JOHN FROSCHAUER / Associated Press Padres pitching coach Darren Balsley and catcher Luke Carlin have a talk with reliever Heath Bell, who gave up a two-run double in the eighth inning to Jose Lopez.

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SEATTLE – Is it opportunity knocking, or the bells tolling? The Padres limp into Petco Park tonight – minus, at least temporarily, Jake Peavy – after two disastrous trips to begin what at one time appeared to be a most promising part of their schedule.

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For the second time in a month, the signature hole for next month's U.S. Open at Torrey Pines has been hit by vandals. In the latest incident early yesterday at the cliffside, par-3 third – the most photographed hole on the South Course – City Golf Manager Mark Woodward said workers arrived before dawn to find fresh footprints in the dew and heavy heel marks stamped into the surface of the green.

Oscar Pistorius literally does not have a leg to stand on, but he runs as if he were fleeing a fire. The world's swiftest amputee sprinter is so fast that he has forced the sports world to wonder whether he's working with a disability or an edge; whether technology has trumped the human condition with advances in prosthetics; and what all of that might mean to races down the road.

On the weekend of May 10-11 at the surf break called Church in San Clemente, the Western Surfing Association held its annual West Coast Championship.

Trevor Graham won a silver medal for Jamaica in the 4x400-meter relay in the 1988 Olympics. He ran for St. Augustine's College in Raleigh, N.C., became a U.S. citizen and stayed in the area after his track career to coach some of the fastest men and women the world has known.