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  • Express double-up Isotopes Wednesday

    The Albuquerque Isotopes banged out 13 hits Wednesday night at Round Rock, Texas, but those hits didn’t equate to many runs.
    Albuquerque managed just one run through eight innings Wednesday. It tried to mount a rally in the top of the ninth, but scored just one more run to lose 4-2 against the Express.
    The teams have just one more meeting in this series, that coming tonight, before the Isotopes return home for a quick four-game set against Memphis that opens Friday.
    Against Round Rock, Eilan Herrera and Tony Gwynn Jr. went a combined 7-for-9 at the plate from the Nos. 2 and 3 spots in the batting order and six of the other eight hitters to go up to the plate for the Isotopes had a hit but the Isotopes (34-32) couldn’t manage to string any of those hits together.
    Meanwhile, Round Rock (37-30) scored a pair of runs in the first and tacked on single scores in the third and seventh to win. Albuquerque pitcher Aaron Laffey (2-3) took the loss, giving up three earned runs on seven hits.
     

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  • Blackhawks win Game 1 thriller

    CHICAGO (AP) — Of course, it was Andrew Shaw. The pesky little forward always gets up when he's knocked down.
    The three-overtime opener of the Stanley Cup finals came to a thrilling end at the stroke of midnight Wednesday because the tenacious Shaw is a whole lot more than his reputation for irritating opposing players.
    Shaw skated in front of the goal at the right time, deflecting Dave Bolland's tip into the net for the winning score in the Chicago Blackhawks' 4-3 victory over the Boston Bruins in the fifth-longest game in the history of the Stanley Cup.
    "We knew it wasn't going to be pretty at that point," Shaw said. "You could tell both teams were physically exhausted. We've preached it: Go to the net, you'll find a way to get a greasy goal. We did a heck of a job of it there in the third overtime."
    Shaw was knocked down near the boards but got up as the puck came out to Michal Rozsival, who started the winning sequence with a shot from the right point into traffic. Bolland's tip then went off Shaw's right leg and past Tuukka Rask at 12:08 for his fifth goal of the playoffs.
    And just like that, the longest finals game in five years was over. Shaw skated off to the side and pumped his arms furiously, then joined his teammates for a weary celebration.

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  • James: ‘Something has to give’

    SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Game 4 of the NBA Finals will tell more about the Miami Heat than a 66-win regular season ever could.
    Any questions about LeBron James and the Heat were supposed to have been answered by now. He was too good to be taken out of games, his teammates too talented to go through long stretches where they weren’t contributing.
    But they didn’t resemble the league’s reigning powerhouse in Game 3, when the San Antonio Spurs handed them the third-worst beating in finals history in a 113-77 romp. They looked like the confused club from two years ago, when the finals last came to Texas.
    Another loss Thursday night and they’re on the verge of something much bigger than another finals failure.
    Lose this series, and the whole Big Three era might be a failure.
    “Something has to give tomorrow night,” James said Wednesday. “They have a championship pedigree. They have four (titles). We have two. So something has to give. We’ll see what happens. We’ve been able to bounce back throughout adverse times throughout the season throughout the years that we’ve been together, these three years. We’ll see.”

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  • State Notes 06-13-13

    Aggies’ Olive nominated for Woman of Year award

    New Mexico State University softball standout Amber Olive was nominated for a prestigious award by the NCAA.
    Olive is up for the NCAA’s Woman of the Year award following a big 2013 season and her role in areas of community service, leadership and academics.
    The NCAA Woman of the Year selection committee takes the top 10 candidates from Divisions I-III and from that pool the winner will be selected.
    Olive, a senior left fielder originally from Simi Valley, Calif., graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and communication studies, earning a cumulative grade-point average of 3.91.
    Olive is a three-time National Fastpitch Coaches Association Scholar-Athlete and was a four-time All-WAC Academic selection.
    For the Aggie softball team, she was an All-WAC first team player and led the conference in hits (79), runs (41) and was second in batting average (.393).
    She was also co-chair of Drive HOPE (Helping Other People Eat), an organization that collected more than 2,500 pounds of food for the underprivileged in Doña Ana County.

    NMSU announces soccer schedule for 2013 season

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  • Hollywood Stars 'demand Zero' Nuclear Weapons

    Hollywood heavyweights Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Morgan Freeman and more demand a world without Nuclear Weapons in the latest ad for the Global Zero campaign.

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  • Pa. girl's double-lung transplant deemed success

    PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A 10-year-old girl whose efforts to qualify for an organ donation spurred public debate over how organs are allocated underwent a successful double-lung transplant on Wednesday, the girl's family said.

    Sarah Murnaghan, who suffers from severe cystic fibrosis, received new lungs from an adult donor at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, spokeswoman Tracy Simon said.

    The Murnaghan family said it was "thrilled" to share the news that Sarah was out of surgery.

    "Her doctors are very pleased with both her progress during the procedure and her prognosis for recovery," the family said in a statement.

    During double-lung transplants, surgeons must open up the patient's chest. Complications can include rejection of the new lungs and infection.

    Sarah went into surgery around 11 a.m. Wednesday, and the procedure lasted about six hours, her family said.

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  • Co. Sheriff: Fire Damage Like 'Nuclear Blast'

    Colorado firefighters are getting the upper hand in the most destructive wildfire in the state's history.

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  • Register for dog training

    Registration for the next session of dog training classes offered by the Los Alamos Dog Obedience Club is going on now. Classes begin July 8 and sessions will include puppy kindergarten, basic manners, intermediate agility, recall and competitive obedience. Class schedule, registration guidelines and registration form will be available on the LADOC website (ladoc.dogbits.com) and at the LADOC building, 246 East Road. Registration is first-come, first-served, and classes often fill quickly, so timely registration is advised. Registration materials must be postmarked by June 21.
     

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  • People In the News 06-12-13

    Kayla R. Nelson, a 2006 graduate of Los Alamos High School and a 2010 graduate of New Mexico State University, graduated from the University of California — Davis Law School with a juris doctorate degree on May 17. Kayla is the daughter of Tim and Linda Nelson of Los Alamos. 

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