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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2013
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Tom Brady gets 3-year extension BY BARRY WILNER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tom Brady will be a Patriot until he is 40 years old. Brady agreed to a threeyear contract extension with New England on Monday, a person familiar with the contract told The Associated Press. The extension is worth about $27 million and will free up nearly $15 million in salary cap room for the team, which has several younger players it needs to re-sign or negotiate new deals with. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the extension has not been announced. Sports Illustrated first reported the extension.
Two-time MVP
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New England star quarterback Tom Brady signed a three-year extension to allow more money for other players on the AFC team.
The 35-year-old twotime league MVP was signed through 2014, and has said he wants to play at least five more years. A three-time Super Bowl champion, Brady will make far less in those three seasons than the going rate for star quarterbacks.
Brady currently has a four-year, $72 million deal with $48 million guaranteed. Drew Brees and Peyton Manning are the NFL’s highest-paid quarterbacks, at an average of $20 million and $18 million a year, respectively. Brady has made it clear he wants to finish his career with the Patriots, whom he led to Super Bowl wins for the 2001, 2003 and 2004 seasons, and losses in the big game after the 2007 and 2011 seasons. By taking less money in the extension and redoing his current contract, he’s hopeful New England can surround him with the parts to win more titles. Among the Patriots’ free agents are top receiver Wes Welker and his backup, Julian Edelman; right tackle Sebastian Vollmer; cornerback Aqib Talib; and running back Danny Woodhead. Brady has been the most successful quarterback of his era, of course, as well as one of the NFL’s best leaders.
No. 20 Colorado holds off Washington women THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOULDER, Colo. — Chucky Jeffery wasn’t about to let a tender left ankle keep her off the floor. Not on senior day and especially not after the nearly 3,600 fans braved blizzard conditions to arrive at Coors Events Center. Sore ankle and all, the senior guard scored 11
points and grabbed 13 rebounds in her final regular-season home game to help No. 20 Colorado hold on for a 68-61 win over Washington on Sunday. The Buffaloes (22-5, 11-5 Pac-12) won their seventh straight game as they took a step closer to securing one of the first-round byes for the conference tournament.
“It’s truly satisfying,� Jeffery said. “We knew what was at stake, but we just wanted to come out and play it like a regular game. “They’re a great team. They can score the ball, so for us to come out and hold them to 61 points, I think that’s really good for our team.� Arielle Roberson led four
Buffaloes in double figures with 16 points. The Huskies (19-8, 11-5) were led in scoring by Kristi Kingma, who finished with 19 points. Jazmine Davis was held in check most of the afternoon, scoring just nine points. She entered the game averaging 19.6. “I thought both teams played pretty well, but they
made a few plays down the stretch to give them a chance to win the game,� Washington coach Kevin McGuff said. Jeffery came up big for the Buffaloes even with a balky ankle. She fell awkwardly early in the second half and sat on the bench for nearly four minutes as
trainers examined her ankle. With her leadership missing from the floor, the Huskies worked their way back into the game. Although tentative on the ankle the rest of the way, Jeffery did help calm things down when she entered back into the game, especially late in the contest.
Zags: Receive highest basketball ranking ever CONTINUED FROM B1 “It’s March when we have been validated in the past, and that’s the next step,� Stockton said. But he admitted the players and fans were relishing the ranking. Guard Kevin Pangos cautioned that it is an ethereal honor.
“It can change in a flash in case we lose a game,� Pangos said, adding that players were well aware of the carnage at the upper reaches of the poll in recent weeks. “It makes us aware it can happen to us at any time.� Gonzaga’s remaining regular season games are at
BYU on Thursday and at home against Portland on Saturday. Louisiana Tech coach Michael White is another who has his eyes on March, even though his team cracked the poll for the first time in more than a quarter century. “It’s not a goal we set out to accomplish,� White said.
“What we’re really striving for is an NCAA tournament berth. But this is something that can’t be taken away from them, so I’m happy for them.� The Hoosiers, who have been ranked No. 1 for a total of 10 weeks this season, received all but one first-place vote from the 65-member national media
panel. Gonzaga got the other No. 1 vote. Duke moved up three spots to third and was followed by Michigan and Miami, which dropped from second after falling to Wake Forest, the Hurricanes’ first Atlantic Coast Conference loss this season. Kansas is sixth, followed by Georgetown, Florida,
Michigan State and Louisville. Saint Louis, which beat Butler and VCU last week, moved into 18th in the poll, the Billikens’ first ranking since being in for one week last season. Colorado State, which was 22nd and lost twice last week, and VCU, which was 24th, dropped out.
Dahlberg: Piazza pens a bizarre tell-all book
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snubbed for many awards because he didn’t show up at a dinner after being voted Rookie of the Year in 1993. And then, of course, his New York Mets teammates badmouthed him for staying in the game past his prime just to get more
home runs. It’s truly strange stuff. Then again we’re dealing with someone whose father wouldn’t let him eat candy or play the trombone as a kid because it might have interfered with his batting-cage sessions. It’s not until the last few
pages that Piazza is most candid. “I fully realize that I’ve alienated plenty of people over the years,� he writes. On that we can agree. The difference is that it makes no sense to keep alienating them today.
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CONTINUED FROM B1 and tell stories. I’m really flabbergasted by I don’t think I’ve ever that reference.� If there’s another theme And it all somehow hap- heard him knock a player or a coach. in the book, it’s that Piazza pened despite everyone He’s not just an 85-year- doesn’t believe he was ever from his first minor league old gem who means more appreciated enough for manager to Vin Scully to baseball than 10 Mike what he did on the baseball being against him. Piazzas ever will, he’s field. Fair enough, a guy’s Yes, he became incredientitled to his own opinion. aghast anyone would think he goes around bad-mouth- bly wealthy and women But when he tries to ing players. chased him and teammate blame Scully for turning “I can’t imagine saying Eric Karros down freeways the fans of Los Angeles after games, but LA fans, against him, the book went something about a player and his contract,� Scully in particular, never seemed from simply self-serving into a paranoid kind of fan- told the Los Angeles Times. to embrace him. He believes he was tasyland inhabited only by “I just don’t do that, ever. ex-stars. At issue was a 1998 spring training interview where the venerable Dodgers broadcaster asked Piazza about giving the team a deadline for signing him to a long-term contract. It was all quite innocu 0RElNISHED s 3AND &INISH ous, with Scully actually offering Piazza a chance to look good and the catcher responding with typical 821 ST 3T 0ORT !NGELES s TJSmOORINGPA COM jock generalities. #!20%4 s 4),% s ,!-).!4% s 7//$ s 6).9, It ended with Scully complimenting Piazza, saying his response was “well said.� Somehow, though, Piazza sees it differently. “The fans of Los Angeles were beating me up on a daily basis,� he wrote. “On top of that, Vin Scully was crushing me.� Horse. H orse. o Apparently Piazza also believes Scully tipped the 1996 MVP award to Ken Caminiti by praising him too much on his broadcasts. This is where I have my own confession to make: I grew up listening to Scully, and I’ve been in the booth 360-417-5137 with him at Dodger Stadium before games listening to him talk baseball