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ON DECK

Jun 23, 2008; Fagan, Ryan ... All times Eastern The week ahead in sports PICK of the WEEK Mayo wore USC cardinal and gold last season ... which team's colors will he be wearing on draft night? THU 26 NBA draft (7 p.m., ESPN). Yep, this is the biggie. It's Derrick and Michael and OJ ....

RADIO STAR

Jun 23, 2008; Anonymous ... Real talk from a fan on Sporting News Radio 'The Cubs finally have what It takes this year. They have the best offense in baseball, and ...

YOUR TURN

Jun 23, 2008; Anonymous ... You rant, we listen. Send e-mails to yourturn@sportingnews.com. 'I think the old-school Celtics and Lakers would have put an old-fashioned mollywhopping on the new-age kids. -slim.sweetness via SportingNews.com' * The NBA needs to realize that the old days of the Lakers and ...

BLOG ON

Jun 23, 2008; Anonymous ... From your blogs on sportingnews.com RE: ARE WE THERE YET? Posted by wesmith2001 Matt Leinart has great potential, but he has yet to convert that potential to production. He has developed some bad habits since joining the Cardinals. At USC, he was used to having a cup of ...

Bryant will bring the Lakers back-quietly

Jun 23, 2008; McNeal, Stan ... Don't look for Kobe Bryant ranting in any parking lots this summer, even if the Lakers fall short of their ultimate goal. He'll be too busy with the U.S. Olympic team, for one thing. But that's not the only reason: He'll be honing his stand-up routine. At his press briefings during The ...

IF ALL ELSE FAILS THROW A TANTRUM

Jun 23, 2008; Deveney, Sean; Hoppel, Joe ... BASEBALL When a team goes south, a managerial tongue-lashing may provide new direction-or perhaps it will take a trade, or luck, or patience ... or maybe there is no answer Seems this would be a good time to point out the unwritten guidelines to a good, salty, managerial treakout, ...

Sports talk with Mike Myers

Jun 23, 2008; Greenberg, Steve ... Hockey fan and star of The Love Guru, in theaters Friday SN: Your character's name is Guru Pitka. A homage to Coach Ditka? MYERS: No, Pitka is almost a random name; there's much less thought to this than you think. But I did live in Chicago when Mike Ditka was coaching the Bears ....

An underhanded affair

Jun 23, 2008; Hairopoulos, Kate ... COUNTDOWN TO BEIJING Cat Osterman & Co. have given USA Softball one of the most dominant teams in Olympic history. Which begs the question: Is the IOC punishing the Americans for being too good? Cat Osterman remembers dearly the day the International Olympic Committee ...

Three-star tour

Jun 23, 2008; McNeal, Stan ... A talented trio. A team crackling with chemistry. Jump on for the ride, Boston fans-you know the route. Visit Boston in the summer and you're likely to take a Duck Tour, a romp around town in an odd-looking vehicle that cruises land and water. Visit Boston at the conclusion of a ...

USA Baseball '04

Jun 23, 2008; Anonymous ... COUNTDOWN TO BEIJING Then: They didn't even qualify for Athens Now: Many are major league stars Twenty-one months ago, the Americans righted the ship. A victory against Panama during an Olympic qualifying event in Cuba cemented Team USA's berth on the world's biggest ...

Catching up is hard to do

Jun 23, 2008; Bruce, Kenny ... Failure to keep pace in NASCAR's corporate world has forced Petty Enterprises to sell a majority interest in the team. Results won't come overnight. Richard Petty, now 70 and still the winningest driver in the sport's history after retiring more than a decade ago, made a career out of ...

NASCAR: INSIDE DISH

Jun 23, 2008; Anonymous ... Dale Eamhardt Jr. appeared to apologize for how he won last Sundays race at Michigan to snap his 76-race drought. "My fans are happy, and I'm happy for them," Eamhardt said. "The other half are going to tear this apart on how we won this race, but I got the trophy and I got the points and I got ...

Pit Box

Jun 23, 2008; Anonymous ... NASCAR experts Roger Kuznia and Reid Spencer size up the upcoming race-and each other's analysis-every week in the Pit Box. This week: Toyota/Save Mart 350 Who will win at Infineon? 4:30 p.m. ET Sunday, TNT Rogen Everything has gone wrong for Tony Stewart lately, but it's ...

The miracles in his grasp

Jun 23, 2008; Dillon, Dennis ... The only thing more stunning than David Tyree's Super Bowl catch is the way the Giants' receiver has turned around his life THIS is where David Tyree's life changed: inside a Pentecostal church in Btoomfield, NJ. Right about here-in an end chair halfway down the middle ...

MLB is overreacting on instant replay

Jun 23, 2008; Deveney, Sean ... There are better ways to get disputed home run calls right. Instant replay has gained momentum the point of inevitability in Major League Baseball To heck, the league is saying, with purists, curmudgeons and that old fogey of a commissioner, Bud Selig. MLB wants replay implemented before ...

BASEBALL: speed reads

Jun 23, 2008; Anonymous ... Nice seasons for Jason Bay and Xavier Nady seem to make the Pirates a perfect trading partner for teams in need of outfield help. But the team is still lingering near .500, and management is looking at 82-82 as a goal for the year. Pirates fans haven't seen a nonlosing season since 1993, so even ...

Crafty managers find a way to light a fire

Jun 23, 2008; Jones, Todd ... THE CLOSER Much ado about nothing? Every year, managers rant at their teams. They are looking for a spark anywhere they can find one. Ozzie Guillen gets credit for a seven-game winning streak, but how much did he really have to do with it? John McLaren tears into his team during a ...

Stars maligned

Jun 23, 2008; Fagan, Ryan ... In the suddenly hot N.L. Central, the Cubs and Cardinals are thriving. But now each team faces an injury to its best hitter. By Ryan Fagan This sure has been an odd season in middle America. The Centrals are all mixed up. The A.L. Central-which has produced World Series teams in ...

The week ahead

Jun 23, 2008; Fraley, Gerry ... June 20-22 The Battle of Chicago Worlds collide at Wrigley Field, where the contending White Sox face the contending Cubs. The only missing element is volatile Carlos Zambrano, who is not scheduled to pitch for the Cubs. Their rotation is set up for Jason Marquis, Ted Lilly and ...

Help is on the way

Jun 23, 2008; Gormley, Chuck ... There might not be an Ovechkin or a Crosby available, but this year's draft has a Stamkos and some less-glitzy but good prizes There was a time when Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux provided the standards by which every top prospect was measured. Now the barometers of greatness are Alex ...