The TEN
(“The TEN”) is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in “The TEN”)
1. Vin Scully announced that he intends to finish his legendary career with the Dodgers’ season-ending three-game series at San Francisco.
2. Calvin Johnson has informed the Detroit Lions that he will not be back for the 2016 season and plans on retiring.
3 Team Irvin beat Team Rice 49-17 in the 2016 Pro Bowl. Russell Wilson threw three touchdown passes to earn MVP honors.
4. Jose Villarreal scores twice and the L.A. Galaxy begin the 2016 preseason with a 2-1 win over FC Shirak
5. A month after giving him a second chance to change things around, the Phoenix Suns fire head coach and former player Jeff Hornacek.
6. Whittier’s Miguel Salazar leads the Del Rio League in scoring at 21 ppg.
7. Marge Hearn, the widow of Los Angeles Laker broadcaster Chick Hearn, died Sunday at the age of 98.
8. On this day in 1976 East Lansing police arrest Dodgers reliever Mike Marshall for using the pitching cage at Mich State U after he is warned not to.
9. South Pasadena’s Kristen Kafkaloff leads the Rio Hondo League in scoring at 16.4 ppg.
10. “I was a kid who was born and raised in the streets of New York, who grew up literally and figuratively in the Polo Grounds and was a rabid Giants fan. I confess that. It’s good for the soul,” Scully said. “I think I would love to finish in a game between the Dodgers and Giants. God willing it will work out. We’ll see, but the best-laid plans of mice and men usually go up in smoke.”
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