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Automotive SportsDay Classified, 8-11C The Dallas Morning News Section C Wednesday, July 8, 2009 RANGERS BRIEFS Fans want Holland’s home Ham? Fine still in bullpen Misguided critics tag Rookie is seen as a GET COVERAGE of Tuesday’s late Rangers slugger as starter long term, but Rangers-Angels ‘most undeserving’ probably no time soon game. dallasnews.com/sports here are things I love TIM COWLISHAW By JEFF WILSON Special Contributor and things I loathe [email protected] PAUL J. BERESWILL/Newsday Because of injuries, his last T about Major League timcowlishawblog.dallasnews.com Josh Hamilton injected life into last year’s All-Star Home ANAHEIM, Calif. — The five appearances have been as a Baseball’s All-Star Game. Run Derby, but he won’t participate this year. Rangers believe Derek Hol- starter. But the left-hander isn’t That, in itself, sets it apart with me. land’s future is as a starting likely to start again before the from its All-Star Game rivals The baseball game, by its States. If we’re tuned in to it’s a slow month over here. pitcher, even though he was All-Star break, though the because I don’t care to watch nature, comes at the right tennis in England and cycling So I think it’s the “nothing brought up in April to work out Rangers have yet to announce the others, and TV ratings time. The sports scene in July in France, no matter how of the bullpen as well as start suggest that most fans agree is pretty dead in the United great those events, it means See HAMILTON Page 5C when needed. See HOLLAND’S Page 5C HEROES ON THE WATER BERNARD PAPON/ US Presswire One step closer for Armstrong Astana easily won the team time trial, but if it had been slightly faster, Lance Armstrong would have taken the yellow jersey at the Tour de France. 3C NFL For starters, Packers have kept it together Green Bay had the league’s youngest roster last season, and it lost one primary starter, so another year may help it grow into a contender, NFL columnist Rick Gosselin writes. 6C METRO Suit doesn’t appear to include Cowboys No signs have been found that the Cowboys will be part of the lawsuit associated with the collapse of their indoor practice facility. 1B Ripple effect MAVERICKS Stackhouse knows he BEN TORRES/Special Contributor will change teams Medically retired Marine Brandon Blackstone of Arlington catches a fish during a Heroes on the Water outing at a private lake in the Wills Point area. Whether it’s the Shawn Marion trade or some other deal, Jerry Stackhouse has Volunteer group shows wounded veterans the healing power of kayak fishing realized his days with the Mavs are numbered. 3C osalinda Babin of Round Rock has spent six OUTDOORS On the web veterans Robert Aiken and CHAT LIVE with Mavericks Roger Preston listened to a years helping her son, Alan Babin Jr., overcome For additional information writer Eddie Sefko at 11:30 about Heroes on the Water, go brief orientation from HOW’s a.m. today on the R gunshot wounds suffered during an 82nd Air- to www.HeroesontheWater.org national coordinator, Jim Do- Mavericks blog. borne Division battle in the Middle East. or www.KayakAnglersSA.org. lan, before launching into a 10- dallasnews.com/sports acre private lake. When they attended a Heroes on the Water event, RAY SASSER HOW schedules as many ALSO INSIDE Rosalinda was moved by the poignant image of empty [email protected] terlude in quiet surroundings outings as possible on private Police still looking for wheelchairs lining the launch site, abandoned in favor sometimes results in a thera- waters. There’s a safety aspect motive in McNair case, 6C (HOW) is a Texas-based vol- peutic breakthrough, an unex- of not sharing the water with Joe Sakic to retire, 6C of kayaks. unteer organization that takes pected bonus for veterans and power boats, and game fish are Soccer Report, 2C “Looking out at the lake, huge therapeutic moment for wounded veterans on kayak for the HOW volunteers. generally easier to catch on pri- there was no way to differenti- the parent of a wounded war- fishing trips. In their sleek, low At a June fishing trip near vate lakes. SCORES ate between the able bodied rior,” Babin said. profile boats, kayakers feel a Farmersville, about 45 miles and the disabled heroes — a Heroes on the Water part of nature. A pleasant in- northeast of Dallas, Marine See VETERANS Page 7C AL, 4C NL, 4C at LA Angels ........... Pittsburgh.............6 Texas...................... at Houston............3 at Boston..............5 Cincinnati..............4 Oakland ................2 at Philadelphia ......3 at Tampa Bay ........3 Los Angeles...........8 Stars Toronto.................1 at New York..........0 first-year GM at Chicago ...........10 Atlanta.................2 Swedish snub stings Stars Joe Cleveland ..............6 at Chicago.............1 at Detroit..............8 St. Louis ...............5 Nieuwendyk Kansas City...........5 at Milwaukee ........0 STARS INSIDER Toronto Maple Leafs over the (right) NY Yankees.........10 at Colorado............5 Free-agent goaltender at Minnesota.........2 Washington...........4 chooses Leafs; Dallas Stars on Tuesday, leaving gambled at Seattle ............... San Diego ............... Nieuwendyk to search for a and lost in Baltimore................ at Arizona............... left with few options backup goalie, the shine was waiting for Florida.................... at San Francisco ...... off the apple for many Stars free-agent oe Nieuwendyk is finding fans, who littered message goalie Jonas For late scores, log on to dallasnews.com out why so many general MIKE HEIKA boards with doubts about Gustavsson’s J managers have gray hair [email protected] where Nieuwendyk is steering decision. INSIDE — or none at all. this ship. Classified....8-11 NHL ................6 The former Stars center re- by owner Tom Hicks to be the It’s probably foolish to Baseball.....4-5,7 Outdoors .........7 turned to Dallas like a con- team’s new GM and lead a jump to such conclusions this Colleges ..........2 Scoreboard ......7 Cycling..........3,7 Soccer...........2,7 quering hero a month ago at charge into a new generation early in the new administra- Motor sports ...2 Swimming .......7 the tender age of 42. Just a of hockey. tion. But criticism is part of the NBA................3 Tennis.............7 couple of years removed from But after free agent goalie NFL ..............2,6 Track & field ....2 playing, he was hand-picked Jonas Gustavsson chose the See STARS Page 6C LOUIS DeLUCA/Staff Photographer _ ........ C1 _ 07-08-2009 Set: 22:59:08 B0708SC001PCB0708SC001PMB0708SC001PYB0708SC001PKB0708SC001PQ Sent by: kstone Sports CYANMYBELLOWLACKAGENTA The Dallas Morning News dallasnews.com OUTDOORS/SWIMMING/SCOREBOARD _ Wednesday, July 8, 2009 7C RAY SASSER SWIMMING Olympians Veterans find calming waters make a big Continued from Page 1C night of it Though they had the run of Lochte leads way, wins 10 acres, Aiken and Preston fished side by side. It’s a pat- 400 IM at U.S. meet tern Dolan has witnessed re- peatedly. INDIANAPOLIS — Ryan Aiken, who’s starting a na- Lochte held off hard-charging tionwide U.S. Marine Corps Tyler Clary to win the 400-me- Chamber of Commerce, said ter individual medley at the that having an organized ac- U.S. national championships tivity involving other veterans Tuesday, leading a parade of is a good transitional activity Olympians who qualified for for men and women recon- the world meet later this necting with society. month. “During service, and par- Lochte and Clary raced to ticularly on deployment, mili- the wall, with Lochte touching tary personnel operate as a first in 4 minutes, 6.40 sec- team,” he said. “Transition is Photos by BEN TORRES/Special Contributor onds. Clary, who swims at reverse culture shock. Most Jim Dolan, national coordinator for Heroes on the Water, pulls Brandon Blackstone (right) to shallow water. Michigan, finished in 4:06.96. veterans groups focus their at- Christine Magnuson, a sil- tention inward or to the past. horseback riding has on autis- end bass boat, enabled HOW ver medalist at the Beijing HOW focuses on an activity, tic children. to buy 40 kayaks, paddles, life Olympics, won the 100 butter- and most young warriors “I will never forget one of jackets and other necessary fly, touching first in 57.15 sec- would rather do something the kids we took fishing on the fishing gear. Volunteers for onds, just ahead of Granbury’s other than swapping war sto- coast,” Dolan said. “He was to- HOW events mostly come Dana Vollmer, who put herself ries around a bar. With HOW, tally lost in whatever had hap- from TexasKayakFishermen- in line for a trip to Rome. we’re swapping stories across pened to him in the Middle .com, an online forum with Katie Hoff supplied the only a pond, without the hang- East and, when he responded 12,000 members, about surprise on opening night of over.” to our questions, his respons- 2,000 of them very active. the five-day meet at the Indi- es usually consisted of one Dolan said HOW needs ac- ana University Natatorium. Personal touch word. cess to more private lakes in The Olympic silver medalist “The first fish that he all Texas regions, as veterans faded to sixth in the 400 free- HOW was formed in 2007 caught resulted in a big grin. are spread throughout the style, her latest disappointing and has served about 130 vet- Forty-eight hours and several state. Some landowners have result since the Beijing Games. erans. HOW went national in fish later, he was looking us in gone beyond merely granting Except for Hoff, Olympians June, with events in Georgia, the eye and speaking in three- Brandon Blackstone (left) receives some pointers from access to their lakes.