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Golf
And now you finally know
We know this will read like an ad for Nike, but wouldn’t you like to know exactly what is in Tiger Woods’ bag?
From Golf World magazine: “Ball: Nike One Platinum. Driver: Nike SasQuatch Tour, 8.5 degrees. 3-wood: Nike SasQuatch2. Irons (2-PW): Nike Forged Blades. Wedges: Nike Pro Combo (56 degrees), Nike SV (60 degrees). Putter: Scotty Cameron by Titleist Tiger.”
Baseball
That’s almost a grand a homer
Barry Bonds’ record-breaking 756th home run ball was auctioned Saturday for $752,467.
Home run No. 755, the ball that tied the record, went for $186,750, according to Sotheby’s/SCP Auctions. Both final prices included the winning bid plus a 20 percent buyer’s fee, according to the auction houses handling the sale.
Bonds broke Aaron’s record of 755 with a shot into the right-center field seats on Aug. 7 off of Washington Nationals pitcher Mike Bacsik in San Francisco.
Matt Murphy, a 21-year-old student and construction supervisor from New York, emerged from a scuffle with the record-breaking ball after paying $100 for a $12 ticket during a layover on his way to Australia from his hometown.
Prep wrestling
WIAA mandates body-fat tests
The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association wants to eliminate excessive weight-cutting by state high school wrestlers.
For the 2007-08 school year, the WIAA has mandated wrestlers take a preseason hydration test to determine their baseline body-fat percentage.
From that data, a minimum weight class will be determined for each wrestler for the remainder of the season.
If weight loss occurs, no wrestler will be able to lose more than 1.5 percent of his or her body weight in a seven-day period.
“We want wrestlers to wrestle at a natural weight. It’s a health and safety issue,” said Jim Meyerhoff, an assistant director for the WIAA.
Pro football
Cowboys NFL’s most valuable
The Dallas Cowboys wrested the title of the NFL’s most valuable franchise from the Redskins, knocking Washington off the top of the list for the first time in eight years, according to Forbes magazine’s survey.
Thanks to a new $1 billion stadium set to open in 2009, the Cowboys’ value increased by 28 percent – by far the largest jump among NFL teams this year – to $1.5 billion.
The Seattle Seahawks are ranked 19th at $921 million.