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HOUSTON — Mark Teixeira
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Baytown youth track team earned multiple awards at the Hershey
State Track Meet in Austin last weekend.
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finished comfortably back in the third overall. rivals in his wake. His principal challenger, Jan
But for sprinters like Kirsipuu, a 34-year-old Ullrich, finished 32nd in Sunday’s stage, in the
record sixth straight Tour, not scrapping for victo- Estonian, the Tour’s relatively flat early stages are same time as Armstrong.
ties in the hazardous and fast-paced early stages their strength, the reason why they come to the
of the three:week race.
A final all-out burst of speed secured Jaan
Kirsipuu’s victory in the 125.5-mile trek that featured
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Teixeira added a solo shot in the Astros 42-29 to win the tiebreaker.
Teixeira hit his slam in the ninth right-field seats off reliever Tim
homers among his career-high inning off Chad Harville and Redding for his 22nd homer of
four hits, and Alfonso Soriano hit Blalock was pinch-hitting in the the season, giving the Rangers a
a two-run home run as the sixth when he connected to give
Rangers closed out their inter- the Rangers their first two grand
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TEXAS RANGERS pinch hitter Hank Blalock watches his grand slam against the Houston Astros in the sixth inning
Sunday in Houston. The Rangers won 18-3 after belting six home runs in the game, two of them grand slams.
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Paris on July 25.
Muscling his way through a gaggle of riders
sprinting to the finish, Kirsipuu edged Australian
Robbie McEwen and Norway’s Thor Hushovd.
“The sprint was incredible for me,” Kirsipuu,
said. “I am really, really happy.”
Armstrong started his Tour in emphatic fashion
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pack in 48th. He is focused on winning a
One thing you won’t see this football
season is Dick Olin limping on the side-
lines as the Robert E- Lee Ganders do
battle.
That was taken care of after the Bayou
Bowl game — won by Olin’s Greater
Houston All-Stars, 18-15, over Louisiana
at Stallworth Stadium — when the long-
time Gander coach underwent surgery
that replaced his left knee. He’s home
now, resting on the couch, watching
every movie imaginable, like it or not.
There were a couple of scares. He
developed blood clots in his lungs follow-
ing the surgery, and that extended his
hospital stay two days. The latest, and
hopefully last, episode came Friday when
he had to be rushed to the hospital in the
wee hours of the morning because of
intense pain. He was back home later in
the day.
Olin said the knee has been bothering
him five or six years, and he was told by
Dr. Omer Ilahi that it was “bone on bone.
He sent me to a brace place in League
City a couple of times, but the brace
always broke. So I just threw it away and
went about my business.”
It came to a head this past season.
“This past year, I would limp,” he
explained. “And it got worse. My back
would hurt, and that wasn’t any fun. Dr.
Ilahi got me an appointment with
Kenneth Mathis (at Baylor Sports
Medicine). You know, it got to the point
where I had to do something. It kept get-
ting worse and worse.
“The Bayou Bowl was June 19th, I
relaxed on Sunday (the 20th), and then I
went in (to Methodist Diagnostic Clinic
in Houston) and had the knee worked bn.
“Dr. Mathis thought it would be a par-
tial replacement. He said he could have
done a partial replacement, but because
of the type job I have, he thought a total
knee replacement would be better.”
Olin thought everything would be OK
and he would be home with nary a
problem. Think again.
“I developed bipod clots in my lungs,”
he explained, sounding more like a doctor
than a football coach. “I got out of bed to
do my therapy and walked to the door,
and I couldn’t breathe. I was out of
breath. They checked me out, and that’s
when they found out I had the blood
clots. They gave me blood thinners and
things of that nature, and that got me
back on track.”
Now the coach undergoes therapy at
HealthReady on Garth Road three times
a week and said he will be ready when
the Ganders report for fall practice in
early August.
“It’s been a long time since I’ve been
on the sideline without limping,” Olin
said. “It will be good not to limp.”'
And there was another thing he was
quite proud of. Or appeared to be, any-
way.
As he lay on the couch, his dress was
what you might expect: Gander T-shirt
and Gander coaching shorts, with white
hose keeping both legs in place.
“You know, Joe Namath wore a pair of
these one time,” Olin said. “He made
them famous.” He started to say some-
thing else, but shied away at the last
minute.
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He did have an interesting philosophy,
although where it fit in with surgery isn’t
clear.
“Educators educate, doctors operate,
and physical therapists do their thing,” he
said. “Those things aren’t like coaching,
when everybody is an expert.”
Well, that’s another column for another
day.
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Thomas Bates won a pair of state cham-
pionships to lead the Baytown youth track
team at the Hershey State Meet in Austin
a week ago.
Competing in the 13-14 age division,
Bates ran to a first-place finish in the 800-
meter run with a time of 2:25, and he
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4x100 relay team of Tavia Moody, Megan
Thomas, Joya Malone and Patrona Carr
finished fifth.
Iwo Baytown 4x100 relays competed in
the 9-10 age division. The team of Shantel
Thomas, Kierstin Santana, Daevonna
Goudeau and Codee Lewis finished,
. ~ fourth, and the quartet of Sherkeitha
anchored the first-place 4xl00-meter Slaughter, Heather Hooey, Whitley
relay team. Rawlton Hart, Stephone Landry and Chelsey Pierre took six|h.
Leaks and Jahuran Goode joined Bates in
running a time of48.85 seconds.
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By MIKE HARRIS
The Associated Press
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Je£
Gordon and Hendrick Motorsports ape
the new kings of NASCAR plate racing.,
Gordon proved Saturday night his
victory at Talladega in April was no
fluke, leaving the favored Dale
Earnhardt Inp. duo of Dale Earnhardt.
Jr. and Michael Waltrip and everyone
else behind in the Pepsi 400 at Daytona
International Speedway.
“Wow! Wow! Wow!” Gordon said;
“This is a big one. What an awesome
show by Hendrick Motorsports.” ,
It was Gordon’s second victory in a,
row, fourth of the season and 68th pf
his career. He also became the firstdri-
ver to win this race from the pole since
es, crowds, wind, punctures and a mighty finishing
sprint to contend with—factors that make the Tour’s
first week the part Armstrong relishes least.
“You have to live with the crashes, and hope
ordeal to come, Armstrong you don’t get into one,” said Armstrong, who is to Saturday’s prologue time trial, leaving key
rivals in his wake. His principal challenger, Jan
CHARLEROI, Belgium — Lance Armstrong
played it safe in the first full stage of the - • . ,
Tour de France roads turned treacherous by rain. There were crash-
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knows he has plenty of
time.
Saving himself for the
The Barbers Hill Little League 11-
year-old All-Stars ended their season
will a loss to Deer Park in District 17
Tournament action Saturday.
Barbers Hill’s 10-year-old All-/
Stars have advanced to the toumaz.
ment semifinals. They will play host
to Channelview on Tuesday at
7 p.m. at McLeod Park. The victor.
will play in Wednesday’s champi-
onship game against the winner oL
the South Houston-Pasadena,
American semifinal.
Little League Major action begins
for District 14 and continues for
District 17 on Tuesday.
In District 14, Bayshore will visj?
Baytown North at 6 p.m., and
Baytown West will travel to face La
Marque in Texas City at 8 p.m.
In District 17, Deer Park will visit
Highlands, and Pasadena International,,
will travel to take on Barbers Hill.
Both games are set for 7 p.m. x
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league, in-state series against slam game since the Washington
Houston, scoring their most runs Senators moved to Texas in 1972.
in a game this season. Gary Matthews Jr. set up the
Texas also claimed possession Rangers’ six-run sixth, leading off
of the Silver Boot trophy that goes the inning with a single. Eric
first Rangers to hit grand slams in to the winner of the series for the Young and Soriano were both
the same game, lifting Texas to an time since 2001. This year’s walked, and Blalock entered for
18-3 rout of the Houston Astros six-game series ended in a 3-3 tie, Herbert Perry with the bases
on Sunday. but the Rangers outscored the loaded.
Teixeira added a solo shot in the Astros 42-29 to win the tiebreaker. Blalock then homered into the
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Santana was second in the 400 ani)
fourth in the standing long jump. In the
Goode also ran to a third-place finish in 200, Lewis took fourth place, and
the 200-meter run, and Leaks took third in Goudeau finished sixth. ,s -
the standing long jump. Alannis Fontenot was sixth in the soft-1
In the girls’ 13-14 age division, the ball throw.
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