Stars ready to shine...Bonds remains idle...End of the line for the Spectrum

NEW YORK (AP) Major League Baseball is getting ready for its 79th All-Star Game. It will be played tonight in 85-year-old Yankee Stadium, which is scheduled for demolition after the Yankees move across the street to a new ballpark next season.

NEW YORK (AP) Cleveland lefty Cliff Lee and Milwaukee right-hander Ben Sheets have been tabbed to start this evening's All-Star Game. A season after being demoted to the minors, Lee is 12-and-2 with a 2.31 ERA. Sheets earned the nod by posting a 10-and-3 record with a 2.85 ERA.

NEW YORK (AP) Barry Bonds' agent says the slugger has not received a single offer and is unlikely to play in 2008. Jeff Borris dismissed recent reports of interest from Arizona, the New York Mets and Boston. Bonds turns 44 in two weeks.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) The former home to Philadelphia's 76ers and Flyers will be demolished and replaced with a complex of retail space, bars, restaurants and a hotel. The 42-year-old Wachovia (wah-KOH'-vee-uh) Spectrum had been used by the city's NBA and NHL franchises until the adjacent Wachovia Center opened in l996.

SOUTHPORT, England (AP) The top Golfers are practicing again today at Royal Birkdale, where they'll play round one of the British Open on Thursday. Irishman Padraig Harrington hoisted the Claret Jug last year at Carnoustie (kar-NOOS'-tee), following a four-hole playoff with Spain's Sergio Garcia. British bookmakers have installed Garcia as the favorite, with odds as low as 8-to-1.

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