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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Charlie Reliford sold his car to chase his big league dreams, using the money to help play the cost of attending umpire school.Times have changed for those with the skills and aspirations seeking to become major league umps.MLB held its fifth and final 2016 umpire camp Saturday at Tropicana Field before the Tampa Bay Rays hosted the Texas Rangers.Five to seven attendees will end up getting invitations to join a group totaling around 30 for a December mini-camp in Fort Myers that will determine umpire school scholarship recipients.Realizing that for anybody to quit their job and risk four or five weeks of their life is a big step, much less come up with several thousand dollars in tuition, said Reliford, an MLB umpire supervisor. Baseball was gracious enough to give us a budget where we could help some worthy candidates get their start with little to no risk of their own other than their time.Over 100 past participants have moved on to professional ball since the first camp in 2006. One of them, Carlos Torres, worked the Kansas City Royals-Rays series earlier this month at Tropicana Field.Thats really the moments that are good to me, Reliford said. I helped that guy a little bit.Reliford was fresh out of the University of Kentucky and working as a director at a YMCA in 1982 when he made the call that would eventually land him in the majors seven years later.Umpire school tuition was several thousand dollars and quite frankly, just out of college, didnt have it, Reliford said. So, I sold my car, quit my job with all of my friends telling, me, `What, are you crazy? And I went to umpire school. For me, it was the best thing that ever happened to me.All 14 scholarship recipients last year are currently working in the minor leagues.When we find candidates that are qualified, we will encourage those people to go, Reliford said. We want to help.Rich Rieker, Larry Young and Ed Rapuano were among the other instructors at Saturdays camp.Rico Carty Jersey .4 million title. Ryan Riess emerged with the title after a session in which he started behind, but used expert skill to gather the chips to his side amid the unpredictability of no-limit Texas Hold em. Riess put his final opponent Jay Farber all-in with an Ace-King. Atlanta Braves Shirts .H. -- Matt Kenseth made it 2 for 2 in the Chase, holding off teammate Kyle Busch to win Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. https://www.cheapbraves.com/463o-max-fried-jersey-braves.html . The Nashville Predators were glad their captain was still on their side. Weber had a goal and two assists, and Roman Josi scored the shootout winner to lift the Predators to a 4-3 win over the Flyers on Thursday night. Grant Dayton Jersey . Then the Pacers gave Oladipo and his Orlando teammates the cold shoulder. Paul Georges buzzer-beating 3-pointer at the end of the third quarter spurred a 21-4 run, finally sending Indiana past the Magic 97-87 in a tougher-than-expected opening night matchup. Gary Matthews Braves Jersey . P.A. Parenteau scored early in the third period to help the Avs edge Toronto 2-1 on Tuesday night. Cory Sarich also scored for Colorado (3-0-0), which is off to its best ever start.Indias Arjun Atwal scored a 1-under 71 in the first round of the PGA Sanderson Farms Championship in Jackson on Thursday. This placed him tied-45th and six shots behind the leader Trey Mullinax of USA when reports last came in .Atwal began the front nine strongly with birdies on the par-five 3rd and the par-three 7th. he had no bogeys in the first nine holes.He faltered on the back nine with a couple of bogeys on the par-four 12th and the ppar-five 14th.dddddddddddd However, he finished strongly with a birdie on the par-4 17th to finish 1-under for the day.Atwal had last participated in the Wyndham Championship on the PGA Tour in August where he had failed to make the cut. He had failed to make the cut at the Sanderson Farms Championship last year. ' ' '