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- GALLERY
Babe got pot belly into last 500-foot shot
Babe Ruth was 40 years old, with a pot belly that couldn't be supported by his spindly legs and a fast-growing realization his career was over.
- SPEED WEEEK
Penske power
INDIANAPOLIS – When the National Football League and Detroit last year needed someone to pull together corporate-sponsored events for Super Bowl XL, they turned to a man with no experience at the task. But Roger Penske came through.
- On the air / local events
- NBA REPORT
Raptors interested in Bargnani
A day after winning the top pick in the draft lottery, the Toronto Raptors dispatched coach Sam Mitchell and senior adviser Wayne Embry to Italy to scout forward Andrea Bargnani.
- STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS
Sabres bounce back with Game 3 victory
Daniel Briere scored twice, and the Buffalo Sabres hung on for a 4-3 win over the Carolina Hurricanes last night in Buffalo.
- NBA Playoffs
- NHL standings
- DIVISION I
Fantastic finale
After surviving an exhausting pair of volleyball matches against rival Rancho Bernardo during Palomar League play, La Costa Canyon's Chase Budinger expected much the same in the season finale.
- Krause puts heat on Titans in playoff win
EL CAJON – Pitching in summerlike conditions took its toll on Granite Hills ace Eric Krause in yesterday's opening round of the San Diego Section Division I baseball playoffs.
- DIVISION III
Formative years pay off for Valley Center program
It's been a long time coming for the Valley Center High boys volleyball team. A true “worst to first” tale. Just ask Jaguars coach Alan Dale. A newcomer to the final, Dale discovered his name was left out of the program. But there he was in the picture, standing top left with the championship team he's built.
- Torrey Pines' batting order ends with bang
Along with his top five hitters each batting .350 or above, Torrey Pines High coach Matt Chess is also enjoying ever-increasing production from the rest of his lineup.
- High schools scoreboard
- HIGH SCHOOL REPORT
Carr, Spence honored
Eastlake's Stephen Carr and Mt. Carmel's Whitney Spence have been honored as the top high school scholar-athletes for 2005-06 by the Hall of Champions.
- NFL REPORT
Raiders call report about sale, move to L.A. 'fiction'
The Oakland Raiders dismissed as “fiction” a story in this week's Sports Illustrated that says former 49ers owner Eddie DeBartolo and former 49ers president Carmen Policy are interested in buying the Raiders from Managing General Partner Al Davis.
- Yanks bail out Big Unit in win
BOSTON – Randy Johnson's latest lousy start was just a bad memory by the eighth inning, when last night's game came down to a bases-loaded battle between Kyle Farnsworth and David Ortiz.
- MLB summaries
- MLB summaries
- MLB summaries
- AL highlights
- Dodgers take seventh in row
LOS ANGELES – Aaron Sele pitched seven shutout innings, Jeff Kent and Rafael Furcal had three hits each and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Colorado Rockies 7-1 last night for their seventh straight victory.
- Sele helps L.A. to 7th straight
LOS ANGELES – Aaron Sele began the season in the minor leagues, with no guarantee he'd be pitching for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
- IN BRIEF
Brother of ex-Charger receiver Seay reportedly shot to death
Former San Diego Chargers wide receiver Mark Seay, wounded in a drive-by shooting nearly two decades ago, has reportedly lost a second brother to gun violence.
- BASEBALL REPORT
Diamondbacks deal 'El Duque' to Mets
The pitching-thin Mets acquired Orlando Hernandez from Arizona yesterday, welcoming El Duque back to New York and hoping he can help them now – and maybe later, when even more is at stake.
- AL standings
- Baseball history
- MLB leaders
- MLB summaries
- MLB summaries
- MLB summaries
- NL highlights
- NL standings
- Padres review
- Heavyweights are on tap at Pechanga and Imperial Beach
Anthony Salcido and Javier Mora are going to be separated this evening by about 75 miles and 100 pounds. Their ambitions, however, are the same – to advance their boxing careers.
- LOCAL COLLEGES
PLNU softball team shut down at NAIAs
The Point Loma Nazarene softball team's run in the NAIA National Tournament ended yesterday with a 7-0 loss to Cal Baptist in the losers-bracket championship game in Decatur, Ala.
- Men's winner to defend title at Rock 'n' Roll Marathon
Christopher Cheboiboch of Kenya ran the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon's third-fastest time ever to win last year's race in 2 hours, 9 minutes, 17 seconds. Minutes after finishing, he said he wasn't tired and could have run three or four minutes faster.
- Transactions
- Yesterday's Hollywood Park Charts
- Bob Ike's Hollywood Park Handicap
- Golf scoreboard
- 32 rescued from leaking boat
Nothing like leaving on a fishing trip aboard a 75-foot sport boat and returning on one of the Navy's 509-foot guided missile destroyers. That was the fate of most of the passengers who survived a scary night at sea Tuesday when the sport boat Legend out of Seaforth Sportfishing began taking water at about 6 p.m., 90 miles southwest of San Diego.
- San Diego-area wrestling figures to enter Hall
Joe Campo has always been Jose Campo's measuring stick. If Jose, the former head wrestling coach at Mt. Carmel High, could even come close to matching the accomplishments of his father, he'd be a happy man.
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