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| As if major league games aren't long enough already, now there will be replay delays. Sometime before the end of the regular season, Major League Baseball will start allowing umpires to review video to determine boundary calls on home runs, such as whether they cleared fences or went by the foul pole in fair territory. |
Gene Upshaw, a towering lineman on the football field who went on to win untold millions of dollars for NFL players as their union leader, has died at age 63. Upshaw had a Hall of Fame career as a guard for the Oakland Raiders -- a team that won two of the three Super Bowls it reached during his 15 years in a black and silver jersey. |
With two perfect shots, Hunter Mahan put a terrible week at the PGA Championship behind him at The Barclays. Playing in calm morning conditions at demanding Ridgewood Country Club, Mahan split the fairway with his opening drive, then watched his 98-yard sand wedge shot spin back into the hole for an unlikely eagle. |
| Carl Pavano, written off by New York Yankees fans, will return and start for the team on Saturday at Baltimore. The Yankees chose the right-handed Pavano over fellow righty Phil Hughes, who is working his way back from a fractured rib. "We liked the way (Pavano) was throwing the ball and we felt that Hughes needed some more work," manager Joe Girardi said before Thursday's game against the Blue... |
| 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. |
