DALLAS - Monta Ellis had no question he would play Tuesday night.
[b]San Francisco 49ers Gear[/b] .The Dallas Mavericks guard came back after injuring his left ankle on Sunday. He scored 20 points in 27 minutes, made a game-high four steals and helped hold the Washington Wizards Bradley Beal to 10 points.Dallas won 114-87, handing the Wizards their most lopsided loss of the season.Most guys in this league wouldnt even think about playing two nights later, Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle said. Hes a remarkable athlete and a remarkable guy. To top it off, he gave us a big burst of scoring.Nine of Ellis points came in the final 2:35 of the second quarter, when the Mavericks outscored the Wizards 36-21 for a 63-45 halftime lead. He shot 8 of 15 without playing in the fourth quarter.I was going to play regardless, Ellis said. I just had to ice it. The great thing about it is it didnt swell on me.Chandler Parsons had 14 points, Dirk Nowitzki added 13 despite shooting 2 for 8 from the field, and Rajon Rondo had 11 points and five assists.Off the bench, Richard Jefferson scored a season-high 14 points. Charlie Villanueva also had 14.The Wizards Paul Pierce, like Nowitzki, is in his 17th season.Pierce said, Its not the Dirk of four or five years ago, where he dominates you throughout the game. He still has those moments, but this team is built around depth.Washingtons John Wall had 11 points and eight assists. Kris Humphries also scored 11, and Beal and Marcin Gortat had 10 apiece.Beal made only four of 14 field goal attempts (29 per cent).The key to the game was Ellis defence on Beal, Carlisle said. Beal is a dynamic scorer (averaging better than 15 points per game), and hes one of the real keys to their team. Monta really took the challenge.The Mavericks scored 33 points off 23 turnovers, extended their winning streak to three games and ended the Wizards three-game winning streak.Turnovers played the biggest part. When we try to do too much individually, we get ourselves in trouble, Washington coach Randy Wittman said. You cant do it against a good team. They beat us up both ends of the floor.The Mavericks 10 straight wins over Washington represent their longest active winning streak against any team.Dallas led 34-30 with 8:49 to play in the second quarter. Then the Mavericks went on an 11-2 run. The final four points were scored by Jefferson, who had 10 in the quarter.Dallas led 89-64 after three. The Mavericks 31 fast-break points all came in the first three periods.___TIP-INSWizards: Washington finished 12-4 in December. The franchises best month ever was February 1969, when the team was neither the Wizards nor in Washington. The Baltimore Bullets went 13-3 that month on the way to the Eastern Division championship. ... The Wizards only other month with 12 or more wins was December 2006, also 12-4. ... Nene (ankle) left the game in the third quarter and didnt return. ... Previously, the Wizards biggest loss this season was 113-87 against Cleveland on Nov. 26.Mavericks: Rondo got his 1,000th career assist when the Mavericks scored the first basket 1:02 into the game. On a fast break, he threw a bounce pass to Ellis. ... Nowitzkis two field goals tied Robert Parish for 14th place on the NBA career list at 9,614. ... Raymond Felton (sprained ankle) and rookie Dwight Powell each scored their first points for Dallas in their second game with the team. ... The Mavericks had only seven turnovers, none in the second half.APPROACH THE BENCHAll 13 Dallas players scored, and the bench outscored Washingtons 54-40.PITCHING AND PIGSKINThe Los Angeles Dodgers three-time Cy Young Award winner, Clayton Kershaw, attended the game. Hes a Dallas native. ... Ellis took time during his postgame interview to make a case for the Dallas Cowboys with a fan of the defending Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks.UP NEXTWizards: Friday night at Oklahoma City.Mavericks: Friday night at Boston.
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[b]Cheap 49ers Jerseys[/b] . On paper, it looks a little like Andre the Giant taking on a midget wrestler. It has all the makings of a rout with the Americans adding an eighth win in nine outings of this biennial event. The Yanks have eight players in the top 15 in the world while the Internationals have just one.SAN DIEGO -- Hall of Fame broadcaster Jerry Coleman, a former second baseman for the New York Yankees who interrupted his pro career to fly as a Marine Corps pilot in World War II and Korea, died Sunday, the San Diego Padres said. He was 89. Coleman spent more than four decades with the Padres as a broadcaster. He managed the team in 1980. Padres president Mike Dee said Coleman died at a hospital Sunday afternoon. He said the team was notified by Colemans wife, Maggie. A family friend told The Associated Press on Sunday night that Coleman had surgery before Christmas for bleeding in the brain. Doctors discovered more bleeding last week and Coleman had more surgery, said the friend, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the situation. "Its a sad day," Padres manager Bud Black said. "Were losing a San Diego icon. Hes going to be missed." The Padres planned to keep Colemans statue at Petco Park open until 11:30 p.m. Sunday so fans could pay tribute. While recounting his military career in an interview days before the statue was unveiled in September 2012, Coleman said: "Your country is bigger than baseball." Coleman spent some seven decades in pro baseball, a career that included four World Series titles with the Yankees and was interrupted by his service in World War II and the Korean War. He flew 120 missions combined in the two wars. Coleman was awarded two Distinguished Flying Crosses, 13 Air Medals and three Navy Citations. Around Petco Park and on Padres radio broadcasts, Coleman was known as "The Colonel," having retired from the Marines with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was the only major leaguer to see combat in two wars. "He was a wonderful human being and a great guy," Black said. "He was one of a kind. He sort of blazed his own path from San Francisco and ended up as a war hero and a major league ballplayer and doing so many things in our game. As much as hes remembered for all he accomplished as a baseball man, he was more proud of his military service." Colemans broadcast schedule had been reduced to home day games. He also did a pregame interview with Black, who said Coleman was self-deprecating and preferred to talk about the Padres rather than anything hed done with the Yankees or in the Marines. "You wouldnt know it walking down the street that he was a World Series champion and also a guy that flew fighter planes," Black said. Coleman was known for calls of "Oh, Doctor!" and "You can hang a star on that!" after big plays. He received the Ford C. Frick Award from the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2005. He also was known for malaprops, like the time he was describing Dave Winfield going back for a long fly ball. "I said, Winfield hit his head against the wall and its rolling toward the infield. I meant the ball, of course," Coleman said in 2012. In a statement, commissioner Bud Selig said Coleman "was a hero and a role model to myself and countless others in the game of baseball. ... But above all, Jerrys decorated service to our country in both World War II and Korea made him an integral part of the Greatest Generation. He was a true friend whose counsel I valued greatly." After graduating from high school in 1942, Coleman travelled three days by train from San Francisco to Wellsville, N.Y., to report to the New York Yankees Class D affiliate. Still 17, he was too young to enlist and fight in World War II, so he got to spend the summer playing ball. After he joined the military, he flew Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in the Pacific in World War II..
[b]San Francisco 49ers Pro Shop[/b]. He played three more seasons of minor league ball before making his big league debut with the Yankees on April 20, 1949. He was The Associated Press Rookie of the Year that season. Colemans best season was 1950, when he was an All-Star and was named MVP of the Yankees four-game sweep of the Philadelphia Phillies in the World Series. Among his teammates were Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, Phil Rizzuto and Johnny Mize. "We won the first game 1-0 and I drove in that run," Coleman recalled in 2012. "We won the second game 2-1. I scored one of the two runs and DiMaggio hit a home run in the 10th to win it. In the third game I drove in the winning run in the last inning, and in the fourth game I rested." By "rested," he means he went 0 for 3. "I was exhausted," he said. In October 1951, Coleman found out that Marine pilots from World War II were not discharged, but on inactive status and that hed be going to Korea for 18 months. He missed the bulk of two seasons. Coleman said he took his physical along with Ted Williams in Jacksonville in 1952. Williams, a San Diego native, also was a Marine pilot in World War II, but didnt see combat duty. He did fly combat missions in Korea. When Coleman returned to the Yankees, he hit only .217. He was sent to an eye doctor, who told him hed lost his depth perception. "If youre trying to hit a baseball and you dont have depth perception, you have a problem," Coleman said. He got that corrected but then broke his collarbone in April 1955. The night he came back from that injury, he got beaned. His last season was 1957, when he hit .364 in a seven-game World Series loss to the Milwaukee Braves. Coleman worked in the Yankees front office before beginning a broadcasting career that eventually brought him to San Diego. "First and foremost, he was an American hero whose service to this country is his lasting legacy. He was also a great Yankee, a true ambassador for baseball, and someone whose imprint on our game will be felt for generations," Yankees managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner said. "On behalf of the entire New York Yankees organization, we send our deepest condolences to the Coleman family." Coleman managed the Padres in 1980, when they went 73-89 and finished last in the NL West. Coleman was fired and returned to the booth. "I should never have taken it," he said. "I look at it now and see the mistakes I made. If I wanted to be a manager, I should have gone to the minor leagues and developed there." Colemans statue at Petco Park depicts him in a flight suit. Coleman said the closest he came to being killed was in Korea when the engine in his Corsair quit during takeoff and his plane flipped. He preferred to talk about his comrades. Coleman remembered a mission over Korea when a plane piloted by his buddy, Max Harper, blew up and flew straight into the ground. "I knew there was no need for help. It was an unpleasant thing," Coleman said. In describing the two-seat Dauntless he flew in the Solomon Islands and the Philippines, Coleman said the gunner "was the bravest man I knew. If I did something wrong, he died, too." Longtime San Francisco Giants broadcaster Duane Kuiper mentioned the various halls of fame Coleman belonged to and added: "More than anything hes just a Hall of Fame guy. If he had a bad day, it was never around us. He was always in a good mood. He was quite funny. Northern California guy. Really just a great guy. Im shocked and saddened that he passed away. "Heres a guy, what didnt he do in life?" Kuiper said. ' ' '
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