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WASHINGTON -- Chase Utley sat in the Los Angeles Dodgers clubhouse and watched as Cole Hamels was chased from a game 1,000 miles away. Eight years ago might as well be an eternity.Back then Utley made the signature play on the base paths in the decisive Game 5 and Hamels was lights out as they won the World Series together with the Philadelphia Phillies. Not far from Utley on Thursday were two other members of that team: catcher Carlos Ruiz and pitcher Joe Blanton.Utley, Ruiz and Blanton have been reunited with the Dodgers and face fellow 2008 World Series winner Jayson Werth of the Washington Nationals in the NL Division Series. Trades and signings have brought all four players to this point, knowing it could be their last chance to win another championship.Were all in different roles, different stages of our careers, said Blanton, the Phillies Game 4 starter and home run slugger in 2008 who is now a setup man for Los Angeles. The mindsets still the same. ... Winning is just a matter of a bunch of things: breaks going your way, getting hot at the right time, just the way game plays out, matchups.From the 2008 champions, only Pat Burrell and Shane Victorino went on to get another ring. Shortstop Jimmy Rollins reflected on Burrell and Victorinos triumphs when he was traded to the Dodgers before last season and hoped it would be his chance.Rollins last week thought about how funny it was that four of his former Philadelphia teammates are back in the playoffs against each other with the same goal in mind.Both of these teams are great teams that have a chance to get it done, said Rollins, now an analyst for TBS. I cant pull either way, but it shows you how much in baseball from year to year you dont know whats going to happen, you dont know when youre going to lose a teammate, a trades going to happen. Im glad to see them in it. I just hope they all do well when its their turn at bat.Utley, Ruiz and Werth are all 37 years old and dont know how many more postseason at-bats they have left. Utley is on a one-year deal, Ruiz is at the end of his contract and Werth has one season left before he could again hit unrestricted free agency.The rare air of October isnt lost on any of them.I feel like Im real hungry, Ruiz said. I feel like I want to win and I want to win and do my best to help the team. Definitely at the end of my career to have another shot to go to the World Series, its huge. Well take it one game at a time the same way we did in 08.Werth, who left the Phillies after their World Series defeat in 2009 to sign a $126 million, seven-year deal with the Nationals, appreciates every chance he has left. He has made the playoffs in seven of the past 10 seasons between Philadelphia and Washington but hasnt been able to break through since 2008.As you get older, you get less and less opportunities, Werth said. Im not going to have too many of these chances left. You dont want to take them for granted, but at the same time youve just got to play baseball.Hamels, now 32 and with the Texas Rangers, said looking back he didnt understand the value of winning a championship so young. Even return trips to the playoffs in 2009, 2010 and 2011 didnt bring the same success.Thats why those from the 2008 Phillies appreciate what they did back then as they focus on the task of trying to do it again.If you win a World Series with somebody, you create an everlasting bond, Werth said. Im assuming that (Utley, Ruiz and Blanton are) going to try beat me, and Im going to be trying to beat them. ... Its just business out there.---AP Sports Writer Howard Fendrich contributed to this report. Dave Casper Womens Jersey . Kuznetsov, who was selected by the Capitals in the first round of the 2010 NHL Entry Draft, has been playing for his hometown team Chelyabinsk Traktor of the KHL. Maxx Crosby Youth Jersey . 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The New York Knicks have emerged as the strong favorite to sign free-agent big man Joakim Noah, according to league sources.Sources told ESPN that multiple teams interested in Noah have all but conceded that the Knicks are his runaway preferred destination.The Knicks meeting with Noah will be Friday afternoon, league sources said.No deals can be officially signed until July 7, but teams and free agents can start coming to verbal agreements on contracts ?starting Friday at 12:01 a.m.?Noah, a former All-Star center, is scheduled to meet with Knicks president Phil Jackson on Friday, according to sources.There is significant interest on both sides. Noah, a native New Yorker, had expressed strong interest in signing with the Knicks in recent days, sources say. He is close with Carmelo Anthony and Derrick Rose, his former teammate in Chicago, who said last week that he would like Noah to join him in New York.The Knicks are eager to land a center this offseason. They have prioritized the position in free agency after trading Robin Lopez, last years starting center, to Chicago in the Rose trade.Noah, 31, is coming off a 2015-16 season filled with injury. He suffered two significant shoulder injuries that limited him to 29 games last season, missing almost a month with a left shoulder tear and undergoing season-ending surgery to repair a left shoulder dislocation in January. He has spent a portion of his summer at The Peak Performance Project in Santa Barrbara, California.ddddddddddddHe has been outspoken in years past about how much he loves Chicago, and there is still some hope within his camp that he will stay with the Bulls, but the likely option is that Noah will take a big-money deal from a team and look for a new start.Im very focused on free agency, Noah said in June, according to international website Sportando. I spent the last 10 years in Chicago. There were good moments and bad moments, but now I have an incredible opportunity for a player, being recruited by a team. I definitely want to live that kind of experience. Its new for me, but its something very intriguing for a player.The Knicks have roughly $30 million to spend in free agency and hope to fit Noah into that space while keeping enough room to add a starting shooting guard. Courtney Lee and Eric Gordon are among the guards the Knicks have a level of interest in, sources say.Some members of the Knicks organization expressed optimism earlier in the week about getting an audience with free agent Kevin Durant. But if the club comes to terms quickly with Noah, its unlikely that it will have the requisite cap space to sign Durant to a max contract. The Knicks are currently not among the teams that have secured a meeting with Durant.Information from ESPN staff writer Nick Friedell was used in this report. ' ' '