denver, josh beckett. a lead off homer was the beginning of the end. rockies won 10-0.nd would he have saved the best for last. felix hernandez won his last nine decisions which included a perfect game. struck out five and gave up just five hits. a homer in the eighth. hernandez making a late run for the cy young. he won 1-0 in minnesota. that's your early look at sports on "early today." i'm fred roggin. >>> coming up, detectives appear to be determined to nail lindsay lohan in yet another jewelry theft. your early morning entertainment headlines are straight ahead. plus a college kid saves one of the biggest companies some big embarrassment, if not worse. you're watching early "today." >>> welcome back. looking at the radar, you'd think maybe a tropical depression or weak tropical strm was approaching the gulf. so not impressive on ray dan. but a huge windshield and the storm surge is my big concern because it will still push a lot of water into mississippi and coastal louisiana. landfall expected to be later on today towards tonight near new orleans. the rest of the

go out to coors field where josh beckett made his rockies debut. his first start for a national league team since '05. kyle corver, up 1-0. d.j. mayhew, singles to center. josh beckett, the rockies go on to win it. >>> blue jays taking on the yankees. pick it up top nine. blue jays up 6-4. colby rasmus, with a home run off of rafael soriano. his 23rd of the year. the blue jays taking a 7-6 lead. go bottom nine. derek jeter, 0-13, against casey jansen. not anymore. and the yankees tie the game at 7-7. darren oliver getting nick swisher looking. the blue jays go on to win, 8-7. >>> the rays looking thr a win. evan longoria with a two-run to left. his seventh bomber of the year. bottom second, adrian beltre, see you later. six home runs in the game. the rangers down 2-1. bottom five, now. beltre singles to left. one hit away from a cycle. the rangers go on to win, 6-5. >>> that's going to do it for your "sportscenter" update. i'm jorge andres. have a great day. >>> up next, "the pulse." the white sox getting colorful. >>> and new research on what smok

denver, josh beckett. the rockies wasted no time welcoming him back for the national lead. a lead off homer was the beginning of the end. rockies won 10-0. and we've saved the best for last. felix hernandez won his last nine decisions which included a perfect game. struck out five and gave up just five hits. eric canes provided all the offense seattle needed. a homer in the eighth. hernandez making a late run for the cy young. he won 1-0 in minnesota. that's your early look at sports on "early today." i'm fred roggin. >>> coming up, detectives appear to be determined to nail lindsay lohan in yet another jewelry theft. your early morning entertainment headlines are straight ahead. plus a college kid saves one of the biggest companies some big embarrassment, if not worse. you're watching early "today." >>> welcome back to "early today." we're still watching a tropical storm going to new orleans. not a hurricane yet. landfall sometime this evening. this time tomorrow, pretty heavy rain and strong winds. forecasts in the west, another very warm day. possible record highs in a f

let's go to denver, josh beckett made his dodgers debut and the rockies welcomed him back.r cobin started the game with a leadoff homer, the beginning of the end. rockies won 10-0. >>> felix hernandez, can he do no wrong? he won his last nine decisions which included a perfect game. struck out five and gave up five hits. er erik tames provided all the offense he needed. another one-run game, 1-0, in minnesota. that's your "first look" at sports. i'm fred roggin. >>> let's get another check of the weather with bill karins still tracking isaac. >> isaac is not a hurricane yet. it does not look very impressive on radar. a couple of bands of showers ond downpours that will move towards coastal areas. you will not see a lot of rain until later on tonight. the high winds will be moving onshore later this ink. it has a lot of work to do to become very high-impact event there. we are still worried about the storm surge and how much rain falls. the winds do not appear and cause that much, if any, damage. we have some rain moving through new england this morning. make sure you bring

reportedly have been close to completing a deal that will send josh beckett to the dodgers. in exchange for dodgers pitch and multiple prospects. if this deal goes through, l.a. will pick up the bulk of the remaining $261 million owed to red sox players involved in the proposed deal. when the ravens season ended last year, the new kicker would face the job challenge this summer. ultimately, the decision on which kicker to keep comes down to something the ravens can not measure. a real game pressure and playoff pressure. last night, tucker had all the kicks in the game. tucker hit everything. 53-yard field goal with these. -- ease. the question he will have to ask is which kicker does the trust with a game or a season on the line? last night, he gave tucker the test. >> billy has had a great camp. he has done really well. he would have made every one of those kicks. he is proven. tuck is not proven. this is something he needed. he handled it very well. >> one game left in the preseason. st. louis next thursday níúñ >> here is a live picture as we update you on some breaking

then in the sixth inning ichiro takes josh beckett deep again, another solo into right. two home runs for ichiro. he now has seven. yanks win 7-1. >>> if you think baseball is a slow and long game, cards and pirates played a six-hour, seven minutes marathon. alvarez gives pittsburgh the lead in the 19th inning. pirates win 6-3. >>> cubs tied in ninth. ryan hanigan not having it. reds get out of the inning. in the bottom of the ninth, hanigan gets it done with ms. bat, single to deep center, in comes winning run. ryan hanigan is your hero. a shaving cream pie to the face. reds walk off. >>> houston has a new manager but new manager. d'backs aaron hill with a home run. astro loses under their interim manager. >>> nascar at michigan. mike martin leading and lap 65 this happens. bobby labonte gets loose. here's a view from the pit crew. martin skids by, t-bones the wall. no one is hurt. greg biffle takes the checkered flag. >>> andrew luck made a touchdown on his first nfl past last week. they brought him back down to earth. ike taylor with the pick six. 49 yard the other wa

in the sixth inning, ichiro takes josh beckett deep again. another solo shot in right. two home rubs for ichiro. he has seven this season. the yanks win, 4-1. >>> if you think baseball is a slow a and long game, you haven't seen anything yet. cards and pirates played a seven-hour marathon. >>> chicago threatening, but ryan hannigan not having it. brett jackson tries to steal third. and hannigan guns him down. in the bottom of the ninth, hannigan gets him done with his bat. singles to deep center. ryan hannigan is your hero. you know what that means. a shaving cream pie to the face. >>> to houston, the astros have a new manager. but they still have the same players. d-backs' aaron hail with a pair of home runs. 8-1, the final. >>> nascar michigan 400 at where else? michigan. mike martin leading most of the race. on lap 65, this happens. bobby labonte gets loose. martin misses him but goes flying in to the pits. martin skids by and t-bones a wall. luckily no one was hurt. greg biffle takes the checkered flag. >>> andrew luck threw a touchdown on his first nfl pass last we

adrian gonzalez, josh beckett, carl crawford and nick punto are on their way to l.a. the red sox received five players, including the dodgers' top two pitching prospects. the giants face the braves. dog day at the yard. top of the third, two on for jason hayward. me's been red hot and here's a three-run homer to right off of madison bumgarner. to the top of the 8th we go, jeremy affeldt in relief. bases loaded in a 4-3 game. michael bourn walks. dan uggla scores, 5-3 braves. then martin prado walks. atlanta wins 7-3. >>> that will do it for now. and a lot more coming up in the next hour. one other thing, raiders taking on the lions right now. we'll talk to you later, diane. >> thank you, henry. >>> when we come back, we've been graced with olympic gold. we'll show you, next. hello? the words are going this way-there's no way. oh, the lights came on. isn't technology supposed to make life easier? at chase we're pioneering innovations that make banking simple. deposit a check with a photo. pay someone with an email. and bank seamlessly with our award-winning mobile app.

he sends one off of the park for josh beckett. two dingers for ichiro. yankees go on to win the rubber match of the series 4-1. embattled red sox fall four games below .500. and it doesn't take my ears to hear the tolling sounds from bobby valentine in boston. >>> melky cabrera may have bad judgment. but you can't fault the man for having creativity. cabre cabrera, cooked up a phony website that featured a fictitious product that would have caused him to test positive. but since the substance in question didn't exist, it would have been difficult for cabrera to use it. major league's baseball team is gathering information about cabrera's scheme, which he thought up last month to explain his positive test for synthetic testosterone. here's a summation. him or one of his associates made a wake website to sell a fake product, to prove he took this product accidentally off this website. >>> there's been only 23 perfect games in major league history. but one 9-month-old baby in seattle has witnessed two of them. the white sox pitcher phillip humburg tossed a

josh beckett debut of the dodger did not go very well.econd pitch of the game is crushed by consolidate rad 0tyler upper deck shot. beckett allowed 3 runs in 5 and two-thirds innings. 10 nothing. dodgers trail the giants by 2 and half games. nfl teams get down to the 75 man roster limit today. the only raiders notable let go was full back part tim starter last season. among the cuts was former cal kicker and center jason slow out of western other again. san francisco beat denver yesterday but allow the broncos to jump out to 17 nothing lead as manning threw for 2 touch downs. niners defensive tl was not pleased after all the team ranked fourth in total defense last season and returned all 11 starters. >> the results bear itself out particularly when the first group was in there. we were playing stuff that we play all year round. there was just nothing special. maybe we didn't have our guy alerted to the offense as much as would you in the regular season. but no you are still dispintoed in the results because all the defense we played yest

. >>> the orioles batter red sox josh beckett. in the third, beckett serves up a pitch that can't be refused. it's gone. matt weeder is here. bounces over beckett's head. the infield can't make the play and another run scores. orioles crush them 7-1. >>> the fierce five, the gold medal winning women's gymnastics team were on the late show with david letterman. before that, gabby douglas, jordyn wieber, tyler ross and aly raisman visited the empire state build. they talked about pain, corn flakes and of course the face. we're talking about the one maroney made when she got silver instead of gold in the vault. >> after i did it, the girls pointed it out like you're doing the face again. >> every time she does it, we're like there it is. >> can i see it again? >> we've all been working on it. >> we can all do it now. >> i taught them. >> everybody. >> and at the end of the interview, dave gave them each a beautiful red rose. >> coming up next, another look at this morning's top stories and caught on video, a harrowing plane crash in

josh beckett got his first start in dodger blue last night. it didn't get off to such a great start. highlights from the nice in baseball ahead in sports. >>> we will stay on top of tropical storm isaac as it whips itself up over the warm waters of the gulf of mexico and heads for new orleans clear to the florida panhandle. "way too early" coming babb to the howl at the moon bar, the republican national convention in tampa. [ female announcer ] the power of green coffee extract is now in our new starbucks refreshers™ -- a breakthrough in natural energy. made with real fruit, starbucks refreshers™ are delicious low calorie drinks you can feel good about. ♪ rethink how you re-energize. ♪ get a boost of natural energy with a new starbucks refreshers™, in three ways. natural energy from green coffee extract, only from starbucks. >>> welcome back to "way too early." live again at the republican national convention in tampa, florida. look at the outside bar. some stragglers, the last of the ink, people hanging out at the bar or maybe they are up ear

josh beckett debut of the dodger did not go very well.shed by consolidate rad 0tyler upper deck shot. beckett allowed 3 runs in 5 and two-thirds innin innings. 10 nothing. dodgers trail the giants by 2 and half games. nfl teams get down to the 75 man roster limit today. the only raiders notable let go was full back part tim starter last season. among the cuts was former cal kicker and center jason slow out of western other again. san francisco beat denver yesterday but allow the broncos to jump out to 17 nothing lead as manning threw for 2 touch downs. niners defensive tl was not pleased after all the team ranked fourth in total defense last season and returned all 11 starters. >> the results bear itself out particularly when the first group was in there. we were playing stuff that we play all nd. there was just nothing special. maybe we didn't have our guy alerted to the offense as much as would you in the regular season. but no you are still dispintoed in the results because all the defense we played yesterday are things that will carry

josh beckett debut of the dodger did not go very well. second pitch of the game is crushed by consolidate rad 0tyler upper deck shot. beckett allowed 3 runs in 5 and two-thirds innings. 10 nothing. dodgers trail the giants by 2 and half games. nfl teams get down to the 75 man roster limit today. the only raiders notable let go was full back part tim starter last season. among the cuts was former cal kicker and center jason slow out of western other again. san francisco beat denver yesterday but allow the broncos to jump out to 17 nothing lead as manning threw for 2 touch downs. niners defensive tl was not pleased after all the team ranked fourth in total defense last season and returned all 11 starters. >> the results bear itself out particularly when the first group was in there. we were playing stuff that we play all year round. there was just nothing special. maybe we didn't have our guy alerted to the offense as much as would you in the regular season. but no you are still dispintoed in the results because all the defense we played ye

angeles dodgers ever agreed to pick up more than $240 million in contracts with carl crawford, josh beckett, adrian gonzalez thrown in, and their contracts, is almost beyond belief. the dodgers have a huge, huge fiscal opportunity starting next year when their new tv contract will be up for bid. so that's probably how they're going to pay for it. but it's a huge relief for the red sox and they're going to start all over. >> yeah, the dodgers ate a lot of contract. mike, thanks for coming in today. it was a great pleasure to have you at the office. what time's your flight? >> willie, they rejected my credit card at u.s. air, that's why i'm still here. >> oh, boy, that's too bad. we'll see you down here tomorrow, we look forward to it. you'll be here, right? >> sure, meet me at the airport. >> okay. all right, mike, thanks for everything as always. you're a great help. >>> the new-look red sox taking on the royals yesterday. dustin pedroia grounds to third. umpire calls him out. bobby valentine comes out, gets in the face of the umpire, he's going to get himself run. close call at first, look

. >>> in sports this morning, josh beckett made his debut as a dodger and got rocked with the first batterfaced. tyler colvin hits one high and deep. in 5 2/3 innings, beckett gave up five runs. colorado ran away with it in the eighth. rockies decimate l.a. 10-0. the dodgers are now 2 1/2 games behind san fran in the national league west. >>> seemed like a good idea at time. pitcher kyle lowe tries to score from first but is easily thrown out in the sixth. matt halladay smacks his 24th homer of the season. st. louis takes down the pirates 4-3. >>> rangers break out the bats against the rays in the second. adrian beltre blasts a solo homer to left. next batter, nelson cruz, goes deep to center to tie the game. beltre back to the plate in the third, spots a two-run double. he went 3 for 3 on the night. rangers over tampa bay 6-5. >>> torioles move forward. the first homer in years. and he was playing aaa ball last month, with the sweet swing and the two-run blast. orioles battled back to beat the white sox 4-3. >>> first round now of u.s. open tennis does see roger federer looking for his 18

>> you got josh beckett, mr. fried chicken., the new ownership has done a great job. vince scully's on for another season. >> basically, we're sucking up. >> we're all for them. >> in the playoffs, we need lots of good seats. >> gonzalez is going to actually do a great job, i'm sure. beckett might find -- crawford was so great here in tampa. just never saw the ball -- >> a lot of people say crawford when he was in high school he was a great high school football player and a lot of people were shocked when he didn't go football. he went baseball to avoid injury so he could have a longer career in the pros. he literally pick baseball so he could not get hurt. >> to tell the strength of the washington capitals, steve capus' phillies swept the capitals. >> abc poll/"washington post" was out there. earlier in the conversation i threw out the subject to chris before things went somewhere. not exactly sure where they went. 46% sitting presidents sitting at 46%. we know he's going to do a great job at the convention. he is one of the m

they get josh beckett and adrian gonzalez.onzalez was in the lineup against miami tonight a 3-run home run in his first at-bat at a dodger! dodgers beat miami 8-2! >>> the a's are 12 games over .500 for the first time in six years. today they beat the team they could face in the wildcard playoffs. they spent the weekend in the worst ball park in the major leagues but they score first today. coco crisp scores, that kept the inning alive for chris carter. he unloads off jer apartment herric son -- -- jeremy herlickson. smith coming off the disabled list, his first home run in a month. 4 runs, more than enough for a's starting pitcher brandon mccarthy. 2 runs in 7 innings. lech strikeouts. mc -- eleven strikeouts. mccarthy 9-0 against all american league east teams. the a's are tied with baltimore for the second wildcard start. they get a day off tomorrow. >>> the angels blew a 3-0 lead. peralta comes through. coming up the earthquakes try to stay on top of the mls stands. tiger woods does something he's never ask me what it's li

working on a trade that would send four players, including first baseman adrian gonzalez and pitcher josh beckett taken a leave of absence as an arizona diamondbacks broadcaster, after being arrested for d-u-i. st louis university basketball coach rick majerus ison leave for health reasons. he will miss the upcoming season. sergio garcia and nick watney are tied for the lead at the barclays, the first event of the pga tour playoffs. tiger woods...three strokes back. but none of those guys could claim the shot of the day. that belonged to the 100th- ranked player in the standings rookie roberto castro...on the par-3 14th hole....up....and in. a hole-in-one...on the fly. he needed it. that helped castro make the cut by one stroke. so he gets to play the weekend. that's the news for this friday night. i'm tom negovan. i'm jackie bange. i'm serious, we compare our direct rates side by side to find you a great deal even if it's not with us. [ ding ] oh, that's helpful! well, our company does that, too. actually we invented that. it's like a sauna in here. helping you save even if it's not with us -- n

here is josh beckett. the new dodger, his second pitch in an la uniform. >> the 0-1 1 -- take a good look. you won't see it for long. >> not so good in his debut. tyler, lead off homer, beckett five and two thirds, rockies, just a blow out win. matt kemp of the dodgers money can't buy you help as they get a scare there. look at him. he apparently is all right but 10-0. the rockies beat the dodgers, san francisco up two and a half games in the west. >>> lots to like from the raiders, pryor. the -- the lions in dominating fashion. the defensive line -- spent five-years with the giants, won a couple super bowl wings, gaining experience along the way. >> i needed that. i need to understand the concept of -- relying on teammates to make yourself better when that time comes they rely on you and you make a play. everybody make a turn and you have to be ready to step up. . >> expecting better things from the raiders and solid things the niners. that's the sporting line. >> thank you. >> thank you for trusting us.

la would get hard hitting highley paid first baseman gonzalez along with carl crawford and josh beckettld get james lowni experience a few prospects. key is, unloading massive salaryf. it goes through domers would take on a reported $260 million in money owed to those players, two clubs are said to be working out the final details. >>> while the little leaguer as wait the championship game tomorrow a part of that program does what they do lately. must be many the water. they hit game winning home runs. bit of a struggle in tampa for the a's. parker taking deep by the ray's, solo shot. 1-0. the a's down 3-2. rookie catcher, derek north jerks it to left. look at that, just missed the two run homer instead. it's the rbi double. the game tied at three. in the 8th a man on for johnny gomes and a no doubt about it. he will admire it. take it to right. 5-3 the score at that time. his 15th and his third against his former team tampa, 5-4 your final at the barkley's tiger is back but not the way you think. he his back hurts would be the complete sentence but he battled through the sieve -- throu

here is josh beckett.he new dodger, his second pitch in an la uniform. >> the 0-1 1 -- take a good look. you won't see it for long. >> not so good in his debut. tyler, lead off homer, beckett five and two thirds, rockies, just a blow out win. matt kemp of the dodgers money can't buy you help as they get a scare there. look at him. he apparently is all right but 10-0. the rockies beat the dodgers, san francisco up two and a half games in the west. >>> lots to like from the raiders, pryor. the -- the lions in dominating fashion. the defensive line -- spent five-years with the giants, won a couple super bowl wings, gaining experience along the way. >> i needed that. i need to understand the concept of -- relying on teammates to make yourself better when that time comes they rely on you and you make a play. everybody make a turn and you have to be ready to step up. . >> expecting better things from the raiders and solid things the niners. that's the sporting line. >> thank you. >> thank you for trusting us. we

la would get hard hitting highley paid first baseman gonzalez along with carl crawford and josh becketton would get james lowni experience a few prospects. key is, unloading massive salaryf. it goes through domers would take on a reported $260 million in money owed to those players, two clubs are said to be working out the final details. >>> while the little leaguer as wait the championship game tomorrow a part of that program does what they do lately. must be many the water. they hit game winning home runs. bit of a struggle in tampa for the a's. parker taking deep by the ray's, solo shot. 1-0. the a's down 3-2. rookie catcher, derek north jerks it to left. look at that, just missed the two run homer instead. it's the rbi double. the game tied at three. in the 8th a man on for johnny gomes and a no doubt about it. he will admire it. take it to right. 5-3 the score at that time. his 15th and his third against his former team tampa, 5-4 your final at the barkley's tiger is back but not the way you think. he his back hurts would be the complete sentence but he battled through the sieve --

dodgers and boston red sox nearing a deal that would send big names like adrian gonzalez, josh beckettawford from boston to l.a. that represents around $260 million in outstanding salaries over the next few years. >>> a california man is serving 27 years to life in prison, despite a judge's ruling declaring him innocent. daniel larsen was convicted under california's three-strikes law nearly 14 years ago, but an appeals court judge reversed the ruling two years ago on grounds his legal counsel was incompetent and eyewitnesses who say they have the wrong man. so, why is he still in prison? randy page of our affiliate kcal explains. >> reporter: more than 100,000 signed petitions calling for the release of state prison inmate daniel larsen were wheeled into the ronald reagan state office building today. they'll be delivered to state attorney general carmella harris. >> danny larsen was wrongfully convicted and is an innocent man. >> reporter: jan stiglitz was joined by larsen's fiancee, christa combs. >> they robbed him of his life and he needs to be set free. >> reporter: larsen was cha

congratulations on that josh beckett trade. upper deck!at's all right. >> we've got some polls out. and cbs policy is poll is out today. registered voters have barack obama up by a point. yesterday we had the washington post/abc poll out and in there you look at the medicare question. mitt romney is ahead. >> they've had -- that was something that got lost in the storm, is that they -- for better or worse, they said, fine, we'll try to win this message war first. and the obama campaign, by the way, was a week late, i thought. you would agree about this. i was surprised -- >> here is the lesson. romney 45, obama, 42. >> i was surprised that it took the obama campaign a week to come out with their first medicare ad. and they did. it was the aarp spot. they said they we wanted to make sure we got it right the first time. we didn't want to go out there too quickly and mess it up. >> i was spriesd at the turnaround. were you surprised it turned around that quickly? >> when you look at how well the republicans have driven the medicare narrative

josh beckett who you could hit a home run against this year. >> stop it. >> beckett has lost seven in. >> yankees take two out of three in the series, win 4-1. red sox are now four games under .500, that is it for their season. >> is there a requirement when you come to new york you immediately dip into a-rod's stuff? like immediately get juiced. >> list is getting long of ex-yankees. >> everybody in new york seems to dot juice. >> did you see the melky cabrera, saga -- the fake website he set up to try to prove that he -- >> a-plus for creativitcreativi execution. >> fay vincent said major league baseball needs to get their act together. it's unbelievable. >> coming up next, the secretary of the u.s. air force michael donnelly here for air force week in new york city. keep it right here on "morning joe." [ male announcer ] count the number of buttons in your car. now count the number of buttons on your tablet. isn't it time the automobile advanced? introducing cue in the all-new cadillac xts. the simplicity of a tablet has come to your car. ♪ the all-new cadillac xts has arrived. and

pitcher josh beckett would also be moved as would outfielder carl crawford who has been injured for a good part of the season just had tommy johnson jury. sent first base man to boston and promising young pitcher ruby. reports say the dodgers would take on most of the 261 million gonzalez, beckett and crawford are owed after this year. magic johnson and company spending some big bucks. talk about a 1 million shot. this is unbelievable. roberto castro on the 14th hole at the barclay's tournament. where did the ball go, ali. >> i don't know it was behind our lower third. >> it went straight in the cup. in bounce. this was a perfect swish. see even t camera didn't catch it they are not used to that. all bottom of the cup. that is unbelievable. i can't recall ever seeing that by the way day delete barclays today from black. tiger woods 4 under. four shots behind nic watney and serging sergio garcia. >> let's get outside to our friend clayton morris who is doing camerota camping. >> this is the way the camerota camp. national gas average $3.73. with prices still pretty highenned at economy