Esteban Loaiza of the host Chicago White Sox and Jason Schmidt of the San Francisco Giants were picked as the starting pitchers for Tuesday night's All-Star game.
David Noll made his return to amateur golf a successful one, holding off Thomas Hagler by one shot yesterday to win the 82nd Georgia Amateur Championship at Pinetree Country Club.
Conny Pohlers scored in the 49th minute, leading the Atlanta Beat to a 2-1 victory over the Washington Freedom on Saturday in a game where both lineups were depleted by national-team callups.
Ricardo Mayorga, relentlessly throwing punches from every angle, took a majority decision over Atlanta's Vernon Forrest on Saturday night to retain his WBC and WBA welterweight titles.
Nearly five years after she was forced to walk away from NASCAR racing because of a lack of sponsorship, Tammy Jo Kirk of Dalton may be getting back into the game.
CIA Director George Tenet acknowledged Friday his agency wrongly allowed President Bush to tell the American people that Iraq was seeking nuclear material from Africa when analysts had doubts about the quality of the intelligence.
Cubs manager Dusty Baker will name one of his past or present pitchers as the National League starter for the All-Star Game, and is leaning toward San Francisco's Jason Schmidt over Atlanta's Russ Ortiz or Kerry Wood of the Cubs.
Atlanta Braves second baseman Marcus Giles was forced to leave Friday's game against the Chicago Cubs with a mild concussion after a violent collision with Mark Prior while trying to field a grounder.
