- 3 WINNERS
- Phillies Notebook: Coste doesn't equate slump with playing time
- Myers hopes for major changes
NEW YORK - So here's the million-dollar question to be answered over the last 62 games of this incredibly flammable Phillies season:
- Repeat feat for Harrington
ILEFT THE COUCH in disgust for the first time yesterday at about 9:26 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time.
That's when Greg Norman's second shot of the day at the British Open found a bunker as deep as a sinkhole.
- JIMMY ROLLINS HAD no intention of placing a target on his back when he issued his now-famous "team to beat" boast back in the winter of 2007. He was relaxing among local media, in a small setting, and as he has said many times since, he intended only to express excitement about the new additions to his own club, not to taunt the Mets and their fans.
- SOMETIMES THE Olympic Games serve as the ultimate travelogue, sending millions back to their homes around the world with stories that inspire travel. Barcelona. Sydney. Athens. Beautiful, inviting places.
- HE LED OFF the first inning with a single, exactly the start you hope for the day after taking a beating at home. Jimmy Rollins had two hits in yesterday's 6-3 victory over Arizona, reached base three times, found his way to third twice, knocked in the tying run with one of those signature doubles down the rightfield line.
- THEY HAVE covered every base planning the last All-Star Game in Yankee Stadium. Or pretty close. There will be a parade down 6th Avenue with floats and Hall of Famers. Yogi Berra will be there. Whitey Ford will be there. Reggie Jackson will be there.
- THE 76ERS HAVE bet $82 million and their next five seasons that Elton Brand's Achilles' heel will hold up and that the rest of his body will, too.
- On a night when Chris Coste was booed and Cole Hamels could not save the Phillies from losing their fourth game in a row, the clubhouse television carried the most significant trend of the day.
- THE PREMISE was met with smirks and rolled eyes on Opening Day, and maybe it should have been. One game, one loss, was not nearly enough time to measure an intangible, not nearly enough time to figure out if the Phillies could afford to lose the part of Aaron Rowand that doesn't appear on the stat sheet.
- WITHIN HOURS Sunday, the best and worst of interleague play treated and tortured those who watched it on television. With Shea Stadium's mixed fandom boiling from anxiety and anticipation, Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez stepped to the plate in the ninth inning against Mets closer Billy Wagner, a man on base, his team down by two runs. Rodriguez swung and the ball headed high toward Shea's leftfield wall.
- SHE WOULD BE 30 now, this little girl. I took her picture in 1984 while covering the Wyoming Seminary soccer team for the Wilkes-Barre TimesLeader. She was peering at us from an apartment window above the bustle of a free market, peering at us as you would an oddity.
- YO, BUBBA CHUCK - your ears ringing? How 'bout you Tim Duncan? Feeling a sharp, knifelike pain in your back? Larry Brown, Roy Williams, Lamar Odom - any of you 2004 Olympians feel like you've just been kicked in the, uh, stomach?
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