{"id":69907,"date":"2020-09-02T01:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=69907"},"modified":"2020-09-01T17:38:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T00:38:27","slug":"the-ten-9-2-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=69907","title":{"rendered":"The TEN: 9\/2\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=51887\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51887\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/THE-TEN-NEW--e1455684777760.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51887\" \/><\/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. The Dodgers traded right-hander Ross Stripling to the Toronto Blue Jays Monday for two players to be named later. <\/p>\n<p>2. Former Georgetown Head Coach John Thompson passed away Monday at the age of 78. Thompson, who coached players such as Patrick Ewing and Allen Iverson at Georgetown, was the first black coach to lead a team to the NCAA men&#8217;s basketball championship. <\/p>\n<p>3. The Jacksonville Jaguars released running back Leonard Fournette. <\/p>\n<p>4. Chris Paul scored 28 points to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 104-100 win over the Houston Rockets Monday night and force a Game 7 Wednesday night in the first round Western Conference Playoff series. <\/p>\n<p>5. The Boston Celtics beat the Toronto Raptors 102-99 Tuesday to take a 2-0 lead in the second round of the Eastern Conference Playoff series. <\/p>\n<p>6. The Cincinnati Bengals signed running back Joe Mixon to a four-year $48 million extension. <\/p>\n<p>7. Chargers safety Derwin James will have surgery on his right knee and is out for the 2020 season. <\/p>\n<p>8. President Donald Trump spoke to Big 10 Commissioner Kevin Warren Tuesday about how the conference can return to playing college football as soon as possible. <\/p>\n<p>9. College Football Preseason Rankings-Top 5: 1. Ohio St. 2. Alabama 3. Clemson 4. Georgia 5. Florida.     <\/p>\n<p>10. Receiver Josh Gordon auctioned his New England Patriots Super Bowl LIII ring for $138,000.               <\/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-69907","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\/69907","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=69907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69908,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69907\/revisions\/69908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}