June 21, 2008

The Lopez family of suburban Houston has become the dominant force in American tae kwon do, and will be sending three siblings to Beijing.

Players like Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal are elevating tennis idiosyncrasy to an Olympian level and sometimes irking the opposition along the way.

The Dow Jones industrials fell below 12,000 as a host of options and futures contracts hit their expiration dates.

Pat Venditte, an ambidextrous pitcher for the Staten Island Yankees, took part in a bizarre game of cat-and-mouse with a switch-hitting batter in his professional debut.

Some dejected Mets fans found refuge in Coney Island, rooting for the Brooklyn Cyclones.