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CHICAGO -- Dexter Fowler, sidelined since June 19 with a strained right hamstring, wont play in a game for the Chicago Cubs until after next weeks All-Star break, but theres still a chance hell play in the All-Star Game on Tuesday. Filip Forsberg Predators Jersey .Fowler, who was voted a National League starter in fan balloting, is slated to begin a rehab assignment on Friday with Class A South. He will be the designated hitter on Friday and will then play the field on Saturday.If hes well after that, then he can be activated to play in the All-Star Game, manager Joe Maddon said Thursday before the Cubs hosted the Atlanta Braves.Fowler, 30, wants to play in the game because its his first All-Star appearance.Its reality, he said. I think my health is more important. Its a long season. You dont want it to occur again. You want to be smart about it.Not everyone in the organization, though, is comfortable with the idea of Fowler playing in an exhibition game before he plays for the Cubs -- especially with the tricky nature of hamstring injuries.He just has to be honest with us, Maddon said. If hes feeling really well, I have no problem with it. If theres any concern ...This is one of those things you could become overly cautious with. Our primary objective is to make sure hes ready to play the rest of the season to take us to the promised land. But the opportunity to play in an All-Star Game for a guy like him is pretty grand, and you dont want to get in the way of that if he can play.Fowler is batting .290 with seven home runs and 28 RBIs in 64 games. Mike Fisher Predators Jersey .Y. -- Bills receiver Stevie Johnson has a bone to pick with the NFL schedule maker. Marek Mazanec Jersey . The Swede became the first golfer to win the PGA Tours FedEx Cup and European Tours Race to Dubai in the same season. "It is still taking a little time to sink in what Ive achieved this week as was the case when I won the FedEx Cup but then it just kept getting better and better as the days went on and I am sure this will be the same," he said. http://www.predatorshockeypro.com/ . Boucher previously coached the Tampa Bay Lightning and had a 97-78-20 record over two-plus seasons. He was dismissed by the team last March after the Lightning struggled in the lockout-shortened season with a 13-18-1 record. War imagery has always been used to describe sporting contests: battled on, assault, marshall the troops, lay siege to, tracer bullet, shell-shocked. John Buchanan, in fact, is known to have taken more than a page or two out of Sun Tzus The Art of War during his time as coach of Australia.The metaphors of conflict help paint a picture of sorts for us spectators, but they begin to feel hollow when we look back at the number of players who had to leave the cricket fields to fight in real battlegrounds and the number of people who still try to lead lives (and sometimes play cricket) in war-torn areas today.October 1945: World War Two was over but it would take years for Britain to recover from the blitzkrieg bombings. In the picture above, a group of men play cricket in Blackfriars, London, during their lunch hour, with St Pauls Cathedral in the background. According to the BBC, during the 1940 Blitz attacks in London, Winston Churchill asked that St Pauls be protected at all costs to preserve the morale of the people. Bombs rained down on the cathedral. Volunteer firewatchers patrolled its myriad corridors, armed with sandbags and water pumps to douse the flames… an incendiary device lodged on the roof. As it burned, the lead of the iconic dome began to melt. But luck was on the side of the firewatchers. The bomb dislodged, fell to the floor of the Stone Gallery, and was smothered with a sandbag. Mike Ribeiro Jersey. St Pauls was saved.Members of the Royal Air Force play cricket in the Kuwait desert, near the Iraq border, in 2003.Len Hutton and Stan Nichols (first and second from left), who played together in Englands last Test before the war, in 1939, on parade at an Army School of Physical Training in 1940. Nichols, 38 during that match, didnt play for England again. Hutton, 22, went on to play 66 Tests after the war.The Oval took on the grim look of a prisoner of war camp in 1944. However, while the ground housed searchlight batteries, it was actually never used as a POW camp for enemy parachutists as planned.Another example of war metaphors in sport - a 1933 Australian cartoon suggesting things might get worse when the secretary of war, Lord Hailsham became the MCC president during the Bodyline series.Smoke from a V-1 flying bomb, also known as the Doodlebug, rises above Lords during a 1944 Army v RAF match featuring Test cricketers Wally Hammond, Les Ames, Maurice Leyland, Bill Edrich and Bob Wyatt. A stark reminder of the violence we have grown accustomed to today: a group of Afghan youngsters play in front of a destroyed helicopter in Kabul in 2006. Cheap NFL Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys China Cheap Jerseys From China Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic Wholesale Jerseys China Cheap NFL Jerseys China NFL Cheap Jerseys ' ' '