Yankee Stadium

Yankee Stadium has a history of drama on the Fourth of July.

There was Lou Gehrig's farewell speech in 1939, and Dave Righetti's no-hitter against Boston in 1983. It's George Steinbrenner's birthday, so it's always an important date to circle on New York's calendar.

Wimbledon!

Russia's Safin through to Wimbledon semifinals
02-07-2008 22:07 MOSCOW, July 2 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's former world No. 1, Marat Safin beat Spain's Feliciano Lopez on Wednesday to go through to the Wimbledon semifinals.

Despite delays caused by rain the unseeded Safin, 28, clinched the match in four sets 3-6, 7-5, 7-6, 6-3 on Wimbledon's No. 1 court to line up a semifinal meeting with five-time champion and number one seed, Roger Federer.

Larry Bird

Born: Dec. 7, 1956
Basketball F

college Player of Year (1979) at Indiana St.; 1980 NBA Rookie of Year; 9-time All-NBA 1st team; 3-time regular season MVP (1984-86); led Boston to 3 NBA titles (1981,84, 86); 2-time Finals MVP (1984,86); U.S. Olympic Dream Team member in '92; inducted into Hall of Fame in 1998; in 1997, named coach of Indiana Pacers and won Coach of the Year honors in first season; led the Pacers to the NBA Finals in 2000 but lost in 6 games to the Lakers and retired; named president of basketball operations of Pacers in 2003.

Hank Aaron

Born: Feb. 5, 1934
Baseball OF

led NL in HRs and RBI 4 times each and batting twice with Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves; MVP in 1957; played in 24 All-Star Games, 2nd all-time in HRs (755), all-time leader in RBI (2,297), total bases (6,856), 3rd in hits (3,771); won 3 Gold Gloves; executive with Braves.

Tyson Gay ran the fastest 100 meters of all-time!

EUGENE, Oregon (Reuters) - World champion Tyson Gay ran the fastest 100 meters of all-time to win the American Olympic trials on Sunday, a wind-assisted 9.68 seconds.

The victory put Gay into his first U.S. Olympic team but the wind speed of 4.1 meters per second deprived the 25-year-old of a world record.

Only marks set with assisting winds of 2.0 meters per second or less can be considered for record purposes.

"The time really meant a lot because that's the time that (co-coach Jon) Drummond has been instilling in my head for a long time, that I could run 9.6," Gay told reporters.

"I didn't really care what the wind was."

Gay showed little emotion at the end of the race.

"But inside I was happy," he said.

Jamaican Usain Bolt holds the world record of 9.72 seconds. The previous best time under any conditions was a wind-assisted 9.69 seconds by Obadele Thompson of Barbados in 1996.