Leading Off

Roses Are Red
And so are golf course weeping willows and the grass infields at running tracks and ballparks when they're photographed with infrared film, which sees the heat from live vegetation as the color red. Here Tiger Woods takes a hot shot on the 12th hole of the TPC at Las Colinas during the GTE Byron Nelson Classic.

Hot Feel
Sprinters blaze out of the blocks in a heat of the 100 meters at the Mt. SAC Relays.

Dead Red
Pitcher Dave Mlicki, then of the Mets, fires away as he tries to work out of a tight spot against the Padres at Qualcomm Stadium.