Ultimately, its not Barry Bonds who hits the ball over the wall, but the bat....The New York Times Jack Curry writes about who makes the bats for Bonds..... "Holman described Bonds as a genius of a hitter and said he expected him to be consumed by every detail about the bats." .....
ESPN's Jayson Stark proves that opposites do attract - just look at who is going to be behind the microphone calling Barry Bonds historic homerun..... "Shouldn't we devote at least one small sector of cyberspace to the man who has made history in the most diametrically opposite way possible?" ....
As a kid, Dontrelle Willis used to chase after Barry Bonds' homerun balls - now he is pitching to the guy.... "When Bonds met Willis for the first time, he offered the young pitcher one piece of advice: "He told me to just continue to smile," Willis said." ....
Another renegade professional football league looms, but this time with a college twist..... "The league, whose planned opening is May 2008, will mostly play in college towns using players who played for the local college teams and did not make an N.F.L. roster." .....
Everyone knows Cal Ripken and Tony Gwynn are being inducted into the baseball hall of fame today - but don't forget about Denny Matthews too.... "After careful consideration, he explains his style as "Midwestern, laid-back, tell it like it is," and, now that he thinks about it, that's a pretty good description of his personality, too." ....
Newark Star-Ledger's Dave Hutchinson writes that New York Jets quarterback Chad Pennington is finally feeling healthy.... "Training camp -- and all its trappings, good and bad -- is once again a safe haven for Jets quarterback Chad Pennington." ....
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette sports columnist Gene Collier writes how the NFL coaching fraternity has changed... "The median career win total for the 32 current NFL coaches is 35. For the moment, four 9-7 seasons would put you in the top half of this either unremarkable if partially untested class." ....
New Orleans Times Picayune reporter John De Shazier writes how Saints wide receiver Marques Colston will let his play on the field do his talking.... "When you have talent, there's no requirement to run your mouth as well as you run routes, and Colston, from all appearances, doesn't have to say a word if he doesn't want to." ....
Kansas City Star reporter Jason King writes that the buzz at Chiefs training camp is the impending arrival of not Larry Johnson, but Priest Holmes.... "Holmes' impending arrival — and even more so, his attempt at a comeback — have been the buzz of training camp thus far." ....
Why can't an officiating scandal happen in the NFL?....the Boston Globe's Mike Reiss talks with a former NFL official.... "I can't see it happening in football," said Terry Gierke, who served as an NFL official from 1981-2001. "I think it would be awfully, awfully hard for that type of situation where an official deliberately makes calls that went against the grain of the game." ....
The worst team in the NFL last season starts fresh at training camp.... "And so, football's losingest team arrived in Napa with the mind-set of an undefeated team. At the very least, they arrived spunky and unrepentant." ....
Martyball is over in San Diego, and the players are ready for their new coach and his style.... "There was a speech most every day before meetings, during stretching, after practice. His voice rose and fell, even quaking at times. His eyes would often well with tears." .....
The run for the presidency has now included talk of Hillary's cleavage....
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