Did Roberto Clemente profoundly predict his own untimely demise?

• Jonathan Papelbon & Manny Del Carmen sure know how to cheer up the rain-soaked faithful at Fenway Park.

• Jerry Manuel helps ease the pain of George Carlin’s passing.

• This minor league ballgirl is leaps & bounds above the rest.

• Big Brown’s big Belmont loss? Gotta be the horseshoes.

• Your next host of the Olympic Games - Birmingham, Alabama?

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PSAMP has video of Roberto Clemente in the summer of 1972, discussing his chances of reaching 3,000 hits before the end of the season:

Will Beijing be the last chance to see Jennie Finch in all her Olympic glory?

• Could Brett Favre really come back with the Pack? “I very well could be enticed to do it.”

• But if he does return to Green Bay, will they still name a street after him?

• Speaking of retired QBs, Ryan Leaf is doing A-OK at West Texas A&M.

• So, Michael Vick really wasn’t playing pigskin in prison?

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Ozzie Guillen does it again. The White Sox manager opened his mouth & managed to frazzle a few folks - this time it was the people of Puerto Rico.

The ASSOCIATED PRESS reports that anger arose from Guillen’s comments about baseball legend and island favorite son Roberto Clemente. Ozzie said that he believed Clemente was only the third-best baseball product to come out of Puerto Rico, behind Ivan Rodriguez and Roberto Alomar.

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