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By: Dwight Perry

Posted: 08/26/2012 1:00 AM | Comments: 0

Boston Red Sox players, all wearing No. 6 jerseys, line up on the field at Fenway Park to honor the late Johnny Pesky, prior to a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels in Boston Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012. Pesky, who played, managed and served as a broadcaster for the Red Sox in a baseball career that lasted more than 60 years, died last week. He was 92. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola) (CP)

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Blackpool's manager Ian Holloway reacts as he watches his team play against Arsenal during their English Premier League soccer match at Emirates Stadium in London, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Sang Tan) ** NO INTERNET/MOBILE USAGE WITHOUT FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION PREMIER LEAGUE (FAPL) LICENCE - CALL +44 (0)20 7864 9121 or EMAIL info@football-dataco.com FOR DETAILS ** (CP)

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Seattle Mariners' Ichiro Suzuki gives a tug to his jersey sleeve, as he does every at-bat, while stepping in against the Texas Rangers in the first inning of a baseball game Sunday, July 15, 2012, in Seattle. Suzuki flied out on the turn. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) (CP)

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FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2012, file photo, Oakland Athletics starter Bartolo Colon throws against the Chicago White Sox during the first inning of a baseball game in Chicago. Colon, a former AL Cy Young Award winner, has been suspended for 50 games by Major League Baseball on Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012, after testing positive for testosterone. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File) (CP)

Too much heat

Oakland A's pitcher Bartolo Colon has been hit with a 50-game suspension for using performance-enhancing drugs.

Umpires figured something was amiss when his catchers started using an asbestos mitt.

You won't hear Zack Golditch complaining about two-a-days

in the August heat

The senior tackle at Gateway High in Aurora, Colo., sports two large bandages on his neck -- courtesy of the gunman who opened fire in a local movie theater July 20, killing 12 and wounding 58.

"I'm blessed," the Colorado State recruit told The Denver Post. "It just went clean in and out, no shrapnel, just clean it out, no stitches because of the risk of infection. It's just a really deep cut is how I took it.

"Did I save someone's life because it hit me? I'm taller, and I might have saved someone. I'm not complaining about it. I'm glad it kind of happened to me and not someone else."

Hit and run

A thief broke a pane of glass and made off with 16 Ichiro jerseys from the Mariner Team Store at Safeco Field early Wednesday morning.

Well, at least we know it wasn't Jamie Moyer.

Quoth the mavens

Blackpool soccer manager Ian Holloway, to the London Daily Mail, on DJ Campbell's roster odds: "There's about as much chance of re-signing DJ Campbell as there is of me wearing high heels and calling myself Sheila."

Greg Frazier of the Palo Alto (Calif.) Daily News, on a national helium shortage jeopardizing Nebraska football's traditional release of 5,000 balloons: "Mike Tyson has offered his personal supply."

Charles Barkley, to The Dan Patrick Show, on whether the 2012 Olympians could beat his 1992 Dream Teamers: "C'mon, they struggled with the Gasol brothers."

Brad Dickson of the Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald, on the Nebraska State Fair trying to line up 800 tractors to set a record for tractor parades: "It'll look like the parking lot before a Texas Tech home football game."

-- McClatchy News Service

Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition August 26, 2012 B8

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