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Show mm SECTION 2aittt$?lmU& cj rKIUAT, JUIMt I SPORTS EDITOR Darnell Dickson Darnell Dickson U. UUO ddicksoneheraldextra.com 344-255- OREM OWLZ On BYU Football Owlz spoil Raptors' home opener Roy Burton STAFF IN SEARCH OF "MANTITE'0; AND OTHER OGDEN The 6,476 fans in attendance got to check out the new Lindquist Field expansion and post game fireworks, but the Ogden Raptors didn't get what they wanted in their home opener. Orem's Ryan Groth went and Dwayne Bailey scored the first four times he came to bat as the Owlz beat Ogden Thursday to open the season with their third consecutive win over their 11-- 6 RECRUITING rivals. MYTHS, LEGENDS With everything that I'd heard and seen Manti Te'o, I half expected him to arrive at this y Football Camp week's like Superman landing on Lex Luthor's kryptonite island in "Superman Returns." For those who haven't been paying attention, Manti Te'o recruited might be the single-mos- t g LDS athlete ever. He's a Poor fielding by Ogden helped the Owlz break open a tie ballgame with two runs in the sixth and five more in the seventh after the Raptors had taken an early lead. Groth had a pair trip traveling. Kyle Orr and Pedro Baez led the Raptors with two hits it1 apiece. While it's early in the Pioneer League season, Ogden 0 in has to be anxious to turn around its fortunes against rival Orem as Ogden manager Mike Brumley, a former Salt Lake Stingers skipper, is still looking for his 11 OREM first win with the Dodgers' OGDEN 6 rookie league affiliate. of doubles and four RBI while The two teams face each DREW GODLESKI,. Standard Examiner raising his average to .545 and other again tonight at 7 p.m. Orem's Ryan Groth covers his head as Ogden second baseman and drove Bailey went in two to go with his round- See OWLZ, C2 Elian Herrera jumps for the hall Thursday in Ogden. BOSTON'S 17TH NBA TITLE All-Pol- bone-crushin- man-- , child linebacker from Punahau High School in Hawaii. He 225-pou- Some people just is WW if(Mi JUL runs the dash in 4.5 seconds and is ranked as a Top 10 recruit. 40-ya- look like athletes, and (Manti) Te'o does. Just about ev- I ery major foot- . ball school in fact, if he were In if (fir-- n America wants him. Go ahead, search for him running onYouTube and prepare to onto the BYU i i. "SwJ be amazed. Summer is the time for practice field instead of this high school football camp today, no one would bat an eye. '( KB f football prospects to show college coaches VJORID 1 what they can do, and Te'o is among several hundred Polynesian and studs (Haoli's are welcome, y too) at the Football Camp, which was created in 2001 by Manti's uncle, Alema Te'o. So I gather up my two boys (so I can use the carpool lane) and trek up to Bountiful on Thursday to take in a few hours of the y Camp. 5 L. .;iW All-Pol- - Manti Te'o All-Pol- MantiTe'o from Adam (nor does he know who I am) but as the BYU football beat writer for the Herald, I know I'll be writing a lot about him in the near future. I just want to see what all the fuss it about. There is a rainbow of colored uniforms sitting in the stands at Bountiful, so I don't think I'll be able to find Te'o until I run into somebody that knows him, like Total Blue Sports guys Talo Steves and Brandon Gurney. But after the players listen to a pep talk from Stanford head coach See .. . ELISE AMENDOUAssociated Press Wye Grousbeck, Boston Celtics r managing partner and governor, flashes the Celtics' newly won championship banner during a parade celebrating team's NBA championship in Boston on Thursday. STEVEN SENNEAssociated Press Boston Celtics fans cheer the team as they pass by during a parade through downtown Boston on Thursday. The team rode in a convoy of amphibious vehicles as part of a rolling rally to celebrate the team's first NBA title in 22 years. Pierce, teammates revel in fans' cheers at rally Howard Ulman Idontknow r 0 - . CHM.VWUS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON Through a haze of his own cigar smoke, Paul Pierce peered through sleepless eyes at the sea of fans and thrust his golden green-claMVP trophy skyward. His day had finally arrived. A day to ride in his own championship parade. A day that gave normal people a chance to wave signs, paint their faces in Celtics colors and scream their hearts out for the latest team to bring a title to town. "We're tired of watching these parades on TV. Now we get to enjoy our own," Pierce said after a fantastic d Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night "We're tired of watching in Game 6 of the NBA finals. Pierce these parades on TV. Now we was the series MVP. It was the Celtics' first title without get to enjoy our own." Red who the team Paul Pierce Boston Celtics forward, NBA Finals MVP season that followed nine frustrating ones in his Boston career. "I haven't had any sleep yet, so now I'm still enjoying it." The Celtics earned Thursday's "rolling rally" celebration with an amazing comeback season topped off by a stun2 win over the ningly dominant Auerbach, patriarch died in October 2006 after being part of the other 16 championships, nine as coach. The cigars smoked by players and fans were a tribute to Auerbach's custom of lighting one up on the bench in the waning moments of stil another win. "We wish he could be here," Pierce said before he lit his cigar on his duck boat, "so I'm doing this to honor him." Players rode in the amphibious See 131-9- XL Press Boston Celtics captain Paul Pierce lifts the MVP Championship Series trophy over his head while STEVEN SENNEAssociated riding at the back of a vehicle and acknowledging the cheers of fans along a parade route C6 through Boston on Thursday. CELTICS, DICKSON, C4 Along For The Ride It GOLF Knee surgery for Woods . creates headache for others ," f Doug Ferguson THE ASSOCIATED PRESS haven't seen him in person since a practice round for a World Golf Championship on Sept. V CEUA TOBINDally Herald of Kansas, rides out his eight seconds during the bareback competition at the Pleasant Grove Rodeo, part of the city's Strawberry Days on Thursday. Bo Casper, Tiger Woods was must-se- e TV at the U.S. Open, making birdie on the final hole to force a playoff, another clutch birdie the next day to extend the playoff and winning his 14th major on what amounted to one good leg. Halfway across the country, ticket sales were brisk in St. Louis those two days. Woods is the defending champion in the BMW Championship, a PGA Tour playoff event in September that will be held at Bellerive. Fans in St. Louis 2001. The tournament was 11, can- celed the next day. "Everything was going great until yesterday," tournament director Jon Kaczkowski said Thursday. "If you're a golf fan in St. Louis, you've got to feel snakebit." That goes for everyone else in a golf industry that will have to do without its biggest star the rest of the year. Woods said Wednesday he would miss the See TIGER, MATT SLOCUM Associated Press Tiger Woods grimaces after hitting from the rough on the first fairway during the C5 Open on June 13. U.S. |