All Sport Report

This is a new feature I hope to write every day. Each evening, late at night, I plan to run through the top stories in the Sports World. In the Run Down, you’ll get a crash course through the hottest stories, latest scandals, and most exciting news on all of your favorite sports. If you want to know what is going on in Sports, then the Run Down will offer all of the information you need to keep you wanting more!

In this week’s Run Down:

Baseball

Bonds Bombs in Entire Dodgers Series, Losing Streak Continues Onward– Barry Bonds, just five home runs away from beating the home run record of Henry “Hank” Aaron (a true ball player who didn’t have to use steroids to hit 756 home runs – but don’t get me started on how unfair I think this is), is in a slump. Fellow Giants short-stop, Omar Vizquel, said the slugger just hasn’t been the same since he had an All Star Game party, playing host until the wee hours of the morning, a week and a half ago.

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I have never been a big fan of bicycling. Sure, it’s a great way to get exercise, but perhaps because I never had the opportunity to ride a bike minus one with training wheels (I have a muscle disease and am now in a wheelchair) I just never got the “cycling excitement”. Every time the Tour de France is held, I listen to the chattering going on around me (it is hard not to with so many Americans being accused of using illegal drugs each year), but I don’t really get the whole “Tour fascination”.

So, I get the point of the Tour. You ride through multiple parts of France, practically making your way across the entire country. This will take you up and down hills and mountains, along straight pathways, and through the country and city. July is time for the Tour, and by now, the bikers have already made their way to the ninth stage of the race.

The ninth stage through the Alps is also the last one to travel through the mountain range. The favored winner of the Tour de France, injured cyclist, Alexandre Vinokourov, didn’t do so well during this stage, falling as much as eight minutes behind the overall leader, Michael Rasmussen. Rasmussen is a Dane who has been the Tour’s best climber for the past two years. However, a surprising newcomer to the race, Juan Mauricio Soler, managed to take over and win this stage. The Columbian says it is “a dream” to win a stage, and in his very first Tour appearance no less!

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In what has become quite a bizarre turn of events, in less than a week the New York Yankess have not only gotten dissed (by former NY Yankees slugger Gary “Chef” Sheffield, they did a little dissing of their own, to one of their own, Alex “A-Rod” Rodriguez. The dissing all started when Gary Sheffield made an appearance on HBO’s Real Sports and it exploded from there.

The interview, which occurred last Friday, July 13, will air in a forthcoming episode of the show. Chef, who has become one of the top power hitters of the season for the Detroit Tigers, had quite a bit to say about the former ball team he played on from 2004-2006. It was reported by multiple media sources that Sheffield stated that famed Yankees manager Joe Torre treated his black players differently than he did his white players. Chef, who is black, was asked whether his then teammate Derek Jeter was treated differently, to which he responded that Jeter wasn’t “all the way black”. Jeter is in fact of mixed heritage with an African American father and Caucasian mother.

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Chris Chambers, who has spent six years as a top receiver for the Miami Dolphins was arrested early Saturday morning on suspicion of DWI, reckless driving, and speeding. Chambers’ attorney faced the judge in a Charlotte, North Carolina, Mecklenburg County courtroom on Monday, July 16, though Chambers himself did not attend. The case was delayed a month and will resume on August 15.

Chambers was pulled over and taken into custody for the aforementioned charges at 2:31 a.m. on July 14. Chambers was initially pulled over because he was clocked driving 74 mph in a 45 mph zone. While pulled over, he refused to take a Breathalyzer test and didn’t pass the other, basic sobriety tests.

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