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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2007
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Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Damon Huard fires a pass into the flat during the Chiefs' 30-16 victory over the San Diego Chargers in San Diego Sept. 30. Huard injured his shoulder Sunday against Jacksonville, but the MRI showed no damage.
Huard may start Sunday
BY DOUG TUCKER ASSOCIATED PRESS
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Damon Huard's MRI showed no damage to his injured shoulder and the veteran may be ready to start at quarterback Sunday against Cincinnati, Kansas City coach Herm Edwards said Tuesday.
"We'll go through practice (on Wednesday) and see what he can do," Edwards said. "He feels a lot better. He's worked out the last two days."
Huard, 34, sustained what the Chiefs said was a shoulder contusion on Sunday in a 17-7 loss to Jacksonville in which Kansas City rushed for only 10 yards. Backup
Brodie Croyle, a second-year pro the Chiefs have been hoping to make their quarterback of the future, replaced Huard in the fourth quarter and threw a 13-yard touchdown pass on the final play.
"Damon felt OK today, but he hasn't thrown," Edwards said Tuesday. "So we'll have to see where he's at throwing the ball. And we'll go through our practice schedule like we always do. Brodie always takes a lot of (practice plays). If Damon can do it and he feels good, then he'll go."
Whoever steps in at quarterback will be directing what has been thus far one of the NFL's most feeble attacks. The Chiefs (2-3) are averaging a paltry 66 yards rushing per
game — what used to be a decent first half for Larry Johnson.
And Johnson? The two-time Pro Bowler is 22nd on this week's league rushing charts with only 275 yards. He has a very meager 3.3 yard average per carry and has scored, in five games, not a single touchdown.
If the NFL kept track of number of helmets hurled to the ground in anger and disgust, Johnson would be among the league leaders. The sometimes-moody running back has been criticized for his flashes of temper as well as his sharply declining production after missing training camp and signing a six-year, $45 million deal. Johnson ran for only 12 yards on nine carries Sunday against the jaguars.
runners pre-registering in 1997 to around 45,000 pre-registering for Sunday's marathon. The actual number of runners was estimated at 36,000 because 10,000 entrants didn't show up at the starting line.
Runners vomit, collapse in race
MARATHON
The boom began back in the 1970s when runners Bill Rogers and Frank Shorter helped make marathons popular in the United States.
BY MICHAEL TARM ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO — There are young ones, old ones, thin ones and fat ones. Some show up in chicken suits, others in G-strings. There are highly trained athletes, of course, but also many people who look like a starting line is, well, the last place they should be.
"Today,the marathonhasbecome the everyday man's or woman's Mount Everest," said Richard Finn, the spokesman for the New York Road Runners, which organizes the New York City Marathon. "It's a physical challenge; it's something you can be proud of — beat your chest about later."
These days, big-city marathons cast an increasingly wide net, drawing tens of thousands of serious and not-so-serious runners to prestigious races in New York, Chicago, Boston and elsewhere.
The incentive to draw as many people as possible is clear enough: The 26.2-mile marathons generate millions of dollars for cities that host them, as well as for the sporting-goods industry.
But the extreme runs can also be dangerous, as evidenced by the hundreds of runners who suffered heat exhaustion and heat stroke during Sunday's race in Chicago.
"The bottom line is marathons today are big business," said Patrick Moscariitolo, head of the Greater
The Chicago Marathon, which has no qualification requirements, has grown from around 16,000
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But after a brutally hot Chicago Marathon descended into disarray this past weekend — with hundreds of runners vomiting or collapsing and organizers forced to call off the race — questions have been raised about whether marathons have become too all-inclusive and too focused on money.
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They certainly have grown — and fast.
The number of people taking part in the Boston Marathon, for instance, has more than doubled over the past decade, despite the race requiring qualifying times for most runners. From 1997 to 2007, the number of runners grew from 10,471 to 23,869, said Boston Marathon spokesman Marc Chalufour.
Iorre may be done with Yankees
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NEW YORK — As Joe Borowski and the Cleveland Indians celebrated out on the infield, Joe Torre walked up the tunnel from the New York Yankees dugout toward the clubhouse — perhaps for the final time. Thoughts of another season ending early went through his mind.
"it's such an empty feeling," he said. "You think it's going to last forever."
While the Indians' 6-4 victory in Game 4 Monday night advanced them to the AL championship series, the Yankees wondered whether it was the end of an era — for Torre, and perhaps Mariano Rivera, Alex Rodriguez, Jorge Posada, Andy Pettitte and Roger Clemens, too.
George Steinbrenner's title lust remains unsatisfied, and Torre might be swept out. He sounded wistful in what may have been his final night in pinstripes.
He wouldn't address his future.
"This has been a great 12 years. Whatever the hell happens from here on out, I'll look back on these 12 years with great, great pleasure," he said, as he tried to avoid choking up. "The 12 years just felt like they were 10 minutes long, to be honest with you."
New York Yankees manager Joe Torre watches from the dugout against the Cleveland Indians during Game 4 of an American League Division Series baseball game on Monday at Yankee Stadium in New York.
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"If I have some options, I'll look at it because I'm certainly not ready
Grady Sizemore homed to put Cleveland ahead for good on the
to move somewhere and not do anything" the 67-year-old said.
third pitch of the game, then Paul Byrd and the bullpen closed out the third straight first-round debacle for the Yankees.