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TABLE OF CONTENTS
August 13, 2007 | Volume 107, Issue 6
August 13, 2007 755 Within a span of 34 hours three major league superstars reached milestones that put them in the company of baseball's immortals. A celebration of the celebrations, beginning with Barry Bonds's...
August 13, 2007 A Clean Hit
August 13, 2007 | Ken Tremendous An open letter to Boston's newest stars
BEFORE HE got sacked in Houston, David Carr got sacked in Houston. The kid with the golden arm was taken down 249 times in five seasons with the Texans, and even upright he flailed: When Houston...
August 13, 2007 WHO'S Hot
August 13, 2007 Who is the most intimidating starting pitcher in baseball?
August 13, 2007 Sold
By MLS to Portuguese team Benfica, the rights to Freddy Adu. The transfer price
for the 18-year-old was $2 million. Adu has been inconsistent in his 3 1/2-year
MLS career; this season he had...
August 13, 2007 DARA TORRES REMEMBERS that after she won five swimming medals at the 2000 Olympics, her coach told her, "It's a shame. You're not even at your peak yet." At the time, Torres was 33 years old and...
August 13, 2007 "There was no pressure in my at bats. Everybody was
in the bathroom."
HIDEKI MATSUI
Yankees leftfielder, after hitting two homers in a game last week while batting
behind Alex Rodriguez
August 13, 2007 0--3 Johan Santana's record this year against the
Indians, the first team to beat the Twins' ace three times in a season in his
eight-year career.
August 13, 2007 Titans cornerback Pacman Jones signed a contract to
appear at pro wrestling events while he serves his seasonlong suspension.
A quick recap of Julio Franco's marathon run through the majors
Between the time he hit his 499th and 500th home runs,
Alex Rodriguez endured an 0-for-21 slump, went to the plate 37 times and had
only three hits. That's the second-highest number of plate...
How Seahawk Matt Hasselbeck lost 17 pounds
August 13, 2007 ROCKIES LEFTFIELDER
With two no-nos tossed this year, four active pitchers recall their own zero hours
A lovable antihero carries Hot Rod
The Hell's Kitchen chef opened Gordon Ramsay at The London in New York
The news that Manchester United signed nine-year-old Rhain Davis wasn't, in itself, huge. English teams routinely snap up kids for their youth academies. What's unusual is how they found the...
YOU CAN LEARN a lot about a person by the music they listen to—unless that person is Daisuke Matsuzaka. A peek at the mysterious righthander's playlist makes him even more of an enigma. After all,...
August 13, 2007 Michael Ayers BRENTWOOD, TENN. > Track and Field Ayers, a graduate of Ravenwood High, won his third Class AAA decathlon championship with a state-record 7,377 points. He finished second at last...
What to watch and watch for
August 13, 2007 | CHRIS BALLARD
Blast Off
August 13, 2007 | JOE LEMIRE Longest home run
distances courtesy of Bill Jenkinson, baseball historian and author of The Year
Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs.
1986
Ready for Battle
IT'S ALWAYS
dangerous in midsummer--when legs are still fresh and dreams haven't yet been
dashed by three-game losing streaks--to predict the stars of late autumn. But
during a training-camp tour,...
Extreme Measures
August 13, 2007 | JACK MCCALLUM
Paul Pierce, Ray
Allen and Kevin Garnett of the new-look Celtics each has a career scoring
average of more than 20 points. In NBA history 16 teams have had three players
average more than 20...
America's Best
August 13, 2007 NASCAR A sold-out Busch Series race in Canada reinforces NASCAR expansion plans—is China down the road? • Robby Gordon's Montreal meltdown
World View
One driver who won't have fond memories of Canada is Robby Gordon. With two laps left on Saturday, Gordon was black-flagged for not lining up in his assigned place on a restart. When the caution...
Many people think Tom Glavine might be the last pitcher to reach 300 career wins. After all, there are no active hurlers who seem to be headed for 300—Randy Johnson, 43, the most likely candidate...
Change Up
CARLOS BARRAGAN and his son Carlos Jr. don't torture dogs, don't inject 'roids and don't bet on sporting events they ref. They've never run from the law or the tax man or a grand jury.
At the Bridgestone Invitational, Tiger Woods finally found his A game, meaning that another first-time major winner is unlikely this week in Tulsa
Steve Flesch slips into the PGA
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A short course in Wisconsin that beckons to long
hitters
Home Girls
St. Andrews finally opened its arms to the greatest female players in the
world last week, and the Women's British Open at the Home of Golf was a raging
success, although two blips kept...
Who Tiger
Woods
Will Tiger Woods win the PGA Championship?
Taking the Tiger-Phil dichotomy down to a whole new level
by JAMES P. HERRE
AmEx dumps Tiger Woods and signs on with the PGA of
America
It took forever for the British Women's Open to make it to the Old Course--almost the eternity it seemed to take Lorena Ochoa to win her first major
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