Jose Gonzalez

When athletes share the same name, bad things can happen to good people

Lee Smith, St. Louis Cardinals reliever, explaining why he gained weight in the off-season: "I had my two-year-old counting sit-ups for me. He can count to 10, but he skips some of the numbers."

Greg Harris, please meet Greg Harris and...Greg Harris

•Rocky Bridges, San Francisco Giants coach, on the team's new shortstop Jose Gonzalez, who recently changed his last name to Uribe: "Jose was truly the player to be named later in the trade."

J. Jerome Miller, 52, of Highland Park, Ill., a member of the U.S. Olympic water polo teams in 1936 and 1948, broke the Chicago Athletic Association's record (the nation's best) for miles swum in one year under its...