Aug 2, 2010 8:10 PM

Overtime: Marathons, Messi, and the Infield Fly

Catching up with Bengals coach Mike Zimmer, 10 months after his wife suddenly died — ESPN 100 marathons in 140 days? It’s all for a good cause — Westchester News Online City of San Jose to Oakland Athletics: Drop dead — SF Chronicle Looking back at US/Brazil 1994 — US Soccer Um, the infield fly rule […]

Catching up with Bengals coach Mike Zimmer, 10 months after his wife suddenly died — ESPN

100 marathons in 140 days? It's all for a good cause — Westchester News Online

City of San Jose to Oakland Athletics: Drop dead — SF Chronicle

Looking back at US/Brazil 1994 — US Soccer

Um, the infield fly rule isn't that hard to learn — Big League Stew

Lionel Messi, world's greatest soccer player, is forming an Oasis tribute band? — SportsGrid

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