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Vikings try to move on
For the Minnesota Vikings, training camp goes on. With heavy hearts, the Vikings planned to return to the practice field Thursday - trying to focus on football when their thoughts were surely with their fallen friend, Korey Stringer.
"We know we have to play football. But that's not on our mind right now," Vikings coach Dennis Green said Wednesday. Stringer, a 335-pound Pro Bowl right tackle who started every game for Minnesota the last two seasons, collapsed following an intense practice in stifling heat Tuesday morning and died 15 hours later.
Stringer's death has raised questions about whether he should have been practicing at all. "There was nothing that I saw that would indicate any particular pressure or stress on anyone," owner Red McCombs said. NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue ordered all 31 teams to review their rules on training.
The Houston Rockets are having a hard time realizing that the Hakeem Olajuwon era is over.
After spending his entire college and pro career in the city limits, and leading the Rockets to back-to-back NBA championships in 1994-95, Olajuwon told the Rockets Wednesday that he no longer wants to play for them. The Rockets agreed to sign and trade him to the Toronto Raptors for two draft choices. The deal will give Toronto its first big-time center.
Jake Paine swung his Snoopy driver and watched his golf ball drop into the sixth hole at Lake Forest (Calif.) Golf Course Monday. It may be a record. The Guinness Sports Record Book, published in 1997, said the youngest person to get a hole-in-one was 5. Jake, of Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., called it a "Tiger shot," referring to his hero, Tiger Woods, whose first hole-in-one came at the ripe old age of 6.
Jake, who got a special permit to play golf a year ago, ended up shooting a 48 on the nine-hole, par-29 course.
'Daddy, I got a hole-in-one!'
- Three-year-old Jake Paine to his father, BIll, after his ball dropped into the sixth hole at a golf course in Lake Forest, Calif. Jake may be the youngest player ever to make a hole-in-one.
