimmer Rebecca Adlington anddiver Tom Daley of Great Britain.Michael Phelps won’t win eightgold medals again because he’sswimming in only seven events.But if he wins three medals, hewill supplant Soviet gymnastLarisa Latynina, who won arecord 18 medals from 1956-1964,as the most decorated Olympian.

The rivalry that’s brewed foryears between Phelps and RyanLochte will be one of the mosttantalizing of the Games. Lochtebeat Phelps in two races at the2011 world championships, the200-meter freestyle and 200 indi-vidual medley. That seemed tomotivate Phelps, who said he hasintensified his work ethic in thepast year and is ready to peak forhis Olympic finale.

Meanwhile, the Americanwomen — led by Missy Franklin,Natalie Coughlin, Rebecca Soniand Dana Vollmer — look strongenough to upstage rival Australia.

On the track, the rivalrybetween Jamaica and U.S. sprint-ers has been intensifying for eightyears. The Americans failed towin gold in the 100, 200 or the400-meter relay in 2008 whileBolt put on a show with worldrecords in the 100, 200 and sprintrelay. He said he wants to become“a legend” by winning three moregolds, although his coach said itmay be too chilly for record times

and training partner Yohan Blakecould dash that goal. AmericansCarmelita Jeter and Allyson Felixwould like to have JamaicansShelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce andVeronica Campbell-Brown chas-ing them this time.

In fact, the U.S. track and fieldteam has a goal of winning 30medals, and the men have achance of sweeping the shot put,decathlon and 400-meter hurdles.Lolo Jones is seeking redemption— and a chat with Prince Harry— after falling over the final hur-dle while leading her 100-meterrace in 2008. Heptathlete JessicaEnnis and marathoner PaulaRadcliffe are popular picks amongBritish fans to win medals — allbeing made at the Royal Mint.

In gymnastics, the UnitedStates and China pick up wherethey left off in Beijing, where thewinning Chinese girls looked sus-piciously young and some werelater found to have altered birthdates. The much-improvedAmerican men have an outsideshot of upsetting China for teamgold. Michigan’s Jordyn Wieber,world champ last year at age 16,is favored to succeed NastiaLiukin as all-around winner whilefor Japan’s spectacular KoheiUchimura, the men’s title is his tolose.

One rivalry sure to promptdeep patriotic feelings (or at leastinteresting tabloid headlines) isEngland vs. Argentina in men’sfield hockey. It’s been 30 yearssince the Falklands War, and anadvertisement featuring anArgentine hockey player in the

Falklands on “Argentine soil” wascondemned.

Soccer will be especially popu-lar in football-mad England, aswill rowing in Eton, sailing inWeymouth, tennis on the All-England Club’s grass, trackcycling inside the velodrome androad cycling on London’s streets.

Baseball and softball have beendropped from the Olympic pro-gram, women’s boxing has beenadded (five weight classes) andspecial dispensation was given toshooting, which would otherwisebe prohibited by England’s gunlaws.

The city will rely on a hugesecurity operation manned by10,000 police, 13,500 troops andagents from the country’s crackintelligence services. There areplans to station missile launcherson rooftops, and the RoyalMarines recently conducted exer-cises on the Thames.

Despite persistent complaintsabout the ticketing process,Londoners have been in a festivemood celebrating the queen’s dia-mond jubilee — her 60th year onthe throne. She is a keen equestri-an fan, and Prince William andKate (officially the Duchess ofCambridge) plan to visit a varietyof competitions.

Expect to see and hear manyreferences to “Chariots of Fire,”the Oscar-winning film which willbe re-released around the countryprior to the Olympics. A playbased on the film is scheduled topremiere in the West End.

Director Danny Boyle(“Slumdog Millionaire,” “127Hours,” “Trainspotting”) is organ-izing the opening ceremony, titled“The Isles of Wonder.” A shortfilm starring Daniel Craig asJames Bond will be shown.

Already receiving bad reviewsare the London 2012 mascots,Wenlock and Mandeville (animat-ed droplets of steel) and its zigzaglogo, which English tabloid “TheSun” had redesigned by a monkey.Iran complained the logo spelledthe word “Zion” and threatened toboycott.

Closing ceremonies will be atribute to British music with sur-prise live performances.

“Music is something we’vebeen very good at for the past 50years,” said Artistic Director KimGavin.

And London hopes its thirdOlympics will be as memorable asall those hits.

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Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, No. 2163, wins a gold medal and sets a world record in the 100-meter race during the 2008 Beijing Games. The rivalry betweenBolt, the other members of Jamaica’s sprint team and the U.S. men’s sprint team has been intensifying for eight years.

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British royalty, iconic venues and compellingrivalries have all eyes on London this summer

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The United States’ Rebecca Soni and the women’s swim teamshould be strong enough to fend off rival Australia.

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U.S. sprinter Carmelita Jeterleads an ambitious women’strack and field squad withmedal hopes.

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LOS ANGELES — Mid-night movies are supposed to be fun.

They’re supposed to be giddy gatherings of the most excited fans who can’t wait to have the images fl icker across their faces fi rst — whether it’s at a 12:01 a.m. showing of a wildly an-ticipated blockbuster or infamous schlock that’s achieved a cult following and is best viewed during the weird, wee hours.

That thrill was shattered early Friday morning when a man unleashed his arse-nal upon an audience at the fi rst showing of the hotly awaited new Batman mov-ie, “The Dark Knight Ris-es,” at a theater in Aurora, Colo., killing at least 12 and injuring 58 others.

It’s still unclear what the motive might have been for the suspect, 24-year-old James Holmes — whether the time or the content of the fi lm itself might have been factors in this deadly spree. But for now, the pu-rity of that sense of enthusi-asm — both for moviegoing in general and for midnight showings specifi cally — seems to have been shaken.

And that’s a shame. Be-cause part of the enjoy-ment of a midnight movie is that you are at an actual movie theater with actual movie fans in the middle of the night — not by yourself at home on the couch, not watching on your iPad on a plane. That sense of commu-nity infuses the room with a buzz. Other people — people you’ve never met — similarly have dragged themselves from their homes at this dark, quiet hour to see the same thing you want to see.

Historically, more off-beat fare has played at midnight to a party-like atmosphere: B-movies, ones that encourage inter-active participation like the long-running “Rocky Hor-ror Picture Show,” which is the mother of all midnight movies, or fi lms that work best for crowds that are up for something strange and mind-altering at that time of night, like David Lynch’s “Eraserhead.” One of my favorite midnight experi-ences was discovering Eli Roth’s 2002 debut fi lm, the graphic horror fl ick “Cabin

Fever,” during the South by Southwest fi lm festival and squirming and laughing along with a packed house.

But more and more, theaters will offer the fi rst chance to see a blockbuster at that hour, with fans sell-ing out those fi rst shows through online ticket sales and often dressing in cos-tume as their favorite characters. (This tradition is already changing: In response to the Colorado shooting, AMC Theatres, the nation’s second-largest chain with more than 300 movie houses, said it won’t

allow people to wear cos-tumes or face-covering masks into its theaters.)

The most hardcore people who are the most psyched up to see a movie are the ones who come out at midnight, said Evan Husney, creative director of the Austin, Tex-as-based Drafthouse Films, who previously worked on the release of the low-bud-get cult favorite “Birdemic: Shock and Terror.”

“I think the midnight movie is great. It’s lasted a long time and hopefully it’ll always remain. It gets people out to a theater

still — that sort of mid-night movie experience is something you really can’t replicate at home at all,” he said. “Nothing compares to being part of a crowd of 300 people screaming and sharing the same thing.”

As enjoyable as a mid-night movie can be, it also requires effort. If you’re not an insomniac, you probably need to fi ll up on coffee be-forehand, or at least take a disco nap. If you have young kids, there is the problem of trying to fi nd a babysitter for such odd hours — al-though as we saw with the

Aurora shooting, there were plenty of children in the au-dience. Among the injured was a 4-month-old baby, who was treated at a hospi-tal and released.

When my husband and I went to the seventh-anni-versary midnight showing of the famously terrible cult fa-vorite “The Room” a couple of years ago, we hired a bab-ysitter to watch our then-infant son so that we could laugh and scream and throw plastic spoons at the screen with all the other freaks. She slept on the couch, but at least she was there.

Katy Kleinhans, a 43-year-old cultural theo-rist, attended a midnight Friday showing of “The Dark Knight Rises” in downtown Houston and said there were children in the audience as young as 5.

Kleinhans went with a friend who’d bought tick-ets online for the Sundance Cinema, where various fans dressed as Batman or Catwoman and employ-ees behind the concession counter were in costume, as well. They made a night of it, with dinner at the the-ater beforehand. Kleinhans even wore a button she’d kept with the logo from the Tim Burton’s 1989 “Bat-man” movie. And while the rest of the audience sat si-lently in rapt anticipation, she and her buddy were cheering and high-fi ving.

The whole experience re-minded her of the excitement of seeing midnight movies in high school, she said: “The preparation and the excite-ment, that’s how it used to be when you’d go to movie. You can only get that in the mid-dle of the night. You have to be off people’s regular clocks and responsibilities.”

Shooting shatters fun of midnight moviesBY CHRISTY LEMIRE

Associated Press

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A person wearing Batman gloves (center) watches the premiere of “The Dark Knight Rises” inside the Liberty Sci-ence Center IMAX Theater during the museum’s first attempt at showcasing a full-length Hollywood feature film on its premiere day Friday in Jersey City, N.J. A gunman in a gas mask barged into a crowded Denver-area theater dur-ing a midnight premiere of the Batman movie on Friday, hurled a gas canister and then opened fire, killing at least 12 people and injuring at least 50 others in one of the deadliest mass shootings in recent U.S. history.

At least 21 treated for burns after Robbins event

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Fire officials in California say at least 21 people were treated for burns after attendees of an event for motivational speaker Tony Robbins tried to walk on hot coals.

The San Jose Mercury News reports at least three people went to a hospital and most suffered second- or third-degree burns.

Robbins was hosting a four-day gathering called “Unleash the Power Within” at the San Jose Convention Center. Witnesses say on Thursday, a crowd went to a park where 12 lanes of hot coals were on the grass.

Robbins’ website promotes “The Firewalk Experience” in which peo-ple walk on super-heated coals.

Fire Capt. Reggie Williams says organizers had an open fire permit and emergency personnel were on standby.

— Associated Press

Fred Willard offered diversion course after arrest

LOS ANGELES — Fred Willard will be allowed to enroll in counseling courses to resolve a lewd conduct arrest that cost the actor a job.

The Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office determined Friday that Wil-lard’s case was eligible for a diversion program that will keep him from being formally charged with lewd conduct if he completes the required courses, said spokesman Frank Mateljan.

Willard, best-known as the announcer in the film “Best in Show,” was arrested Wednesday night on suspicion of committing a lewd act. He was taken into custody by police doing a routine check at a Holly-wood adult theater.

Hours later he was fired as the narrator of “Market Warriors,” a show produced by Boston public television station WGBH.

— Associated Press

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Sunrise today ................................. 5:52 a.m.Sunset tonight ................................ 8:10 p.m.Moonrise today ............................... 9:30 a.m.Moonset today .............................. 10:00 p.m.

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Kentucky: Mostly sunny, hot and humid today. Partly cloudy tonight; humid.

Illinois: Mostly sunny, hot and humid today. Partly cloudy tonight; humid in the north and south.

Indiana: Hot and humid today with sunshine. Partly cloudy tonight; humid in the west and east.

Missouri: Hot and humid today with abundant sunshine. Mainly clear tonight. Mostly sunny and hot tomorrow.

Arkansas: Sunshine today. A couple of thunder-storms in the south; hot elsewhere.

Tennessee: Sun and some clouds today; a shower or thunderstorm in the east.

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