{"id":53630,"date":"2016-06-13T08:04:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T15:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=53630"},"modified":"2016-06-14T08:01:27","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T15:01:27","slug":"the-ten-6132016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=53630","title":{"rendered":"The TEN: 6\/13\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"The<\/a>

The TEN<\/p><\/div>\n

(“The TEN”\u00a0is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in “The TEN”)<\/p>\n

1. The Dodgers\u00a0fall to the Giants 2-1\u00a0Sunday and lose two out of three in the weekend series in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

2. Golden State’s Draymond Green is suspended for Game\u00a05 of the NBA Finals Monday night for striking LeBron\u00a0James in the groin during Game 4.<\/p>\n

3. The Pittsburgh Penquins beat the San Jose Sharks\u00a03-1 in Game Six to capture the Stanley Cup. Sidney Crosby is named series MVP.<\/p>\n

4. The U.S soccer team faces\u00a0Ecuador Thursday in the quarterfinals of Copa America.<\/p>\n

5. “I guess his feelings just got hurt.” – Golden State’s Klay Thompson on LeBron James.<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0Former NFL defensive lineman Bryan Robinson\u00a0was found dead in a Milwauee\u00a0hotel room Saturday night. Robinson, 41,\u00a0had his best years with the Chicago Bears from 1998 to 2003 registering 16.5 of his 24 career sacks.\u00a0He played in Super Bowl XLIII with the Arizona Cardinals.<\/p>\n

7. The “Rumble at the Ranch”\u00a0is this Saturday June 18 at El Rancho High School.<\/p>\n

8. On this date in 1973 Steve Garvey, Davey Lopes, Bill Russell and\u00a0Ron Cey play\u00a0together for the first time. The Dodgers infield would go on to play\u00a0together for over eight years to set a record.<\/p>\n

9. On this date in 1989 the Detroit Pistons complete a four game sweep of the Lakers in the\u00a0NBA Finals.<\/p>\n

10. “I wouldn’t think it could ever happen again.” – Former Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda\u00a0on the longevity of\u00a0the infield.<\/p>\n

\""Anyone<\/a>

“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.”<\/strong><\/span>
“A page turner…I’m sorry it’s over! Is a sequel in the works?”<\/strong>
“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…”<\/strong><\/span>
“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.”<\/strong><\/span>
\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>
“This book brings you onto the field and into the locker room…”<\/strong><\/span>
Joe Torosian’s high school football novel is available through Amazon.com –click pic–<\/strong>
(Cover by Pat Cherry www.blackheartart.com)<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(“The TEN”\u00a0is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in “The TEN”)<\/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":[11798,3542,365,11755],"class_list":["post-53630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10s","tag-high-school-football-novel","tag-joe-t","tag-joe-torosian","tag-tangent-dreams"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53630","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=53630"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53640,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53630\/revisions\/53640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}