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DETROIT -- Two teams, two different directions and thus two approaches to roster expansion come September.The Detroit Tigers, who are still thinking postseason thoughts, and the Los Angeles Angels, who need a reset button to get back up to .500, are using September for their own circumstances.According to general manager Al Avila, Detroit isnt going to bring up a player from the minors next month unless he can help the team win. Recently the Tigers might bring up a youngster just to expose him to major league life on and off the field.The club will hold an internal meeting Tuesday to determine who comes up and whether they will be recalled on Sept. 1 or when minor league seasons end after Labor Day weekend.We wont be as high as we were last year, Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. I think we were 38-39 last year.We definitely will add pitching depth. And definitely get another catcher up here. We will get some guys for Friday but exactly who they are ... well get some guys Friday and some the middle of next week.Los Angeles will tinker with its starting rotation but Scioscia said hes not sure if that involves expanding the rotation or having newcomers dip in and out of as starters.The Angels will look at starters they hope can help them at some point next season and give them starts so they can see for themselves what they need to work on to succeed.Thats one of the advantages, Scioscia said. Youre going to bring up a young pitcher if you feel hes ready for the challenge and theres a role for him. If there is, I think a lot of those things youre talking about are positives. But we just want to see where we are.Los Angeles is throwing another lefty against Detroit on Sunday, Tyler Skaggs (1-3, 5.70 ERA). Skaggs faced the Tigers at home in 2014 but did not get a decision. He pitched 5 2/3 innings and allowed one earned run, striking out five.Skaggs is making his seventh start of the season, fifth on the road. He has lost his last three starts.Detroits starter is right-hander Anibal Sanchez, who continues to fight for his rotation spot, as the Tigers seek to rebound from having their five-game winning streak stopped Saturday night with a 3-2 setback to the Angels.Sanchez (7-12, 5.83 ERA) counts eight relief appearances among his 30 games when he takes the mound Sunday.He has started five times against Los Angeles in his career and is 0-3 with a 4.11 ERA. He pitched against the Angels on May 31 but did not get a decision despite allowing six runs on eight hits in three innings.Sanchez has a 1-1 record and 1.67 ERA in his last four home starts.Manager Brad Ausmus has confessed to some scoreboard watching as the final month of the regular seasonI definitely look more now than I did, he said. The first two months of the season Ill watch highlights of games, watch parts of games, but I dont look at the standings very often. Just a cursory glance every week or so.Its definitely more fun (now). Every game is important. You have a purpose for coming to the field. Last year our only purpose coming to the field was to finish out the season. And now were coming to the field trying to extend the season.Adidas Gazelle Mujer Baratas . Their experience showed Tuesday as the No. 10 Badgers blunted a Saint Louis surge to win 63-57 and advance to face West Virginia in Wednesdays finals of the Cancun Challenge. Adidas Deerupt Hombre .In my heart and mind Im competing for India, luge competitor Shiva Keshavan told The Associated Press in an email interview. 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Thousands of Southern California fans enveloped the Trojans to celebrate an improbable win secured by an interim coach, an inconsistent kicker and a thin defence that wouldnt break.Golden State Warriors star guard Stephen Curry is poised to go from being one of the NBAs most underpaid players to a contract that will pass the $200 million threshold thanks to the NBAs new collective bargaining agreement, according to league sources.Sources told ESPN that Curry stands to benefit massively from the new designated veteran player provision in the freshly agreed to labor deal, which sets up the two-time reigning MVP to triple his current salary of $12 million to $36 million next season.Currently playing out the last year on a four-year, $44 million extension that he signed in October 2013 at a time that his long-term durability was still being questioned, Curry will be eligible in July for a new deal that sources say would be worth an estimated $207 million over five years, making it the richest contract in league history and paying out an estimated $47 million in the final season (2021-22).This new rule enables a narrow selection of superstars who are willing to re-sign with their current team to receive up to 35 percent of the salary cap if certain benchmarks are met. As a two-time MVP who has played for the Warriors his entire career, Curry would meet all the qualifications for the maximum allowable salary. A player with Currys experience level, under the previous CBA, would have been able to sign for only 30 percent of the cap.Curry ironically might have new teammate Kevin Durant to thank for his forthcoming windfall. The leagues introduction of two designated veteran player exceptions per team in this new CBA, which have been modeled after the designated rookie player exceptions permissible in the current labor deal for one designated player per team still on his rookie-scale contract, appears to be a reaction to Durants departure from the Oklahoma City Thunder in free agency last summer.NBA commissioner Adam Silver acknowledged in recent weeks, before the NBA and the players association reached a tentative agreement Wednesday night, that both sides were determined to give small-market teams some advantages in their efforts to retain star players.The widespread expectation in league circles is that rival teams had virtually no shot anyway at luring Curry from the Warriors in free agency in July, but now the finances are stacked against his departure even more. If Curry were interested in changing teams this summer, interested suitors could only offer an estimated maximum contract in the $135 million range over four years, giving Golden State unprecedented ability to retain next summers co-No. 1 free agent alongside Durant.The Thunder were unable to offer Durant significantly more short-term money than the Warriors last summer, complicating their efforts to keep him. This situation affected many high-profile free agents in the past, from LeBron James and Chris Bosh in 2010 to Dwight Howardd in 2013, but the new provision aims to change that.ddddddddddddTeams such as Indiana, Sacramento and Utah -- faced with the respective challenges of trying to keep the likes of Paul George, DeMarcus Cousins and Gordon Hayward?-- are among those that could potentially benefit from the new provision if they meet the required qualifications. The new rule might also help the Thunder in their efforts to keep Russell Westbrook in Oklahoma City; Westbrooks recent extension only added one guaranteed year to his contract. At present, Westbrook has the right to return to free agency in the summer of 2018.The new CBA, however, isnt all good news for the Warriors, with Durant also in line to sign a huge contact this summer. As a 10-year veteran, Durant -- like Curry -- can sign a deal starting at $36 million, which could make the two the highest-paid teammates in NBA history. The Warriors will not have the same rights on Durant as Curry; designated player rules do not apply because Durant will have only played one season for them. As a result, Golden State could be squeezed to keep its team together.Golden State will be required to open salary-cap space to sign Durant, since it doesnt hold his Bird rights, which could make it increasingly difficult to add players to its four-star core.Fellow All-Stars Klay Thompson and Draymond Green are already signed to long-term deals, but the Warriors might not have the remaining cap space to make meaningful offers to pending free agents such as Andre Iguodala and Shaun Livingston if Curry and Durant, as expected, sign for the max. In addition, because teams are limited to two players who receive the designated veteran classification, Golden State might be forced to choose between Thompson and Green for the other slot left after Curry gets his new deal.There are too many variables, some seven months before free agency, to forecast the full impact of the new deal on the Warriors summer. Some league insiders, however, are already describing the Warriors as both winners and losers in the first review of the new CBA if they are indeed limited in their ability to assemble a supporting cast for those four stars.Silver recently told SiriusXM NBA Radio: One of the things were talking about ... is coming up with some additional opportunities for the incumbent team to retain the player, some advantages in terms of being able to negotiate earlier to extend the contract. I think if we early up some of those opportunities, at least teams will be in a better position to know, one, whether they can keep that player. And if they cant, there will be more of an opportunity to deal that player and get value for that player if it seems likely that player is going to leave. ' ' '