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- GALLERY
At last, a baseball giveaway you can use
The Grand Prairie (Texas) AirHogs minor league baseball team will offer one lucky fan a free funeral. The “All Hogs Go to Heaven” promotion will pay for funeral expenses, valued at $10,000. It includes a casket, headstone, plot and services.
- DAILY DIGEST
Double amputee wins appeal for Olympic bid
Oscar Pistorius, a double-amputee sprinter from South Africa, was cleared yesterday to compete in his bid to qualify for the Olympic Games in Beijing.
- OUTDOORS
Spring turkey call: Big birds up, but jakes down
It was the Year of the Big Bird. That's the only way to describe the spring turkey hunting season that ends tomorrow at 4 p.m. in San Diego County. Hunters took some of the largest toms I've seen.
- Losing racehorses in Puerto Rico put to death
CANOVANAS, Puerto Rico – For thoroughbreds in this U.S. Caribbean territory, being fast enough to win, place or show is a matter of life and death – losers often don't even make it off the racetrack grounds alive.
- On the air / local events
- HORSE RACING HANK WESCH
Hard feelings still linger over Winning Colors
Twenty years ago the Preakness ended with a controversy over a filly running against males in a Triple Crown race.
- BASEBALL ROUNDUP
Three HRs Werthwhile night for this Phillie
The nicknames are sweet. The record is sweeter. Jayson Werth joined the exclusive company of men named Kitty, Gavvy, Puddin' Head and Michael Jack last night when he tied a Phillies franchise record with eight RBI in a 10-3 victory over the visiting Toronto Blue Jays at Citizens Bank Park.
- NBA PLAYOFFS
James takes charge late, forces Game 7 in Boston
The Cleveland Cavaliers packed for a weekend stay in Beantown – not a few weeks on Cape Cod.
- Byrnes breaks out of slump; D-Backs win fourth straight
Eric Byrnes broke out of a monthlong slump with a homer and two RBI, Dan Haren pitched seven innings and the Arizona Diamondbacks rallied past the slumping Detroit Tigers 4-3 last night in Phoenix.
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- S.D. SECTION GYMNASTICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
Westview's Lu beams up surprise all-around title
Even in a sport like gymnastics – where the bars, beam, floor and vault are regulation size regardless of the venue – there is still something to be said for the comforts of home.
- S.D. SECTION BADMINTON CHAMPIONSHIPS
Hoover girls help find another title in the Cards
With a stellar lineup of boys on the Hoover High badminton team, Tinh Nguyen and the rest of the Cardinals girls knew they had to work hard to hold up their end of the bargain.
- GOLF ROUNDUP
Byrd flying high after second 66
Jonathan Byrd took advantage of soft fairways and receptive greens at TPC Sugarloaf in Duluth, Ga., yesterday, shooting his second straight 6-under 66 to take a three-stroke lead in the AT&T Classic.
- MOTORSPORTS ROUNDUP
Indy drivers are looking to the skies
After scrambling the previous day, along with everyone else, to get track time in gloomy, cold and windy conditions, yesterday's sunshine and warmer temperatures weren't going to con John Andretti, who will try today to qualify for his ninth Indianapolis 500 start dating to 1988.
- S.D. SECTION VOLLEYBALL SEMIFINALS
Familiar finalist Mt. Carmel prepares to 'go out with a bang'
In going for a ball veering away from the volleyball court, Mt. Carmel High's Phil England breezed by the scorer's table, sent a roster flying and then paused to pick it up.
- San Diego Section Championships
- High schools scoreboard
- LOCAL TENNIS
Longtime rivalry gets even more one-sided
It was 1931. Hoover was in the White House, the national unemployment rate was 15.9 percent, Pat O'Brien was being featured in the movie “The Front Page,” America was singing “Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries,” and Dorothy “Dodo” Cheney and Pat Henry Yeomans were across from one another on a tennis court for the first time.
- College softball scoreboard
- Golf scoreboard
- Hollywood Park results
- COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Fisher's Aztecs get ex-Crawford stars
A source with ties close to the San Diego State men's basketball program confirmed yesterday that the Aztecs have signed Malcolm Thomas and Tyrone Shelley, former Crawford High standouts who spent last season at Pepperdine.
- Softball Aztecs defeated
San Diego State's softball team lost its NCAA Regional opener 4-1 to Cal last night in Fresno.
- COLLEGE BASEBALL
Tritons facing elimination
UCSD dug itself a hole that was too deep to overcome in yesterday's 13-7 loss to Chico State, host of the NCAA Division II West Region tournament.
- LOCAL COLLEGES
PLNU's Cyr wins NAIA golf title
Point Loma Nazarene University junior Sam Cyr shot 2-under-par 70 in the final round to capture the NAIA National Championship at Indiana National Golf Course in Plymouth, Ind.
- Former Vista High pitcher Cahill dominating California League
Three years ago, Trevor Cahill wasn't a part of the Vista High School pitching rotation. By the end of next year, he could be the newest member of the Oakland Athletics' major league staff.
- Yesterday's Hollywood Park charts
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