{"id":53457,"date":"2016-06-03T09:54:11","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T16:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=53457"},"modified":"2016-06-03T17:11:03","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T00:11:03","slug":"53457","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=53457","title":{"rendered":"The TEN: 06\/03\/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 size-full wp-image-51887\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/THE-TEN-NEW--e1455684777760.jpg\" alt=\"THE TEN (NEW)\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a>(\u201cThe TEN\u201d\u00a0is not\u00a0a top ten but ten items worth being included in \u201cThe TEN\u201d)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1. Copa America begins with US facing Colombia at 6:30pm tonight in Santa Clara, Ca.<\/p>\n<p>2. Tim Lincecum goes five innings allowing three runs on three hits during his first Triple-A rehab start as he faced the Tacoma Rainiers.<\/p>\n<p>3. Golden State takes a 1-0 lead over Cleveland after 104-89 win in Game 1.<\/p>\n<p>4. Pittsburgh looking to take a commanding 3-0 lead over San Jose in NHL Stanley Cup Finals.<\/p>\n<p>5. NCAA Baseball Regionals begin today, for the first time since 1994 there are no West Coast colleges hosting regionals.<\/p>\n<p>6. Golden State-Cleveland Game 1 is the highest rated NBA Finals since 2001.<\/p>\n<p>7. Los Angeles Dodgers lose three of four to the Chicago Cubs. They are currently five and half games out of first in NL West.<\/p>\n<p>8. Utah (25-27) won the Pac-12 conference automatic berth for the NCAA Baseball Tournament becoming the first team from the Power 5 to win a regular-season title with a losing overall record.<\/p>\n<p>9. Study Hall &#8211; <i>College Football, Its Stats and Its Stories<\/i> by Bill Connelly<\/p>\n<p>10. &#8220;Dude, you&#8217;ve never seen Peterson throw&#8230;and I have never seen you throw back anything except double-doubles\u201d &#8211; Joe Torosian defending Tim Peterson after a comment made from \u201cThe Devil\u201d on twitter about Peterson\u2019s throwing range.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_50812\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tangent-Dreams-School-Football-Novel\/dp\/0692588175?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1461875543&amp;ref_=tmm_pap_swatch_0&amp;sr=1-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50812\" class=\"size-large wp-image-50812\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/tangentdreams_jpg-594x768.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Anyone who has a kid trying out for his High School football team needs to read this book. Torosian has taken his 20 some years of reporting on Prep sports, mixed a healthy dose of San Gabriel Valley insider references and created a very readable first effort.&quot; &quot;A page turner...I'm sorry it's over! Is a sequel in the works?&quot; &quot;Torosian does for high school football what Hemingway did for the Spanish Civil War...compelling look beyond the scoreboard and into the lives of players...&quot; &quot;A truly great story unfolds in the pages of Joe Torosian's first novel. With high school football at its core, the story of Dale Andrade shows how a young man grows in all aspects of his life thanks to being a part of a team and a football community.&quot; \u201cThis is a great read for everyone: from those who love high school football to those who have no idea about the game.\u201d &quot;This book brings you onto the field and into the locker room...&quot; Joe Torosian's high school football novel is available through Amazon.com --click pic-- (Cover by Pat Cherry www.blackheartart.com)\" width=\"520\" height=\"672\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-50812\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>&#8220;Anyone who has a kid trying out for his High School football team needs to read this book. Torosian has taken his 20 some years of reporting on Prep sports, mixed a healthy dose of San Gabriel Valley insider references and created a very readable first effort.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><br \/><strong>&#8220;A page turner&#8230;I&#8217;m sorry it&#8217;s over! Is a sequel in the works?&#8221;<\/strong><br \/><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>&#8220;Torosian does for high school football what Hemingway did for the Spanish Civil War&#8230;compelling look beyond the scoreboard and into the lives of players&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>&#8220;A truly great story unfolds in the pages of Joe Torosian&#8217;s first novel. With high school football at its core, the story of Dale Andrade shows how a young man grows in all aspects of his life thanks to being a part of a team and a football community.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>\u201cThis is a great read for everyone: from those who love high school football to those who have no idea about the game.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>&#8220;This book brings you onto the field and into the locker room&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><br \/><strong>Joe Torosian&#8217;s high school football novel is available through Amazon.com &#8211;click pic&#8211;<\/strong><br \/><strong>(Cover by Pat Cherry www.blackheartart.com)<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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-53457","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\/53457","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=53457"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53461,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53457\/revisions\/53461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}