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2,276 Career strikeouts for Tennessee's Monica Abbott, who passed Texas' Cat Osterman for the NCAA softball record on Sunday.

19-78 Record of visiting teams in Game 7 of an NBA playoff series after the Jazz beat the Rockets in Houston last Sunday.

49 Pounds shed by Raiders defensive tackle Warren Sapp since the end of last season; he reported to minicamp at 285 pounds.

38 million Viewers who watched the NFL draft on ESPN, ESPN2 or the NFL Network, the most ever for the event.

1 Major leaguers suspended this year for testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs: Tampa Bay pitcher Juan Salas, who was banned on Monday.

.271 Batting average of Indians outfielder Trot Nixon entering play Sunday.

.338 Nixon's average after Monday's game; Nixon had eight hits- including his first career five-hit game- in two games against Baltimore.

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5 home runs joyrneyman Jack Cust, who played for four teams between 2001 and '06, hit in 144 major league at bats before this season.

6 Homers Cust hit in his first 26 at bats with the Athletics after being traded to Oakland by San Diego on May 3.

12 Consecutive wins by the Angels' Bartolo Colon against the Rangers, tying Pedro Martinez's 12-0 mark against Seattle from 1998 to 2004 for the longest winning streak by a pitcher against one team.

11 Three-pointers hit by the Warriors in the first half of their Game 3 win over the Jazz last Friday, tying an NBA playoff record for one half.

97 Runs the Braves have scored with two outs this season, the most in the majors and II more than they've scored with fewer than two outs.

4 Major leaguers who have hit their first home run as part of a cycle; Giants rookie Fred Lewis did so on Sunday against the Rockies.

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28 Hits by the Class A Lake Elsinore Storm in a 30-0 California League victory over the Lancaster JetHawks last Friday.

17 Times that Apa, a 46-year-old Nepalese Sherpa, has scaled Mount Everest, three more than any other climber.

$101,410 Winning bid in an auction for a Yankees home jersey worn by Mickey Mantle in 1960, one of several baseball items auctioned by lelands in Seaford, N.Y., last Saturday.

$60,000 Mantle's salary in 1960.

90 Minutes it took for the first 40,000 tickets available for the Oct. 28 Dolphins-Giants game in London to sell out last week; another 50,000 tickets will be released over the next few weeks.

$160 million Amount that Warriors owner Chris Cohan owes in back taxes and penalties, according to the IRS; the government says Cohan failed to pay enough tax after selling his cable company for $200 million in 1998.

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7,307 Days between wins over Atlanta for Phillies pitcher Jamie Moyer, who beat the Braves on May 23, 1987, and didn't beat them again until last Friday.

1,414 Hits for Seattle's Ichiro Suzuki in his first 1,000 major league games, the second-highest total in history behind Al Simmons, who had 1,443.

8,200 Maximum altitude, in feet, at which international soccer games can be played under a new FIFA directive; several teams complained that playing World Cup qualifiers at 11,180 feet in La Paz gave Bolivia an unfair advantage.

1 NFL stadium where the official soda is neither Coke nor Pepsi: Seattle's Qwest Field, after the Seahawks signed a deal with local soft-drink maker Jones Soda Co.

$39 million Revenue for Jones Soda last year.

$56.7 billion Combined revenue for Coke and Pepsi last year.

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6 Victories for Indians righthander Paul Byrd.

3 Bases on balls issued by Byrd in 58 innings this season.

3 Starting pitchers who have finished a season with more wins than walks: Christy Matthewson of the Giants (1913 and '14), Slim Sallee of the Reds (1919) and Bret Saberhagen of the Mets (1994).

19,297 Age, in years and days, of Penguins center Sidney Crosby when he became the youngest team captain in NHL history; Tampa Bay's Vincent Lecavalier was 27 days older when the Lightning named him captain in 2000.

16 Holes Michelle Wie completed in the first round of the Ginn Tribute before withdrawing with what she called a "tweaked" wrist.

+14 Wie's score when she withdrew; had she shot an 88 (+16), she would have been banned, by LPGA rules, from playing in another event this year.

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6.3 Nielsen rating for the Spurs' Game 1 win over the Cavaliers, the lowest rating ever for the opening game of an NBA Finals in prime time.

1 Runs allowed by the softball team from Cabrini High in Allen Park, Mich., this season.

2 National high school record for fewest runs allowed in a season, set by Southington (Conn.) High in 2004; 31-0 Cabrini could play three more games in the Michigan state playoffs.

4 Relatives of current employees that the Tigers drafted in last week's amateur draft: infielder Colin Kaline, grandson of Hall of Famer Al Kaline; first baseman Wade Lamont, son of third base coach Gene Lamont; and righthander Joel Zumaya's brother Richard and lefthander Nate Robertson's brother Matt, both pitchers.

143 Consecutive errorless games by the Twins' Luis Castillo, a major league record for second basemen, before his miscue in a win over the Angels on June 6.

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43 Consecutive games in which Columbus Clippers outfielder Brandon Watson had a hit through Sunday, breaking the International League hitting streak record set by Jack Lelivelt in 1912.

44 Years since there had been 1-0 games at Fenway Park and Wrigley Field on the same day before the Red Sox won and the Cubs lost by that score last Saturday.

93,246 Combined age in years and days of the Mets' Juli Franco (48) and Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens (44); when Franco faced Clemens last Friday, it was the oldest batter-pitcher matchup since 1933.

5 Consecutive years that Wisconsin-Madison has won the American Society of Civil Engineers' National Concrete Canoe Competition; the Badgers beat out 21 other schools in Seattle last Saturday.

244 Career home runs the Blue Jays' Frank Thomas has hit as a DH, breaking the major league record held by Edgar Martinez.

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9 Wins the Rockies have in 15 games against AL East teams this season.

8 Wins the Yankees, who were swept in Colorado last week, have in 23 games against the AL East.

8 Hits by Devil Rays pitchers in 22 at bats in NL parks this season, the most by an AL team since interleague play began in 1997.

0 Bruins coaches who have held the job for more than three full seasons since Gerry Cheevers was fired in 1985; last week Boston hired Claude Julien, the team's 13th coach since Cheevers.

$84,000 Value of an auctioned McLaren go-kart that Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton wrecked when he crashed into a wall at a charity event in London.

34,905 Average attendance for interleague games this year, 15% higher than the intraleague average; a record 8.8 million fans attended interleague games.

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2 Cleveland pitchers with double-digit win totals: C.C. Sabathia (12-3) and Fausto Carmona (10-4).

51 Years since the Indians last had two 10-game winners at the All-Star break; Early Wynn and Bob Lemon had 10 victories apeice in 1956.

51 Years since a team swept two New York teams in the same season; the Rockies have swept a series from the Mets and the Yankees this year.

11 Fans' marriage proposals flashed on the scoreboard at home games of the Double A Trenton Thunder so far this year; all have been accepted.

0 Japanese players who have appeared in an NFL game; last week the Falcons signed receiver-kick returner Noriaki from NFL Europia.

9 Consecutive top three finishes for F/I rookie Lewis Hamilton, the third driver (Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso are the others) to amass at least nine straight podium finishes.

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5 Times Se Ri Pak has won the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic, typing the LPGA record for most wins at one event.

0 Times in their 46-year history that the Mets had opened a game with consecutive home runs before Jose Reyes and Ruben Gotay connected in the first inning against the Reds last Thursday.

$54 Amount earned by a homeless man in Sao Paulo who confessed to sawing off the arms of a 36-year-old bronze statue of Pele and selling them for scrap metal; he was arrested and faces four years in prison.

36,048 Attendance at Tropicana Field for the Devil Rays' games against the Yankees last Saturday and Sunday, the first consecutive home sellouts in Tampa Bay history.

.371 Bobby Abreu's batting average in the 45 games the Yankees had won this season.

.158 Abreu's average in 43 Yankees losses.

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39,977 Average attendance at the 16 major league games last Saturday, the highest single-day average ever.

22 Poles won by Helio Castroneves in his career, an IndyCar Series record.

88; 307 Combined age, in years and days, of the Phillies' Jamie Moyer and the Padres' David Wells, the starters last Saturday in the second-oldest pitching matchup in major league history.

90; 135 Combined age of the Angels' Don Sutton and the Indians' Phil Niekro, the starters in the oldest matchup, in 1987.

297 ATP rank of Belgium's Steve Darcis before he won the Dutch Open on Sunday; Darcis is the lowest-ranked ATP event winner since 550th-ranked Lleyton Hewitt won at Adelaide in 1998.

$141,176 Amount Dolphins linebacker Joey Porter was fined by the NFL for punching the Bengals' Levi Jones at a Las Vegas casino in March.

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1,220 Career at bats before Minnesota's Jason Tyner hit his first major league homer, off Cleveland's Jake Westbrook last Saturday.

323 Homerless at bats for Anaheim's Reggie Willits, who now has the most big league at bats without a home run.

? Strokes taken by Henrick Stenson on the 17th hole of the second round of the Deutsche Bank championship; he lost count after several botched shots, and because he was unable to sign a correct scorecard, he disqualified himself.

85 Speed in miles per hour of Nolan Ryan's ceremonial first pitch at a recent Chiba Lotte Marines games.

60 Ryan's age.

3,769 Ironman streak of Baltimore umpires' room attendance Ernie Tyler, who hadn't missed a home game since 1960 before skipping Saturday's game to attend the Hall of Fame induction ceremony as a guest of Cal Ripken.

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0-3 Johan Santana's record this year against the Indians, the first team to beat the Twins' ace three times in a season in his eight-year career.

10 Times the Celtics will appear on national TV this season.

0 Appearances by the Celtics on national TV last year.

16 Total runs scored by the White Sox (8) and Yankees (8) in the second inning of last Thursday's game, the second-highest-scoring second inning in major league history.

5 Penalty in yards NFL teams will face if their players spike the ball following a nonscoring play this year.

13 Career titles for world No. 1 Lorena Ochoa, who won her first major in 24 tries on Sunday at the Women's British Open.

50 Age of Beth Daniel, who became the oldest player to make a cut at a women's major, at last weekend's British Open.

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2 Tigers who have homered twice in the same inning: Hall of Famer Al Kaline in 1955 and Magglio Ordonez on Sunday against the A's.

4,071 Days between the first and second major league starts of Colorado righty Tim Harikkala, the fifth-longest span between starts since 1900.

1 Days Harikkala spent in the majors on this call-up; he was sent back to Triple A after Sunday's win over the Cubs.

13 Years since a player had beaten the world's top three ranked players in the same ATP tournament before Novak Djokovic defeated Andy Roddick, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer on his way to the Rogers Cup title last week.

144 Consecutive errorless games at second base by the Tigers' Placido Polanco, breaking the major league record set by the Twins' Luis Castillo last year.

33-2 Margin by which the U.S. women's soccer team outshot New Zealand in a 6-1 win on Sunday.

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4 Number of 1-0 games in the four-year history of Cincinnati's Great American Ballpark.

0 Number of 1-0 games at the Great American Ballpark not started by the Reds' Aaron Harang.

11 Total bases (two homers, a double and a single) for Arizona's Micah Owings in Saturday's 12-6 win over the Braves, the most for a pitcher since Jim Tobin of the Boston Braves had 12 in 1942.

446 Distance in feet of Owing's second homer, the third longest at Turner Field this year.

$200,000 Amount Bernard Hopkins was fined by the Nevada State Athletic Commission for starting a brawl during the weigh-in for his July fight with Winky Wright.

66,237. Attendance at Giants Stadium for last Saturday's Red Bulls-Galaxy game, in which David Beckman made his first MLS start.

11,573 The Red Bulls' average attendance for their 10 home games before Saturday.