Today's Sports Pics - Monday, July 26

[Vance]

Been busy over the weekend, didn't have any time to post. Sorry

Anyways, here we go.










Sports Pictures of the Week, July 26










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BOSTON - JULY 25: Kevin Millar #15 of the Boston Red Sox hits a broken bat single to score David Ortiz #34 to give the Red Sox a 9-2 lead over the New York Yankees in the sixth inning on July 25, 2004 at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/***** Images)

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HERMOSA BEACH, CA - JULY 25: Eric Fonoimoana drenches himself in water after winning the men's final of the AVP Hermosa Beach Open on July 25, 2004 at the Hermosa Beach Pier in Hermosa Beach, California. Eric Fonoimoana and Kevin Wong defeated Karch Kiraly and Mike Lambert in straight sets. (Photo by Doug Benc/***** Images)

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BALTIMORE - JULY 25: Catcher Henry Blanco #21 of the Minnesota Twins tags out Melvin Mora #6 of the Baltimore Orioles at home plate on July 25, 2004 at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo by Jamie Squire/***** Images)

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DONINGTON, ENGLAND - JULY 25: Valentino Rossi of Italy on his way to victory during the Cinzano British Grand Prix at Donington Park on July 24, 2004 in Donington, England. (Photo by Jamie McDonald/***** Images)

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BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND - JULY 25: Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia celebrates after breaking the Womens Pole Vault World Record, during the Norwich Union International Athletics Meeting at Alexander Stadium on July 25, 2004 in Birmingham, England. (Photo by Stu Forster/***** Images)

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PERTON, ENGLAND - JULY 25: An athlete competes in the Tough Guy 2005 competition dubbed "Nettle Warrior VII, Year of the Jungle Fighter" on July 25, 2004 in Perton, Staffordshire, England. The Tough Guy competition is a twice yearly event which raises money for a local animal sanctuary. Competitors often include members of the military and police force. (Photo by Clive Brunksill/***** Images)

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HOCKENHEIM, GERMANY - JULY 25: Michael Schumacher of Germany celebrates winning the German F1 Grand Prix at the Hockenheim Circuit on July 25, 2004, in Hockenheim, Germany. (Photo by Paul Gilham/***** Images)

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PARIS, France: US Lance Armstrong (US Postal/USA) raises six fingers as he poses for a photographer during the 20th and last stage of the 91st Tour de France cycling race between Montereau-Fault-Yonne and the Champs-Elysees in Paris, 25 July 2004. AFP PHOTO JOEL SAGET (Photo credit should read JOEL SAGET/AFP/***** Images)

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NEWCASTLE, AUSTRALIA - JULY 25: Andrew Price of the Knights is up ended by the Cowboys defence during the NRL round twenty match between the Newcastle Knights and the North Queensland Cowboys played at Energy Australia Stadium July 25, 2004 in Newcastle, Australia. (Photo by Chris McGrath/***** Images)

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BALTIMORE - JULY 24: Karim Garcia #47 of the Baltimore Orioles collides with catcher Matthew Lecroy #24 of the Minnesota Twins as Garcia scores the go-ahead run during the 8th inning at Camden Yards on July 24, 2004 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo by Jamie Squire/***** Images)

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OAKLAND, CA - JULY 24: Jermaine Dye #24 of the Oakland Athletics breaks hit bat against the Texas Rangers at the Network Associates Coliseum on July 24, 2004 in Oakland, California. (Photo by Jed Jacobsohn/***** Images)

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BOSTON - JULY 24: Alex Rodriguez #13 of the New York Yankees gets into a fight with catcher Jason Varitek #33 of the Boston Red Sox after Rodriguez was hit by a pitch in the third inning on July 24, 2004 at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/***** Images)

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BESANCON, FRANCE- JULY 24: Lance Armstrong of the USA riding for the US Postal Service team presented by Berry Floor rolls down the starting ramp as his time trial during Stage 19 of the Tour de France between Besancon and Besancon starts on July 24, 2004 in Besancon, France.(Photo by Robert Laberge/***** Images).

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JULY 23: Matthew Lloyd #18 for the Bombers in action during the round seventeen AFL match between the St.Kilda Saints and the Essendon Bombers at the Telstra Dome on July 23, 2004 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Ryan Pierse/***** Images)

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BOSTON - JULY 22: Javy Lopez #18 of the Baltimore Orioles slides in to home plate while Jason Varitek #33 of the Boston Red Sox tries to tags him out, while trying to score on a hit by Jerry Hairston #15 of the Orioles on July 22, 2004 at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/***** Images)

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LONDON - JULY 22: Robert Key (L) of England celebrates his hundred with fellow centurion Andrew Strauss during the Test Match between England and the West Indies at Lords on July 22, 2004 in London. (Photo by Mike Hewitt/***** Images)

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L'ALPE D'HUEZ, FRANCE - JULY 21: Hundreds of thousands of fans crowd the course as Lance Armstrong of the USA and riding for US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor climbs Alpe d'Huez won the individual time trial during stage 16 of the Tour de France on July 21, 2004 from Bourg d'Oisans to l'Alpe d'Huez, France. (Photo by Doug Pensinger/***** Images)

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BOSTON - JULY 22: Nomar Garciaparra #5 of the Boston Red Sox dives for a ball hit by Jerry Hairston #15 of the Baltimore Orioles in the second inning July 22, 2004 at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts. Garciaparra missed the ball. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/***** Images)

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SEATTLE - JULY 20: Ichiro Suzuki #51 and Hiram Bocachica #44 of the Seattle Mariners leap at the wall as the three run home run hit by David Ortiz of the Boston Red Sox leaves the park on July 20, 2004 at Safeco Field in Seattle, Washington. (Photo by Otto Greule Jr/***** Images)

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VILLARD DE LANS, FRANCE - JULY 20: Jan Ullrich of Germany and riding for T-Mobile launches an attack on Lance Armstrong as "El Diablo" provides some motivation on the Col de l'Echarasson during stage 15 of the Tour de France on July 20, 2004 from Valreas to Villard de Lans, France. (Photo by Doug Pensinger/***** Images)










Tough Guy Challenge 2004










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PERTON, ENGLAND - JULY 25: An athlete competes in the Tough Guy 2005 competition dubbed "Nettle Warrior VII, Year of the Jungle Fighter" on July 25, 2004 in Perton, Staffordshire, England. The Tough Guy competition is a twice yearly event which raises money for a local animal sanctuary. Competitors often include members of the military and police force. (Photo by Clive Brunksill/***** Images)

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New York Yankees v Boston Red Sox










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BOSTON - JULY 25: U.S. Senator and democratic presidential candidate John Kerry attends the Boston Red Sox versus New York Yankees game July 25, 2004 at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts. Sen. Kerry will accept his party's nomination during the democratic national convention to be held this week in Boston. (Photo by Darren McCollester/***** Images)

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BOSTON - JULY 25: U.S. Senator and democratic presidential candidate John Kerry throws out the ceremonial first pitch July 25, 2004 at the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees game at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts. Sen. Kerry will accept his party's nomination during the democratic national convention to be held this week in Boston. (Photo by Darren McCollester/***** Images)

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BOSTON - JULY 25: U.S. Senator and democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has a word with Specialist Will Pumyea, of Woburn, Massachusetts, a U.S. soldier recently returned from Iraq and Afghanstan July 25, 2004 at the Boston Red Sox versus the New York Yankees game at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Darren McCollester/***** Images)

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BOSTON - JULY 25: Hideki Matsui #55 of the New York Yankees hits a grand slam home run against the Boston Red Sox to cut the Red Sox lead to 9-6 in the seventh inning on July 25, 2004 at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/***** Images)

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BOSTON - JULY 25: Johnny Damon #18 of the Boston Red Sox is forced out at home as Jorge Posada #20 of the New York Yankees touches the plate on July 25, 2004 at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts. Damon was forced out on a fielders choice with the bases loaded hit by Manny Ramirez in the first inning. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/***** Images)

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BOSTON - JULY 25: David Ortiz #34 of the Boston Red Sox slides safely past Jorge Posada #20 of the New York Yankees on July 25, 2004 at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts. Ortiz scored to tie the game 2-2 on a Kevin Millar hit in the first inning. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/***** Images)



In conjunction with He219's Today's Pics - Monday, July 26 (http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=20665)

[Operation Ivy]

I cant wait till football season :D

[Ratamacue]

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Get on the mound!

[memphiz]

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"Psst!...can I have one of your kidneys...please"

[PCarola]

The Boston/Yankee series was pretty good, too bad it didn't mean anything towards the actual standings! Go Dodgers, event though we lost :lol:

[Loco]

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"El Diablo" or "Il Diabolo" behind Ullrich(edited), I think he´s an italian fannatic of bycicles races, he´s very popular since many years ago. You could see him usually in Giro de Italia, but now it seems he got some sponsoring for going to Tour de France.

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Brasil got the America Cup of soccer after defeating Argentina in the final match.

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The Best. Valentino Rossi, the best motorcyclist of the world even that he hasn´t the best bike, yesterday in Donnington Park after winning the GP of Great Britain of the World Racing Championship.

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Lance Armstrong, the best cyclist of Tour history, but not the best cyclist of cyclism history. I´ve read this last days many enthusiasts posts of american members about Armstrong, and I agree he´s an extraordinary person even more than a sportist, because his skills as byciclist but mostly by the way he recovered himself after being ill. But he isn´t the best cyclist ever, and I´m afraid the 95% of american members here didn´t knew Lance Armstrong even when he had won the third Tour nor they know very much about cyclism. Only adding as an information that the UCI is the Internacional Cyclist Association, and there is a calendar of races you ran every year, and you win the points for every race you run, at the style of the ATP circuit of Tennis. In the UCI there are only three races of three weeks, which of course are the most important of all in points and in prices: The Tour de France, Il Giro de Italia and the Vuelta a España, being the Tour the most important of the three because is the oldest and ALL the runners wanting to be the nº1 had to win this race. The Giro and the Vuelta are in the second step after the Tour and if you win one of them or both them, you´ll be rich and the member of an small elite, a challenger for being considered the number one after winning the Tour of course. But Lance Armstrong is marking a new trend, he chooses every year less with the only final target of the Tour: He only runs the Tour every year as a major race, he renounces to run the Giro and the Vuelta, contrary to what did the great champions before him: Anquetil, Hinault, Merckx and Indurain, they all ran the same year the Tour plus the Giro or the Vuelta, and frequently they won two big three-weeks races the same year, like Indurain winning the Tour and the Giro the years 1993 and 1994, aftermore they competed for winning the World Championship, the Olympics, breaking the 1 hour world record or anyother prestigious 1 week races the same year they won the Tour. Lance Armstrong never has done such a feat, still he has won less big races than the other four runners. For being considered the best ever you need running and winning something more one big race every year . Still he could do it, by the moment he only is the best of the Tour, but not the best cyclist ever, which I think is Eddie Mercks and close to him the other three, just my opinion.

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The Crossing of Valencia Port.

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Schummy yesterday.

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The french climber Alain Roberts, aka Spiderman, climbing a building of 110meters of height in Yakarta.

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The spanish team of climbers with the vasco-navarros Juanito Oiarzabal, Edurne Pasaban, Juan Vallejo and Mikel Zabalza, culminated the climbing to the summit of K2. It´s the first expedition that climbs that mountain in almost three years. Btw, Juanito Oirzábal is the male climber with more +8000meters summits in his curriculum, he climbed 21 summits over 8000.

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Juanito Oiarzábal.

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Edurne Pasaban at the right, Juanito Oirzábal at the left. Edurne, after climbing the K2, is the alive woman who has climbed more +8.000 summits. She left in the summit of the K2 a flag with the names of all victims killed the 11-mars in Spain.

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Dani Pedrosa has closer the championship of 250cc after winning yesterday in Donnington.

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The crew of Astillero boat won yesterday the Bandera El Correo in Lekeitio port, N.Spain. The boats used are an evolution of the "Trainera", a former fisher boat for fishing anchoas or sardinias. The most beautiful sport of all, and one of the oldest, at least in Spain ;).
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[PCarola]

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Thats just insane!

The Copa America was definitely something to watch..Great game, too bad it ended on penalty kicks

[impyRM03]

not to be a **** but what relevance does this have to the military...

[Romulus]

Lance Armstrong, the best cyclist of Tour history, but not the best cyclist of cyclism history. I´ve read this last days many enthusiasts posts of american members about Armstrong, and I agree he´s an extraordinary person even more than a sportist, because his skills as byciclist but mostly by the way he recovered himself after being ill. But he isn´t the best cyclist ever, and I´m afraid the 95% of american members here didn´t knew Lance Armstrong even when he had won the third Tour nor they know very much about cyclism. Only adding as an information that the UCI is the Internacional Cyclist Association, and there is a calendar of races you ran every year, and you win the points for every race you run, at the style of the ATP circuit of Tennis. In the UCI there are only three races of three weeks, which of course are the most important of all in points and in prices: The Tour de France, Il Giro de Italia and the Vuelta a España, being the Tour the most important of the three because is the oldest and ALL the runners wanting to be the nº1 had to win this race. The Giro and the Vuelta are in the second step after the Tour and if you win one of them or both them, you´ll be rich and the member of an small elite, a challenger for being considered the number one after winning the Tour of course. But Lance Armstrong is marking a new trend, he chooses every year less with the only final target of the Tour: He only runs the Tour every year as a major race, he renounces to run the Giro and the Vuelta, contrary to what did the great champions before him: Anquetil, Hinault, Merckx and Indurain, they all ran the same year the Tour plus the Giro or the Vuelta, and frequently they won two big three-weeks races the same year, like Indurain winning the Tour and the Giro the years 1993 and 1994, aftermore they competed for winning the World Championship, the Olympics, breaking the 1 hour world record or anyother prestigious 1 week races the same year they won the Tour. Lance Armstrong never has done such a feat, still he has won less big races than the other four runners. For being considered the best ever you need running and winning something more one big race every year . Still he could do it, by the moment he only is the best of the Tour, but not the best cyclist ever, which I think is Eddie Mercks and close to him the other three, just my opinion.


Hey, all that matters is he won in France. BOOYA!

[Ria]

Parabéns Brasil woot :hug:

[memphiz]

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/cpress/20040725/capt.f072411a.jpg

Calgary Stampeders' quarterback Marcus Crandell gets a throw away before a tackle by Saskatchewan Roughriders' Reggie Hunt (left) and Sekou Sanyika during CFL action in Calgary on Saturday

[American Patriot]

http://cache.*****images.com/comp/51114920.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=E2399169AC85D6DE7F9CD95D11365232FE6DD29A2708C88E621B2AC3A62513D3

Hahahaha.. guess who Kerry said his favorite Red Sox player was? Eddie Yost

[Campo]

Some of the pics I can put up are ones such as

V8 Supercars
http://www.v8supercar.com.au/v8data/2004/EVNT_161/PHOTOS/PHITP_12292.JPG
http://www.v8supercar.com.au/v8data/2004/EVNT_161/PHOTOS/PHITP_12266.JPG
http://www.v8supercar.com.au/v8data/2004/EVNT_161/PHOTOS/PHITP_12247.JPG

MotoGP
http://images.motograndprix.com/multimedia2/291/291636_18544.jpg
http://images.motograndprix.com/multimedia2/291/291625_8921.jpg
http://images.motograndprix.com/multimedia2/291/291913_37253.jpg

World Rally Championships

http://www.wrc.com/ULImages/Photos/argentina-gallery-sohlberg1.gif
http://www.wrc.com/ULImages/Photos/argentina-gallery-solberg1-.gif
http://www.wrc.com/ULImages/Photos/turkey-gallery-andersson-we.gif

Australian Rally Championships
http://www.rally.com.au/images/gallery/000781OR.jpg
http://www.rally.com.au/images/gallery/000757OR.jpg
http://www.rally.com.au/images/gallery/000733OR.jpg


So if ya want more of this stuff, just ask guys, it's all yours on a weekly basis.

[Sierra]

http://cache.*****images.com/comp/51114920.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=E2399169AC85D6DE7F9CD95D11365232FE6DD29A2708C88E621B2AC3A62513D3

Get on the mound! rofl no ****!

[MVSpartan117]

http://www.rally.com.au/images/gallery/000781OR.jpg


ME WANT