Chad to Dolphins
9. August 2008 by gchacko.
Chad Pennington, cut by the New York Jets after the team traded for Brett Favre, signed with the Miami Dolphins on Friday.The 32-year-old Pennington, expected to be the starting quarterback for Miami, agreed to a deal Friday worth $11.5 million over two years, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the move hasn’t been officially announced.
Chad Pennington, QB
Height: 6-3
Weight: 225
College: Marshall
Experience: 8
“We are neither confirming nor denying the report,” Dolphins spokesman Harvey Greene said Friday night.
Bill Parcells, now the Dolphins’ vice president of football operations, drafted Pennington with the 18th overall pick in 2000 when he was the Jets’ general manager.
The Dolphins, coming off a 1-15 season, will open the season against the Jets in Miami, giving Pennington an immediate chance to face his former team.
Before the signing, Pennington said he was disappointed but had no hard feelings after being released by the Jets.”I have enjoyed it,” Pennington said Friday in his first public comments since his release. “I’ve learned a lot, become a better professional and a better man because of my experience and my time in New York. I don’t regret or feel ashamed about anything that happened to me in my time in New York.”
An olympic tragedy-
9. August 2008 by gchacko.
A Chinese man attacked the two Americans — a man and a woman and their Chinese tourist guide — around 12:20 p.m. on the second level of the Drum Tower, a popular tourist attraction in north Beijing.
Citing the Beijing Municipal Government Information Office, the 47-year-old attacker, Tang Yongming, killed the American man and injured both the American woman and the female guide. The attacker was identified by an identity card found on the body.Tang then “killed himself by jumping from the second story of the Drum Tower.
A subsequent USOC statement identified the murder victim as Todd Bachman , father-in-law of U.S. men’s indoor volleyball head coach Hugh McCutcheon and father of McCutcheon’s wife, 2004 U.S. Olympic women’s indoor volleyball player Elisabeth Bachman McCutcheon. Bachman’s wife Barbara is in a local hospital with life-threatening injuries, and representatives of USOC and the U.S. Embassy are assisting the family at the hospital. Elisabeth Bachman McCutcheon was with them at the time of the attack and was not injured.
The attack happened shortly after midday, according to the statement from USOC. Johnson, his wife and numerous baseball players were at the silk fair — a popular tourist destination — all wearing street clothes. Darryl Seibel, a spokesman for USOC, said the victims of the attack were not wearing anything that identified them as Americans or as part of an Olympic delegation.
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Around the majors…
9. August 2008 by gchacko.
- According to Joe Frisaro of MLB.com, the Marlins signed Paul Lo Duca to a minor league deal today. Lo Duca will head to Triple A as the team’s insurance plan. Additionally, Joe Capozzi of the Palm Beach Post reports that the Marlins claimed Brad Ausmus off waivers from the Astros. It’s unclear whether they’ll work out a deal or salary dump. Ausmus is owed another $590K this year.
- It’s official - Giles has blocked the deal. The window has closed. You may recall he originally took less to sign with the Padres back in ‘05. Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe says Giles would have vetoed a deal to the Rays as well. Cafardo believes the Red Sox will continue to monitor the waiver wire for a bench bat. Amalie Benjamin says the Sox weren’t broken up about Giles’ decision, and trade talks didn’t get too far.
- Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle writes of “rumblings that several teams had put in waiver claims on A’s closer Huston Street.” A’s assistant GM David Forst wouldn’t comment specifically, but it is believed the team is unlikely to move Street this month. The A’s would have to receive prospects not on a team’s 40-man roster, or else somehow convince the Royals, Indians, and Mariners not to claim their return package.
- According to Todd Zolecki of the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Phillies acquired lefty Scott Eyre for A ball pitcher Brian Schlitter.
- According to Roch Kubatko of MASN Sports, the Rays won a waiver claim on reliever Chad Bradford. They’ll send a player to be named later to the Orioles for him. The Rays strengthened an already excellent bullpen.
