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Former Bear pitcher drafted by Pades

Pleasant Valley graduate Jeremy Gigliotti was selected by the San Diego Padres in the 19th round of the Major League Baseball First Year Player Draft on Tuesday.

A graduate and former player at East Stroudsburg University, he was the 593rd overall pick.Gigliotti is the second Pleasant Valley player selected in the draft. Aaron Fuhrman was picked by the Detroit Tigers in the 23rd round in 2006.Gigliott finished the year as the nation's Division II leader with 4.57 hits allowed per 9 innings and ranked third with a 1.04 ERA, allowing eight earned runs and 35 hits in 69.0 innings.Flyers get rights to Coyotes' BryzgalovThe Phoenix Coyotes have traded the negotiating rights of free agent goalie Ilya Bryzgalov to the Philadelphia Flyers for forward Matt Clackson, a third-round draft pick in 2012 and future considerations.The Coyotes had made Bryzgalov and defenseman Keith Yandle, a restricted free agent, their top priorities this offseason.An NHL official who requested anonymity because he wasn't authorized to release the information says negotiations with Bryzgalov broke down because the Russian goalie wanted to not only be a top-paid goalie in the NHL, but one of the top-paid players.Bryzgalov went 36-20-10 with a 2.48 goals-against average and seven shutouts, but had some shaky moments as the Coyotes were swept from the playoffs by Detroit.NBC wins U.S. TV rights to OlympicsBob Costas made the pitch and NBC met the price.The peacock network outbid Fox and ESPN by almost a billion dollars Tuesday to win U.S. television rights to four more Olympics and keep the games through 2020.The result: a $4.38 billion knockout for NBC.Despite a recent change in ownership, the sudden departure of longtime Olympic chief Dick Ebersol and an uncertain economy, NBC and its parent company, Comcast, defied speculation that its grip on the Olympics was coming to an end.