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The TEN

(“The Ten” is not a top ten, but ten items worth being included in The TEN)

1. The NFL suspends Denver linebacker Von Miller for six games for violating the league’s substance-abuse policy.

2. Red Sox pitcher Ryan Dempster is suspended five games and fined for intentionally hitting the Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez Sunday night.

3. The Dodgers’ Yasiel Puig is fined for showing up late at Marlins park Tuesday night before the team’s game with Miami but leads off the eighth inning with what proves to be the game winning home run in a 6-4 Dodgers victory.

4. The Angels officially shut Albert Pujols down for the year. The Angels are 16 ½ games back of Texas and in fourth place in the AL West.

5. The Lakers will wear newly designed short-sleeve jerseys in several games next season.

6. Sierra Canyon quarterback Andre Nunez.

7. The Eagles name Michael Vick the starter going into the 2013 season.

8. Windward junior OT/DT Langston Hamer-nagle, 6-1, 255.

9. Downey junior OL Jude Garcia, 6-5, 315.

10. The late great former Laker Wilt Chamberlain was born on this day in 1936.

The “Big Dipper” would have turned 77 today