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2B Daily News – Thursday, October 18, 2012 GIANTS (Continued from page 1B) season, giving up three runs on five hits in 6 1-3 innings. The Giants, who entered the game batting just .217 in the postseason, were 0 for 7 with runners in scoring position. The Cardinals snapped the Giants' five-game road winning streak in the post- season, three of them this year. Game 4 is in St. Louis on Thursday night, with Adam Wainwright pitching for the Cardinals. Tim Lincecum will start for the Giants. Carlos Beltran limped to the trainer's room, taking the St. Louis Cardinals' biggest clutch October bat with him. Beltran strained his left knee running out a double-play ball in the first and the Cardinals said he was day to day. Turns out they had the perfect substitute. Carpenter followed Jon Jay's two-out single with a homer off Cain in his first at-bat of the NLCS. Beltran is batting .400 in the postseason with three homers and six RBIs, but LOVE (Continued from page 1B) going to be a challenge in the powerful Western Con- ference without Rubio, the dynamic point guard who quickly became the glue that held this young team together before injuring his knee in a game against the Lakers on March 9. But with veteran addi- tions Andrei Kirilenko, Brandon Roy, Dante Cun- SPARTANS (Continued from page 1B) more than one passing touchdown per game, and went 10 of 14 for 147 yards against Wheatland last week. Also putting in a memorable performance was senior two-way play- er Tucker Gulliford, who rushed for 180 yards and, LANCE (Continued from page 1B) career, I will conclude my chairmanship.'' Minutes later, Nike dropped its personal spon- sorship contract with him and issued a blistering state- ment that the company had been duped by his denials over the years. ''Due to the seemingly insurmountable evidence that Lance Armstrong par- ticipated in doping and mis- led Nike for more than a decade, it is with great sad- ness that we have terminat- ed our contract with him. Nike does not condone the use of illegal performance enhancing drugs in any manner,'' the company said. In 2001, the apparel Carpenter had big numbers against Cain. He was 4 for 4 for his career against Cain, all four of the regular-sea- son hits for singles. This one was a much bigger deal, a drive on a 2-2 count that soared over the Cardinals bullpen in right field and was estimated at 421 feet. Carpenter entered the game 1 for 5 in the postsea- son, all five pinch-hit appearances. He had an RBI single in the wild-card play- off against Atlanta. He got 14 of his 46 RBIs in April as the primary sub at first base for injured Lance Berkman. was among a group of sel- dom-used hitters trying to stay sharp by facing Jake Westbrook in a simulated game. The rest of the team had the day off. On Tuesday, Carpenter Umpires called for the tarpaulin right after the Car- dinals made it 3-1 on a run- scoring single by Shane Robinson and Cain was lift- ed. It was the third game delayed by rain this postsea- son and a fourth, Game 4 of the Yankees-Tigers ALCS, was postponed later ningham and Greg Stiems- ma, Love was convinced they would be able to weather playing without Rubio better than last sea- son, when they lost 20 of their last 25 games after he went down. ''We have a great train- ing camp and we can get off to a good start and guys stay healthy, there's really no telling what we can do,'' Love said just before train- ing camp opened. ''I know a lot of teams in the Western oh, just had six touch- downs to his name. A postseason berth, Gulliford said, would be a "dream come true." Gulliford has 12 touchdowns on the sea- son, is averaging 123 yards rushing and has totaled 863 yards already. Wednesday night. Two games between the Yankees and Orioles in Baltimore began late because of inclement weather. The rain intensified less than 10 minutes after the field was covered, chasing most fans who had remained in their seats up to that point. Spotters for the National Weather Service reported 60 mph winds in nearby St. Charles County. was a Pac-Man style chase. Ushers pursued and finally apprehended a fan who jumped out of the stands to get a baseball near the warn- ing track in left field, and then jutted in and out of aisles to elude several ush- ers who had been closing in. A highlight of the delay The storm had been widely anticipated. Some forecasts called for a 70 per- cent chance of rain. Both managers fielded questions Tuesday and Wednesday about whether the probabili- ty of precipitation would affect their selection of the starting pitcher. worry about the weather, and the starters combined for 208 pitches. Both said they couldn't Conference have loaded up, but I still feel we can knock those teams off and have a really good year.'' Two weeks before the season has even started, the wishes for good health are already out the window. Love, who scored 24 points and grabbed eight rebounds in a preseason win over Maccabi Haifa on Tuesday night, was scheduled to fly to New York for an exami- nation by Dr. Andy Weiland on Thursday. Gulliford said, adding that the team hasn't believed in itself when it needs to. "We believe in ourselves now." But, Gulliford added, ——— The highs and lows of the season have at times been hard on the team, strong had resigned from its board. If there was a silver lin- ing in the day for Arm- strong, it was that his major sponsors said they will con- tinue to support the charity, which started as the Lance Armstrong Foundation 15 years ago. company produced an anti- doping commercial, narrat- ed by Armstrong, address- ing allegations that he had used performance-enhanc- ing drugs by mocking the question, ''What am I on?'' and answering that he trained on his bicycle ''six hours a day.'' Brewing giant Anheuser- Busch followed Nike's lead, saying: ''We have decided not to renew our relation- ship with Lance Armstrong when our current contract expires at the end of 2012.'' Soon after, other spon- sors also cut ties with him. Among them were Trek bicycles and Honey Stinger, a maker of foods and gels for athletes. ''We are in the process of removing Lance Arm- strong's image and endorse- ment from our product packaging,'' a Honey Stinger spokesman said. An image of Armstrong's sig- nature that was on the site's front page earlier in the day appeared to be gone late Wednesday. makes energy, diet and health drinks, said Arm- The FRS Co., which sor, sportswear maker Oak- ley, said it is withholding a decision until the Interna- tional Cycling Union — the governing body for cycling — decides if it will fight USADA's sanctions against Armstrong. UCI has until Oct. 31 to appeal USADA's sanctions against Arm- strong to the world Court of Arbitration for Sport. If not, the penalties will stand. Armstrong, who Forbes has estimated is worth about $125 million, was not paid a salary as Livestrong chair- man and will remain on the charity's 15-member board. The duties of leading the board will be turned over to vice chairman Jeff Garvey, who was founding chairman in 1997. Garvey will be responsi- ble for big-picture strategic planning and will assume some of the public appear- ances and meetings that Armstrong used to handle. At the entrance to the Another longtime spon- Livestrong headquarters in Austin, autographed framed yellow jerseys from each tour win are mounted on a wall near the entrance. Arm- strong had a conference call with employees on Wednes- day to explain his decision. ''I've been better and I've Livestrong been worse,'' Sports Editor Andre Byik can be reached at 527- 2151, ext. 111 or at sports@redbluffdailynews.c om. Follow him on Twitter: @TehamaSports of the agency's arbitration hearings, saying the process was biased against him. experts say the denials aren't enough to mitigate damage to Livestrong. Gene Grabowski, executive vice president of Levick, a Wash- ington, D.C.-based crisis and issues management firm, called Armstrong's move a good one for the foundation. Crisis management eye off the chairman's back,'' Grabowski said. ''It enables the charity to show it is taking the situation seri- ously. It probably won't sat- isfy everyone, but it will sat- isfy a good number of peo- ple. It's a step he had to take.'' ''It helps take the bull's- Kelly O'Keefe, professor of brand strategy at Virginia Commonwealth University, said it may be too late to completely salvage Live- strong's reputation. And Armstrong may never be able to fully resume his pub- lic role with the group, he said. spective, Armstrong is done,'' O'Keefe said. ''From the brand per- Unlike Tiger Woods and Michael Vick, athletes who also were embroiled in off- the-field scandals, Arm- strong is tainted by charges of cheating in his sport, not transgressions in his person- al life. After time away, Woods and Vick could return to the playing field to help redeem their public image. President and CEO Doug Ulman quoted Armstrong as telling employees when asked how he was feeling. Armstrong denies dop- ing despite USADA's report, intended to explain its decision in August to punish Armstrong. He claims to have passed hun- dreds of drug tests but chose not to fight USADA in one that. He's just a retired ath- lete with a tarnished image,'' O'Keefe said. ''Armstrong doesn't have Nike's statement was notable both for the sudden decision to abandon him and the tone condemning an athlete it had strongly sup- ported just a few days earli- er. Armstrong tweeted earli- er this month about a visit to Nike headquarters in Ore- gon.