• Manny Ramirez does his bobbleheads proud with a pinch-hit grand slam.

• But Minnesota Twins legend Harmon Killebrew isn’t so impressed.

• Michael Vick supposedly spent his first day of freedom at a strip club with Allen Iverson. But the no-longer incarcerated QB denies such reports.

• The Cambridge cop accused of acting racist against Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates was also the one who tried to revive Reggie Lewis after the Celtics player suffered a fatal heart attack.

• White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle hurls a perfect game, thanks to a great catch by Dwayne Wise. Guess Ozzie Guillen made the right move, after all.

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Yep, JUST what President Obama needed at this juncture of the health reform battle: A national debate over a supposedly racist cop. Remember when just such a thing was so beneficial to the O.J. Simpson prosecution team? And now our latest story is new and improved with an oven-fresh sports angle, which I’ll get to in a second.

On the left here we have Cambridge, Mass., police Sgt. James Crowley, who this past Thursday arrested noted Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates at Gates’ own home following a report of a break-in. Gates was arrested despite showing Crowley his ID, prompting President Obama to opine in his news conference on Wednesday that Crowley had “acted stupidly.” Is Crowley a racist? No, he says — he can’t be. Because he once gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to Celtics star Reggie Lewis. Read more…