Beard gives skinny dipping a whole new meaning (Los Angeles Times) Text messages from press row ...more...Beard gives skinny dipping a whole new meaning (Los Angeles Times) SWIMMER AMANDA Beard , featured in the July issue, is only the latest athlete to pose nude for a Playboy pictorial, adding her name to a lineup that includes figure skater Katarina Witt in December 1998, boxer Mia St. John in November 1999, volleyball player Gabrielle Reece in January 2001 and, among several Olympians, high jumper Amy Acuff in September 2004. ?...more... Will resort's reopening take French Lick back to the good old days? (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) Read this article ]...more... Sports roundup (Concord Monitor) Youth baseball ...more... Sarah Wakefield and Charles Smith marry in May (Mooresville/Decatur Times) Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ray Smith are at home in Indianapolis following their May 26, 2007, wedding at the Nashville Christian Church in Nashville. The bride is the former Sarah Morton Wakefield, the daughter of Don and Linda Wakefield of Martinsville....more... Sports shorts (Portsmouth Herald) Giambi meets with steroids investigatorNEW YORK (AP) ? Jason Giambi met with George Mitchell on Friday, becoming the first active player known to talk with baseball's steroids investigator. ...more... No rust on Fritz following his layoff (The Indianapolis Star) NOBLESVILLE, Ind. -- Not satisfied with his progress toward qualifying for the PGA Tour, Nathan Fritz decided in April to take a year off from playing the mini tours....more... O'Toole, Steger finish in top 20 in Indiana Open (The Indianapolis Star) NOBLESVILLE -- Mike O'Toole continued his consistent scoring, and Eric Steger bounced back in a big way in Thursday's final round of the 92nd Indiana Open Championship....more... Will resort's reopening take French Lick back to the good old days? (Centre Daily Times) Turn the Colosseum inside-out, so that its classic facade faces inward. Make it so that its inner diameter forms a rotunda 200 feet across. Now pave the entire floor in patterns made with mosaic tiles. Let there be tier upon tier of windows and balconies, six courses in all, where the niches would have been. Crown it with a 100-foot-high domed roof untethered by any central support....more... |