Monday morning rundown

*Sorry for the lack of updates over the weekend while I was out of town. Back to business this morning.

*Contador takes down Armstrong for the Tour de France. Armstrong finishes third and vows he'll be back next year with his own team. (Boston Globe)

*New York district attorney not budging with Plaxico Burress, insisting on prison time. (Foxsports.com)


*After a weekend in Cooperstown at the baseball Hall of Fame, it looks like Pete Rose getting in to the hall is gaining steam. (ESPN)

*More from the hall as Rickey Henderson and Jim Rice got in. (ESPN)

*Sunday MLB Scoreboard.

*United States gets thumped by Mexico in Gold Cup final in the Meadow Lands. Granted people shouldn't freak out, it wasn't the U.S.'s top team at all. (Daily News)

*Boston Herald says the ACC is going to start to fulfill it's potential that it had when the new league was formed. (Boston Herald)

*In the Big Ten Ohio State is the preseason favorite, I wonder how many times in the History of the Big Ten they have been the preseason favorite. It has to be almost twice as anyone else, except maybe Michigan. (ESPN)

*LSU will depend on some young pups this season. (ESPN)

*Michael Phelps finishes second in World Championships in the 200 meter and is ok with it. (AP)

*Over the weekend, former Boxing Champion Vernon Forrest was killed in a carjacking in Atlanta. (SI)

*Tiger Woods paired with Bob Seger at pro-am. (USA Today)

*Jimmie Johnson wins in Indianapolis at the Brickyard. (NYT)

*Lamar Odom is strongly considering heading to the Miami Heat, just go already. (Miami Herald)

*Tyson Gay says he's ready to shock the world at the World Championships and upset Usain Bolt. (ESPN)

*Terrell Owens is all the sudden becoming the publicist and ring leader for Mike Vick to get reinstated back in to the league. (USA Today)

*Interesting column discussing whether Sports Journalism is a sexist culture. (St. Petersburg Times)

*New studies say that the curve ball isn't that bad for young kids to throw. I don't see how moving your wrist that hard in that direction that many times a game couldn't be bad for a young kid. (NYT)

*Check out the long range soccer goal, via thebiglead.com