O'Bryant is quick to pounce
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The expression "speed kills" was never more true than last night, as the O'Bryant boys' basketball team ran over Lexington en route to a 56-42 win in an opening-round Metro Division game at the BABC-Stop &amp; Shop Classic at Chelsea High School.
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Jermaine O&#39;Neal said he was relieved rather than vindicated. However, both he and his coach viewed yesterday&#39;s ruling by a federal judge in Manhattan as confirmation that character counts.
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For the Knicks, the task of corralling Kobe Bryant on Tuesday night seemingly becomes more simple without the injured Andrew Bynum commanding attention in the lane.
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The drug maker is poised to speed past its rivals.
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Even before he took the first-round lead at the Deutsche Bank Championship, Tiger Woods was having a good day. Mark O&#39;Meara, Woods&#39; neighbor and tour mentor, was the leader in the clubhouse when Woods teed off in the afternoon at the TPC of Boston.
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Bart Bryant shot a three-under 69 Sunday for a 19-under 261 total to capture his first career PGA Tour title at the Texas Open. Patrick Sheehan closed with a 66 to take second place at 19-under-par 261.
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It took until the final league game of the season, but the four contenders for the boys' city basketball playoffs have been decided. Madison Park (18-0), East Boston (17-2), and Brighton (13-1) had secured the top three spots, and they were joined yesterday by O'Bryant (12-2), which took care of Dorchester, 84-53.
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&quot;This is my team to lead,&quot; Bryant said Monday, a day before the Lakers open training camp in San Diego. &quot;Shaq was the focal point of the team.
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The biggest smile in track and field got a little bigger Thursday night, and the long jump is solidly back in American hands. Dwight Phillips -- the world&#39;s best jumper by leaps and bounds, and maybe the happiest
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For the O'Bryant girls, it was expected. For the O'Bryant boys, it was not. But like the previous four years, both teams reign in Boston high school track.
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FOXBOROUGH - In basketball terms, this was a fast-break team proving it could win a half-court battle.
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Jaret Wright's debut with the Orioles was brief Sunday, allowing a hit and a walk in one inning against the Mets as he works his right arm into shape.
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OAKMONT, Pa. -- It's as much a part of the US Open as high rough, fast greens, blue blazers, and short tempers.
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The difficult game with prep-school roots is gaining a small bounce outside the East Coast.
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They were fast and athletic. They scored almost at will. They knocked down 11 3-point shots and had three players score 20 or more points.
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Dave Odom, the basketball coach at the University of South Carolina, was in Atlanta yesterday, watching potential future college players at an AAU tournament.
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There would be louder noise generated by his neighbor and friend later in the day, but Mark O'Meara wasn't complaining about his quiet stroll along the tree-lined fairways yesterday morning in the first round of the Deutsche Bank Championship.