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A Lamar Odom reunion with the Miami Heat apparently is not the ultimate longshot, even for a player coming off a championship season and facing a significant pay cut. Yahoo.com reported Saturday that the Los Angeles Lakers forward is “leaning strongly toward accepting” a Heat offer that would start next season at the $5.9 million mid-level salary-cap exception. Odom, who earned $14.

The Steelers expect all 80 players on their roster to report to training camp on time Friday now that first-round draft choice Ziggy Hood has come to a contract agreement. Hood and agent Michael Sullivan agreed to a five-year contract in principle with the Steelers yesterday to become only the fourth NFL first-round draft pick to come to terms so far. Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09207/986480-66.stm#ixzz0MO0kpDRl

While there continues to be no substantial movement on a new contract, Vince Wilfork [stats] will not use training camp to show his displeasure. According to a source in the Wilfork camp, the Pro Bowl nose tackle will be at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro on Thursday for double sessions when the Patriots [team stats] officially open training camp. He will not hold out and use his absence to leverage a new deal.

The good news in the photo above is that I think the Mariners actually won the game you see them playing. The bad news is, it was against their own 4 and 5-year-old kids and doesn’t count in the standings. Oh well. In the real game played today, the Mariners were whipped 10-3 by the Cleveland Indians. And then, as if falling 7 1/2 games out of the division lead wasn’t bad enough, the team kept the clubhouse door closed longer than usual. The reason why is that Don Wakamatsu and Jack Zduriencik caught up with Erik Bedard afterwards and had a frank discussion with him.

As trade negotiations between the Phillies and Toronto continued yesterday, the Phillies were trying to steer the Blue Jays toward a package led by pitcher Carlos Carrasco, infielder Jason Donald and others in their attempt to acquire righthander Roy Halladay, sources with knowledge of the negotiations said. On Thursday, the Jays asked for pitchers Kyle Drabek and J.A. Happ and outfielder Dominic Brown, but the Phillies think that’s too high a price. They don’t want to deal both pitchers, according to a baseball source

HOOVER, Ala. — Steve Spurrier confirmed it himself Friday morning when he appeared at the SEC media days: He was the one who snubbed Florida’s Tim Tebow in the coaches’ voting on the preseason All-SEC team. Mike and Mike in the MorningOle Miss football coach Houston Nutt says he voted for Tim Tebow as All-SEC. Nutt also talks about what makes his quarterback, Jevan Snead, so good and the pressure on Ole Miss to step up and compete for a conference championship.