For The Record

Endured

By the Red Sox, the Yankees and their fans, the longest nine-inning game in major league history. The second game of last Friday's day-night doubleheader started at 8:07. The final out, a groundout by Boston's Wily Mo Pe�a, came at 12:52--four hours and 45 minutes later. The game, won 14--11 by New York, featured 10 pitching changes and 437 pitches and followed a first game that lasted three hours and 55 minutes. "We kept looking up, and it kept being the fourth inning," said Yankees manager Joe Torre. "It was nuts." There was no rest for the weary. The two teams played again at 1:20 on Saturday afternoon.

Won

The first fight in his latest comeback, Evander Holyfield. The former heavyweight champ, 43, who had lost his last three bouts, stopped 32-year-old insurance salesman Jeremy Bates at 2:56 of Round 2 on a TKO. "Them last three fights, I fought with one shoulder," Holyfield said. "I was hurt. My back was hurting. I had cramps." Holyfield is expected to fight contender Sinan Samil Sam next; a win could get him a title shot in 2007.

Failed

By Marion Jones, a drug test administered the same day she won the 100 meters at the U.S. track and field championships. The 30-year-old sprinter--who denied the allegations of BALCO founder Victor Conte that she has used performance-enhancing substances--had never failed a test until traces of EPO were found in the urine sample taken from her on June 23. Her coach, Steve Riddick, told Reuters that Jones was innocent, noting that EPO is an easily detected drug normally associated with endurance sports. "It don't make no sense unless she wanted to commit public suicide," Riddick said. If Jones's B sample also turns up positive, she faces a two-year ban.

Rejected

By a federal judge, a request by prosecutors to send Greg Anderson-- Barry Bonds's former personal trainer--to jail for contempt. Anderson has repeatedly refused to answer questions from a grand jury investigating BALCO and spent 15 days in prison in July for his failure to testify. Last week Anderson appeared in front of the grand jury for the fifth time and would only answer questions such as his name. He was asked point-blank if he provided Bonds with steroids but did not respond. "This was a more cynical appearance than any before," assistant U.S. attorney Matthew Parrella said. But U.S. District Judge William Alsup said he would need to review transcripts and hear arguments before deciding if he would hold Anderson in contempt.

Arrested

By Secret Service agents after a gun was fired near the White House, former NBA forward Lonny Baxter. Early on Aug. 16 a pedestrian flagged down Secret Service agents and informed them that two shots were fired from a white SUV a few blocks from the White House. Agents pulled over Baxter, and when they searched his car, they found a .40-caliber handgun they said had recently been fired. Baxter, 27, who played last year with the Rockets and the Bobcats, was ordered held without bail. Baxter (left), who faces up to seven years in jail, was to appear in court on Wednesday.