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Pettitte, Hamels, rain on deck for Game 3

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- The New York Yankees and Philadelphia Phillies

resume their deadlocked Word Series Saturday with left-handers on the mound and rain in the forecast.

Starting time for Game 3 of the best-of-seven series is 7:57 p.m. at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia.

Andy Pettitte, whose 16 post-season wins are tops in major league history, will start for the Yankees. Cole Hamels, the Most Valuable Player of the 2008 series, starts for defending champion Philadelphia.

The weather forecast calls for a 60 percent chance of rain, with temperatures in the lower 50s and winds 10 to 15 mph.

Left-hander Cliff Lee got the win in the Phillies' 6-1 victory in Game 1. A.J. Burnett was the winner in New York's 3-1 Game 2 win. Both contests were at Yankee Stadium.

Chase Utley slugged two home runs for Philadelphia in the first game and Mark Teixeira and Hideki Matsui homered for New York in the second. Each homer was a solo shot.

Sluggers Ryan Howard of Philadelphia and Alex Rodriguez of New York were a combined 2-for-17 in the first two games, with both hits by Howard. In Game 2, Howard struck out four times and Rodriguez three.

The Phillies beat the Tampa Bay Rays in five games last season for just their second World Series title.

The Yankees have won the series 26 times, more championships than any franchise in American major professional sports.

Olympic torch arrives in Canada

VICTORIA, British Columbia, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- The Olympic torch for the 2010 Winter Games arrived in the western Canadian city of Victoria, British Columbia, Friday on a flight from Athens.

A military aircraft touched down 90 minutes late with the torch, which was paddled across the harbor by Indians in dugout canoes to the provincial legislature where the ceremonial cauldron was lit from it, the Victoria Times-Colonist reported.

The torch will begin a record 28,000-mile journey that will take the flame to every province and territory -- to 1,036 communities -- and back for the opening ceremonies of the games in Vancouver Feb. 12.

Soon after the flame's arrival, police arrested one protester for assaulting a plainclothes police officer, the newspaper said.

Hundreds of other protesters were expected to participate in a rally organized by the Five-Ring Circus Anti-Olympics Festival and police said they would be monitoring it closely.

Ricketts family takes over Chicag Cubs

CHICAGO, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- The Ricketts family has assumed control of baseball's Chicago Cubs.

The National League franchise was sold to the family earlier this week by the Tribune Company for $845 million and a 25 percent share of Comcast SportsNet Chicago.

Tom Ricketts is chairman of the board and will oversee team operations with brothers Pete and Todd and sister Laura.

Their father is Joe Ricketts, a 68-year-old billionaire who founded the Ameritrade online stock service in Omaha, Neb.

Tom Ricketts said at a news conference Friday his major goal is winning the World Series, which the Cubs have not done since 1908.

"As a fan in the '80s and '90s, we'd all look at the roster at the beginning of the season, and the word 'hope' would always come out," he said. "For us, hope is just not a strategy anymore."

The Cubs won National League East titles in 1984 and 1989, NL Central titles in 2003 and 2007 and NL wild card berths in 1998 and 2008.

Two share lead at South Korean LPGA stop

SEOUL, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Meaghan Francella and Anna Grzebien each shot 6-under-par 66 Friday and share the first-round lead at the Hana Bank -- KOLON Championship in South Korea.

Francella was 5-under for her second nine at the Sky 72 Golf Club in Incheon while Grzebien had three birdies in a five-hole stretch to pull into a tie for the lead.

Jiyai Shin was among six players tied for third, one stroke off the lead. More than half the field of 71 players broke par Friday, but that didn't include world No. 1-ranked Lorena Ochoa, who was tied for 45th at even-par 72.

Francella played the back nine first Friday and had eight pars to go with a birdie at No. 15. She had a birdie at the first hole -- her 10th -- but jumped up the leader board with four consecutive birdies from Nos. 4-7.

Grzebien spread out her birdies over a bogey-free round. She opened with a birdie at No. 1 and also beat par at the sixth hole. She had birdies at 10, 12 and 14 and added a 4 at the par-5 finishing hole for a share of the lead.