Associated Press
USA's Henry Cejudo (left), who won a 2-2, 3-0 decision, takes control of Japan's Tomohiro Matsunaga. |
2008 OLYMPICS: BEIJINGCejudo realizes American Dream
BEIJING – The American Dream has a cauliflower ear. It wears a welt above its right eye and, until further notice, a gold medal around its stiff neck. “I might just sleep with this,” Henry Cejudo said yesterday, clutching his prize for Olympic pre-eminence. “This is my dream, man. It's changed my life already.”
2008 OLYMPICS: BEIJING
U.S. women hold off Aussie rally
By Mark Zeigler
STAFF WRITER
BEIJING – The lead went from three goals to two to one and then it was tied, and U.S. women's water polo coach Guy Baker was desperately trying everything to halt the slide. Calling plays. Making substitutions. Clapping, encouraging, gesticulating, praying.
Maddux goes to Dodgers for prospects
By Tom Krasovic
STAFF WRITER
PHOENIX – Greg Maddux, a future Hall of Famer who graced the Padres with his pitching and professionalism, gave them a parting gift when he consented to a trade to the Dodgers that was approved yesterday by the commissioner's office.
Stable team lets Chambers thrive
Unlike baseball teams, some of which harbor no misgivings over unconscionably, inexcusably trading players during the season – even to dreaded, hated intradivision rivals (see Padres, Maddux, Dodgers) – the NFL doesn't work that way. At least not very often.
HORSE RACING HANK WESCH
It's his rite: No Saturday races
DEL MAR – The $1 million Pacific Classic is Sunday. And that's the reason we have one of the most intriguing horses, trainers and stories of the 18th running of the signature race of the summer meeting here to ponder. Giuseppe Iadisernia, the 49-year-old owner and trainer of the 5-year-old gelding Delosvientos, is of the Seventh-day Adventist faith, which observes Saturday, the original seventh day on the Judeo-Christian calendar, as the Sabbath.
