Barry Bonds hit his first home run of the season last night after coming back for his first game of the season on Monday night. That makes for home run #704.
Since I figure that the leaked information about his cheating is probably true, I can’t cheer for him. I hope that Hank Aaron manages to keep his record until somebody can honestly beat it.
Each day I will be listing the medal competitions for the day, along with which athletes from the United States are competing in that event. Today’s Olympic Finals in Track & Field are:
The United States has banned the Cuban baseball team from the World Baseball Classic next march.
This past Patriot’s Day, I was running the Boston Marathon in the wake of a Nor’Easter. Up here in Portland, though, the Nor’Easter was in full effect, which caused the cancellation of the Patriot’s Day 5 Miler by the Boy’s and Girl’s Club of Greater Portland. It was not safe to hold the race, and…
Since a 100 mile race wasn’t in the cards given that I hadn’t done the training I had wanted to over the previous 5 months, I got to run a marathon instead with a friend of mine. The last time we had run a marathon together had been in 2006, so we were overdue to…
The Red Sox are making up for Schilling and Arroyo’s loss last night. I just checked the box scores, and at the top of the 8th they are winning 17 to 1. That’s some major pain going on, right there. I almost feel sorry for Buddy Groom. David Well is doing all right, though, despite…
I went to watch the Boston Indoor Games this evening, and it was great. There was a lot of really good competition, and we got to see numerous meet and national records, as well as a world record 5k. Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopa absolutely crushed her old mark of 14:32.93 set two years ago. She…