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Sacramento Kings coach Dave Joerger has called for a truce in an ongoing spat between All-Star?DeMarcus Cousins and The Sacramento Bee.Cousins recently confronted a Bee writer after a column that referenced the arrest of the 6-foot-11 stars brother.This guy is the face of our franchise, Joerger said after the Kings 99-79 loss to the Mavericks on Sunday. Hes done and said some things that he wishes he could do over. He has improved.He continued: Im not justifying anything that hes done. What he did was excessive. But enough is enough.The organization said it is reviewing the incident in which Cousins confronted and shouted obscenities at a local columnist following Monday nights game against the Los Angeles Lakers.Cousins confronted columnist Andy Furillo over an article that was published last weekend. The column addressed an incident at a New York nightclub earlier this month that resulted in Cousins and teammate Matt Barnes being sued over an alleged assault. 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There are many more players in contention for the awards than just the three that Ive named, and a good or bad week can easily alter the landscape, but through the first 20 or so games of the NHL season, this is how the awards races look to me. DENVER -- Jon Gray and Stephen Strasburg both will be trying to rebound from two poor starts when they oppose each other Wednesday in the rubber game of a three-game series between the Colorado Rockies and Washington Nationals.Gray, who is 8-6 with a 4.55 ERA in 21 starts for the Rockies, will be facing the Nationals for the first time in his career.While losing his past two starts against the Miami Marlins and at Philadelphia, the right-hander pitched a total of eight innings while allowing 16 hits and 15 runs, 14 earned, with five walks and nine strikeouts.Grays slider has been a vaunted pitch for him this season, one he has relied heavily on to get many of his 129 strikeouts in 122 2/3 innings. However, that pitch was highly ineffective in his most recent starts. Miami right fielder Giancarlo Stanton walloped a poor slider for a two-run homer on Aug. 7.Against the Marlins, the action (on the slider) was so bad, really bad, Gray said. It was really flat. It didnt have an effect at all. It was an easy, hittable pitch. The one (Stanton) hit was a terrible slider. I dont think I threw any good ones that day. Zero.Strasburg is 15-3 with a 3.07 ERA in 22 starts with 108 hits allowed in 143 2/3 innings, 41 walks and 176 strikeouts. While losing his past two starts to the San Francisco Giants and the Atlanta Braves, both at home, Strasburg has allowed 15 hits and 10 runs in 10 innings.The Washington right-hander is 4-3 with a 2.35 ERA in seven career starts against the Rockies. He is 1-2 with a 3.44 ERA in three starts at Coors Field, where he has not allowed a home run in 18 1/3 innings.Strasburgg hopes to lift the Nationals to a series win after they scored a 5-4 win Monday before Colorado rebounded for a 6-2 victory Tuesday.ddddddddddddNationals right fielder Bryce Harper went 3-for-3 with two doubles, one RBI and two walks in the series opener. He drove in a run with a groundout Tuesday while going 0-for-3 with a walk, giving him a major-league-leading 86 walks.Harper is the reigning Most Valuable Player in the National League, an award he won unanimously after his memorable 2015 season. He hit .330 last year with 42 home runs, 99 RBI, a .460 on-base percentage and a .649 slugging percentage.This season, Harper is hitting .238 with 20 homers, 60 RBI, a .381 on-base percentage and a .447 slugging percentage.Dusty Baker is in his first season as the Nationals manager, so he didnt witness Harpers 2015 feats on a daily basis. Nonetheless, Baker said he has been impressed by Harpers team-first attitude all season.What struck me is he wants to win, Baker said. Very rarely have I heard any talk about any personal accomplishments or anything like that. I know in his heart and his mind its hard to go from MVP to not having a good year. But I think these last six weeks, hell rise to the top because he has a lot of pride and a lot of game.After a game, you cant tell if he got five hits or zero hits. And thats what I admire about him. A lot of guys, you can tell if the team won and they got hits, and if the team lost, theyd be kind of happy if they got their hits. ' ' '