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5235. wabbit - 10/23/2006 1:57:56 AM  Robert Cheruiyot held off fellow Kenyan Daniel Njenga to win the Chicago Marathon on Sunday, taken from the course in a wheelchair after slipping and banging his head near the finish line. Cheruiyot, winner of this year's Boston Marathon, stayed down for several minutes after hitting his head. He was placed in a golf cart and headed to a hospital for a precautionary exam. Race officials said he was not seriously injured. Although Cheruiyot slipped before the tape, he did cross the finish line. It was a painful ending to a race in which he sprinted away from Njenga in the final stretch and finished in 2 hours, 7 minutes, 35 seconds. Jimmy Muindi of Kenya was third (2:07:51), and Abdi Abdirahman, a U.S. citizen born in Somalia, finished fourth in 2:08:56.
Ethiopia's Berhane Adere won the women's race in 2:20:42 for her first marathon victory, followed by Russia's Galina Bogomolova (2:20:47), Australia's Benita Johnson (2:22:36) and Mexico's Madai Perez Carrillo (2:22:59). Romania's Constantina Tomescu-Dita (2:24:25) dropped to fifth after leading the first 21 miles.
5236. wabbit - 10/23/2006 1:58:07 AM  Joe Durant didn't forget how to win on the PGA Tour. Durant shot a bogey-free 7-under 65 in the final round of the Funai Classic at Disney on Sunday, finished 25 under and picked up his first tour victory since March 2001. He beat Troy Matteson (70) and Frank Lickliter II (62) by four strokes. First- and second-round leader Justin Rose (69) was fourth. The 42-year-old Durant played mistake-free golf down the stretch for his fourth career victory. He started the day one shot behind leader Matteson and dropped another stroke back after the first hole on the Magnolia Course. But Durant made up ground with smart decisions, a steady short game and several clutch putts. He made a 13-footer from the fringe on the par-3 third and followed with a tap-in birdie on the par-5 fourth. He took the lead for good on the par-5 10th, getting up and down for birdie from the sand. He sealed his long-awaited victory with three birdies — and several astute moves — over the next six holes.
South Korea's Hee-Won Han won her sixth career LPGA Tour title Sunday, closing with a 5-under 67 in hot conditions for a five-stroke victory over Diana D'Alessio in the inaugural Honda LPGA Thailand. Han, two strokes behind Nicole Castrale entering play Sunday, had eight birdies and three bogeys in the final round. She finished with a 14-under 202 total on the Amata Spring Country Club course and earned $195,000 for her second win of the year. D'Alessio finished with a 70.
5237. wabbit - 10/23/2006 1:58:26 AM  Matt Bryant nailed a 62-yard field goal -- the third-longest in NFL history -- to give the Tampa Bay Buccaneers an improbable 23-21 last-second victory over Donovan McNabb and the Philadelphia Eagles. The kick ruined a gallant comeback engineered by McNabb after the Bucs built a 17-0 lead, mostly on the strength of two interceptions that Ronde Barber returned for touchdowns. It was the longest of Bryant's career by 12 yards, and came on just his third attempt of 50 or more yards in five seasons. Tom Dempsey and Jason Elam share the league record for the longest field goal -- 63 yards. The only other kickers who have been successful from beyond 59 yards are Steve Cox and Morten Andersen, who both booted 60-yarders.
One LT led San Diego's comeback. Another LT thwarted it. Lawrence Tynes hit a career-long 53-yard field goal with 6 seconds left, atoning for a first-quarter miss and giving the Kansas City Chiefs a 30-27 victory over the Chargers on Sunday. LaDainian Tomlinson figured in two fourth-quarter TD throws, one as the receiver and one as the passer, as the Chargers (4-2) came back from an early 17-point deficit to tie the game at 27-all. But after the Chiefs (3-3) took over on their own 18 with 33 seconds left, Damon Huard completed three passes for 52 yards to get them in position for Tynes' winner. Tony Gonzalez had two catches for 37 yards on the drive, capping a six-catch, 138-yard day for the Pro Bowl tight end.
Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger was knocked out of Sunday's game against Atlanta after taking a blow to the head in the third quarter, leaving his status uncertain for next week's game at Oakland. Roethlisberger did not return and watched the end of the Falcons' 41-38 win in overtime from the sideline. Roethlisberger appeared to receive a helmet-to-helmet hit in the face mask from defensive end Chauncey Davis immediately after releasing a pass, which was dropped by Hines Ward with 7:40 left in the third. Defensive end Patrick Kerney and linebacker Ed Hartwell also hit the quarterback on the play.
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5238. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 10/23/2006 2:33:38 AM Good luck to the Tigers tonight, wonk! 5239. wonkers2 - 10/23/2006 3:16:11 AM Thanks! Horrible night for a ball game. 5240. iiibbb - 10/23/2006 3:22:37 AM BASE jumper dies at bridge day.
It was the longest single span bridge in the US until recently. At 850 ft at the river it's pretty up there.
Once a year, the Park Service closes one side and opens the bridge to base jumpers and rappellers.
I went to bridge day many years ago, but I was on a team that won the rope lottery, so we were there to rappel it. Not many spots for the rappelling.
What's funny is the base jumpers always looked at us like we were nuts... and vice versa.
 5241. iiibbb - 10/23/2006 5:33:30 AM I should note that if someone died when I was there... I wouldn't have kept playng. 5242. wabbit - 10/23/2006 4:29:05 PM I dunno, I think I'd feel a lot better with at least 2000 feet for the chute to open. I guess it's enough, since they have so many successful jumps, but 850 sounds a little tight to me. 5243. wabbit - 10/23/2006 4:30:10 PM 
Kenny Rogers of the Detroit Tigers had a smudge on the palm of his left hand while he was pitching in the first inning Sunday night. What it was and why it was there and whether it had an impact on Rogers’s outing against the St. Louis Cardinals is fuzzy. What was clear is that Rogers pitched eight shutout innings to boost his scoreless streak to 23 innings and help the Tigers to a 3-1 victory in Game 2 of the World Series. What is not clear is whether Rogers had something illegal on his hand during one of those innings... Television cameras showed close-ups of Rogers’s hand in the first and the second innings, and the brown smudge that was there in the first was gone by the second. Rogers, who gave up one hit with the smudge on his hand in the first, gave up only one more hit for the next seven innings... What is fuzzy about a possible impact on the game? Two hits? Whatever it was, it didn't seem to make any difference. Series tied, 1-1.5244. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 10/23/2006 4:41:38 PM Does he chew tobacco–that's what it looks like . . . or were they out of toilet paper in the locker-room? ] %? ( 5245. wabbit - 10/23/2006 5:00:02 PM eeewwwwwwwwwwww
At least it's on his left hand. 5246. wonkers2 - 10/23/2006 5:01:54 PM That's why Muslims eat with their right hand! 5247. alistairconnor - 10/23/2006 5:32:14 PM Ha! There was a huge controversy over a recent England-Pakistan cricket test, where the Pakistan bowlers were deemed to have tampered with the ball by scuffing it or scratching it with their fingernails (supposedly to influence spin and trajectory in the air and on the pitch) and walked out in protest, forfeiting the match...
What are the common forms of ball-tampering in baseball? 5248. wabbit - 10/23/2006 5:50:35 PM Back in the day, there were all kinds of things - the spitball was called that for a reason, although vaseline and hair grease were also popular. Then there were the nail files and bits of sandpaper. I read not too long ago that there are pitchers suspected of cutting the ball, not with their fingernails, but with something embedded in their glove. I'm sure there are other things. 5249. wonkers2 - 10/24/2006 1:20:24 PM Mitch Albom--NL Rules, AL Rules, It's All So Stupid! 5250. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 10/24/2006 4:35:06 PM I'm sure there are other things. Like pine tar. 5251. wabbit - 10/24/2006 5:33:48 PM Oh yes, pine tar!
SI.com's Jon Heyman talked to a bullpen coach about Kenny Rogers, foreign substances and what likely went on Sunday night in Rogers' 3-1 Game 2 World Series victory. For the record, Rogers' story is that the noticeable mark on the palm of his left hand that was picked up by Fox was a "clump of dirt," and Major League Baseball isn't pursuing the matter further. But here's what one bullpen coach said about it:
"It was pine tar. It couldn't be anything else. Pitchers use pine tar, shaving cream and suntan lotion. Pitchers use them to help them grip the ball and make the ball move more. Bullpen guys sometimes keep suntan lotion in the ball bags. It's not for a tan. Pine tar works the best. It's been around the longest. But lately, more and more guys are using shaving cream and suntan lotion. There's no chance to be caught with shaving cream or suntan lotion..." 5252. wonkers2 - 10/24/2006 5:35:57 PM I just heard on the radio that research into TV footage of other games earlier this year revealed similar-looking spots on Rogers's hand. The implication, of course, being that he intentionally used an illegal substance on the ball in the first inning with the Cards and that that wasn't the first time he's done it. 5253. wabbit - 10/24/2006 6:50:45 PM If that SI article is even close to accurate, and I can't see why it wouldn't be, then pine tar, having cream and suntan lotion might be considered the steroids of the bullpen. And you'd think that a bullpen coach would have taught Rogers how to properly hide the use of pine tar by now. 5254. wonkers2 - 10/24/2006 9:30:53 PM Maybe some dirt stuck to the pine tar!
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