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Downtown Art Market offers accessible outlet for sale of local art, networking By MERIDETH MURPHEY

“We got started with it because a lot of people couldn’t get on First Friday, because First Friday is such a Local artists gathered for the huge deal, so we gave them another Downtown Art Market Saturday at chance to do this. Plus, this is more the Tornado Gallery to demonstrate of a chance to sell it; it doesn’t seem and sell their art and congregate with like such an exhibit.” fellow artists. Melissa Jones, a local artist who According to the-downtown-art- has been selling her work at the art market.blogspot.com, the Downtown market since last August, said the Art Market is an effort to unite art- Tornado Gallery and the Downtown ists of all genres Art Market — musicians, support local writers, potters, artists in many actors, painters, ways. gardeners, chefs, “We’ve singers, dancers, made a lot of hackers, tinkerreally good ers, renewable contacts here,” energy gurus Jones said, “and and philosothe gallery is rephers — to buy, ally good about sell, trade, talk supporting the and even teach artists. If sometheir arts and body is looking skills in a comfor something munal space. they know Larry Simwhich artist mons, Coto recommend founder of the to that person LARRY SIMMONS Downtown Art and they’ve Cofounder Market, said he helped us a lot The Downtown Art Market and his business there on getpartner Tony ting commisGreer decided sions.” start the event 15 months ago in an Jones, who primarily sells handeffort to give local artists an addi- painted buffalo gourds at the art tional outlet to display their work. market, said art has always been a “It’s a downtown market that lets part of her life. locally and regionally produced artists “I come from a family of artists set up in a communal environment so it’s just always been part of my to sell their wares,” Simmons said. life,” Jones said. “Art and music STAFF WRITER

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were always the main emphasis in our home.” Shari Holloway is a metalsmith who also sells her work at the art market. “I do dichroic glass jewelry and I start off by making my glass, I fuse my glass together, and then I set it in sterling silver, that’s called metal smithing,” Holloway said, “and I also make dichroic glass pendants, himmered and all kinds of designs, sterling silver earrings and I do copper earrings. I do art where I use postage stamps; I use all different mediums for my work.” Holloway said the art market the only venue through which she sells her work and she thinks it is a great event. “Oh, the art market is awesome,” Holloway said. “It’s a wonderful place for us to be able to come, we as artists, and it’s very affordable and we can put our wares out, our merchandise, you know you’re getting one-of-a-kindtype art and it’s just a great avenue for us to be able to show our ware and sell our wares.” Simmons said one of the great things about the art market is that it contributes to the local economy. “This is economic stimulus at its best because every dollar made here stays here locally,” Simmons said, “it’s going to go back into our own economy.” The Downtown Art Market is held on the second Saturday of every month, except January, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Tornado Gallery located at 1820 PHOTO BY MERIDETH MURPHEY/The Daily Toreador Buddy Holly Ave. STEPHEN JONES (LEFT) demonstrates his wife Melissa Jones’ wares to a potential patron Saturday at the

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Texas CafĂŠ and Bar welcomes local talent By TRISTIN WALKER STAFF WRITER

Every Sunday from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m., Texas CafĂŠ and Bar â&#x20AC;&#x201D; located on 50th street â&#x20AC;&#x201D; welcomes music fans of all genres to come out to their Open Jam Night for live music. Texas CafĂŠ and Bar is nicknamed â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Spoon.â&#x20AC;? Since 1997, the venue has been hosting Open Jam Night every Sunday to fulfill the needs of the local Lubbock community who desire to hear live music ranging in style from classic rock to Motown to country to rap, Sean Frankhouser, a member of the House Band, said. Frankhouser, who plays bass and sings for the band, said he and the other two band members; Eric Holmes, who plays drums, and Jesse Ballew, who plays lead guitar and sings, have been playing together at the Texas CafĂŠ and Bar every Sunday night since 2000. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just enjoy having people come out here who have a passion for playing,â&#x20AC;? Frankhouser said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I encourage anyone who wants to get up on stage and play for a crowd to come on down, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll listen.â&#x20AC;? Frankhouser said Open Jam Night gives bands an opportunity to have

part of the Lubbock community listen to their songs. He said they also have room for and welcome those who just want to play a song or two with the House Band. Also, the House Band plays song requests. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will play any song that is shouted out at us,â&#x20AC;? Frankhouser said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and if we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know it we improvise.â&#x20AC;? Laura and Robert Dickerson, both of Lubbock, said they have been coming to Texas CafĂŠ and Bar for decades and are not stopping anytime soon. The couple, who were sitting at a front table, drinking beer and nodding to the music, said the live music at Texas CafĂŠ cannot be beat. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you want good live music this is where you come,â&#x20AC;? Laura said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This place is iconic.â&#x20AC;? She also said the atmosphere at Texas CafĂŠ and Bar is unlike any other and there is something at the venue for everyone. They have Billiards, a variety of live music and cold drinks. Texas CafĂŠ and Bar also hosts guest bands, including Lubbockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own Kinky Wizards and Electric Gypsies of Midland, during the week and on PHOTO BY TRISTIN WALKER/The Daily Toreador weekends all this month. FROM LEFT: JESSE Ballow (guitar and vocals), Robert Smith (guest drummer) and Sean Frankhouser (bass and vocals) perform Sunday at the Texas Cafe and Bar. Ballow and Frankhouser have been playing as part of the barâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s House Band for more than ten years.

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Undersea robots maneuvered a mile beneath the Gulf on Monday to delicately lower a new, tighter-fitting cap over BPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s busted well, a fix the oil giant hopes can finally stop the leak after nearly three months. The new cap, a 150,000-pound metal stack, was about 300 feet from where itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s supposed to be installed on top of the leaking well, BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said in a Monday morning news briefing. A swarm of remote-controlled robots moved around heavy equipment near the seafloor on live video provided online by BP PLC. It was not clear how close the cap was to the well, but Suttles said the operation was complex and

could take longer than they expect. Oil could still be seen flowing freely from the top of the well where the cap will be attached. The BP executive was careful to keep expectations grounded, stressing that once the cap is in place, it will take days to know whether it can withstand the pressure of the erupting oil and feed it through pipes to surface ships. The cap and vessels together make up BPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plan to stop oil from spewing into the Gulf for the first time since April 20. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Until we have the cap on, securely fitted in place, and know itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s operating per the design, we have to recognize this is a complex operation,â&#x20AC;? Suttles said.

It is the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worst offshore oil spill. The well has spewed between 89.3 million and 176.4 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, according to federal estimates. T h e E x x o n Va l d e z s p i l l e d about 11 million gallons. Gulf residents were wary after weeks of failed efforts to stop the spill and downcast about the damage already done to the biologically rich Gulf and the coastâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two leading industries, fishing and tourism. Matthew Peterson, a crabber in Yscloskey, La., hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t put out his traps since oil began washing ashore. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The oil is still out there, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be there for, what, maybe 10 years?â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Until itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cleaned up, nothingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to get back to

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‘Barefoot Bandit’ nabbed after 2 years Police flew Harris-Moore in shackles to Nassau. True to his nickname, the teen with close-shorn hair was shoeless as he walked off the plane wearing short camouflage cargo pants, a short-sleeved shirt and a bulletproof vest. Harris-Moore is blamed for several thefts in the Bahamas in the week since allegedly crash-landing a stolen plane there, and Bahamian authorities said he will be prosecuted for those crimes before the start of any U.S. extradition proceedings. The 6-foot-5-inch Harris-Moore had been on the run since escaping from a Washington state halfway house in 2008. He is accused of breaking into dozens of homes and committing burglaries across Washington, as well as in British Columbia and Idaho. He is also suspected of stealing at least five planes — including the aircraft he allegedly lifted in Indiana and flew more than 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) to the Bahamas, despite a lack of formal flight training. Some of his alleged actions ap-

peared intended to taunt police: In “I feel like it would have been good February, someif he got away because he one who broke into a grocery never hurt anystore in Washbody, but then ington’s San he was running Juan Islands from the law,” said Ruthie drew cartoonish, chalk-outKey, who owns a market on line feet all over the floor. Great Abaco Through it Island and let all, his ranks Harris-Moore of supporters use her wireless Internet congrew. Some of his more than nection July 5. “He seemed 60,000 Facebook fans postvery innocent ed disappointed when I spoke with him at the messages Sunday, while othstore. I don’t think he’d hurt ers promoted TANNE WARD shirts and tote anybody,” Key Property Manager bags with the said. Romora Bay Resort and Island powords “Free ColMarina on Harbout Island ton!” and “Let lice had been Colton Fly!” searching for Even someone in the Bahamas had the teen since he allegedly crashmixed feelings about his arrest. landed the plane on Abaco, where he

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NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — For two years he stayed a step ahead of the law — stealing cars, powerboats and even airplanes, police say, while building a reputation as a 21st-century folk hero. But Colton Harris-Moore’s celebrity became his downfall. Witnesses on the Bahamian island of Eleuthera recognized the 19-yearold dubbed the “Barefoot Bandit” and called police, who captured him Sunday after a high-speed boat chase, Bahamas Police Commissioner Ellison Greenslade said at a celebratory news conference in Nassau, the capital. Greenslade said shots were fired during the water chase but he did not say who fired them. He also said Harris-Moore was carrying a handgun that he tried to throw away. Another senior police official, however, said police fired to disable the motor on the suspect’s stolen boat, and that Harris-Moore threw his gun in the water. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the case, also said that police recovered a laptop and a GPS locator from the suspect.

6 dead in Albuquerque shooting ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A gunman opened fire at an Albuquerque fiber optics manufacturer on Monday, killing five people and wounding four others before turning the gun on himself in what police said was a domestic violence dispute. The shooting at Emcore Corp. appeared to involve the 37-year-old gunman’s ex-wife or girlfriend, police Chief Ray Schultz said. It was not immediately clear whether she was among the dead, or what caliber weapon he used. “In a situation like this, there are other people in the building and they became, unfortunately, casualties as well,” he said.

Schultz said the gunman was a former employee, but did not release his name. Chaos unfolded as the gunman opened fire, sending employees fleeing for cover as police locked down the entire neighborhood. Police were alerted to the shooting shortly before 9:30 a.m. Five officers were inside the building within three minutes, Schultz said. Three bodies were initially discovered and a fourth, believed to be the shooter, was also found inside the building. Police locked down the city’s southeast side as a precaution but Schultz said authorities don’t believe there

was a second gunman. The E m c o r e c o m p l e x w a s s u rrounded by police cars, many arriving with sirens wailing, as helicopters circled overhead. Schultz said the gunman had children who live outside Albuquerque and said they were taken into custody by “another agency.” The chief said there was at least one previous domestic violence call involving the gunman but said it occurred outside Albuquerque. He did not say where. Police said 85 employees were later taken to a community center for interviews with detectives. Six victims were taken to University of New Mexico

Hospital, spokesman Billy Sparks said. One was dead on arrival, one died in the operating room and one was still in surgery but expected to be transferred to intensive care soon. One of the other three was in the hospital’s imaging department and two others were in stable condition in the emergency room. Emcore manufactures components that allow voice, video and data transmission over fiber optic lines. They also manufacture solar power systems for satellite and ground-based systems. Based in Albuquerque, the company has about 700 fulltime employees.

was blamed for at least seven burglaries. The search expanded to Eleuthera after police there recovered a 44-foot (13-meter) powerboat reported stolen from Abaco. Police said several people reported seeing the teenager Wednesday night in the waters between Eleuthera and Harbour Island, a nearby tourist destination known for its art galleries, but did not know about the Barefoot Bandit until after discovering a series of break-ins the next day. HarrisMoore’s mistake was to return to the same area. James Major, who rents cars on Eleuthera opposite Harbour Island, said a witness on his side of the channel reported a sighting of HarrisMoore to police early Sunday. He said locals had been on the lookout since the fugitive was blamed for trying to steal four boats and breaking into two buildings at the ferry landing. “He might have been dangerous to the public,” Major said. “Everybody is glad he was caught.” Greenslade said the high-speed chase began around 2 a.m. Sunday af-

ter police received tips from members of the public that the suspect was on Harbour Island. The chase ended in the waters off the Romora Bay Resort & Marina on Harbour Island, where security director Kenneth Strachan reported seeing a young man running through the bush barefoot with a handgun, according to Anne Ward, who manages the property. “When Kenny spotted him, he had a knapsack over his shoulder and a gun and he was yelling, ‘They’re going to kill me. They’re going to kill me.’ He was running up the dock,” Ward said. Ward said the fugitive ran back to the water and stole another boat but ran aground in the shallows, where police shot out his engine. “At one point, the boy threw his computer in the water and put a gun to his head. He was going to kill himself. Police talked him out of it,” Ward said. Police declined to comment on whether Ward’s account was accurate.

Del. man killed in Uganda WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — A Delaware man who was among 74 people killed in explosions in Uganda died on a rugby field watching the World Cup, with some of the children he’d gone to the country to help, according to the aid group he worked for. The children called Nate Henn “Oteka,” or the strong one, and they “fell in love with Nate’s wit, strength, character and steadfast friendship,” San Diego-based Invisible Children, a group that helps child soldiers, said on its website. Henn, 25, a former University of Delaware rugby player, had raised thousands of dollars in the United States for Ugandan children’s education and had gone to the country to meet the students, according to Invisible Children. Henn was on the rugby field in

Kampala with some of the children when the bombs exploded Sunday, Invisible Children said. Henn’s parents, who live in Raleigh, N.C., declined immediate comment. Early Monday, a truck delivered flowers to their twostory brick home in a quiet neighborhood among tall pine trees. His sister Brynne Henn wrote on her Facebook page: “I just don’t understand. Please pray.” Henn’s former youth pastor, the Rev. Andrew Hudson, said Henn was a gentle, sincere young man with deep compassion for those in distress. The pastor from Chelten Baptist Church in Dresher, Pa., said Henn knew that traveling in Africa could be dangerous. “Nate was willing to take that risk in order to provide hope and healing for precious children who were finding themselves in very difficult situations,” Hudson said.

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Tech’s hiring of new trainer indicates Federal Reserve not perfect, but necessary hypocritical nature of Leach firing By CHRIS LEAL

In 2007, Chaz Ramsey was a member of the All-Freshman Team in the SEC at Auburn University. He came into Auburn as a four-star recruit with hopes of reaching the NFL someday. If you are on the All-Freshman Team in the SEC, you have very good odds of achieving such hopes. Today, Ramsey is suing former Auburn trainer Arnold Gamber for allegedly causing a career-ending injury during his rehabilitation from back surgery. Gamber was hired as Tech’s head trainer this past week. I really cannot tell you if the allegations against Gamber are true. I really do not believe them. If I did, it would mean that I would have to think it were possible that Adam James’ allegations against Mike Leach were true. I will never believe that. What is wrong with this situation goes back to the termination letter that was given to Mike Leach by Tech President Guy Bailey. It stated that he was fired according to Article IV of his contract, which says “the coach shall assure the fair and responsible treatment of student-athletes in relation to their health, welfare and discipline.” There is something very ironic about this letter. According to his letter of termination, Leach was fired for breaching performance provisions in his contract. Yes, you read it right; he was fired for BREACH of performance provisions in his CONTRACT. Currently Mike Leach is suing Tech for breach of contract. Oh, that made me laugh so hard my sides hurt. Leach was fired because he mistreated an athlete. Fine, if you want to fire a coach for that then by all

means do it. But you cannot justifiably fire a man for allegedly endangering the welfare of a student athlete, and then hire another man who is currently being sued for allegedly endangering the welfare of another student athlete. That is the most inconsistent decision making I have ever heard of. The simple fact here is that Texas Tech University never liked Mike Leach. You could see that a couple of years ago during the contract renegotiations. I understand the man was abrasive. He insulted his own players and said things in press conferences that were not suitable for young children. Tech knew they could not fire Leach over something as insignificant as this. They needed something more substantial. Then, the whole Adam James dilemma came about. I believe Adam James complained because he was not getting any playing time. To be honest with you, I don’t feel that he deserved any. I never saw so many dropped passes in my life. Nor did he deserve any respect on the field for his attitude. He had multiple personal fouls during the year, and he got benched for them. If you do not believe me, look at the earlier games in the 2009 season and see what happens when he is on the field. He disrespected Tech

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and got benched for it. But we are not talking about Adam James right now. We are talking about the fact that Tech hired a trainer that is in trouble for something that Mike Leach got fired for. Notice this; Leach never had a lawsuit filed against him. Yes, Craig James threatened to sue, but he never did. He backed off after Leach was fired. He got exactly what he wanted and then stopped saying his son was the best player on the team and deserved more playing time. He knew it was not true anyway. I really do not know if Chaz Ramsey’s claims are true — I was not there. The kid could honestly be just like Adam James, and for whatever reason did not like how things were going at Auburn. If I were there in 2007 playing with the team he was on, I might feel the same way. But the fact is that Gamber was let go by Auburn. They said it was not because of the Ramsey incident, but who really believes that? I do not know how Tech can justify hiring this man and acting like there is nothing wrong. This is a slap in the face to Mike Leach, and people need to pay attention to it. n Lott is a junior journalism major from Katy. ➤➤tlott33@yahoo.com.

I do not know how Tech can justify hiring this man and acting like there is nothing wrong.

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If there’s one federal institution that’s less popular than The United States Congress right now, it has to be the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve is the central bank of the United States. Its broad goals are to “direct monetary policy by influencing monetary and credit conditions in the economy in pursuit of maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate longterm interest rates.” Aside from its role in regulating the consumer economy, it is also something of a ‘Bank’s bank’. It regulates bank deposits, provides short-term loans to help establish liquidity and works to maintain the general health of the financial system. In the United States, central banks are something that the public has always had a skeptical eye for; ever since Alexander Hamilton successfully fought for the charter of The First Bank of The United States in 1791. The first two attempts to establish a central bank in the United States created solely governmental institutions, both banks were eventually either deprived of their deposits, failed to have their charters renewed or deemed unconstitutional. In 1913 The Federal Reserve Act was passed, creating the third central bank which we use to day, The Federal Reserve, being partly governmental and partly commercial, is a hybrid sort

of institution. Now this is one of the biggest arguments politicians like Ron Paul and other anti-federal proponents like to make; that the fact that the fed is partly private and owned by commercial banks somehow constitutes some sort of giant conspiracy against the people of this country. This argument is misguided and naïve. Now, let’s say you have just been shot and are suffering from a bullet wound. Who are you going to trust to treat your wound? An accountant? A lawyer? A politician or bureaucrat? No, you’re going to trust a physician, somebody with experience in the field. You’re going to trust somebody like Ron Paul, because he is a physician by practice. Mr. Paul has no formal education or background in economics or financial matters, yet some people like to believe he knows more about the economy than economic PhD recipients. But I digress; back to the bullet wound analogy. So say you have, by far, the largest and most complex economy in the world, and you have to figure out some way to keep it stable and help prevent or lessen the effects of depressions/recessions. Who are you going to hire to do this job? Laywers? Doctors? Ron Paul? No, you’re going to hire people who manage money professionally, people who have academic and practical backgrounds in these and related fields. As a result of America’s wonderful market economy, professional talent is concentrated into specific areas of interest through incentives such as salary and rank. So following this logic, some of the most talented people in the field of finance and economics are going to be the people who run the largest private financial institutions. The truth is as long as we have a fiat currency, the management of that currency will be absolutely necessary. And people who are nostalgic for or condone going back to a “gold

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standard” are as misguided as Mr. Paul. It’s impossible to sustain a $14 trillion US economy, much less a global economy, let alone grow either of these, based off of a hunk of shiny metal. I would also like to believe, as advanced as we are, people would understand that these shiny metals — along with paper currency — have no intrinsic value; so it’s only pragmatic to choose the more practical and manageable form of currency. The Fed has done a fairly decent job of mitigating the economic pain brought about by necessary and occasional recessions and depressions, and has virtually eliminated the “panics” and “bank-runs” that were numerous before the institution’s inception. Prior to the establishment of the Federal Reserve, the average life of a recession/depression/panic/etc was 6.3 years; since its creation in 1913, that average has fallen to 2.75 years. The Great Depression is the outlier that skews the post-fed statistic, and if you remove it, the average falls to 1.7 years. Now, don’t get me wrong. I do not believe the Federal Reserve is a perfect institution; nothing is perfect. The Fed could definitely use a time-delayed audit every now and then and possibly more oversight, but it’s important to balance that with the autonomy that the Federal Reserve needs in order to operate so that its great powers are not exploited for financial or political gain. The current financial crisis highlighted flaws not only in the Federal Reserve, but the financial structure as a w h o l e . H o w e v e r, t h i s i s not an argument against the Fed. Economic and monetary policies are still maturing, and with every misstep we get the chance to learn from our mistakes and improve. n Leal is a junior finance and economics dual major from The Colony. ➤➤chris.leal@ttu.edu.

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Spain’s first World Cup unifies struggling society MADRID (AP) — Spain’s football team returned home to a jubilant nation and a huge fiesta Monday after winning the World Cup, finally giving Spaniards a break from months of economic gloom, political squabbling and nationalist regions fighting for greater autonomy from the central government. The team was received by King Juan Carlos and was heading later to meet Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero before embarking on an open-air bus ride through Madrid’s historic center, the epicenter of the celebration party for the second day in a row. But there were striking examples of cheering for Spain from unlikely places: The well-off Catalonia region that has long sought greater autonomy, and the separatist Basque region where anything pro-Spain is often shunned.

At least several hundred thousand fans were expected to line Madrid’s streets to celebrate Spain’s first World Cup title, after the team beat the Netherlands 1-0 on Sunday in extra time. Dozens of airport workers cheered from the runway as the plane, flying Spanish flags from cockpit windows, taxied to a stop as cars driving by on nearby highways blared their horns to welcome the squad. A special slogan printed along the fuselage of the Iberia plane read, “Proud of our National Team. Champions.” A roar of delight rose from the airport as team captain and goalkeeper Iker Casillas stepped from the plane and raised the golden World Cup into the air. The crowd chanted “Campeones! Campeones!” (Champions! Champions! in English). Then the players, wearing their team jerseys, walked from the plane to a waiting Spanish football

federation bus without commenting to journalists. “It’s very important, it helps us forget a lot of things, like the economic crisis, for example, or people’s domestic issues,” said Javier Sanchez, a 42-yearold photographer from Madrid. But will the ecstasy last? Could this be Spain’s moment to unite under a single flag, or is it a fleeting instance of patriotism? The country has been depressed by a debt crisis, 20 percent unemployment and nationalist regions fighting to separate from Spain or at least win the right for much greater autonomy and near-nation status. While the spotlight will be on Madrid when the team is cheered, the win led to a rare sight in Catalonia’s regional capital of Barcelona: Spanish flags waving side-by-side with Catalonia’s very own red and yellow flag.

“It has been very strange, but now it is being tolerated,” said Saray Lozano, a 31-year-old taxi driver from Barcelona who was happy for Spain’s win. “If it weren’t for football, you might get rocks thrown at you” for publicly displaying Spain’s national symbol.” About 75,000 people celebrated the win in Barcelona, and about 2,000 people waved Spanish flags and wore the team’s football jersey in the Basque city of Bilbao — actions rarely seen because of the violent campaign led by separatist group ETA since 1968 to gain independence from Spain. Just wearing the jersey on the streets of Bilbao ahead of the win was a sure way to get insulted, and risk being assaulted. But experts said the idea of Spain overcoming its internal divisions and economic woes just because of the World Cup won’t likely turn into real-

Texas Rangers sued by prospective buyers FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The group backed by Major League Baseball to buy the Texas Rangers sued the team on Monday, hoping to force the long-delayed sale and put a halt to the fresh round of bidding that was opened up unexpectedly in the team’s bankruptcy case. The lawsuit filed by Hall of Fame pitcher and team president Nolan Ryan and Pittsburgh sports attorney Chuck Greenberg accuses the Rangers of breaching their purchase agreement with the group. It is the latest twist in a complicated and occasionally ugly fight over the

Rangers, who are in first place in the American League West and hoping to reach the playoffs for the first time since 1999. Selling the team to the Greenberg-Ryan group and paying creditors $75 million was part of the Rangers’ bankruptcy plan when it filed for Chapter 11 protection in May after angry lenders had blocked the team’s sale for months. The Greenberg-Ryan group, Rangers Baseball Express, was chosen after a bidding process that started last summer with six bidders, according to the suit. After being selected,

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ity. In and around Bilbao, authorities blamed sabotage for an electrical outage that canceled an open air broadcast of the final game, and several people supporting the national team were attacked by separatists. “I wouldn’t have thought the euphoria over the football will last very long,” said Paul Preston, a Spain expert and history professor at the London School of Economics. As for Spain’s fragile economy, the win “may soften the blow of the

economic news, but it won’t have a long-lasting effect,” Preston said. Joan Foguet, a Barcelona-based journalist for the leading Spanish newspaper El Pais, noted that Catalonia has a “schizophrenic” relationship with the national team — and attributed the burst of enthusiasm to the fact that the team played well. While media may play up the Spain unity theme, he said, “one thing is football and another is politics, even though politicians try to mix the two.”

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to be my year,” he said. uphill finish. Such defeatist talk would have Postal’s sleek Blue Train has seemed truly astonishing a few been replaced by a mixture of Rayears ago. dioShack veterans past their prime But long gone are the days when — like Andreas Kloeden and Chris Armstrong Horner — and and his “Blue young aspiTrain” — the rants like Janez name given Brajkovic to his former lacking the U.S. Postal experience to teammates — salvage tough would control situations. the race and A r m bash rivals strong’s glitmercilessly. tering career “During his may never be period of dommatched by ination, in the the likes of defirst mountain fending chamstage in high pion Alberto altitudes, he’d Contador — hit hard,” Tour who was two director ChrisTour wins at LANCE ARMSTRONG tian Prudhomthe age of 27 Seven-time champion of the me said. — and most Tour de France On Sunday, certainly never Armstrong was will by Evans the one getting or Schleck. bashed, or “pegged” as he called But the trio sensed that they it. could destroy Armstrong’s Tour His team was scattered all over hopes, and the opportunity was too a 117.4-mile trek from Station des good to miss. Rousses to Morzine-Avoriaz that The Tour 1-2-3 reads Evansfeatured two steep climbs and an Schleck-Contador. Armstrong is

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MORZINE, France (AP) — Lance Armstrong promised to shake things up in the French Alps, but the seven-time Tour de France champion was feeling shaken after one of his worst ever days racing. Armstrong used to be the one punishing others when the Tour hit the harsh mountains, but Armstrong suffered the frustration his vanquished rivals once felt as his Tour bid fell apart. The 38-year-old Texan finished Sunday’s eighth stage so far back in 61st place that his ambitions to win an eighth Tour evaporated in the stifling heat as he dragged his battered body up mountain passes he used to glide up. “Obviously the Tour’s finished for me,” Armstrong said after Luxembourg rider Andy Schleck won the stage to move just 20 seconds behind overall race leader Cadel Evans of Australia. This chaotic Tour has been among the most dangerous in recent years, and Armstrong is more than 13 minutes behind Evans ahead of Monday’s much-needed rest day. “I have cuts everywhere,” Armstrong said. “Biggest problem is the left hip, which for riding is not the best.”

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39th. Armstrong’s day started with a near miss, then came a brutal crash. Schleck, meanwhile, pulled clear with less than a mile to go and won a two-man sprint ahead of Samuel Sanchez of Spain. Contador and Evans were 10 seconds back of Schleck, while Armstrong trailed 11:45 behind a man 13 years his junior. Armstrong’s day started badly — an early morning anti-doping control he tweeted about — and then became an unfolding nightmare. With breakaway riders setting a frenetic pace early on, Armstrong narrowly averted a spill as he veered onto the roadside grass. Evans fell but quickly recovered. Then about two-thirds of the way through, with the daunting La Ramaz pass looming, Armstrong tumbled as he rode through a roundabout in the fast-moving pack. “I clipped the pedal and then my tire rolled off,” he said. “Then, the next thing I know, I was rolling along the ground, at 60-65 (kilometers) an hour.” He got another bike and returned to the race with the back of

his jersey torn, his skin scratched, and seeping blood that quickly dried in the 95-degree heat. “It’s hard to recover from something like that,” Armstrong said. “I knew that even if I made it over Ramaz with the front guys I was going to be suffering.” With only Horner helping him, Armstrong got dropped up La Ramaz by Schleck, Contador and Evans. Approaching the final ascent up to Morzine-Avoriaz, Armstrong had to brake hard to avoid a rider who fell in front of him, and a couple more who slipped on either side of him. Armstrong’s handling skills remain sharp, and he stopped his bike with astonishing ease. Then, Armstrong stood still, peering at the sprawled riders laying on the boiling tarmac and — at that moment, and with no anger — he understood that the Tour finally conquered him. “It’s sad to see, but that’s the race, that’s sport. There’s a time for everything,” Armstrong’s RadioShack and former Postal manager Johan Bruyneel said. “It’s not the end of a myth today, it’s the end of the Tour de France, of Lance’s aspirations to win.”

Ex-Cowboy seeks damages for injuries DALLAS (AP) — A former Dallas Cowboys player who was inside the team’s indoor practice facility when it collapsed last year contends the accident caused a career-ending injury and he wants unspecified damages from the builder and companies operated by team owner Jerry Jones. Tight end Jamar Hunt, who was on the Cowboys’ roster as a rookie free agent last spring, said in a court filing that he suffered “serious, disabling and permanent injuries” when the tentlike structure fell on May 2, 2009. Hunt was cut by the Cowboys before training camp last year and has yet to catch on with another NFL team. Hunt’s attorney, Michael Guajardo, said the player suffered a herniated disk in his neck when a steel support landed on him. He said Hunt, who is also a deep snapper, faces a “double-edged sword” because he can’t be cleared to play without surgery, but having the surgery will brand him as a damaged commodity to NFL teams. “You see NFL players bouncing back from this (injury), but those

are veteran players with a history of success,” Guajardo said. “With a rookie, teams are reluctant to take a chance. The biggest loss for him is losing his dream to play in the NFL.” Hunt, who played at Texas-El Paso, was among 27 players participating in a rookie minicamp in the 88,000-square-foot facility when it crumpled in a wind storm. An inquiry by the National Institute of Standards and Technology concluded that the facility fell in winds of 55 mph to 65 mph — far less than the 90 mph wind speed specified by engineering standards. Guajardo said Hunt’s claim for damages, filed as an intervention in special teams coach Joe DeCamillas’ lawsuit stemming from the accident, is the only one he’s aware of by a player. “He didn’t know for sure if he’d make the Cowboys,” Guajardo said. “But if he didn’t (make the team), there were several other teams that had shown interest and would have picked him up. As a dual position player, he was attrac-

tive to most NFL teams.” Hunt, citing the pending legal action, declined an interview request made through the attorney. Cowboys spokesman Rich Dalrymple said the team isn’t commenting on Hunt’s claim. DeCamillas, who suffered a broken vertebrae, and team scout Rich Behm, who was left paralyzed from the waist down, have filed identical lawsuits in separate Dallas courts. The suits allege negligence by the company that built the facility, Summit Structures LLC of Allentown, Pa., and cite three entities controlled by Jones for improperly supervising repairs. Last month, Behm and DeCamillas reached settlements with Summit and its Canadian parent, Cover-All Building Systems Inc., which has been in receivership since April. The settlements were reached after a Canadian court lifted a stay blocking legal proceedings against the failed company and allowed the two Cowboys employees to collect proceeds from its insurance.

Jimenez, Price to start All-Star game ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Ubaldo Jimenez is always eager to share his accomplishments with a support system that runs from Denver to the Dominican Republic. His home nation and adopted hometown will be tuned in when Jimenez takes the mound for one of his most memorable outings yet. The Colorado ace will start for the National

League in the All-Star game, while the AL will counter with Tampa Bay’s David Price. In this year of the pitcher, Jimenez was a fitting pick Monday by Phillies manager Charlie Manuel. “One of the great talents in baseball and he’s a treat to watch pitch,” Manuel said of choosing Jimenez over Florida’s Josh Johnson. “This guy’s 15-

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1. His record speaks for itself.” The NL will try Tuesday night to end a 13-year drought in baseball’s Midsummer Classic. Jimenez has a 2.20 ERA in 18 starts and 127 innings for the surging Rockies. Price is 12-4 with a 2.42 ERA. Johnson is 9-3 with a majors-best 1.70 ERA for the Marlins. “I said Jimenez from the beginning,” Johnson said. “He was my pick.” Jimenez’s parents will be in the stands at Angel Stadium, along with his host family from Colorado and other family and friends. “Any little thing is going to be huge for your career,” Jimenez said. “It’s just a huge honor for me to be out here. Hopefully we can put everything together and break the losing streak.” Philadelphia slugger Ryan Howard will be the National League’s designated hitter and bat cleanup for his regular skipper, Manuel. “Not only is he my guy, he’s got 119 at-bats against left-handed pitchers and 65 RBIs,” Manuel said. “He can hit ‘em. He’s hitting .294. He’s very capable of hitting fourth in an AllStar lineup.” There was some confusion, however, about Boston third baseman Adrian Beltre. AL manager Joe Girardi announced that Texas third baseman Michael Young would replace Beltre, who left Sunday’s game at Toronto with a strained left hamstring. But less than an hour later, Beltre said he planned to play. MLB executive Phyllis Merhige said an announcement about Beltre’s status was made prematurely. He planned to test his leg at the ballpark before making a final decision. “They announced it without telling me,” Beltre said. “I’m think I’m going to play and I’m going to be on the active roster.”