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Show a DAILY Sports rt Student sale in early August BYU Ail-Spo- ft NFL Idaho Falls at Orem 7 p.m. 700 AM tryouts next week U.S. vs. Lithuania 6 a.m. ESPN2 Extreme Sports Games X Games 7 p.m. Midnight ESPN ESPN2 X Orem Tiger head coach Ed Louder has announced that the girls soccer team will be held Monday, Aug. 4, through Friday, Aug. 8. Tryouts will be held at the a.m. and Orem High School soccer field from 4-- 6 8 a.m. Women's British Open Cox Classic All-Spo- rt TENNISOLYMPICS TGC TGC 700 7 p.m. Maria Sharapova will miss the Beijing Olympics because of a right shoulder injury. The three-tim- e Grand Slam singles champion said on her Web site Thursday that an MRI exam and other medical tests showed she has two small tears in tendons in her shoulder. The Sharapova pulled out of the WTA tournament in Montreal because of the shoulder on Wednesday night after winning a nearly three-hou- r a match in which she double-faultewhopping 17 times. She was examined by a trainer midway through AM you. Trades During the season, before each football game, your student ticket will be emailed to you in PDF format for you to print off and bring to the game. Print your ticket, and show it and your BYU Student ID card at the gate to get in. If you do not print your at home, you will be charged a $10 printing fee at the ticket office in the West parking lot of the Teams can still make trades but the players involved must pass through waivers first, which limits availability. Ramirez and Griffey could have blocked their trades, but both were happy to find new homes. It was the first time two players with at least 500 homers have been traded during the same season let alone on the same day, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. Griffey hit his 600th home run this season, and Ramirez connected for No. 500. "When a player like Manny becomes available, I don't think there's a manager in baseball who wouldn't say they're interested," said Dodgers skipper Joe Torre, whose Yankees teams went e with Ramirez for years. "It was something that happened very quickly, obviously." As of early Thursday, it appeared Ramirez might be on his way to the Florida Marlins. But when those talks fizzled, the Red Sox and Pirates found a willing third partner in the Dodgers. After years of speculation, Boston finally parted ways with the enigmatic outfielder minutes before the 4 p.m. EDT deadline. "We figured we had to do it," Los Angeles general manager Ned Colletti said. "There was obviously a point in time that you have to make a major decision. We did and we were glad we did it. Hopefully it pays dividends. We're confident we've got one of the best hitters in baseball coming in one of the best hithere ters of his generation from the right side." Boston will pay the estimated $7 million owed to the Ramirez through the end of the season, at which time he can become a free agent. Ramirez was in toe-to-to- the three-se- t victory. "After yesterday's match, I knew there was something seriously wrong with my shoulder," Sharapova said in a posting on her Web site under the headline: "No chance of me competing in Beijing." The Aug. 7 Olympic tennis tournament lost another top player earlier Thursday, when 2006 Australian Open runner-u- p Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus withdrew because of a wrist injury. Others who won't play in Beijing for various reasons include past Grand Slam singles champions Andy Roddick, Amelie Mauresmo and Mary rt 11-1- card and The pass will be sold exclusively to BYU students. Only BYU students will be able to sign in online with their student number to purchase the pass. Season tickets are available around student seating starting at $96. Men's basketball season tickets and the Olympic Sport Punch pass are also available the final guaranteed year of an eight year, $160 million contract, and the Red Sox held $20 million options for the next two seasons. As part of the trade, the club options were eliminated. So now, Manny can be Manny on the West Coast. But he'll be without his power-hitting partner with the Red Sox, David Qrtiz. "That was a tandem that was one of the best in the game," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. Colletti said Ramirez was expected to join the Dodgers in time to play Friday night against Arizona. The last place Pirates gave up Bay and received promising young players: reliever Craig Hansen and outfielder Brandon Moss from Boston and third baseman Andy LaRoche and pitcher Bryan Morris from the Dodgers. It's a good deal for Pittsburgh. They got four good players. A two-tim- e the Bay was hitting .282 with 22 home runs and 64 RBIs for Pittsburgh. Tampa Bay pursued Bay before he wound up with the Red Sox, who trail the first place Rays by three games in the AL East. The Reds sent Griffey and cash to Chicago for reliever Nick Masset and Triple-second baseman Danny Richar. The deal was announced a half hour before Thursday's deadline. Griffey, who hit his 600th home run this season, agreed to the trade earlier in the day. Because of the cash transaction involved, the deal did not become official until the commissioner's office approved it. White Sox general manager Kenny Williams coveted Griffey for several years. Once one of baseball's premier players, Griffey has never reached the World Series and has not even been in the playoffs since 1997 with Seattle. Pierce. Sharapova has been bothered FT SvM ' three-quarter- 2 3h V -- All-Sta- r, -- -- - p i FILEAssociated Press Clockwise from top left, Jason Bay, Manny Ramirez and Ken Griffey Jr., were all traded in the final hours before the MLB trade deadline. Bay will patrol in front of the Green Monter in Fenway for the Red Sox, while Ramirez suits up for the Dodgers and Griffey will play on the southside of Chicago for the White Sox. "One of the things that factored into this was a guy who has had a great career but has not won a championship and how motivated he's going to be to get on that stage," Williams said. "That is a factor and will always be a factor for me." Now older, it's uncertain how much Griffey has left in his oft injured body it's been a long while since he was team. voted to the Griffey played right field the last two seasons, but will return to center when he joins the White Sox on Friday for the start of a series in Kansas City. Manager Ozzie Guillen Minneand the White Sox-lesota by 1 12 games when the trade was made. -- d Don't be confused with imitators, r J " . kie'Football (Orem & & 4 - Grade 5 Grade 6 8 - Grade 9 Cougar Conference Timpanogos only) Weight Limits - Free Jersey (up to 8 grade) r "When I talked to Junior, lina were among the players he was very honest," Wilwho stayed put after there was speculation they could be liams said. "He said, 'Well, moved before the deadline. I've got to tell you, I don't Maddux remained with know that you're going to see the guy from Seattle." I San Diego after talks with said, 'We're not looking for the Dodgers fell through. "I would say nothing ever that guy from Seattle. What we're looking for is for you got real close," Padres gento use your instincts.' " eral manager Kevin Towers said. "We let it be known Griffey takes over for Swisher, who moves to first with the Dodgers, that was base in place of the slumping the one ballclub he had interPaul Konerko. Swisher also est in going to, that any deal will give up his No. 30 to we were going to do was Griffey, who wore it during going to be the best basehis earliest years in Cincinball deal we could do and it nati. wasn't going to be a finanGreg Maddux, Adam Dunn, cial deal to try to move dolRaul Ibanez, Jarrod Washlars. We just weren't happy with the prospect we would burn, Brian Fuentes, Huston be getting back, and we Street, Jeremy Hermida, chose to hold onto him." Mike Jacobs and Bengie Mo Nowwithover LIMITED TIME OFFER Dates For complete sign-u- p information visit us at 10 i 1 i SPORTSMAN The Name For Your Game. 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Be sure to provide and home information to get your accurate -- Continued from CI right-hande- ost baseball executives would sooner admit reading ro mance novels than the sports pages, especially in the days leading up to the trading deadline. Usually, there's some justification. What GM, after all, needs to learn yet another synonym for "dunce?" Or find out the beer vendors at the ballpark vowed to stage a wildcat strike if management didn't to town? bring They get ripped for making one deal and not another. d Then they get more than the guy who makes the soup down at your corner restaurant every and in the case of morning trades, no one knows whether the ingredients were right for months or years. But one thing we do know, even as a flurry of blockbuster deals slid in just under the deadline Thursday, and more than half the GMs in MLB's 30 outposts tempted fate. History is not on their side. Any one of them could have found that out by reading the Kansas City Star in the morning. The newspaper crunched trade numbers going back to the start of the wild-carplayoffs in 1995 and concluded that these deals typically don't do much for teams, unless they're already in good shape. Consider that: s of I Nearly the teams that were in first place at the trading deadline 76 of 104; or 73 percent wound up making it into the postseason. I Less than half of the teams facing a deficit of 1 Vi games or 46 peror less 1 cent managed to close it by the end of the regular season. I Things were grim for teams two to five games out. Fewer than one in five of those clubs or 17 percent had someplace to be when October rolled around. And, in what amounts to a double whammy, some of the clubs wound up trad--in- g away prospects they will regret letting go of for decades to come. The Tigers traded John Smoltz, the Red Sox dealt Jeff Bagwell, and the Mariners got rid of Derek Lowe and Jason Varitek. Still, even if the numbers hold up this time, we can declare a few instant winners. Just about every ballplayer in every deal, for example. Each is in line for a raise, including a few who expected to be tightening their belts instead. LaTroy Hawkins was gothe Yankees ing nowhere had already designated him for assignment when he found out he'd been traded to the Houston Astros. "I was sitting at home doing nothing and all of a sudden, a team wants me," Hawkins said Wednesday. "I'm pretty excited about that." Houston GM Ed Wade had to pretend he was excited, too. "He gives (manager) Cecil M Web site: Sharapova pulls out of Beijing Olympics rt been changes made to the usual purchase process. These changes include the pass only being sold on byutickets.com, seats at BYU football games being g and football tickets being printed at home as an To better serve the students, the pass will be sold on byutickets.com only. Students will be able to create groups online to make sure they will have tickets next to their friends. Seating groups will be assigned after Aug. 20. Your seat to watch BYU football will be a reserved seat and will not rotate like in years past. Seating will be assigned according to the average date of purchase of your group. This makes it important to get your friends to purchase early with DEALS TGC Radio Minor League Baseball Idaho Falls at Orem TO DEADLINE 426-560- ESPN 4:30 p.m. Open e TNT 10 a.m. 11 a.m. Noon U.S. Senior Open Bridgestone Invitational HISTORY UNKIND p.m. Players coming totryout should be prepared for conditioning and competitive play. For more information call coach Louder at Golf Reno-Taho- 1:30 p.m. FOX Orem girls soccer team to hold Basketball All-Spo- rt Jim Litke Prep Soccer rt All-Spo- rt MLB Angels at Yankees 1,2008 to get you access to all other BYU Athletic events. Television ..-... The 20084)9 Student Pjss will go on sale to BYU students for $95 beginning in August. To accommodate BYU students with families, a limit of four guest passes per student will be. available as well for $125 each. Fees to purchase will also be included. The Cougar United Pass will sell for $145 for those who were Cougar United memers in 2007-,- , 08 and $ 150 for new members in 200MB. AU current Cougar United (BYUs official student , fan association) members will be able to purchase Pass before any other stutheir Student dent. Because the football seating will be placed on the average date and time of purchase of your group, it will be a great benefit to be a Cougar United member. Cougar United members will also receive other benefits including a hooded sweatshirt, invites to lunches with doaches and players and much more. Current Couger United members can being purPass today, while all current chasing their holders can being purchasing their Student pass beginning Aug. 4. All BYU students can then purchase their pass beginning Aug. 7; the last day for group additions is Aug. 20. 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