{"id":48910,"date":"2015-07-17T08:21:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T15:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=48910"},"modified":"2015-07-17T08:23:57","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T15:23:57","slug":"the-ten-7172015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=48910","title":{"rendered":"The TEN: 7\/17\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_29070\" style=\"width: 494px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/The-TEN-10-31-12.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29070\" class=\" wp-image-29070\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/The-TEN-10-31-12.png\" alt=\"The Ten \" width=\"484\" height=\"484\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29070\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Ten<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(\u201cThe TEN\u201d\u00a0is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in \u201cThe TEN\u201d)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>1.) In 21 varsity games, over two seasons, Colony quarterback Josh Thompson (a senior) has thrown 37 touchdown passes, nine interceptions, and for 4,465 yards. He\u2019s rushed for 852 yards and 20 touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>2.) The Los Angeles Dodgers lead the San Francisco Giants by 4.5 games in the National League West as the second half of the MLB season begins today.<\/p>\n<p>3.) Greg Gano enters his second year as Wilson\u2019s HC.<\/p>\n<p>4.) On this date in 1983 the Michigan Panthers beat the Philadelphia Stars 24-22 to win the first USFL championship.<\/p>\n<p>5.) The Cal Condors list four players on their current roster plus 285 on the offensive line. Two of those are plus 300.<\/p>\n<p>6.) Basketball legend Connie Hawkins turns 73 today.<\/p>\n<p>7.) \u201cVinnie Lopez left El Rancho several weeks ago, and while most felt it was a very late exit, this site still condoned the move. I expect much the same \u2018kid-gloves\u2019 treatment of Derek Brown. It\u2019s nothing personal, just the need to remain cordial with guys who can provide marketable information.\u201d&#8212;MVS commenter \u201cBottom Line\u201d<\/p>\n<p>8.) \u201cWell, actually, uh, I\u2019m probably known as one of the best 1-on-1 basketball players in the schoolyard, and, uh&#8230; I found out through the grapevine that he\u2019s probably one of the best basketball players in the schoolyard, and I challenged him to see who\u2019s the best.\u201d&#8212;Connie Hawkins on why he challenged singer songwriter Paul Simon to a basketball game.<\/p>\n<p>9.) \u201cWow. a 3-8 CV team makes the playoffs 10 years ago\u2026. but a 8-2 CV team gets turned way from the dance by a 5-5 West Covina team in 2013????\u201d&#8212;MVS commenter \u201cCV\u201d<\/p>\n<p>10.) What do Don Drysdale, Wes Parker, Joe Namath, and Deacon Jones all have in common?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_48911\" style=\"width: 471px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/connie-hawkins.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48911\" class=\" wp-image-48911\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/connie-hawkins.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Simon and Connie Hawkins before their historic 1975 1-on-1 match.\" width=\"461\" height=\"563\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48911\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Simon and Connie Hawkins before their historic 1975 1-on-1 match.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(\u201cThe TEN\u201d\u00a0is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in \u201cThe TEN\u201d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10s"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48913,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48910\/revisions\/48913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}