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www.terrwssean.corn THE TENNESSEAN Monday, August 12, 2002 5C SPORIS: BASEBALL. AUTCTRAC1NG VETERAN EX-IRS AGENTS TAX PROFESSIONALS Clients Never Meet with the IRS Settle for Pennies on the Dollar Written Guarantee Union likely to set strike date today Free Tax Settlement Analysis: Confidential Interview in Our Local Office 800-597-2855 Totl-Free Free "Insider" Report "How to End IRS Problems Forever!" 877-451-9111 Toil-Free 24-Hour Recorded Message www.jkharris.com (Nation's) most successful tax-resolution company." -TIM Wall StrMt Journal JK Harris Company- Nashville (475 Offices Nationwide) PCL schedule Saturday mutts Iowa 6. Fresno 5 Edmonton 4. Las Vegas 3 Nashvie8.Mernphs3 Tacoma 8, New Orleans 7 Sacramento 11, Oklahoma 1 Colorado Springs 3, Omaha 2 Portland 2, Calgary 2, 2nd inning, ran Salt Lake 7, Tucson 3 Yesterday's results Iowa at Fresno Las Vegas at Edmonton Nashville at Memphis New Orleans at Tacoma Oklahoma at Sacramento Omaha at Colorado Springs Portland at Calgary, comp. of susp.

game Portland at Calgary, 2nd game Tucson at Salt Lake Todays games Iowa at Fresno Las vegas at Edmonton Nashville at Memphis New Orleans at Tacoma Oklahoma at Sacramento Omaha at Colorado Springs Portland at Calgary Tucson at Salt Lake I7w7(jijz3 rN Sounds 2, Redbiitls 1 Next game: Today, at Memphis When: 7:05 p.m. Game at a glance Winning pitcher Branson Arroyo (8-6). Big stick: Tike Redman, 2-for-3, 2 RBI. How the Sounds won: Tike Redman hit a line drive double in the second inning past centerfielder Chad Meyers, scoring Mendy Lopez and Tomas de la Rosa. What they said: "That's his second complete game in a row.

He's pitching as well as he has all season. He kept Memphis off balance. He threw all his pitches and he threw them for strikes." -Pitching coach Darold Knowles. Today's game: at Memphis, 7:05 p.m. Sounds RHP Tony McKnight (9-11, 5.18) vs.

Memphis LHP Darren Oliver (0-1 7.24). PCL glance AMERICAN CONFERENCE Central Division Pet GB Salt Lake (Angels) 68 54 .567 Omaha (Royals) 66 56 .541 2 Iowa (Cubs) 65 57 .533 3 Col. Springs (Rockies) 47 75 .385 21 Eastern Division Pet GB New Orleans (Astros) 62 60 .508 Oklahoma (Rangers) 62 60 .508 Memphis (Cardinals) 60 59 .504 Nashville (Pirates) 60 61 .496 Vi PACIFIC CONFERENCE South Division Pet GB las Vegas (Dodgers) 71 50 .587 Tucson (Diamondbacks) 57 61 .483 12V4 Sacramento (Athletics) 54 67 .446 17 Fresno (Giants) 48 74 .393 23V4 Western Division Pet GB Edmonton (Twins) 69 50 .580 Portland (Padres) 61 59 .508 8V4 Tacoma (Manners) 58 61 .487 11 Calgary (Marlins) 56 60 .483 11Vi Tennessean News Services All the drama in baseball this season hasn't been on the field And it could come to this: No World Series for the second time in nine years. Players are likely to set a strike date when their executive board meets today, possibly leading to a walkout in late August or early September. The key stumbling block appears to be management's demand to slow escalating player salaries a luxury tax on teams with high payrolls.

"Eventually, it all has to be tied together," said Atlanta pitcher Tom Glavine, the National League player representative. "There's caution on our side because obviously the big issues revenue sharing and luxury tax are out there." Finding a way to slow salaries has been a perennial management goal long before Bud Selig became commissioner in 1998. Players, however, would like keep things the way they are. Since 1976, the last season before free agency, the average salary has jumped from $5L500 to $238 million, a 46-fold increase. There seemed to be some progress in negotiations the past week, with players ending their mmmsmmm decades-old opposition to mandatory drug testing and agreeing to be tested for illegal steroids starting next year.

Players also are amenable to increasing the amount of local revenue teams share. But they oppose the luxury tax, which could force high-spending clubs to trim tens of millions of dollars from payrolls. Deigado placed on DL The Toronto Blue Jays placed first baseman Carlos Deigado on the 15-day disabled list with a sore back before yesterday's game against the Anaheim Angels at SkyDome. Deigado leads the Blue Jays with 21 home runs and 78 runs batted in, while hitting 254 in 109 games. Rays' Abemathy hospitalized: Tampa Bay second baseman Brent Abemathy was hospitalized with dehydration after the Devil Rays' 10-0 loss yesterday to the Kansas City Royals.

He will spend the night at St Luke's Hospital for further obser-vatioa Pineda to have surgery: Right-hander Luis Pineda, who made the Cincinnati Reds' bullpen out of spring training, will have rotator cuff surgery later this week that will sideline him for up to a year. EdMidu UnSS Gur.o Gay lord Entertainment Cczttr Wednesday, August 80, 0 Stewart doesn't view win as SOUNDS 2, REDBIRDS 1 Nashville bi Memphis ab 0 2 2 Meyerscf 4 0 0 0 Deigado ss 4 0 0 0 Nunnallyrf 2 0 0 0 Cruz 1b 3 0 0 0 Riggslf 3 1 2 0 Cootbaugh3b3 0 0 0 McDonald 3 Redman cf Brownrf Pride II Cotac Sacrist 3b Lopez ss Pritchefllb de la Rosa 2b 4 Arroyop 3 1 1 0 Clapp2b 3 0 1 0 Journelp 1 WaJrondp 0 Newsonph 1 Ohmep 0 Ncklep 0 Frank ph 1 2 6 2 Totals 28 NastivWe Memphis 020 000 000 2 6 0 010 000 000 1 3 0 DP-Nashville 2, Memphis 4, LOB-Nashville 7, Memphis 1. 2B-Redman, Lopez. HR-Codbaugh (21). SH-Hedman.

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Polesitter Ricky Rudd, hoping to tie Jeff Gordon's record with a seventh road-course victory, was fifth. Defending race champion Jeff Gordon, seeking to win for the fifth time in six years on the track, wound up 22nd. Series leader Sterling Marlin, beset by an engine problem, finished 30th. He leads lOth-place finisher Mark Martin by 53 points in the overall standings. Stewart led a race-high 34 laps, averaging 76.165 mph in an event slowed for 18 laps by seven caution flags.

There were 12 lead changes among nine drivers. Scott Pruett was sixth, followed by Jeff Burton, Todd Bodine and Michael Waltrip. Charge by phone 235-0CC0 Tichcte availafcla at cil Tidietmastcr Outlets crat Sponsored By: By DICK BRINSTER A Sports Writer WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. Tony Stewart doesn't think yesterday's victory at Watkins Glen International will help cure his emotional problem. "It's a Band-Aid," he said.

"It's not going to heal me a bit." Stewart was racing for the first time since being placed on a season-long probation for the STEWART second year in a row and fined $60,000 for punching a photographer Aug. 4 at the Brickyard 400 in Indianapolis. He said he is seeking professional help for his explosive temper. He was contrite when asked if he felt like a burden had been lifted from him. "It doesn't lift anything off my shoulders," Stewart said.

"It doesn't change anything I did last week. I'm stUl ashamed of what I GAYLORD oat 'iiro iqq rxtm nn 1 Foyt gets best finish as team owner did. "It's been a tough week for all of us. It's that way when you hurt your team and your sponsor." He said the shame of his act caused him to stay out of view of the public hiding out most of the time during the week in an Indianapolis motel He was happy to win, but realizes his problems on the track are minuscule compared to how he feels when he gets out of his car. 'Tomorrow, I'm going back to work to try to get my life back together again," he said.

But he had it all together in the race, and his Pontiac was the class of the field over the waning laps on the 2.45-mile road course. Stewart won by L636 seconds for his 15th career victory and third this year, matching Matt Kenseth for the most on the Winston Cup circuit Stewart hounded rookie Ryan Newman, who took the lead on the 63rd of 90 laps, trying him inside was thankful for the opportunity. "I'm glad I could give him his best finish in Winston Cup," said Jones, who started 14th and challenged several times for the lead. "He gave me this opportunity, and I didn't know if he was gonna give it to me or not because I had asked a few times to put me in his IRL cars at Indy, and he always came up with some reason not to." Gordon's losing steak continues: In the past five years, Jeff Gordon has established himself as the king of NASCAR's two road courses with a Winston Cup-record seven wins, including four in five years at Watkins Glen International. Despite starting 23rd, Gordon was in the top 10 as the race neared the hallway point.

Then, coming off the final turn at the top of the front straightaway, he slid into the grass along the fence before regaining controL After that, he was never a factor and finished 22nd. The showing, Gordon's third DMDDQ and outside on the serpentine course. Finally, the 31-year-old Stewart made his move on the 10th turn, and completed it on the 11th and final corner on the 72nd lap. 'Tony got me there coming into 10 and I was driving with the mirror the rest of the way," Newman said. Still, Stewart was worried about the restarts because of a fuel pressure problem, and was concerned about not winning because a big lead was taken away by NASCAR's decision to red-flag the race for a final one-lap sprint.

He wasn't alone. "It seemed like a half an hour," crew chief Greg Zipadelli said of the delay. "I was just hoping we could get one last good restart." They did, and Stewart's burst left Newman's Ford to hold off the other pursuers. Newman, making his first start on a road course, did that easily, and wound up with his fifth straight top-five finish. Robby Gordon was third.

P.J. worst in a dozen starts at the track, dropped him to fifth in the points standings, two points behind race-winner Tony Stewart But with Sterling Marlin's 30th-place showing, Gordon moved closer to the top and trails Marlin by 106 points. "I want to win races. I want to perform up to where we're capable of," Gordon said. "I'm not losing my confidence and I don't think the team is.

It's just disappointing that we didn't make the right calls. You can't fix it now. We just go to the next race." Gibbs speaks out Damage control continued yesterday for Tony Stewart, who won for the third time this year but will finish his second straight Winston Cup season on probation after punching a photographer last week. "We certainly didn't see anything coming. This is something that shouldn't have happened," said Joe Gibbs, owner of the No.

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