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 The Green Bay Packers have agreed to terms on a long-termCheap Wholesale Hats contract extension with outside linebacker Clay Matthews, the NFL Network reports.

The Milwaukee Joual Sentinel reported the deal is for five years, $66 million—an average of $13.2 million—making him the highest-paid linebacker since DeMarcus Ware is now a defensive end. The deal goes through the 2018 season.

 Matthews shared a photo of the deal being signed deal on Twitter (@ClayMatthews52). "Trivial amongst the recent tragic news, but happy to continue my career in Green Bay!" Matthews tweeted.

"It feels good," Matthews said Wednesday during a news conference. "It's funny, because not a whole lot has changed. I'm happy about it but for me, it's nice, it's very humbling and it's a blessing, Cal Bears Snapbacks    but it's business as usual for me. I'm glad that they have put their trust in me and belief in me in awarding me this, but at the same time you're going to get the same type of unwavering perseverance on the field and dedication that I'm going to bring day in and day out. I feel good but not much has changed."

Matthews, who tus just 27 in May, was worthy of being locked up for a lucrative reward. In just four seasons after being drafted 26th overall by the Packers in 2009, he has wreaked havoc as an edge playmaker in their 3-4 scheme, with 43 sacks, 203 total tackles and four interceptions in 58 career games.

The 2013 season was scheduled to be the last under Matthews' original five-year, $9.9 million deal. Under the old deal, he is scheduled to be paid $3.7 million in '13.

The Packers next need to work on completing New Era Vice Snapbacks   a much more expensive long-term deal with their most indispensable player on offense: Aaron Rodgers.

 Boston Red Sox DH David Ortiz would like to be in the lineupSupreme Snapback Hats Friday night when the team plays its first home game since the Boston Marathon terrorist attacks Monday.

Ortiz, the longest-tenured member of the Red Sox, has yet to play this season because of discomfort in both of his heels. That issue arose this spring as he was trying to retu from an Achilles’ tendon injury that limited him to just 90 games last season (just one game after July 16).

 It appears that Ortiz is physically ready to make his 2013 major league debut, Famous Stars & Straps Snapbacks but his timing at the plate hasn’t been perfect during his minor league rehab assignment.

“It’s going to happen because I haven’t played in the last eight months,” Ortiz told The Boston Globe. “I’m going to make adjustments the more I see pitches. You work into a funk even when you’re good to go.

“As a Major League Baseball player you make adjustments and you get to the point where you want to be playing. That’s pretty obvious. It’s not like I have plenty of time to sit down and think about it. … This is when the experience and what I’ve leaed through the years kick in and I have to put it in play.”

 Ortiz’s retu would provide even more reason for the shaken fans in Boston to get excited about Friday night’s game at Fenway Park.

“We’re hopeful that by the end of this week he’s still New Era Coop Chenille Snapback able to rejoin us,” Red Sox manager John Farrell told the newspaper.

A man charged with stalking Richmond footballer Alex Rance has indicated he would plead guilty to the offence.

Scott Thomas, 35, of Prahran, has been charged with New Era Frantab Snapbacks stalking with Mr Rance between September 27 and October 6, 2011, and another count of using a carriage service to harass the footballer's sister, Ali.

Mr Thomas faces a further 24 charges unrelated to the stalking offences involving Mr Rance, including trafficking a drug of dependence, obtaining property by deception and knowingly claiming he was a registered health specialist.

Mr Thomas is accused of trafficking testosterone and sellingNBA Espn Series     what was claimed to be human growth hormone while claiming he was a doctor.

Melboue Magistrates' Court on Monday heard that another 47 criminal offences had been struck out.

Defence counsel Malcolm Thomas said his client would plead guilty to all 26 existing charges.

He told magistrate Caitlin English a psychiatric report would be prepared for the court.

Scott Thomas, who is on bail, will reappear before Ms English on May 24.

Mr Rance, who has played 69 games forWholesale New Era Snapback Hats Richmond as a defender, was not in court on Monday.

Judging by the Idea section on our TUF 17 Finale Aftermath, the majority of you felt that Travis Browne’s victory over Gabriel Gonzaga should have an asterisk next to it. Early in the fight, Fashion Hats Gonzaga pressed Browne against the cage looking for a takedown. Browne unleashed a series of elbows to Gonzaga’s head that knocked him out just one minute and eleven seconds into the first round and eaed Browne the Knockout of the Night bonus. However, as many fans have pointed out, it appeared that the elbows that ended the fight hit Gabriel Gonzaga directly in the back of the head.

Shortly after the fight, Gabriel Gonzaga’s manager, Marco Alvan, took to his Facebook page to inform fans that he would be appealing the outcome. Via Facebook:

Guys Gabriel Gonzaga is ok, thanks for the messages.

I need to review it to count how many illegal elbows but Its a fact that it was illegal.

I contacted Keith Kizer head of Nevada Athletic Comission and he told me to file a complaint and he would review it.

I true believe it was illegal. I never complaint about a losses who Famous Stars & Straps Snapbacks knows me know that I handle it good but illegal we can not accept.

In a follow-up post, Alvan also expressed his interest in setting up a rematch against Travis Browne:

This video is clear about the elbow [Author Note: This appears to be a video of the fourth and fifth elbows landed].

I very hope the commission look it carefully and make a correct decision about it. We respect Travis and his camp but it was a sad night. We hope this result can be fixed and get a new fight between them.

I don’t know who post it but thanks to clarify for all of us!

If you watch the ending again, you’ll see that the first two elbows landed cleanly to the side of Gonzaga’s head. The elbow that put Gonzaga out was possibly illegal, and the last three elbows clearly hit the back of the head. However, since Gonzaga was already out when they landed, they didn’t potentially affect the outcome of the fight. The NSAC’s ruling on the third elbow will more than likely decide the outcome of this case.

In the meantime, what do you think happened? New Era Frantab Snapbacks Should Gonzaga get a rematch against Browne, or was he already out by the time he was hit in the back of the head?

THERE is life after inteational rugby; Mike Blair has just signed a two-year contract with Newcastle Falcons, a few months after announcing his retirement from the inteational game.

That announcement indeed makes him more valuable to a club. Cheap New Era Snapback Hats He won’t be away on Scotland duty in November, February and March. Of course, in the amateur days, it was quite usual for players to continue in club rugby, often for years, after the inteational selectors had lost interest in them, but there was an assumption that the rigours of the professional game would lead to bu-out and shorter careers. The reverse seems to be happening.

The former England and Lions lock, Simon Shaw, is still a member of the Toulon first-team squad at the age of 40, while Blair’s former team-mate for Edinburgh and Scotland, Nathan Hines, is an important figure in the Clermont-Auvergne XV bidding to win the Heineken Cup.

Indeed, wherever you looked last weekend in the Heineken and Amlin Challenge Cup matches, there were players retired from the inteational game, or deemed surplus to its requirements, plying their trade, and often shining. Who hammered the nails into Leicester’s coffin but Jonny Wilkinson? Ten years after he kicked England to World Cup glory with a drop-goal from his right – that is to say, wrong – foot, he finished off the Tigers in the same way. Meanwhile, a few hours earlier at The Stoop, Ronan O’Gara, whose rugby obituary was being pronounced by many, including myself, only a few weeks ago, was displaying all his old mastery as he steered Munster to victory over Harlequins. That match must surely have settled the Lions captaincy. Who can it be now but Paul O’Connell?

Sunday’s two Heineken quarter-finals showed once again that you don’t need tries to have a gripping match. Sadly, all four quarter-finals also showed that the readiness of referees to award a penalty to a scrum that is driving forward with no intention of releasing the ball to its backs is in danger of making a nonsense of the game.

The sooner the laws are adjusted so that we get back to theIn4mation Snapbacks Hat      understanding that the scrum is a means of restarting the game, usually by heeling the ball, the better.

Incidentally, there was one moment in the Challenge Cup match between Gloucester and Biarritz which demonstrated the absurdity of current refereeing practice, or, if you prefer, the incompetence of some referees or their indifference to the laws of the game. A line-out throw by the Biarritz hooker was judged to be squint – which indeed it was, if only marginally so. A scrum was then called. The Gloucester scrum-half promptly fed the ball into his second-row, and the referee was happy to let this go. The second offence was more blatant than the first but went unpunished. Ridiculous.

Still, there was some lovely stuff in that match from both teams. I always take every chance on offer to watch Biarritz, if only to see Dimitri Yachvili in action. He has his bad days like almost everyone, but when he is on song he is a joy to watch. He seems to stroll through a game, controlling the action serenely, his reading of the play astute and usually a few seconds ahead of everyone else.

There were two lovely examples of his vision at Kingsholm: first, the sublime little chip which gave the Biarritz left-winger the easiest of tries – all he had to do was catch the ball; second, that moment when, from a tuover deep in the Biarritz 22, Yachvili spotted space on the right and slung out a pass that travelled more than 30 yards, to be collected by the flying Ngwenya, who galloped free and passed to Benoit Baby to score.

No doubt Yachvili spends time in the gym, but he has never bulked up. Indeed, he is one of those, like Mike Blair and Chris Paterson, whose body shape looks much as it did when he first played professional rugby more than a dozen years ago. He is a true master, and I would have young Sean Kennedy, the most promising scrum-half in Scotland, apply himself to the study of tapes or DVDs of Yachvili’s best games. He couldn’t fail to lea much about tactics, positional sense, the organisation of his forwards, and reading the flow of play.

On a final note: the Heineken is once again proving the most compelling of touaments. Any of the four teams left in it might still win, though Clermont-Auvergne are deservedly favourites to do so.

Meanwhile, it is essential that some compromise New Era Flannel Snapbacks is found between the English and, to a lesser extent, French clubs who want the format changed, and the Rabo Pro12 clubs who are resisting their demands. We shall all be the poorer if this great competition is wrecked.

THE catalyst of Melrose’s win at their own sevens touament back in 2011 will today retu to the Greenyards in opposition colours as the world famous event once again takes centre stage.

Local lad Scott Wight was a mainstay of the Melrose side Cheap Wholesale Hats that won the Kings of the Sevens overall title in 2010 and 2011 and was on top form in the final of the Melrose Sevens that latter year as the hosts came out on top against Hamilton from South Africa.

Now a professional with Glasgow Warriors the 27-year-old will play in the event today for his draft club Aberdeen Grammar.

Twelve months ago unfancied Grammar caused a few eyebrows to be raised when they reached the semi-finals only to lose out to eventual winners Saracens. However, with playmaker Wight and Scotland Sevens flyer James Fleming included in a strong-looking ten-man squad nobody will be taking them lightly this time around.

The men from Rubislaw take on Selkirk in round one and their skipper Greig Ryan said: “We really enjoyed last year and we were gutted to lose out in the last four. I think we showed people that day that there are good sevens players elsewhere in the country other than the Borders and we are looking forward to the touament. Having players of Scott and James’ calibre is a bonus as they are experienced sevens players, but we know we have to play well as a team and are not looking any further than the first match.”

Wight’s inclusion for Grammar is just one interesting story on a day that always brings out the best in Scottish rugby. As well as Fleming, fellow Scotland Sevens players Lewis Young (Jed-Forest), Alex Glashan and Chris Dean (Edinburgh Accies), Rory Hughes (Stirling County) and Michael Maltman (Heriot’s) have been released to their clubs.

It is perhaps a pity that the likes of Colin Gregor, NBA 47 Brand Snapback     Michael Fedo and Andrew Tubull have not also been made available to play for clubs too, but nevertheless having Fleming et al on show is good for the crowd.

As current Kings of the Sevens and finalists last year, Jed-Forest will be ones to watch yet again even though they are without the likes of Darren Gillespie (now in New Zealand and a Scotland Sevens player) and Andrew Nagle (now Melrose) who were key men in 2012. They do have a good squad though with the aforementioned Lewis Young, Iain Chisholm, Nua Fono-Hunt and Michael Weekley ones to watch.

Chisholm said: “We loved our run to the final last year and when you run out on the pitch at Melrose the crowd is something completely different than what we are used to. It gives you a buzz.

“Last week at the Gala Sevens we felt we were unlucky to lose out to Hawick and I feel this year there is not as much pressure on us after 15s relegation, so we just need to go out there and play our own game.”

Melrose, who lost to Jed in the semis last year, will as always be roared on by a huge home following.

With Scotland Sevens cap Callum Anderson having retued to the club from Aberdeen Grammar and Glasgow Warriors’ EDPs Fraser Thomson and Bruce Dick in the squad on paper it looks a good ten.

Andrew Skeen is one of the best sevens exponents in the country and always has a trick or two up his sleeve while the squad is completed by Graham Dodds, Grant Runciman, Scott McCormick, Bruce Colvine, Allan Dodds and Nagle.

Melrose will meet the winners of an intriguing round one tie between Watsonians and Glasgow Hawks with both having named strong squads. For ’Sonians Mike Ker and Rory Steele could be key while it will be good to see up-and-coming youngsters Sean Yacoubian and Harry Walker play on the big stage for Hawks.

Of the other Scottish clubs who could be dark horses for the title, Gala and Heriot’s probably fit the bill.

Gala are on a high having won their own sevens for the first time since 1995 last week while the Heriot’s squad looks strong with the previously mentioned Maltman joined by the likes of Fraser Brown and Jason Hill up front and there is pace out wide in the shape of Colin Goudie and Harry Boisseau.

It is also great to see that Howe of Fife have been invited to the event after winning the Legacy Sevens Series in 2012 and they have a number of starlets to keep an eye out for.

Of course all of these teams will have their work cut out to get the better of the “guest” sides with reigning champions Saracens, Worcester Warriors and Clermont Auvergne expected New Era Dopetastic Snapbacks   to be strong and India somewhat of an unknown quantity.

Saracens are led by England Sevens caps Joe Maddock, Andy Saull, James Short and Nils Mordt with exciting young players such as Nick Tompkins, Nathan Earle, Tom Jubb and Scott Spurling also involved.

Duncan Taylor, who played for Saracens in the event last year, has since gone on to ea a Scotland A cap, but is not involved today.

Saracens coach Joe Shaw said: “We want to give a good account of ourselves. Melrose has a rich tradition in terms of the sevens format and as we are holders of the competition we have put together another strong squad.”

The Worcester squad includes three players with first-team experience in Ollie Hayes, Ben Howard and Richard de Carpentier while Academy youngsters Josh Buggea and Joe Nellany are also involved.

The Boston College baseball team eaed a 9-5 win New Era Snapback Hats  at Dartmouth on Tuesday afteoon at Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park. The Eagles (6-25) tied a season-high with 16 hits and scored in every inning but the first and ninth.

The nine runs and 16 hits were also the most the Big Green (17-6) has surrendered this season.

Senior Matt Paré led the team with a 3-for-4 performance, tallying an RBI, a run and was hit twice by pitches. Sophomore Blake Butera also tallied three hits in six at bats with a run an RBI and two doubles. Freshman Gabriel Heandez recorded three RBIs on a 2-for-5 day.

Freshman right-hander John Nicklas (1-0) tallied his first collegiate win, pitching two innings of relief, allowing one hit, one run, two walks and striking out one. Sophomore right-handed starter Eric Stone allowed four hits, three runs - all eaed - one walk and struck out three in three innings.

Dartmouth's RHP Beau Sulser (0-1) shouldered the loss, throwing two innings of relief. He allowed five hits, four runs - all eaed - two walks and struck out one. Starter LHP Adam Frank pitched the first 3.2 innings, gave up five hits, three runs - all eaed - three walks and one strikeout.

The Eagles got on the board in the second, after Stone retired the first  Mishka Snapbacks three batters he faced in order. Freshman Logan Hoggarth led off with a double to left center and with one out, Heandez laced one past the diving third baseman to drive him in.

BC added a run in the third and one in the fourth to take a 3-0 lead. Paré and junior John Hennessy tallied back-to-back singles in the third and Paré tagged up and moved to third on a fly ball by junior Tom Bourdon. Hoggarth plated him with a groundout to short. In the fourth with two outs, freshman Joe Cronin drew a walk and Butera doubled to left, scoring his teammate from first. Sulser came in and got Hennessy swinging to end the inning.

The Big Green tied the game in the fourth, scoring three runs on five hits. Dustin Selzer led off with a base hit and Jeff Keller plated him with a double to left center. Nick Lombardi followed with a double of his own to make it a one-run game and BC went to the pen for sophomore lefty Nick Poore. Ryan Toimil hit the first pitch he saw to left center to score Lombardi to tie the game. Poore forced a fly out and the Eagles got the lead runner on a fielder's choice to short for the second out. After a single and runners on second and third, Poore got out of the jam and kept the game tied with a strikeout looking.

The Eagles went back on top the next inning, stringing together three hits and a walk with two outs. Freshman Stephen Sauter started the rally with a single to center and senior Matt McGove drew a walk to put two on. Heandez drove both in with a double off the glove of the diving right fielder. Cronin then laced on through the right side to score Heandez and give BC the three-run lead back.

BC added a run in the top of the sixth as Hennessy walked with one out and moved up on Hoggarth's two-out base hit. Righty Duncan Robinson entered the game and Sauter knocked on just inside the left-field line to score Hennessy. The Big Green got the run back in the bottom of the inning with a triple off the bat of Matt Parisi, scoring Adam Gauthier, who walked.

Paré made it an 8-4 game in the seventh with a single through the right side, driving in Butera, who doubled into the left coer. McGove add a run with a solo shot - his first home run of the 2013 season - over the right-field fence in the eighth.

Parisi tallied a shot off sophomore righty John Gorman in the top of the ninth to make it a 9-5 game. Gorman settled in and got three straight out to preserve the win.

The Eagles will travel to Amherst, Mass., to take on Massachusetts on Wednesday, April 10 at 3 p.m. in the first round of the 23rd Annual Beanpot Touament. Northeaste and Harvard New Era Flannel Snapbacks     square off at Friedman Field. The consolation and championship games will be held on April 29 at Fenway Park at 2 and 5 p.m., respectively. Tickets are $10 and benefit the Pete Frates #3 Fund.

It has been eight years since Tiger Woods last won the Masters.

Eight years since Woods holed that too good to be true pitch shot at the 16th hole, the one that took its own sweet time before falling into the cup, the swoosh-stamped ball pausing for an instant to tease the world before tumbling in, igniting a roar that shook the pines and every soul watching at Augusta National and a thousandSnapback Hats Cheap Wholesalepoints beyond.

That was when it seemed Woods could do anything, though the reality was he bogeyed the next two holes after his imagination-rattling pitch-in to fall into a playoff with Chris DiMarco before scratching out his fourth Masters victory.

Since that April Sunday in 2005, Woods has been like a moth to a light on a summer evening, flitting all around another Masters victory but not getting one. He's finished sixth or better every year but last year when he tied for 40th.

It's been a long time, however, since Woods arrived at the Masters the way he arrives for this one.

"It's been a few years," Woods said at Bay Hill when asked the last time he felt as enthused about his game with the Masters at hand.

He is back at No. 1 in the world, his public fall from grace, New Era Dopetastic Snapbacks his injuries and another swing change, having faded into the background.

Less than two years ago, Woods had slipped to 58th in the world rankings while doubters clustered, believing he wouldn't regain what he had lost on the golf course.

Instead, Woods-who recently put his private life on public display with the release of photos with his new girlfriend, Lindsey Vonn-has won six PGA Tour events over the past 13 months or, 30 percent of his starts. That's better than his career winning percent of 25.8.

Consider this: Luke Donald, Hunter Mahan, Matt Kuchar, Nick Watney and Brandt Snedeker are each ranked among the top 25 in the world.

Each of them has won five PGA Tour events-in their careers.

After finishing second to Woods at the WGC-Cadillac Championship at Doral last month, Steve Stricker-who's still hearing it from other pros for giving Woods a putting lesson that week-said this about Tiger:

"His attitude and what I saw (at Doral), his belief in himself again, looks very similar to where he was in the early 2000s or you can pick any (year), I guess, when he was playing great.

"He just seems in a better place mentally, to me. He seems to be having fun. Seems to have a lot of confidence in himself and his game."

This is not about being back.

"Never left," Woods answered when asked if his victory at Torrey Pines in late January showed he was back.

This is about the next stage of Woods' career. He won with a homemade swing, with another swing taught by Butch Harmon, then another cultivated by Hank Haney. Accused of being bullheaded for insisting he could rebuild his game again using Sean Foley's new age teachings, Woods has made it happen.

The next step is winning his 15th professional major championship. Eight years since his last Masters victory and nearly five years since he beat Rocco Mediate in a playoff to win the 2008 U.S. Open, Woods' quest to break Jack Nicklaus's record of 18 majors has stalled.

Once a foregone conclusion, Woods catching and passing Nicklaus is now an open-ended question.

"Is he going to be back to the game he had in 2000 or 2001? Probably not," ESPN golf analyst Curtis Strange said. "Is he back to being a consistent contender, an intimidating figure? Yeah, I think he's very, very close to being back in that respect. Is he back to winning majors? Well, we have yet to see."

In the career race, Woods stands dead even with NicklausAngry Birds Snapbacks. At age 37, Woods has played 60 majors and won 14, the same numbers Nicklaus had at the same age. It took Nicklaus nine more years to win his last four majors.

If there has been a single factor that has kept Woods from winning at Augusta in recent years, it's been putting. It isn't glamorous but winning the Masters is often about who makes the most five-footers for par over four days.

Ask Phil Mickelson.

It's what separated Woods for so many years and it's what has dulled at Augusta the last few years.

"Let's face it, no one on the face of the earth has ever putted like Tiger Woods putts, especially under pressure," said ESPN's Paul Azinger. "Now that he's putting good again, he can finish dead last in fairways hit at Bay Hill and win like he did finishing dead last at Torrey Pines and winning. Nobody else can do that. "

This year, Woods leads the tour in strokes gained putting, perhaps the strongest indicator that this might be the year he wins a fifth green jacket.

This Masters may ultimately be about someone else-Rory McIlroy or Lee Westwood or Mickelson. But it begins-again-with Tiger Woods.

"To me the anticipation is almost like a heavyweight fight; when Ali is getting ready to step into the ring with Foreman or Frazier or when Sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Heas are about to step into the ring or Mike Tyson against Riddick Bowe," Azinger said. "The anticipation for this Masters (is) to see if Tiger can win four out of five and get his first major now that he's making every putt."

The bell rings Thursday moing.

Michael Morse says he's emerging from this first, power-laden week feeling like he needs to ease up on the aggressiveness and just relax.

And that's a message Morse figures the rest of his Wholesale New Era Snapback Hats  Mariners teammates and any skittish fans might want to adhere to as well. As disappointed as the Mariners were following this 4-3 loss in 10 innings Sunday to the Chicago White Sox, they insist it's still far too early in the season to get worked up about too much.

"We're not getting the base hits as much right now and no one's really clicked yet," said Morse, who hit his fifth home run in seven games in the first inning, but struck out his final four times up. "It's early and there's a lot of baseball left."

Dayan Viciedo became the latest in a long line of White Sox to deal the Mariners a walkoff defeat on a home run at U.S. Cellular Field. The Mariners haven't won a series here since 2009 and won't this season after Viciedo lifted the crowd of 18,708 to their feet in the 10th with a no-doubt solo shot to left off Kameron Loe on a sinker that didn't sink.

That handed the Mariners their fourth loss in the last five games on a road trip that finished 3-4 after a 2-0 start.

"I fell behind 2-0, and I tried to get back in the count and I just left a sinker up," Loe said. "I would have preferred for it to be away. It came back over the middle of the plate and he hit it well."

The blast was the first game-ending homer of Viciedo's career.

"You pipe it down the middle 2-0 to any of these big-league hitters and they're probably going to put a big swing on it," Loe said.

The Mariners have lost eight consecutive series at this ballpark since 2007       Cartoon Style Snapbacksand are 4-21 here over that span. Chicago has won 13 its last 15 against the Mariners overall and 26 of 31 since the start of 2010.

Many of the Mariners' losses here have come via late home runs. Alex Rios went deep for the third game in a row in the seventh inning off Hisashi Iwakuma to erase a 3-2 lead for the Mariners and send these teams to their second extra-inning affair of this series. The Mariners won the opener 8-7 in 10 innings Friday night, but dropped the final two.

Adam Dunn also hit a home run for the White Sox on Sunday, a two-run shot off Iwakuma in the first inning to tie the score at 2-2.

Iwakuma went on to retire the next 16 batters in a row until Rios went deep. That bought the Mariners more time to generate offense, but they went 0-for-7 with runners in scoring position.

Morse came up three times with a runner at second base and went down swinging on all three occasions, including in the 10th against White Sox closer Addison Reed. Things had started off far better for Morse when he connected for a two-run blast to left in the first inning off White Sox southpaw starter Chris Sale.

That made Morse the only Mariners hitter other than Ken Griffey Jr. in 1997 to hit five home runs in the first week. Griffey wound up with six in the first seven games that year.

Kendrys Morales added his first Mariners home run in the sixth off Sale to put Seattle ahead 3-2. Morales also had a double, a single and was walked intentionally on a 3-for-4 day.

But like Morse, the Mariners started quickly on offense and just couldn't finish.

"I think we're definitely underachieving what we're capable of doing," Morse said. "But we haven't played what, a week of baseball? I think we've showed some good signs of what we're capable of doing."

And the key now, he added, is for everyone to just relax and get their feet undeeath them. Morse has struck out nine times his last 18 at-bats and says he needs to calm his bat.

"They're feeding off my aggressiveness right now," he said. "I just need to relax a little bit and zone up a little more. Just stay aggressive, but under control. I'm kind of swinging out of the zone a little bit. But like I said, it's way early and there's a lot of baseball left."

Mariners manager Eric Wedge said playing 14 in a row to open the season without a break is a tough schedule for any club. He said his team looks forward to getting home for tomorrow's New Era Flannel Snapbacks    Safeco Field opener against the Houston Astros.

"It's the first week and there are some good things that have happened and some things we need to get better with," Wedge said. "We need to settle in offensively. We know we're going to be a good offensive club. But we need to settle in offensively, both different individuals and collectively. That will take some of the pressure off the pitching staff."

For the third straight year, FedEx Corp., Autism Speaks and Dover Inteational Speedway will team up, as FedEx will serve as the title sponsor for the “FedEx 400 benefiting Autism Speaks” Wholesale New Era Snapback Hats NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race on Sunday, June 2, 2013.

The announcement of the renewed partnership is coupled with the news that for the second straight year, the Autism Speaks Day at the Races event will be part of the June 2 race. Last year, this was the first-ever opportunity for those on the autism spectrum and their families to attend a NASCAR race, with a special ticket package set in a sensory friendly area within the air-conditioned grandstands at the Monster Mile.

The seating area offers a great view of the race along the backstretch of the track, with pre-race features including appearances from NASCAR drivers and personalities; brief presentations by educational speakers in the moing; food and drink; and much more.

On top of that, the area provides a dedicated quiet zone, with muted lighting in a calmer environment for parents to help their children escape the crowd if necessary. The room will also have comfortable seating, games and video screens to help fans keep up with the action on the track as well as display family friendly movies.

Tickets for the Autism Speaks Day at the Races cost $88 for Califoia Republic Collection adults and $20 for children ages 14 and younger. The $88 price point is symbolic -- as recent studies have shown that an estimated one in 88 children in the U.S. is on the autism spectrum, a 78 percent increase in six years that is only partly explained by improved diagnosis. A portion of the proceeds from the event will benefit Autism Speaks.

To purchase tickets to Autism Speaks Day at the Races, call 800-441-RACE or visit DoverSpeedway.com.

The NASCAR Unites Track Walk, benefiting Autism Speaks and The NASCAR Foundation, will follow the Saturday, June 1 “5-hour ENERGY 200” NASCAR Nationwide Series race. Fans will have the opportunity to walk a lap around the one-mile, concrete oval where the top drivers in the sport do battle all weekend long. More information, including special guests and instructions on how to register, will be shared next week.

The Autism Speaks Day at the Races and NASCAR Unites Track Walk events are just another part of an ever-growing partnership between FedEx and Autism Speaks. This marks the seventh straight year the Monster Mile is partnering with Autism Speaks, the world’s leading autism science and advocacy organization, to help raise funds and awareness for the cause throughout the weekend.

“There is no event that is more accessible for individuals and families with autism than our event at Dover,” said Artie Kempner, Autism Speaks board member, co-founder of Autism Delaware, and coordinating director and executive producer of NASCAR on Fox. “We’ve seen this partnership grow into something truly amazing, with an unbelievable amount of awareness being raised throughout each Dover spring race weekend.”

With its retu as title sponsor of the “FedEx 400 benefiting Autism Speaks,” FedEx continues to maintain a strong presence in NASCAR, most notably as the primary sponsor on Denny Hamlin’s No. 11 Toyota of Joe Gibbs Racing, a relationship that dates back to the beginning of the 2005 season. The past two years, Hamlin has run a specialized Autism Speaks/FedEx paint scheme for the Dover spring events.

Another retuing aspect to help raise awareness for Autism Speaks throughout the weekend will be the Autism Speaks puzzle piece decals for drivers in all three national touring series to display on their cars throughout the weekend. In 2012, 47 drivers participated in this aspect of the weekend.

NASCAR retus to Dover Inteational Speedway Strap Back Snapbacks       May 31-June 2, 2013 for the June 2 “FedEx 400 benefiting Autism Speaks” NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race, the June 1 “5-hour ENERGY 200” NASCAR Nationwide Series race and the May 31 “Lucas Oil 200” NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race.