These Arizona Diamondbacks are no desert mirage, and the Chicago Cubs are on the brink of despair once again.Rookie Chris Young hit a three-run homer and Stephen Drew tripled in two more in an 8-4 victory Thursday night that put the Diamondbacks ahead 2-0 in the best-of-five NL division series.Unless they turn it around at Wrigley Field, the Cubs will make it 99 years and counting without a World Series title. The Billy Goat Curse would still reign.
Denver Broncos running back Travis Henry, the league's leading rusher, is trying to prevent the NFL from suspending him over the results of a drug test, Newsday reported Thursday.Henry was granted a temporary restraining order in Suffolk County (N.Y.) Supreme Court to prevent the league from using a urine specimen against him and to prevent the league from disclosing the test results, but an appellate court vacated the order, according to court papers filed in Brooklyn federal court.
Marion Jones admitted using steroids before the 2000 Olympics in a recent letter to close family and friends, The Washington Post reported Thursday.Jones, who won five medals in Sydney, said she took "the clear" for two years, beginning in 1999, and that she got it from former coach Trevor Graham, who told her it was flaxseed oil, the newspaper reported."The clear" is a performance-enhancing drug linked to BALCO, the lab at the center of a federal steroids investigation.
The most famous athlete in Cleveland is rooting for the New York Yankees. LeBron James always has.Call him the LeBronx Bomber.While in New York last week to host "Saturday Night Live," the Cavaliers' star forward caused a stir back home when he said he would root for the Yankees in the AL playoffs against the Indians.He showed up at Jacobs Field for Game 1 on Thursday night sporting a Yankees cap - and fans sitting near him chanted for him to take it off."I've always been a Yankee fan.
