{"id":53037,"date":"2016-05-09T08:21:07","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T15:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=53037"},"modified":"2016-05-09T08:21:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T15:21:07","slug":"the-ten-05092016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=53037","title":{"rendered":"The Ten: 05\/09\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/THE-TEN-NEW--e1455684777760.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-51887\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/THE-TEN-NEW--e1455684777760.jpg\" alt=\"THE TEN (NEW)\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(\u201cThe TEN\u201d\u00a0is not\u00a0a top ten but ten items worth being included in \u201cThe TEN\u201d)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>1. With their 4-2 win over the New England Revolution, the LA Galaxy become the first MLS team to reach 300 wins.<\/p>\n<p>2. According to NBA league sources the Golden State Warrior&#8217;s Steph Curry will be named League MVP for the second straight season.<\/p>\n<p>3. The Washington National&#8217;s Bryce Harper set a Major League record reaching base seven times Sunday without an official at-bat. He walked six times and was hit by a pitch the other.<\/p>\n<p>4. Johnny Bench hit three home runs in a game for the second time in his career on this day in 1973.<\/p>\n<p>5. After winning back-to-back games over the Blue Jays, the Dodgers have made their way back into first place in the NL West.<\/p>\n<p>6. Kevin Durant scores 41 to lead the Thunder past the Spurs 111-97 and even the series at two games apiece.<\/p>\n<p>7. The Angels continue their slide in the AL West losing their last three and are now five games under .500.<\/p>\n<p>8. Former USC head coach and current Alabama offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin turns 41 today.<\/p>\n<p>9. An early Fox Sports college football poll has Alabama #1 and Florida State #2. USC is #21.<\/p>\n<p>10. &#8220;Slumps are like a soft bed. They&#8217;re easy to get into and hard to get out of.&#8221; Johnny Bench<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(\u201cThe TEN\u201d\u00a0is not\u00a0a 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-53037","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\/53037","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=53037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53038,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53037\/revisions\/53038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}