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Baffert: Big Brown has royal pedigree to win Crown
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BALTIMORE -- The working premise for this column was that the smooth sailing is over for Big Brown. That winning the Belmont and the Triple Crown will be brutally difficult, no matter how easy he's made it look getting to this point.
Then I talked to Bob Baffert.
"I've never seen anything like him since I've been training," Baffert gushed Sunday. "Everyone's been waiting for the next Secretariat-type horse, and we got him. He's going to do it."
ESPN.com
5/19/08
Pistorius to try to qualify for Beijing but says 2012 might be more realistic
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius says the 2012 London Olympics might be a more realistic goal than qualifying for the Beijing Games.
Pistorius has returned to South Africa following a ruling that cleared him to compete against able-bodied runners.
The athlete says he will compete in able-bodied meets in the coming weeks to try to qualify in the 400 meters for Beijing. But he told reporters Monday it will be difficult, and said the London Games four years from now might be his best shot.
ESPN.com
5/19/08
Report: U.S. government may subpoena as many as 104 MLB players
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As many as 104 Major League Baseball players could be subpoenaed by federal investigators in connection with the BALCO steroid distribution case after the United States attorney's office obtained positive steroid test results from 2003, according to a published report.
The results, according to The New York Times, were part of the 2003 tests conducted by Major League Baseball that were intended to be anonymous. But through some deft legal maneuvering, the U.S. government seized the records from two different companies hired to provide the tests.
An anonymous source told the newspaper that the federal government plans to question all 104 players about their positive steroid tests and how they obtained whatever substance was found in their urine sample.
The potential list of suppliers named by the players would be sent to federal prosecutors around the country. The investigations that result from that information could lead to player names being revealed in court documents.
ESPN.com
5/18/08