• Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice didn’t expect Dan Steinberg of D.C. SPORTS BOG to come at her with his best journalistic shot during a charity golf outing.

• The Chinese Olympic baseball team is giving it their best, even if their country has basically abandoned them. (MLB’s helping them instead; there’s no ulterior motives in China, of course.)

• We cannot be more strident about this: be safe around fireworks and alcohol. We’ll keep telling you about teenagers that die because of this combination until it stops.

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