08/28/2008 12:00 AM When North Dakota State recruited Steve Walker, the coaches said they got a poised quarterback who led his team to a state title. When the Bison recruited Nick Mertens, they said they got a poised quarterback who led his team to a state title.
08/28/2008 12:00 AM The New York Giants have waived former North Dakota State safety Craig Dahl.
Dahl reportedly tore a knee ligament in an exhibition game Saturday. He suffered a similar injury in last year’s regular-season finale and eventually was released. The Giants re-signed him in late July.
08/28/2008 12:00 AM Golden State guard Monta Ellis will be sidelined for at least three months after severely spraining his ankle during an offseason workout, forcing the Warriors to start the season without the player expected to lead their revamped roster this fall.
Ellis, who got a six-year contract extension worth $66 million on July 24, sprained his ankle and tore a deltoid ligament while working out in his hometown of Jackson, Miss., last Thursday, said Chris Mullin, the Warriors’ top basketball executive.
08/28/2008 12:00 AM Patience paid off for the Colorado Avalanche, who signed Joe Sakic to a one-year, $6 million contract Wednesday after he decided to play a 20th season in the NHL rather than call it a career.
“Ultimately it came down to the fact that I still enjoy playing and competing,” the 39-year-old captain said in a statement released by the team. “I’m comfortable with my conditioning and my overall health. I’m ready for the start of camp and am looking forward to the upcoming season.”
08/28/2008 12:00 AM Knowing how many steps must happen in perfect order to throw out a runner from the outfield, Minnesota’s Denard Span wasn’t the least bit surprised to see Tug Hulett being sent toward home.
Fortunately for the slumping Twins, Span was perfect.
“I can see why so many third-base coaches send runners,” Span said. “The chances of a perfect throw are very slim. It was one of those times it hit (catcher Mike Redmond) right in the chest.”
08/28/2008 12:00 AM Marion Barber holds up his left arm and points at his wrist, absent a watch, as a way to indicate that he doesn’t have time to talk. He then leaves the locker room.
The running back known as “Marion the Barbarian” because of his hard-charging, take-on-anybody approach on the field remains an elusive interview subject despite his new role as a starter for the Dallas Cowboys.
08/28/2008 12:00 AM Several years ago, ESPN attempted to ram down our throats a show called “The Life.”
As with all non-sports ESPN shows, I gave the program as much attention as I do say, the X-Games — zero. One night, however, I came across an episode featuring Shaquille O’Neal. While driving down the road, on a perfect southern California day, O’Neal’s Hoop-D, worth more than my crib — sorry, my house — blew a tire as he drove down I-5.
08/28/2008 12:00 AM Jason Bay drove in four runs, Dustin Pedroia hit a grand slam and the Boston Red Sox routed the listless Yankees 11-3 on Wednesday night, putting an emphatic dent in New York’s dwindling playoff chances.
Paul Byrd beat the Yankees in a crucial game for the second consecutive year, and David Ortiz reached base four times for the second straight night.
08/28/2008 12:00 AM Two bunts, one double and nine well-pitched innings. The Chicago Cubs proved on a Wrigley Field-like day they can win when their bats aren’t booming, and their by-the-textbook victory came before they begin what may be their toughest stretch all season.
08/28/2008 12:00 AM Mike Krzyzewski always maintained that leading the U.S. Olympic basketball team would make him a changed coach. Sure enough, Coach K was there on the sideline in Beijing and he stopped himself from saying something he otherwise might have.
“Most of the time I was there,” Krzyzewski said, “I was mic’ed.”
That’s not all that’s different about the post-Olympic Krzyzewski, who’s settling in back at Duke.
08/28/2008 12:00 AM Jelena Jankovic’s leg cramped so badly, she couldn’t take another step.
Luckily for the No. 2 seed in the U.S. Open, the agony occurred during her post-match run on the treadmill. Anyone who watched could clearly see she left about everything she had out on the court.
08/28/2008 12:00 AM Laura Kraft and Jordan Slusser of Jamestown High School and Ali Edwards of Jamestown College have been named Athletes of the Week by the Jamestown Optimist Club.
08/28/2008 12:00 AM No. 2 draft pick Pedro Alvarez refused to sign his contract with the Pittsburgh Pirates, and the players’ association filed a grievance Wednesday claiming the Aug. 15 deadline was unilaterally extended by Major League Baseball without the union’s permission.
08/27/2008 12:00 AM The first-year head football coach at the University of North Dakota has a tough act to follow.
Chris Mussman succeeds Dale Lennon, whose nine years on the job produced 90 wins, one national title and seven seasons of reaching the NCAA Division II playoffs.
08/27/2008 12:00 AM The Jamestown Country Club will be hosting the 70th annual Elks golf tournament this weekend.
Rounds begin at 8 a.m. on Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
08/27/2008 12:00 AM Jamestown High School’s boys’ tennis match against Bismarck Century on Tuesday was postponed until Sept. 18 due to high winds and looming thunderstorms.
08/27/2008 12:00 AM Former Jamestown resident Ronda Rousey recently became the first U.S. woman to earn an Olympic medal in judo.
Rousey, who lived in Jamestown as a pre-teen in the early and mid-1990s, captured a bronze medal at the Beijing Summer Olympics on Aug. 14. She won in the 70 kg (154-pound) division.
08/27/2008 12:00 AM Replay ball!
Umpires will be allowed to check video on home run calls starting Thursday after Major League Baseball, guardian of America’s most traditional sport, reversed its decades-long opposition to instant replay.
08/27/2008 12:00 AM In just eight months, John David Booty has gone from being the toast of Los Angeles as the quarterback of the USC Trojans to near anonymity at the bottom of the QB totem pole in the NFL.
A two-year starter for the mighty Trojans, Booty was a fifth-round draft pick of the Minnesota Vikings in April and is fighting for the third quarterback spot with veteran Brooks Bollinger.
08/27/2008 12:00 AM Eventually, Eric Decker must make the decision: Catch the ball, or swing the bat?
After emerging as one of the Big Ten’s best receivers as a sophomore for Minnesota last season, Decker took his talent across the university athletic complex and played left field for the Gophers baseball team in the spring.
08/27/2008 12:00 AM The gusty winds and the threatening skies didn’t stop the Ellendale Cardinals from running through the Barnes County North Bison in Wimbledon Tuesday night.
The North Dakota Class B nine-man football season got underway around the state, and the Cardinals from Region 1 traveled north to take on the Bison from Region 2. Behind a solid running performance by Ellendale’s Nate Arnold, the Cardinals opened up the season with a non-conference 32-6 victory.
08/27/2008 12:00 AM Dakota Prairie didn’t miss UND recruit Seth Nichols too much in its opening game of the season.
Quarterback Tyler Luehring threw for 189 yards and three touchdowns to lead the Knights to a 30-6 season-opening win over South Border.
In his first game at quarterback after replacing Nichols, Luehring also ran like his predecessor, gaining 144 yards on 19 carries.
08/27/2008 12:00 AM The story, as told by Shawn Johnson, goes like this: She was headed to David Letterman’s show Monday from Chicago when the airline reported a problem.
Apparently, the pilot had an incident when he heard Johnson was on his plane.
08/27/2008 12:00 AM Michael Strahan is staying retired, although his agent said that the seven-time Pro Bowler seriously considered returning to the Super Bowl champion New York Giants.
“He was very close to returning, but the great part about Michael is that he takes his time to think about things and he is very thorough,” Tony Agnone said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday night. “You can get excited about coming back and running through the tunnel one more time.”
08/27/2008 12:00 AM Alex Rodriguez flopped all night when the New York Yankees needed a big hit.
Tim Wakefield won in his return from the disabled list and the Boston Red Sox moved a step closer to squashing New York’s playoff hopes, beating Andy Pettitte and the Yankees 7-3 Tuesday night.
08/27/2008 12:00 AM Greg Carlson earned a first and a third-place finish at the Ruthville Rodeo last weekend.
The Jamestown performer teamed with Nate Zieman of New Rockford to win the team roping competition in a time of 6.5 seconds. The duo collected $463.54 for their efforts.
08/27/2008 12:00 AM Hannah Wenaas of Montevideo, Minn., has signed to play basketball at the North Dakota State College of Science in Wahpeton.
Wenaas holds the school record for most three-pointers made in a career and season.
08/27/2008 12:00 AM The subject of a star recruit’s uncertain status with the team brought terse comments from Minnesota coach Tim Brewster, but the Gophers maintained MarQueis Gray’s absence won’t distract from Saturday’s season opener.
Second at state Submitted photo
Wildside Creations women’s softball team placed second at the North Dakota Women’s Rec II softball tournament in Devils Lake Aug. 9-10. Team members were, front row, left to right, Tami Severance, Katie Nenow, Stephanie Jensen, Erica Althoff, Connie Lillejord, Cassie Jensen. Back row, left to right, coach Marchel Krieger, Lisa Longtin, Candace Scott, Rachel Krieger, Daysha Conway, Gail Gallagher. Not pictured: De Rummel, Maggie Beckman, Vicki Walsh, Nancy Thury.
08/26/2008 12:00 AM Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson accepted an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, the University of North Dakota, and asked the school to think hard about its Fighting Sioux nickname and logo. He also asked for a favor: “Please don’t call me Dr. Phil.”
08/26/2008 12:00 AM Hurdler Liu Xiang’s painful withdrawal and a ho-hum performance by basketball star Yao Ming were low points for China at the Beijing Olympics.
They hardly mattered.
08/26/2008 12:00 AM Everyday Eddie is back with Minnesota, adding experience to a squad in the thick of a pennant race.
Eddie Guardado was acquired by the Twins on Monday in a trade with the Texas Rangers for a minor league pitcher.
08/26/2008 12:00 AM The week before the regular season in the NFL becomes a game of roster roulette, and the Minnesota Vikings are busy calculating their risks and potential rewards.
08/26/2008 12:00 AM Olympic champions Rafael Nadal and Elena Dementieva showed their mettle at the U.S. Open, overcoming early challenges to win Monday in the start of what’s expected to be a wide-open tournament.
08/26/2008 12:00 AM Barry Bonds is asking a federal judge to throw out most of the government’s perjury case against him that charges he lied to a federal grand jury about his alleged steroids use.
08/26/2008 12:00 AM The New York Giants are interested in luring Michael Strahan out of retirement after losing Pro Bowl defensive end Osi Umenyiora to a season-ending knee injury Saturday night.
08/26/2008 12:00 AM Grady Sizemore hit his 30th home run Monday night, becoming the second Cleveland Indians player to have at least 30 homers and 30 stolen bases in a season.
08/26/2008 12:00 AM Apparently unsatisfied with both candidates in a summer-long kicking competition, the Kansas City Chiefs signed free agent Jay Feely to a one-year contract Monday.
08/26/2008 12:00 AM Browns quarterback Derek Anderson wasn’t cleared to return to practice Monday, so Brady Quinn likely will start his second straight game Thursday night in the preseason finale against the Chicago Bears.
08/25/2008 12:00 AM The Jamestown College volleyball wrapped up a successful start to the season on Saturday.
After going 1-1 on the opening day of the DAC/Frontier Conference crossover, the Jimmies dropped just one game in a pair of victories, sweeping Rocky Mountain College and defeating Montana Tech 3-1.
“It was a great day for us. The girls played with a lot of passion and showed a lot of resiliency,” said coach Chris Mahoney. “It wasn’t easy. The matches were hard fought. But I was really proud of the way our team played against some pretty impressive opponents.”
08/25/2008 12:00 AM The Jamestown High School boys’ soccer team dropped a pair of games at the season-opening East/West Crossover on Saturday.
The Blue Jays lost to both Grand Forks schools, falling to Central 2-1 in the opener and Red River 3-0 in the second game of the day.
08/25/2008 12:00 AM Jamestown High School went 17-4 in 21 sets at the Minot Round Robin on Saturday.
The tandem of Nick Graves and Kyle Goehner led the way, going 7-0 to place first in the No. 2 doubles bracket. No other team went better than 5-2.
08/25/2008 12:00 AM With the retirement of seven-time Pro Bowl defensive end Michael Strahan, the job of repeating as Super Bowl champions was going to be difficult for the New York Giants.
Now it might be near impossible with the news that fellow Pro Bowl defensive end Osi Umenyiora is out for the season with a knee injury.
An MRI on Sunday showed that Umenyiora tore the lateral meniscus in his left knee in a preseason game against the archrival Jets on Saturday night.
08/25/2008 12:00 AM A long season of competitive points racing culminated with the 2008 Track Championship at the Jamestown Speedway Saturday night. After all the laps were completed and the dust settled, Randy Tarno, Spencer Johnson, Ryan Fike and Landon Becker were all crowned season champs in their respective car classes.
08/25/2008 12:00 AM Arm-in-arm, they climbed onto the middle of the medals platform, the spot that for so long was U.S. private property.
Some players flashed their Olympic medals to the crowd. One pretended to take a bite, just to make sure it was real.
Yep, it was gold — the color the Americans always used to win but hadn’t since 2000.
08/25/2008 12:00 AM The umpires didn’t need instant replay to reverse a home run call this time because it was so obvious.
The Los Angeles Angels did need an eighth-inning rally and Francisco Rodriguez’s 50th save to beat the Minnesota Twins, however.
Vladimir Guerrero tied the score with an RBI triple in the eighth and Gary Matthews Jr. drove him in with another three-base hit two batters later, helping the Angels win 5-3 on Sunday to earn a split of the four-game series.
08/25/2008 12:00 AM Brad Ausmus led off the 10th inning with his second homer of the season, Darin Erstad connected for his third three batters later and the Houston Astros rallied against the New York Mets’ shaky bullpen for a 6-4 win Sunday.
08/25/2008 12:00 AM NASCAR has a new rivalry: Carl Edwards vs. Kyle Busch.
Edwards called the latest installment payback and Busch promised that retribution will come down the road.
During a season in which Busch and Edwards have dominated Victory Lane celebrations, their growing feud is adding spice to the Sprint Cup series and the upcoming Chase for the championship.
08/25/2008 12:00 AM Vijay Singh won The Barclays for a record fourth time Sunday, matching Sergio Garcia with a long birdie putt on the first hole of a playoff and finishing off the Spaniard with another birdie on the second extra hole.
08/25/2008 12:00 AM As the crowd roared and his team exulted in its gold medals, the coach of the U.S. men’s volleyball team buried his head in his hands and walked off the court. He had gone from the lowest low to the highest high, and it was all too much.
Hugh McCutcheon needed to be alone.
08/25/2008 12:00 AM Event winners for the Hillcrest Men’s Association day for August 19 were: Longest putt, Mike Stoller (No. 1) and Doug Mogck (No. 13). Carter Van Beek had the longest drive on No. 2.
08/25/2008 12:00 AM The Hillcrest Ladies Golf Association winners for its latest event were: Jo Hallack, longest putt on No. 3; Judy Olin, closest to the pin on No. 7; Karen Olson, closest to the pin on No. 17; Evie Burgard, longest putt on No. 18.
08/25/2008 12:00 AM Rather than give Matt Ryan a few games to watch from the sideline, the Falcons decided on Sunday to throw the rookie into the fire as their starter.
08/23/2008 12:00 AM It’s now or never for the seasoned Jamestown High School tennis team.
The Blue Jays, who opened their season with a pair of 5-4 exhibition losses to Valley City and Wahpeton this week, have their hopes pinned on a trip to the state tournament.
08/23/2008 12:00 AM The Jamestown College volleyball team split two games to open its season on Friday in Dickinson.
Facing two tough teams, with two more heavyweights to follow today, the Jimmies fell 3-1 to Carroll College, before beating MSU-Western by the same score at the season-opening DAC/Frontier Crossover.
“We got off to a rocky start against Carroll,” coach Chris Mahoney said. “But to the girls’ credit, they responded in the second match and bounced back to beat a good team.”
08/23/2008 12:00 AM J.T. O’Sullivan will start at quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers when the NFL regular season begins next month.
O’Sullivan clinched the job with a strong performance during Thursday night’s 37-30 exhibition victory over Chicago, and 49ers coach Mike Nolan said it was time to make O’Sullivan’s status official after a summer of uncertainty.
08/23/2008 12:00 AM The Jamestown High School cross country teams fared well in their first competition of the year. The Blue Jay’s boys finished in third, while the girls placed fourth in the 2008 Orriginals Invitational held Friday in Jamestown.
A total of 25 boys teams and 21 girls teams from across North Dakota and Minnesota braved the 30-plus mile per hour winds Friday, as Apple Valley (Minn.), took home the boys’ title with a score of 113 and Fargo South claimed the girls’ title with a score of 61.
08/23/2008 12:00 AM After losing a Division I goalkeeper and the teams’ leading scorer to graduation, the whole cupboard-is-bare bit might seem to apply to the Jamestown High School boys’ soccer team.
Not so fast, says coach Shea Durham.
08/23/2008 12:00 AM Track championships, along with year-long bragging rights, are up for grabs tonight at the Jamestown Speedway in the 2008 Track Championship.
The action should be fast and furious between the four classes of competitors, as the final points racing event of the season is set to kickoff at 7 p.m.
08/23/2008 12:00 AM Put up a net, put American men in action and watch out. At these Olympics, that’s becoming an unbeatable combination.
From volleyball to water polo to basketball, the guys in red, white and blue made their country proud Friday.
08/23/2008 12:00 AM Miguel Cabrera hit two home runs and Justin Verlander pitched 6 2-3 scoreless innings as the Detroit Tigers defeated the Kansas City Royals 4-3 on Friday night.
The Royals have lost six straight, nine of 10 and 12 of 14. They have been outscored 105-41 in the 14 games.
08/23/2008 12:00 AM From the moment he first stepped on the practice field with the Minnesota Vikings, Mike Tomlin made his presence felt.
While head coach Brad Childress and the rest of the offensive staff quietly installed their complex West Coast offense in 2006, the first-time defensive coordinator could be heard loud and clear throughout the team’s facility hollering “Yes, sirrrrrr!” and imploring his linebackers to “blow up a fullback today, please!”
08/23/2008 12:00 AM Brad Keselowski passed Clint Bowyer with 24 laps to go Friday night and pulled away for his second victory of the season in NASCAR’s Nationwide Series, capping a remarkable run from the 37th starting position to Victory Lane at Bristol Motor Speedway.
08/22/2008 12:00 AM The International Olympic Committee will investigate whether the Chinese women’s gymnastics team that won the gold medal had underage athletes, saying “more information has come to light.”
“If there is a question mark and we have a concern, which we do, we ask the governing body of any sport to look into it,” IOC spokeswoman Giselle Davies said Friday.
08/22/2008 12:00 AM Atlanta Braves pitcher Tom Glavine underwent surgery on his left elbow and shoulder Thursday and is expected be ready for spring training.
Glavine’s partially torn tendon in his elbow was repaired by Dr. James Andrews, who also cleaned up Glavine’s shoulder. The Braves said the 42-year-old left-hander should be able to start a throwing program by January.
08/22/2008 12:00 AM The University of North Dakota football team’s first-year offensive coordinator is not planning many changes.
“The main course meal will be the same,” Greg Breitenbach said. “I just plan to put some salt and pepper on it. The method is tried-and-true.”
That was especially true a year ago, when the Sioux set school season records for total yards, touchdowns and a 40.7 point-per-game scoring average.
08/22/2008 12:00 AM They came to the Beijing Olympics as a team trying to find its way, still adjusting to a new coach and each other, still smarting from a loss that brought humiliation on and off the field.
They dropped their first game, hardly an auspicious start for a country that had lost only one other in three Olympics. But bit by bit, game by game, they came together, figuring out what it would take to win.
08/22/2008 12:00 AM Gene Upshaw had his critics, but his success as an NFL player and later the union’s boss was also apparent. Vikings center Matt Birk has been one of those dissenting voices, but Birk on Thursday was shocked at Upshaw’s sudden death of pancreatic cancer like so many others around the league.
08/22/2008 12:00 AM The 2008 Gear Grinder mountain bike race was held on Aug. 17 at Pipestem Reservoir.
The race featured five different divisions, including kids, beginner (3 miles), recreational (8 miles), sport (16 miles) and sport (24 miles). Ages ranged from 6 years old to over 50.
08/22/2008 12:00 AM Carlos Zambrano earned his 13th victory on the fourth try and also homered Thursday to lift the Chicago Cubs to a 3-2 victory over the Cincinnati Reds
Zambrano (13-5) allowed a run and six hits in seven innings, including a solo homer by Jay Bruce in the sixth. The Cubs’ ace had two no-decisions and a loss in his previous three starts, giving up 17 hits and 15 earned runs in 15 1-3 innings.
08/22/2008 12:00 AM Hunter Mahan opened with an unlikely eagle after spinning in a sand wedge from 98 yards and never let up, shooting a 9-under-par 62 Thursday to take the first-round lead at The Barclays in the FedEx Cup playoff opener.
08/22/2008 12:00 AM Notre Dame linebacker Brian Smith loves walking into the meeting room and hearing defensive coordinator Corwin Brown and Jon Tenuta, assistant head coach for defense, talk football.
“I see them talking and they’re sitting there putting ideas together, it’s like two great minds making one great defense. It’s going to be great,” Smith said.
08/22/2008 12:00 AM U.S. women’s softball and U.S. women’s beach volleyball, two sure things at the Olympics.
Make that one sure thing.
Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor, who have never lost a set in the games, overcame steady rain, the partisan crowd and China’s Wang Jie and Tian Jia 21-18, 21-18 Thursday for their second straight beach volleyball gold medal. The duo has won 108 consecutive matches, a streak that could end soon because both plan to start families.
08/22/2008 12:00 AM U.S. women’s softball and U.S. women’s beach volleyball, two sure things at the Olympics.
Make that one sure thing.
Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor, who have never lost a set in the games, overcame steady rain, the partisan crowd and China’s Wang Jie and Tian Jia 21-18, 21-18 Thursday for their second straight beach volleyball gold medal. The duo has won 108 consecutive matches, a streak that could end soon because both plan to start families.
08/22/2008 12:00 AM The first recruiting class of Jamestown College’s women’s wrestling team is a diverse one.
Coach Cisco Cole landed 20 recruits in all from 11 different states.
“The girls we have coming will be a great addition to the college both academically and athletically,” he said.
08/22/2008 12:00 AM The Jamestown Sun’s 2008 football preview section is included with today’s paper.
The 16-page section features team previews of Jamestown College and Jamestown High School. Jamestown College opens the season at home Sept. 6 against Peru State (Neb.), while the Blue Jays kick it off on Aug. 30 at Rollie Greeno Field, hosting Grand Forks Central.
08/22/2008 12:00 AM The Jamestown High School cross country and boys’ tennis teams begin their seasons today.
The Jamestown Orriginals meet is the first of four events to be held here, including the state cross country meet on Oct. 25. The Blue Jays open the season with back-to-back home dates, hosting the R.M. Stoudt Invite on Aug. 30.
08/21/2008 12:00 AM For a volleyball team, needing to replace a starting setter can be as difficult a proposition as a football team breaking in a new quarterback or a basketball team turning to a new point guard.
The setter is the on-court leader who directs the offense and gets the ball in position for other players to score points. Breaking in a new starter can be nerve-wracking for a coach.
08/21/2008 12:00 AM The University of North Dakota women’s basketball team has scheduled Big Ten school Northwestern to fill out its first NCAA Division I schedule.
The Sioux are to play the Wildcats on December 22 in Evanston, Illinois.
With the addition of Northwestern, UND might find itself playing opponents from three of the top Division I leagues in the country.
08/21/2008 12:00 AM A report from the Grand Forks Herald says Grand Forks is one of three finalists for the 2011 World Junior hockey championships.
The Herald cites a source it did not name and says an official announcement is expected Thursday.
08/21/2008 12:00 AM The Minnesota Twins activated second baseman Alexi Casilla from the disabled list on Wednesday.
To make room on the roster, the Twins outrighted reliever Brian Bass to Triple-A Rochester.
Casilla played two games in a rehab assignment with Class A Beloit, going 3-for-4 with a run and an RBI on Tuesday night. He has been on the DL since July 29 with a torn ligament in his right thumb.
08/21/2008 12:00 AM The Minnesota Twins stuffed equipment bags and suitcases to their brims, preparing for two full weeks on the road and a defining stretch of this so-far successful season.
Before they left, they crossed one more item off the list — another win over the lifeless Oakland Athletics.
Jimmies getting ready for ‘08 John M. Steiner / The Sun
Jamestown College football coach Bud Etzold looks on during practice on Aug. 25. The Jamestown Sun’s 2008 football preview section will be published on Friday.
08/21/2008 12:00 AM Arms churning high, face twisted in pain as he sprinted toward the finish line, Usain Bolt kept glancing at the clock.
The win in the Olympic 200 meters was a given, his second gold medal of the Beijing Games assured.
08/21/2008 12:00 AM Ken Griffey Jr. thought it was just a matter of time.
Griffey hit one of Chicago’s four homers to move into a tie with Sammy Sosa for fifth on the career list and the surging White Sox routed the Seattle Mariners 15-3 Wednesday.
08/21/2008 12:00 AM This is what goes down as a “tough test” for the U.S. squad of NBA All-Stars: A five-point lead in the second quarter that turned to 12 by halftime ... and was never close again.
“Sooner or later we’ll impose our will,” U.S. point guard Chris Paul said. “I don’t know if you can keep up with us for 40 minutes.”
08/21/2008 12:00 AM St. Louis Rams running back Steven Jackson ended his holdout on Wednesday while his agent continues negotiations for a new contract.
The 235-pound Jackson, a bruising runner and the centerpiece of the team’s offense, is entering the final year of a five-year, $7 million deal he signed as a first-round pick in 2004. His prolonged stand perhaps reflected a realization of his value to an attack that averaged only 16 points last season while going 3-13.
08/21/2008 12:00 AM The New England Patriots played poorly on offense in their first exhibition game. The offense and defense were shaky in the second game.
It’s only the preseason, so there are no signs of panic in their locker room, even with Tom Brady limited by a foot injury. Yet a team that was a perfect 18-0 before losing the Super Bowl certainly doesn’t like the trend.
08/21/2008 12:00 AM NASCAR’s latest attempt to reel in the rule-breakers aimed at an unfamiliar target: the normally squeaky-clean Joe Gibbs Racing.
NASCAR’s decision Wednesday to suspend seven JGR crew members indefinitely for attempting to manipulate a horsepower test after a Nationwide Series race last weekend put a serious dent in owner Joe Gibbs’ reputation
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