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Greinke loses out to Halladay for All-Star Game start

07/13/2009 11:28 PM

ST. LOUIS | You probably know by now that Zack Greinke will not be the starting pitcher for tonight’s All-Star Game. Some of you wish he would.

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Not going for that birdie is par for the course

07/12/2009 10:45 PM

Tiger Woods is not shy about going for it all on the golf course. Yet when the British Open tees off this week, he and other golfers likely will be playing it safe when they reach the green.

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Black athletes shouldn’t be excused for racial hypocrisy

Jason Whitlock assumed that Martellus Bennett’s “Black Olympics” would cause an uproar among the groups that claim to stand against just this kind of racial exploitation. Instead, "I’m again reminded that we hold white people to a higher standard of behavior than we hold ourselves."

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Joe Posnanski

Greinke should be starting the All-Star Game — but he’s handling it well

ST. LOUIS | OK, start with some blunt honesty because that’s how Zack Greinke likes it: Greinke should be starting tonight’s All-Star Game. That is no offense to Toronto’s Roy Halladay, who is getting the start. He has been a terrific pitcher for years now, and he had a terrific first half also. Not as good as Greinke’s. But terrific. “You look at the whole body of work,” American League manager Joe Maddon said. And that’s fine … except that’s not how it has been. Last year, Cliff Lee got the start over Halladay because he was pitching better. Two years ago, Dan Haren got the start over Johan Santana because he was pitching better. Three years ago, Kenny Rogers got the start over Halladay and Santana because he was pitching better.

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Blair Kerkhoff

K-State’s Currie hits the right notes in Catbacker tour

Thursday brought the Kansas State mending, er, Catbacker, tour to Kansas City and Overland Park. And though new athletic director John Currie would have made it to Great Bend, Hutchinson, Wichita and Arthur Bryant’s Barbeque during his first week on the job anyway, this palm-pressing exercise is especially well-timed.

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