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Show Wed/Thurs/Fri,September 7-9, 2005 The Park Record B-6 Recreation Report Hamilton hangs hopes o n appeal Mountain Trails The Mountain Trails Foundation maintains trails in and around Rark City. As ofTuesday, Sept 6 the trails are in good shape. The MkJ Mountain Marathon will be held on Sept I Oth. Mid Mountain Trail will dose weekdays starting Sept 12th and for the season on Oct. 9thThe new DetourTrail at National Ability Center is open. Witch for detours on Spiro, Sweeney's Switchback and umpire Canyon. Mountain Trails andVbung Riders invite kids to check out the Summer Mountain Challenge, Stop by at the Miners Hospital on Tiiescfcys at 6 pmfor the weeWyTrail Run Series. For more information call 649-1689 or visit wwwiTKXjntaintrails.org Trails at Sundance are open for hiking and biking. For more information call (801) 225-4107 or visit www.sundanceresortcorn Wasatch-Cache National Forest In the Uinta Mountains, alt campgrounds are starting to close for the season. Water systems will be shut down.Visitors are advised to use caution now that hunting season has arrived.There is still some snow on passes and trails at higher elevations. The ranger reminds visitors not to leave valuables in their vehicles. Use caution with campfires.The use of fireworks are prohibited in the park. For more information about camping and hiking, call the Kamas Ranger District at (435) 783-4338. City Golf Club The Park City Golf Club public course is open, weather permitting. For more information, or to book tee times call 615-5800 or visit www.parkcitygolfclub.org. --.. Public Golf Courses Soldier Hollow Golf Course, Midway (435) 654-7442.Wasatch Mountain State Park Golf Course (435) 654-0532.The Homestead, Midway (435) 654-5588, Round Valley Golf Course, Morgan (435) 829-3796. Park City Mountain Resort Park City Mountain Resort is open daily through Sept. 18th ana then Fri-Sun until Oct. I 9th.Activities include the Alpine Slide and ZipRider and Little Miner's Park, and lift-assisted hiking and mountain biking. For more info, call (800) 222-7275, or log on at www.parkcitymountain.com Canyons The Canyons is open for lift-assisted mountain biking and hiking and other summer activities.The Farmers Market is open on Wednesdays. For more info, call 649-5400 or log on to www.thecanyons.com Deer Valley Resort Deer Valley Resort is open for summer activities including lift-assisted biking and hiking, and the Summer Adventure Camp. For more information or a list of events, log on to www.deervalley.com or call (800) 424-3337. Utah Olympic Park The Utah Olympic Park tracks and courses are open on weekends. The Park is open daily. Summer activities include Freestyle and Adventure Camps, Bobsled rides. Aerial Bungee, the Extreme and Ultra Zip Rider, the new Autobaggan slide, and the Saturday Freestyle Show. Guests can still visit the Joe Quinney W i n t e r Sports Center/Alf Engen Ski Museum daily. For more information, call 658-4200 or visit www.olyparks.com. Fire Conditions infi The fire danger is moderate.The danger is expected to become high within the next few days. Open fires require a permit available through fire wardens,fire marshals.sheriffs or the State Division of Forestry, Fire and State- Lands. £ or. more, information, contact the division at (80IJ 578-5555 or the Park City Fire District at (435) 649-6706. Boating, Hiking, Camping, Fishing Facilities and services are available at:Wasatch Mountain State Park (435)654-1 79 I; Jordanelle State Park (435) 6499540; Rock Cliff Nature Center (435) 783-3030; Rockport State Park (435) 336-2241. For information about more primitive trails and camping, contact the U.S. Forest Service (435) 654-0470. Prodti a from... Sage Decision on doping will seal cyclists fate By JOHN HENDERSON MeHiaNews Group Wire Service Los Angeles - Cyclist. Tyler Hamilton is trying to win a second appeal - his last hope - of his suspension for doping charges. If he wins the appeal, scheduled from Tuesday through Friday in Denver, he likely will compete in next year's wideopen Tour de France. A loss and the 34-year-old cyclist's career is likely over. The odds are against Hamilton. His first appeal, to the U.S. AntiDoping Agency in April, ended in defeat by a 2-1 vote. This time he goes before the Lausanne, Switzerland-based Court of Arbitration for Sport, just two weeks after serious drug allegations surfaced about Lance Armstrong, who retired this summer after winning his seventh consecutive Tour de France. The current atmosphere in the international cycling community doesn't appear conducive to forgiveness. Nevertheless, Howard Jacobs, Hamilton's lawyer and a former Winston!^- the test international cycling introduced last year. Hamilton tested positive for blood transfusions in which another person's blood is injected, providing more red blood cells and, thus, more oxygen for better endurance. Hamilton tested positive at the 20O4 Summer Olympics after winning the gold medal in the time trial and again at the Tour of Spain. He was allowed to keep his medal after one of the test samples was mishandled, but the Tour of Spain test resulted in a two-year suspension. Hamilton and Jacobs have two claims: One, Hamilton is a chimera, someone with different blood created from a twin who died in his mother's womb; two, the test doesnt look for faise-positive results. In the first appeal, Jacobs used testimony from scientists at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both of whom discussed flaws in the test. Jacobs plans more of the same. "We've talked to a lot more experts, people who are wellrespected, top of the industry, on all facets, anything that could possibly be related to this test, and they all have serious criticisms of the test," By PHIL MILLER MediaNews Group Wire Service Too bad the NIT only does college basketball. Because baseball could certainly use a consolation tournament this season. Fully half of the 30 major-league teams still hold realistic hopes of being among the eight playoff entrants as the season reaches its final month _ an unprecedented bit of parity and competitiveness that figures to shuffle the standings almost daily. It's already transformed the end of baseball's summerlong marathon from the usual elbow-to-elbow sprint for the finish line into something more resembling a races overcrowded starting line: Everybody jockeying for position. It's the ultimate vindication for proponents of the wild card, sold as a way to keep interest up in more cities but which has evolved into the preferred path to a world championship. In each of the past three seasons, the wild card has survived intense September pressure to qualify for the postseason, carried that focused play over into October and emerged holding the commissioner's trophy. Go ahead, ask the Angels, Marlins and Red Sox whether failing to win a division title takes any of the shine off their championship rings. "Everything will be completely different" in the playoffs, White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen warned last week. "Every day will be different. Now we do the same things every day, a routine. But it's not like that" in October. But first, let's look at September. With St. Louis, Chicago and San Diego (kings by default in a division of paupers) assumed to hold passes into the first round, here's a capsule look at the three division and two wild-card races: NX. East If Atlanta didn't own a record 13 straight division titles, their four-game lead entering Saturday might appear tenuous, especially with left-hander Mike Hampton done. But Andruw Jones is carrying the offense, John Smoltz and Tim Hudson the pitching staff, and Chris Rietsma is doing just enough as the closer. NX. Wad Card: The Phillies, Marlins, Mets and Astros have all held the lead at some point in the past month, and the Nationals, despite an offense that has gone into hibernation, are lingering just four games out. The race will go to whoever gets hot in the final two weeks. But which team is that? It's tempting to go with a pitching staff that sends Andy Pettitte, Roy Oswalt and Roger Clemens to the mound 60 percent of the time. The Astros own a huge advantage via their location in the Centra] Division, meaning the month includes six games with the Brewers and Cubs and four with the Pirates. But only the Nationals have scored fewer runs among postseason contenders than Houston, putting tremendous pressure on that pitching staff. Remarkably, the Astros are 12-6 since the All-Star Break in games started by the end-of-therotation trio of Wandy Rodriguez, Brandon Backe and Ezequiel Astacio. a trend that must continue for Houston to repeat last season's September charge to the wild card. "We've got the pieces," asserted Astros manager Phil Garner. '"It's just a matter of putting them together correctly." The Mets have put things together lately and have become a popular sleeper pick, especially with third baseman David Wright emerging as the power threat to replace Mike Piazza. Kris Benson has had a good season, Pedro Martinez is still capable of dominating occasionally, and if it comes down to the final weekend, they'll face Colorado instead of another contender. Thin pitching may doom the Phillies, plus a schedule that includes only three games against a non-contender all month, and 12 of their final 15 away from Philadelphia. The Nationals, about to become an afterthought in Redskins territory, simply score too few runs to give their pitchers any relief. That leaves the Marlins, quietly hovering within striking distance. Their offense now includes a healthy Juan Pierre at the top of the lineup and reliable hammers Miguel Cabrera and Carlos Delgado in the middle of it. Their schedule may be the toughest in the race, but a threesome of A J . Burnett, Josh Beckett and Dontrelle Willis anchoring the lineup, plus a wealth of pennant-race experience, makes them a prime candidate for a hot streak. A J - East The Red Sox lead New York by four games in the loss column, and arc scoring runs at a frightening pace. 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Dont overlook them. ping and using flammable D e s t i n a t i o n T r i p s Venezuela, Alaska, British Columbia, Montana and other worldwide destinations. a Joseph • -*. with a bizarre load of uncertainty tor a defending champion: They havepo idea who their No. 1 starter is ap,d who their closer is. The Yanked* starting staff is an even bigger mess^ but New York has an ideal opportu-, nity: They host Boston next week-> end, and close the season at Fenway. "-. Yeah, those might be sellouts. AX. West: It's now possible to go from division leader to nonqualifier with one bad inning, and the As and Angels know it. The As don]t have any must-pitch-around sluggers in their lineup, but experience in lateseason charges, not to mention a young pitching staff that gets better every day, give them a surprisingly strong shot at pulling ahead of Los Angeles. The Angels once owned the biggest advantage a team can have these days _ a deep, lights-out bullpen. But overwork has caught up with Scot Shields, Brendan Donnelly and Frankie Rodriguez. The lineup is full of holes, and Vlad Guerrero, the best clutch hitter in the game, can only plug so many. This race seems most likely to come down to the final day. 's Fire Season! L o c a l G u i d e S e r v i c e Provo River, Weber River,. LC Ranch a other loca! Utah waters. Experienced guides with local knowledge. Beginners welcome! Simms Jacobs said. Weighing heavily against Hamilton is circumstantial evidence. The only two cyclists who have tested positive for blood transfusions are he and Santiago Perez, his teammate on Swiss-based Phonak. Hamilton, who lives in Boulder, Colo., and recently won a race in New Hampshire that was not sanctioned by UCI, the governing body of international cycling, remains confident. "I'm very optimistic," Hamilton said. "I thought our chances were good in the first hearing although we were missing a lot of info, a lot of data on (our) own results," he said. "Now that we have that data, we have a better case." Pound scoffed at the notion the test wasn't valid because it had no false-positive tests. "We don't put tests out there unless we're satisfied that there aren't going to be false positives," he said. "There's no interest whatsoever in having some athlete who hasn't doped to be convicted for it. We err on the side of being conservative and always have." If Hamilton wins, he willlikely return for the 2006 Tour de France. Baseball races are as unpredictable as ever Jumme 7 '} triathJete who has prosecuted from both sides of the fence, said he believes Hamilton has a good shot. "I'm possibly more optimistic than I was the first time," said Jacobs, 39. Jacobs will need to convince three new arbitrators _ two from the U.S. and one from Australia _ who will want to see more evidence of Hamilton's innocence. "So he's going to appeal again with the same defense in front of CAS?" Dick Pound, director of the World Anti-Doping Agency, said from Montreal. ^"There's no reason to believe that another panel of disinterested persons will find it any differently." Jacobs would not divulge any new evidence he has. However, he said Hamilton would have a better chance simply because his defense has had more time to prepare. "The first hearing we did on an expedited basis because we wanted to get him eligible for racing, and it appeared to us that there were glaring errors in the test and we focused our defense on limited issues," Jacobs said. "We didn't go out and talk to 20 different experts." The crux of Hamilton's defense is O I H I TROUT BUM 2 Tlach your children proper fire .4343 Highway 224, 1/4 mile north of The Canyons • 658-1166 •www.troutbum2.com safety and make sure to follow your own examples! The Sleigh Restaurant featuring HOT ROCK COOKING! 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