WHO'S Hot
Browns
The Ivy Leaguers beat Princeton
last Saturday while in Cleveland
the Dawgs were barking about a 3--3 start (three straight wins at home) and an offense that pounded out 41 points on Sunday—with receiver Braylon Edwards
(above) hauling in three TDs. Can they rest easy? Cleveland
has two weeks to prepare for winless St. Louis
.
Lorena
Hailed in Newsweek
's Women & Power issue, honored as a Women's Sports Foundation
sportswoman of the year and very much a No. 1: Ochoa
clinched the LPGA
title (and brought in $250,000) with an easy win in Palm Desert
.
Tony Gonzalez
Some kind of record! The Chiefs
star's 64 career TD catches is the most for a tight end. He's on pace for 101 receptions this year, K.C. has won three of four, and, says Gonzalez
, "I'm very, very happy."
Casey Stoner
Oh, to be a 22-year-old Stoner. One race after winning the MotoGP world title, the wunderkind from Oz (right) thrilled his countrymen by taking the Australian Open. Can it get better? "I don't think so," he said.
WHO'S Not
Bears
Cal was anything but Golden against Oregon State
, while in Chicago
coach Lovie Smith
(above) and da once-vaunted locals were 2--4, scuffling on defense (the Vikings hung up 34 points on Sunday) and torturing their metaphors. "If there's a panic button around here," said defensive end Alex Brown
, "we all need to race to it."
Serena
It's not just that she lost, but how: Williams
made 59 unforced errors and blew a one-set lead to Elena Dementieva
in the finals of the Kremlin
Cup. "It was so frustrating," said Serena
(right), whose sister Venus
lost last week, too, in Bangkok
.
Kelvin Sampson
This some kind of record? While under NCAA
sanctions for making impermissible phone calls to recruits, the incorrigible Indiana
hoops coach made more impermissible calls to recruits. It'll cost him a $500,000 raise.
Leo Mazzone
The fall of a Brave. Hailed as a genius in Atlanta
, the pitching coach was fired by the Orioles
after two seasons in which his charges twice finished with baseball's 29th-best ERA.