{"id":51153,"date":"2015-12-09T05:30:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T12:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=51153"},"modified":"2015-12-09T08:50:06","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T15:50:06","slug":"the-ten-1292015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=51153","title":{"rendered":"The TEN: 12\/9\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_50098\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=50098\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-50098\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50098\" class=\"size-large wp-image-50098\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/10-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"The TEN\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/10-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/10-70x53.jpg 70w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/10-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/10-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/10-900x675.jpg 900w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/10.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-50098\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The TEN<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(&#8220;The TEN&#8221;\u00a0is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in &#8220;The TEN&#8221;)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>1. Former Head Coach\u00a0Steve Sarkisian\u00a0sues USC stating that the school discriminated against him due to alcoholism and\u00a0breached his contract.<\/p>\n<p>2. Alabama running back\u00a0Derrick Henry, Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson and Stanford running back Christian McCaffrey were announced as the finalists for the Heisman Trophy.<\/p>\n<p>3. USC Head Coach Clay Helton\u00a0fired four assistant coaches including DC Justin Wilcox the day after the Trojans\u00a041-22 loss to Stanford.<\/p>\n<p>4. The Chicago Cubs signed free agent\u00a0infielder\/outfielder Ben Zobrist to a four-year, $56 million contract.<\/p>\n<p>5. Klay Thompson hits 10 3-point shots on his way to 39 points\u00a0to lead\u00a0Golden State to\u00a0a 131-123 win over Indiana. The Warriors improved to 23-0.<\/p>\n<p>6. LeBron James\u00a0signs a lucrative lifetime deal with\u00a0Nike.<\/p>\n<p>7. The Redskins, Eagles and Giants are all tied for first place in the NFC East at 5-7.\u00a0The Cowboys are a game back at 4-8.<\/p>\n<p>8. Former Maranatha star Tyler Dorsey\u00a0is leading Oregon in scoring averaging 14.4 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>9. Happy Birthday to former NBA star World B. Free who turns\u00a062 today.<\/p>\n<p>10. The Jimmy V Classic on ESPN.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_50812\" style=\"width: 371px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/tangentdreams_jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50812\" class=\" wp-image-50812\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/tangentdreams_jpg-594x768.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Joe has captured the essence of the high school football experience. You don't have to have played or coached to be instantly engaged in the story and identify with the characters. A great read!...Lots of laughs and memories from what high school football is like on the inside.\u201d---Mike Mooney \u201cA very accurate account of high school football.\u201d---Jon Dimalante \u201cF-bombing Papa Joe, has written something truly great here...He\u2019s done a great job capturing the moments in the life of a high school football player both big and small from a unique angle.\u201d---Josh Ouellette \u201cTANGENT DREAMS\u201d A high school football novel by Joe Torosian will be available soon through Amazon. (Cover by Pat Cherry www.blackheartart.com)\" width=\"361\" height=\"467\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-50812\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>&#8220;Joe has captured the essence of the high school football experience. You don&#8217;t have to have played or coached to be instantly engaged in the story and identify with the characters. A great read!&#8230;Lots of laughs and memories from what high school football is like on the inside.\u201d&#8212;Mike Mooney<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u201cA very accurate account of high school football.\u201d&#8212;Jon Dimalante<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u201cF-bombing Papa Joe, has written something truly great here&#8230;He\u2019s done a great job capturing the moments in the life of a high school football player both big and small from a unique angle.\u201d&#8212;Josh Ouellette<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u201cTANGENT DREAMS\u201d<\/strong><br \/><strong>A high school football novel by Joe Torosian will be available soon through Amazon.<\/strong><br \/><strong>(Cover by Pat Cherry www.blackheartart.com)<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(&#8220;The TEN&#8221;\u00a0is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in &#8220;The TEN&#8221;)<\/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-51153","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\/51153","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=51153"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51163,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51153\/revisions\/51163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}