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Penalties cost Capitals against Rangers

The Capitals might not have allowed any power play goals in the first period against the New York Rangers on Sunday night but the three penalties they took in the final 14 minutes 10 seconds of the frame cost them in ways that aren’t easily quantified by the scoreboard according to Coach Adam Oates.
“It makes it so difficult because the team has no rhythm, you’ve got some guys that don’t kill penalties, don’t get to play,” Oates said. “You’re using guys in other situations, you want to save that energy if possible. And you give them life. We had a 1-0 lead and all of a sudden, you give them life. You get their good players on the ice, they get touches with the puck, you’ve gotta stay out of the box.”
Washington’s first infraction in its eventual 2-1 loss at the Rangers was for too-many men on the ice, the result of a sloppy line change just under six minutes in. Then 47 seconds after the Capitals killed that penalty, Jason Chimera went to the box for boarding Rangers defenseman Dan Girardi. Troy Brouwer was whistled for boarding defenseman Anton Stralman with just 1:40 remaining in the first.
At the end of the first period Nicklas Backstrom had played 3:01 of his total 6:52 of ice time short-handed, Brouwer skated 2:15 on the penalty kill of his 5:52.

“You use a lot of minutes, a lot of guys using a lot of energy killing penalties, Nick and Troy, guys that we need at the other end, especially. But once again, we obviously did some good things. We didn’t give them a lot of chances. They had a lot of shots, but a lot of perimeter, not really a lot of Grade A chances. We did some good things, but we still made a lot of mistakes.”
While the penalties certainly threw the Capitals’ minutes off kilter and gave the Rangers unnecessary encouragement, it was an oddly officiated game. Officials missed a blatant trip by Backstrom on Rangers captain Ryan Callahan around the midway point of the first, but then called tripping when Karl Alzner’s stick got caught in the feet of Brad Richards 4:18 into the third period.
Oates also questioned the boarding call on Brouwer, stating that a play like his hit on Stralman “happens so many times” over the course of game.
Alzner was in the box for that trip when Derek Stepan scored the go-ahead goal. It only took the Rangers seven seconds into that power play, their fourth of the game, to make it 2-1. As much as it was a tough call, Alzner realized why the referee called it.
“I understand why he called it and the only thing is you hope he gives you the benefit of the doubt for it being a hockey play, checking a guy and him trying to jump over the stick,” Alzner said. The referee “didn’t and I have to deal with that. It’s just crappy that that’s pretty much the reason why we lost the game.”
Both Oates and a few players said that Sunday’s contest seemed to be called in a tighter fashion than even other games early in this abbreviated season. They reiterate the old adage that calls will eventually even out, but that’s not easy to remember in the heat of the moment when all the Capitals see is frequent trips to the box.
“Maybe tonight, we were on the short end of the stick, but there’s plenty of nights where we’re not,” Oates said. “So bottom line is you’ve gotta be in control and you can’t take penalties.”

Diabolical No. 10 proves to be real winner at Riviera Country Club

The man who won the Northern Trust Open in a playoff Sunday called it "one of the great par fours we play." The man who lost in the playoff called it "funky" and added, "They might as well put a windmill out there."
So, although the record books will show that Long Beach's John Merrick won the golf event in a playoff with Charlie Beljan, the real winner appeared to be, as usual, No. 10 at Riviera Country Club.
That's where the tournament ended, same as last year. Second playoff hole, same as last year.

It is a par four that plays a few yards over the 300 mark, has docile-looking traps in front and around it and is a wide-open drive from an elevated tee, with the historic and picturesque Riviera clubhouse overlooking it from above. Those playing it for the first time see a breather from the length, traps and lightning greens of the other holes. Their initial reaction is always the same. Ah, something easier.
Sailors viewing the sirens of Greek mythology thought the same thing.
Riviera's No. 10 is the burr in the saddle of PGA Tour players. It is the stone in their shoe, the annoying tag on the new shirt that itches and scratches the back of their neck. It is golf's version of fingernails on a blackboard.
It lay in wait for Merrick and Beljan as the sunny afternoon drew to an end. It had destroyed half of the field along the way and left the other half thanking the powers above that this was the last day of the tournament and they had escaped with minor injuries.
By the time the last group of the day, the leading threesome of Bill Haas, Webb Simpson and Charl Schwartzel, was teeing it up on the hill in the distance, it had done most of its usual selective torture. Haas had taken a three-shot lead into the day. Simpson and Schwartzel were in second at nine under par, as was Merrick, playing in the group ahead.
Merrick had made a birdie and headed off to the No. 11 tee. His birdie was one of 12 for the day there. There were also 16 bogeys and two double bogeys. One of the doubles was by Josh Teater, who played the rest of the course beautifully, shot 69 and shared sixth place. One of the bogeys was by Beljan.
Chances were excellent that the winner of this prestigious golf tournament would come from that final threesome. Schwartzel and Simpson were major winners, Schwartzel the 2011 Masters and Simpson the 2012 U.S. Open. They were battled-tested veterans.
Haas has yet to win a major but has made a significant mark on the tour, especially with a pressure-packed, career-defining shot out of water to win the 2011 FedEx Cup and its accompanying $10-million prize.
Even more significant, he had won here last year, sinking a 50-foot putt on the second playoff hole. Yes, No. 10. Also, his third-round 64 this year had been achieved with the help of a chip-in eagle on, you guessed it, No. 10.
Sunday, as No. 10 beckoned evilly, Simpson decided to lay up, Schwartzel decided to hit driver and cut his shot left to right to the front of the green. Haas wanted to do something similar but hit his driver too flush and watched helplessly from the tee, palms down in a gesture that asked the shot to get down and avoid a collection area to the left of the green from where Houdini himself could not get the next shot to stay on the green.
No. 10, with a green so narrow and slanting that it would be tough to stop a bowling ball on it, had smiled and collected Haas.
Schwartzel got up and down in two for a birdie and remained in contention to the end. Simpson made par and did nothing special the rest of the way, shooting one-over 37 on the back.
Haas chipped into the back trap, took a bogey and was in the midst of a contention-killing, six-out-of-seven-hole run of fives.
As the trio walked off the green, the scorekeeper's placard showed three red numbers — 10, 10, 10 — each now that equal margin under par. Devilishly, No. 10 had given to Schwartzel, yawned at Simpson and taken away from Haas. The only surprise was that the placard didn't read 6, 6, 6.
So it came to pass that Merrick and Beljan, having tied in regulation and parred the first playoff hole, No. 18, stood on the 10th tee and stared toward golfing hell.
"From the tee box," Merrick said later, "you're sitting there, and it looks like — it just looks easy."
Beljan said later, "I don't really have anything good to say about the 10th hole."
Merrick laid up with an iron. Beljan hit a laser drive well left of the green to a near-impossible position to get the ball anywhere for a decent putt. He was a first-timer here and was asked later if he thought lack of local knowledge hurt him.
"I think you could play that hole 10,000 times," he said, "and still not know how to play No. 10."
Merrick's lob wedge left him close enough for a fairly comfortable two-putt par. Beljan scrambled nicely and had 4 feet 7 inches left for a par that would send the playoff to No. 14.
But No. 10 decided it was time for the tournament to end. Beljan's putt touched the side of the cup and squirted away.
Merrick, continuing his theme of praise and awe, said later, "From the tee, it looks like the most benign hole."
Some would see that as merely an assessment. Those with a clearer understanding of No. 10 at Riviera know better. Merrick was sucking up for next year.

Purple Heart medal awarded in LA to WWII soldier's daughter

Hyla Merin gladly accepted a Purple Heart, a Silver Star and six other war medals at her home Sunday. But she is no war vet. The honors were earned by a man she's never met.
"It's such an honor to do this in his memory," Merin said in tears. "I was named after him that's how my name Hyla comes from Hyman which was his name."
It was May of 1945 when 2nd Lt. Hyman Markel was killed in a gunfight while fighting German troops in Italy during WWII. If not for pictures Merin would have no idea what he look like. The Army officer died before she was born. Her mother didn't speak about her father much. He died while she was seven months pregnant with Merin.
"We had a few pictures, not many, a few pictures in the house up," Merin said. "My mother was kind of stoic. It was hard for her always to talk about it. A lot of what I know I know from my aunts and other family members who would tell me stories."
The manager of a West Hollywood apartment building found her father's medals and other items in a box hidden in a laundry room locker. Her parents had lived in the building in the 60s.
Purple Hearts Reunited founder Zachariah Fike was contacted. The Vermont Army National Guard captain, who founded the organization, reunites lost war medals with their rightful owner.
"I try to honor the veterans," Fike said. "I go through a local congress man and get all the other awards that he would have been entitled to and I get them framed professionally for the families. In this case, he'll get a professionally framed set of medals that he was entitled to for his service in the war."
These medals prove the strong, courageous and brave father she dreams about to this day isn't just a fantasy she envisions; he was real.
"This is kind of tears of love and joy," Merin said. It was a part of me. I've always known he was a wonderful person."

Pope Electors Are Sizing Up a Field of Peers

There is no formal nominating process for choosing the man to succeed Pope Benedict XVI, and campaigning for oneself is counterproductive. But the cardinals who will file into the Sistine Chapel next month to elect a new leader of the Roman Catholic Church have been quietly sizing up potential candidates for years.

They were impressed when the young soon-to-be-cardinal of Manila, Luis Antonio Tagle, told bishops gathered for a momentous synod in Rome last October that the church should listen more and admit its mistakes. They took note a year ago when Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York delivered a winning address on evangelization to the College of Cardinals, the day before the pope gave him the red hat of a cardinal.

They deemed Cardinal Marc Ouellet a gracious host on their visits to the Vatican, where he guides the selection of bishops, but some said he practically put the crowd to sleep during his talk at the International Eucharistic Congress last June in Dublin.

These impressions, collected from interviews with a variety of church officials and experts, may influence the very intuitive, often unpredictable process the cardinals will use to decide who should lead the world’s largest church.

The cardinals will gather on March 1, one day after Benedict steps down and departs for Castel Gandolfo, the papal summer home in the hills outside Rome. The cardinals will meet every morning to discuss where the church is headed and, over lunches and dinners, take the measure of one another’s characters, talents and experiences, based on personal relationships and observations. But undoubtedly they will also consider geography, doctrinal approach and style.

By the time the 117 cardinal electors enter the conclave to choose the next pope, they must be ready to vote.

According to church rules, the conclave could begin on March 15, but the Vatican spokesman said Saturday that it may start even earlier. The cardinals, eager to finish the process by Palm Sunday on March 24, could reinterpret the mandatory 15-day waiting period, the spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said.

The waiting period was intended to allow time for cardinals to gather after the death of a pope, but because Benedict’s resignation has already been announced, the cardinals have advance notice and, in fact, many have already begun discussions by phone and e-mail.

“People are reluctant to speak about themselves,” said Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, who voted in the conclave that elected Benedict in 2005. “So you go to a friend and say, Can you tell me about cardinal so-and-so?”

“The questions are usually about the qualities you want to see in a pope. Is he a man of prayer, is he deeply rooted in the apostolic faith, can he govern, is he deeply concerned about the poor?” Cardinal George said in a telephone interview. “It matters far less where he happens to be living or where he’s from.”

The auditions begin in earnest on Sunday when Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, an Italian who is president of the Pontifical Council for Culture, is scheduled to preach the weeklong papal Lenten retreat, attended by Benedict and many of the cardinals and bishops who work in the Vatican. Preaching the Lenten retreat is a high honor, one bestowed on Karol Wojtyla and Joseph Ratzinger before they became Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI.

“It’s not only going to be seen as a sign of papal favor, but it will give him a platform,” said John Thavis, the retired Rome bureau chief for Catholic News Service, a church-affiliated news agency, and author of “The Vatican Diaries.” “People will be listening very carefully.”

“The way candidates come to the fore is generally not by what they’re doing in their local archdioceses, which is what matters most to their own people,” he said. “It’s what they do at the center of the universal church.”

The case of Cardinal Ravasi exemplifies the way the cardinals will sift and weigh a candidate’s attributes against the church’s needs. Church leaders now say their greatest challenge is to confront a rising wave of secularism in Europe, the United States and even Latin America, and Cardinal Ravasi has energetically engaged nonbelievers across Europe with high-profile events in cities like Stockholm; Paris; Tirana, Albania; and Bucharest, Romania.

At a time when many prelates say the church must learn to use social media to evangelize, he has more than 35,000 followers on Twitter.

However, to the cardinals and bishops in the Vatican, according to Sandro Magister, a Vatican expert at the magazine L’Espresso, “Ravasi is considered very ambitious and much too inclined to chase the applause of the public.”

The other Italians who are more solid candidates, Mr. Magister said, are Cardinal Angelo Scola, the archbishop of Milan and a theologian who has often addressed the challenges of secularism and Islam in Europe, and Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, the archbishop of Genoa and president of the Italian bishops conference.

Personality may be pre-eminent, but geography has increasingly been a factor. With the church shrinking in Europe, and the majority of Catholics now living in Africa, Asia and Latin America, many Catholics are calling for the cardinals to turn the reins over to a leader from the global south. The church has never had a non-European pope in the modern era. (The last, according to Vatican records, was Gregory III, a Syrian, who served until 741.) Benedict has actually increased the percentage of cardinals from Italy and reduced the percentage from the developing world. But they do not necessarily vote in geographic blocs. The cardinals from Italy are said to be divided into factions, according to church experts in Rome, as are those from Latin America.

For those spoken of as front-runners, granting news media interviews in the weeks before a conclave can backfire, church observers say.

Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana, already tarnished by having shown an unforgivingly anti-Islam video at a church event last year, probably hurt his chances recently by speaking to The Daily Telegraph of London as if he had already been elected pope: “It is going to be a life-changing experience, and I think that is what it has been for Benedict and those who have gone before us.”

In the past, the cardinals with posts in the Vatican bureaucracy had an advantage because they had spent more time with bishops visiting from around the world. Bishops elevated to cardinal are appointed to Vatican committees and see one another more frequently in Rome.

“The most important thing is personal contact,” said Msgr. James P. Moroney, rector of St. John’s Seminary, in Boston, and a liturgist who has worked in the Vatican and at the American bishops’ conference in Washington. “Someone’s reputation is very important, but when you establish a personal relationship, that’s when you really make up your mind.”

Benedict has intentionally created more opportunities for the cardinals to get to know one another before they elect the next pope, said Rocco Palmo, a Philadelphia writer who closely follows developments in the hierarchy on his blog, “Whispers in the Loggia.”

Benedict elevated new groups of cardinals five times during his eight-year papacy, and on all but one of those occasions he gathered the cardinals together for a daylong meeting before the formal elevation rite. It was at such a meeting in February 2012 that Cardinal Dolan won praise for his talk on evangelization, Mr. Palmo said. “The cardinals all got the chance to size each other up and listen to one another, and there was no seniority in terms of who could speak,” he said.

In the last conclave eight years ago, there were alliances of liberal and conservative cardinals. But this time, the spectrum has narrowed because 50 of the cardinals were created by John Paul II and 67 by Benedict, both doctrinal conservatives. (Cardinals age 80 and older cannot participate.)

“This time most of them are on the same page,” said Msgr. Anthony Figueiredo, director of the Institute for Continuing Theological Education at the North American College, in Rome.

“What’s going to be very key in this conclave is the person, the personality,” Monsignor Figueiredo said. “Is he a man who can really speak to the hearts of people in this secularized, de-Christianized world where people, let’s face it, are leaving the church and need to be attracted to the message?”

Famous female firsts in sports history

Based on the news that Danica Patrick won the Daytona 500 pole Sunday, here are more famous female firsts in sports history.
Feb. 17, 2013: Danica Patrick wins the pole at Daytona 500, the first woman to ever clinch a pole in the Cup Series. The previous best start was ninth by Janet Guthrie.
Sept. 9, 2012: Shannon Eastin became first woman to be an official in an NFL regular-season game.
Aug. 8, 2012: For the first time, the United States sends more female than male athletes to the Olympic Games in London.
Aug. 8, 2012: Sarah Attar became the first Saudi Arabian track and field athlete at the Olympic Games and one of the first two women to compete for Saudi Arabia in their Olympic team.
August 2012: Condoleeza Rice and Darla Moore became the first woman admitted as members to the Augusta National Golf Club.
December 2010: The Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team extended its winning streak to a record 90 games before it ended Dec. 30, 2010 in a loss to Stanford.
June 2010: Cammi Granato and Angela James became first women elected to be inducted into Hockey Hall of Fame.
Jan. 24, 2010: Kelly Kulick of Union, N.J., became the first woman to win a PBA Tour title when she defeated Chris Barnes to win the Lumber Liquidators PBA Tournament of Champions in Las Vegas. Kulick earned a berth in the Tournament of Champions by winning the PBA Women's World Championship, the first PBA women's major tournament.
:Nov. 5, 2009: Nancy Lieberman became the first woman to become head coach of an NBA-affiliated team, Frisco of the NBDL.
Feb. 5 2009: Tennessee women's basketball coach Pat Summitt recorded her 1,000th win in a game against Georgia.
February 2009: Kim Bain became the first woman to compete in the Bassmaster Classic in the events 38-year history. She finishes in 47th place in fishing's most prestigious event.
April 27, 2008: Ashley Force became the first woman to win a race in NHRA Funny Car history. She won the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Southern Nationals at the Atlanta Dragway.
April 20, 2008: Lorena Ochoa won four consecutive LPGA events in a four-week span.
April 20, 2008: Danica Patrick won the Japan Grand Prix, the first woman to win a closed course top-level event.
April 25, 2006: NBA referee Violet Palmer became the first woman to officiate an NBA playoff game. She worked Game 2 of the Nets-Pacers first-round series.
April 9, 2006: Katherine Legge finished eighth in the Champ Car series race at Long Beach. It was the best finish by a female driver in the history of the series (founded as CART in 1978).
2006: Negro Leagues owner Effa Manley is the first woman elected and inducted to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
May 29, 2005: Danica Patrick set several marks for women at the Indianapolis 500. She started the race in fourth position (best starting position for a woman), she led three times for 19 laps (first women to lead a lap at the Indy 500) and finished fourth (best finish for a woman).
May 2005: Former BET executive Shelia Johnson became the WNBA's first black female owner when she purchased the Washington Mystics from Abe Pollin.
October 2004: Isabelle Beisiegel became the first female to enter the PGA Tour qualifying tournament (Q-school). Her 72-hole total of 35-over 323 was last among the 78 players who completed all four rounds.
July 2003: Suzy Whaley played in the Greater Hartford Open after becoming the first woman to officially qualify for a PGA Tour event since Babe Zaharias in 1945. She won the 2003 Connecticut PGA Chapter Championship.
May 2003: Annika Sorenstam became the first woman since Babe Zaharias in 1945 to play in a PGA Tour event. Sorenstam was given a sponsor's exemption to play in the Bank of America Colonial Tournament.
April 13, 2003: Goaltender Ginny Capicchioni became the first woman to compete in the National Lacrosse League, playing nearly 12 minutes for the New Jersey Storm. Capicchioni allowed six goals on 13 shots, finishing with seven saves in less than 12 minutes in an 18-9 loss to the Vancouver Ravens.
February 2003: Teresa Phillips is named Tennessee State's head basketball coach, becoming the first female coach of a Division I men's basketball team in NCAA history.
February 2003: Hayley Wickenheiser became the first woman to score in a men's professional hockey game.
December 2002: Katie Hnida became the first woman to play in a Division I-A football game when she tried an extra point for New Mexico against UCLA in the Las Vegas Bowl. It was blocked in the Bruins' 27-13 victory.
November 2001: Stephanie Ready became the first woman to coach a men's professional sports team when she took the job of assistant coach for the Greenville Groove of the National Basketball Developmental League.
August 2001: Ashley Martin, placekicker at Jacksonville State University in Alabama became the first woman to play and score in a Division I college football game.
Oct. 31, 1997: Violet Palmer became the first woman to officiate an NBA game, between the Dallas Mavericks and Vancouver Grizzlies. The second female ref, Dee Kantner, made her debut six days later.
May 1997: Ila Borders of the Saint Paul Saints became the first woman to pitch in a regular-season professional game.
April 1995: Heather Sue Mercer earned spot as placekicker on Duke football roster. She later sued for sex discrimination after being cut.
June 1993: Julie Krone became the first woman to win a Triple Crown race (Belmont Stakes). Krone didn't race in the 1994 Belmont, but finished as runner-up in 1995.
Dec. 13, 1992: Manon Rheaume became the first woman to play in a regular-season professional hockey game. She was goalie for the Atlanta Knights in the IHL.
1988 Shauna Robinson became the first woman to win a NASCAR Touring Series event and in 1994 won the pole at Atlanta for the NASCAR Busch Series.
1986: Nancy Lieberman became the first woman to play in a men's professional basketball league when she joined the Springfield Fame of the USBL.
1985: Lynette Woodard became the first woman to play for the Harlem Globetrotters.
1984: Victoria Roche of Belgium became the first girl to play in the Little League World Series.
May 1980: Betty Ellis became the first woman to officiate in a major sports league in the U.S. or Canada as a linesman for the North American Soccer League.
September 1979: The Indiana Pacers signed Ann Meyers to a one-year, no-cut contract for $50,000. She was the first woman signed by an NBA team (and they cut her seven days later).
May 1977: Janet Guthrie became the first woman to compete in the Indianapolis 500 and Daytona 500. She finished ninth at Indy in 1978 with a team she formed, owned and managed.
1976: Shirley Muldowney became the first woman to win a National Hot Rod Association race. After, Muldowney became the first woman to win a Top Fuel NHRA race.
1973: Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in the "Battle of the Sexes." King won 6-4, 6-3, 6-3.
June 1972: Bernice Gera became the first woman umpire in organized baseball (Class A NY PA). She quit after seven innings of league game claiming the "only thing I learned from baseball is how to be bitter."
1969: Diane Crump, 20, was escorted by police and greeted with boos and cheers at Florida's Hialeah racetrack as she became the first woman to ride in a pari-mutuel race in the United States. A year later, she became the first female jockey to race in the Kentucky Derby, finishing 15th among 17 riders.
1953: Toni Stone became the first woman to play as a regular on a big-league professional team as a member of the Negro League's Indianapolis Clowns.