Mopping up the street
For a star runner at Brigham Young, this was hardly a clean getaway. Kyle Perry was arrested last week after getting out of his car in Provo, Utah, and striking a pedestrian – with a mop. Perry’s vehicle got too close to the man, who was pushing a bucket with mops across a street June 14, witnesses told police. “Angry words were exchanged,” Provo police Capt. Cliff Argyle said. “Mr. Perry exited his vehicle and grabbed a mop out of the pedestrian’s mop bucket and started to strike the pedestrian. The pedestrian grabbed another mop and used it to defend himself.” Eventually, the pedestrian was shoved over a planter box and fell onto his back. The man, who had a bump on his head, blocked Perry’s car until police arrived and arrested the track star for aggravated assault, Argyle said. Any legal action from the mop fight is up to prosecutors. In 2006, Perry won the Mountain West Conference title in the 1,500-meter run. He finished 12th in the same event at the NCAA track championship. His performances were limited this year by injuries.
What it’s all about
“It’s genetics. It’s all genetics.”
Barry Bonds, in a story published by, about the remarkable total of 30 sons of former major-leaguers who have played in the big leagues this season
A hero’s welcome
U.S. Open golf champion Angel Cabrera was welcomed by hundreds of Argentine compatriots Tuesday during a motorcade from the airport to his home. With an Argentina flag draped over his shoulders, Cabrera held the trophy aloft through the sunroof of a station wagon during the drive with a police escort at Villa Allende in the central province of Cordoba. Cheering and clapping bystanders, and others who honked their horns, were greeted by thumbs up from Cabrera and his cries of “Thank you! Thank you!” The first Argentine winner of a golf major in 40 years stopped briefly at a local plaza to thank a crowd of more than 200 people. Cabrera was joined by his two sons in the motorcade to his home, not far from where he first learned to golf as a caddie at a local club. “This was just so unexpected. It’s like a dream to win the U.S. Open,” said Cabrera’s son, also named Angel. “It’s like winning the World Cup.”
