Fast Break

Hockey

Red-White game today

Just as quickly as it began, training camp has come to an end.

The defending Western Hockey League and Memorial Cup champion Spokane Chiefs wrap up their four-day camp with the annual Red-White scrimmage today at the Arena at 1 p.m.

The game is free and open to the public.

Olympics

Postcard from Beijing

Kevin Sherrington of the Dallas Morning News shares his “best and worst” of the Olympics:

Best Chinese staple consumed personally: Roast duck.

Worst Chinese staple, passed: Tie: camel hump, camel paw, deer lips, deer brain, frog stomach, sheep testicles, ostrich head, duck tongue, goat legs, silkworm, scorpion, beetle and the fish swimming in a shower stall at a dive outside Tiananmen Square.

Worst question: After the U.S.’ 9-1 win over China in a wild game that included seven hit batsmen, a Chinese reporter asked China’s baseball coach, Jim Lefebvre: “Why did we lose by so much?”

Oddest quote: Florida Marlins catcher Matt Treanor, wife of beach volleyball gold medalist Misty May-Treanor, revealed that his wife sprinkled her mother’s ashes on courts in Athens and Beijing. “She brings some of her mom with her,” he said.

Worst P.A.: Perky announcers at the softball venue educated fans on the sport with occasional plums, such as, “In softball, only the team up to bat can score.”

Worst prediction: After winning his eighth gold medal, swimmer Michael Phelps revealed that his middle school English teacher once told him he’d never be successful at anything.

Auto racing

Edwards wins race

Carl Edwards passed Kyle Busch for the lead on lap 470 and pulled away over the final 30 laps Saturday night at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway, winning the Sharpie 500.