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Page 5 ♦ Thursday, June 27, 2002
SPORTS IN BRIEF
Reds hit four home runs
in 8-6 win over Cubs
CHICAGO (AP) — Sean Casey knocked
Cubs starter Jason Bere out with a line
drive off the pitcher's right knee and also
hit one of four Cincinnati homers as the
Reds beat Chicago 8-6 Wednesday.
Todd Walker, Adam Dunn and Juan
Encarnacion also homered for the Reds,
who are 33-23 with injured star Ken Griffey
Jr. out of the starting lineup.
Jimmy Haynes (8-6) won for the fifth
time in seven starts, allowing three runs
and nine hits in six innings. He struck out
five and walked one.
With one out in the third inning, Casey hit
a line drive that ricocheted off Bere's right
knee into foul territory. The ball went far
enough for Casey to make second with a
double.
Bere (1-9) dropped to the ground as
trainers came out to assist. Bere was
helped up and walked off the field with a
severe bruise to the knee.
Danny Graves picked up his 23rd save.
Sampras, Agassi, Safin all
ousted in second round
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — First Pete
Sampras, then Andre Agassi.
The two biggest American names in
men's tennis lost in the second round at
Wimbledon in stunning upsets Wednesday.
On an amazing day at the All England
Club, second-seeded Marat Safin also was
eliminated.
On a court nicknamed the "graveyard of
champions," Sampras rallied from two sets
down but came up short 6-3, 6-2, 4-6, 3-6,
6-4 against George Bastl, a Swiss player
ranked 145th in the world.
It was the seven-time champion's earliest
exit from the grass-court championships in
11 years.
Later, on Centre Court, the third-seeded
Agassi — champion in 1992 — went down
in straight sets, 6-4, 7-6 (5), 6-2, to 67th-
ranked Paradorn Srichaphan of Thailand.
In the past two days, the tournament lost
five of the men's top eight seeded players.
Brazil wins 1 -0, advances to finals
SAITAMA, Japan (AP) — The
expectations are simple. Brazil must
win the World Cup — and with style.
So when the only four-time cham
pions struggled just to qualify for the
tournament, their aura of invincibility
seemed gone.
. Ah, but this is Brazil. And
Wednesday night, thanks to a second-
half goal from Ronaldo, the team
famous for playing the “beautiful
game” beat Turkey 1-0 to advance to
their third straight final.
On Sunday, Brazil plays three-time
winner Germany in Yokohama, where
it will be favored to carry off another
World Cup crown.
“I plan then and there to have the
most important goal of my career,”
Ronaldo said. “Every goal I score is a
victory. Every time 1 enter the pitch,
for me it’s an honor.”
He scored the game-winner against
Turkey in the 49th minute on a magi
cal end-to-end rush begun by, of all
people, goalkeeper Marcos.
Marcos also made a half-dozen
brilliant saves against the Turks,
who stunned everyone by reaching
the semifinals in their first World
Cup in 48 years.
After Brazil took the lead,
Marcos barely got his hands on a
deflection that would have been an
own goal. It was his third sensation
al stop of the match. He made two
more moments later: a soaring finger
save on Ilhan Mansiz’s floater and a
diving block of Hakan Sukur’s off-
balance volley.
“In modern football, every team
has a chance to win. No team is nec
essarily stronger than any other,”
Marcos said.
Stylish play is nothing new for the
Brazilians, who won the World Cup in
1958, ’62, 70 and ’94 and are known
as masters of “o jogo bonito” — “the
beautiful game.” In what turned out to
be one more example, Marcos started
the play that ended with Ronaldo’s
tournament-best sixth goal.
Roberto Carlos, effective at both
ends all night, chested the ball back to
Marcos, leading to midfielder
Gilberto Silva’s sprint down the left
wing. He found Ronaldo, who despite
being surrounded by four Turks, sur
prised goalie Rustu Recber with a
quick, low right-footed shot.
The ball swerved just enough that
Recber could only get his fingertips on
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Brazil beats Turkey 1-0 to reach the final match
Four-time champion Brazil defeated Turkey and battles three-time champion Germany in the World
Cup final on Sunday in Yokohama, Japan. Turkey will face South Korea for third place on Saturday
in Daegu, South Korea.
... and pokes the
. to the far comer
of the net. past
Turkey’s goalkeeper
Rustu Recber.
I Brazil’s Gilberto Silva dribbles
vi/ the ball and passes ...
Brazil’s Ronaldo scored his sixth goal of the tournament
in the 49th minute to send his team to the final match.
SOURCE: Associated Press
it before the shot rolled into the net.
“The nightmare is over,” Ronaldo
said. “And now is just the time to
enjoy and develop this happiness.”
He was ill on the morning of the
1998 World Cup final and played
poorly in Brazil’s 3-0 loss to host
France. He has since undergone two
knee operations.
“We are trying everything we can
to make it a different final with a dif
ferent end,” he said. “Here I am going
to the final to get even more and more
happy with my work.”
Baseball says goodbye to Kile in memorial
ST. LOUIS (AP) — For the second time
in six days, Busch Stadium was a place of
mourning as former teammates paid their
respects to Darryl Kile.
Dozens of players who have been griev
ing for Kile in ballparks across the country
got the chance to say goodbye together in an
hour-long memorial service attended by
5,000 fans Wednesday. Among the speakers
were retired pitcher Doug Drabek, Rockies
pitcher Pete Harnisch and Cardinals team
mates Dave Veres, Woody Williams and Mike
Matheny.
The Rockies and Astros, the other two teams
Kile played for, sent large contingents of players
with Larry Walker, Jeff Bagwell, Mike Hampton,
Craig Biggio among those attending. So did
the Arizona Diamondbacks, as well as the
Milwaukee Brewers, who were in town for
a three-game series.
“We cannot possibly understand why we
are here today,” Williams said. “Thank you.
Lord, for the time we had with Darryl. What
a good man he was.”
Kile, 33, died Saturday in his Chicago
hotel bed of a heart attack caused by
blocked arteries.
Many players took redeye charter flights for the
service and planned to catch return flights in time
for their games. Several sat with family under tents
in the infield, with dozens more lining the first few
rows of the box seats.
Kile’s wife, Flynn, and 5-year-old twins,
Kannon and Sierra, sat in the front row in the tents.
Flynn had her arms around them throughout most
of the service.
“Baseball, more than people would like to think, is
a family,” Diamondbacks pitcher Curt Schilling said
after the service. “Unfortunately, the only time you
hear about a DK is when something tragic happens.
“He was a fantastic human being, a great father,
and our thoughts and prayers are with his family.”
Unlike a memorial service for longtime Cardinals
broadcaster Jack Buck at the stadium last Thursday,
there was no casket on the field for the tribute to Kile.
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