{"id":67090,"date":"2019-08-12T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=67090"},"modified":"2019-08-11T21:29:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T04:29:53","slug":"the-ten-8-12-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=67090","title":{"rendered":"The TEN: 8\/12\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=51887\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51887\"><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=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a>(&#8220;The TEN&#8221; is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in &#8220;The TEN&#8221;) <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>1. Pittsburgh Steers wide receivers coach Darryl Drake died suddenly at the age of 62 Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>2. The Oakland Raiders beat the Rams 14-3 in the first preseason game Saturday night. The San Francisco 49ers beat the Dallas Cowboys 17-9.<\/p>\n<p>3. The High School Football season officially kicks off this Friday night August 16 as Pasadena takes on St. Genevieve at LA Valley College.<\/p>\n<p>4. Raiders wide receiver Antonio Brown threatens to quit football if he is not allowed to wear his old helmet that is now prohibited by the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>5. LAFC beat the New York Red Bulls 4-2 Sunday to improve to 16-3-4 &#8211; best in the Western Conference. DC United beat the LA Galaxy 2-1. The Galaxy dropped to 12-11-1.<\/p>\n<p>6. U.S Gymnast Simone Biles performed a historic clean triple-double in the floor exercise Sunday on her way to her sixth all-around title.<\/p>\n<p>7. The Cleveland Indians beat Minnesota 7-3 Sunday to pull into a first place tie with the Twins in the AL Central.<\/p>\n<p>8. The Dodgers beat Arizona 9-3 Sunday and are now 79-41, 19 games ahead of the Diamondbacks in the NL West.<\/p>\n<p>9. Former NFL receiver Plaxico Burress turns 42 today.<\/p>\n<p>10. On this day in 1970 Curt Flood lost his $41 million antitrust suit against baseball. Although Flood&#8217;s legal challenge was unsuccessful it brought about solidarity among players as they fought against baseball&#8217;s reserve clause and sought free agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(&#8220;The TEN&#8221; is 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-67090","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\/67090","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=67090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67091,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67090\/revisions\/67091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}