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Track the Tour de France on Google Street View (264 diggs) The Tour de France, one of the world's greatest sporting events, started today, and Google is providing a new way to track the route, via Street View and get the perspective of the riders as you go through the route. Given the recent Viacom ruling however it remains to be seen just how much they'll be tracking you whilst you do so.

'83 Wimbledon Finalist: I Let Navratilova Beat Me (274 diggs) Jaeger turned professional at 14 and retired five years later after blowing out her shoulder in the 1985 French Open. She became a nun in 2006, and said she threw the 1983 final at the All England Club in an interview published Saturday in The Daily Mail.

Sprinter Tyson Gay Tumbles, Injured During 200-Meter Race (288 diggs) Running in the seventh lane, Gay was speeding to the lead in the first turn, but on his 14th stride, something went wrong. He went airborne, fell, then laid on the ground in pain, grabbing his left thigh and grimacing.

Teaching Baseball as a Second Language in China (194 diggs) In the 1960s, Mao Zedong banned baseball in China because of its Western roots. Even after his death in 1976, the sport never caught on. And yet, because of the marketing potential of the country ’s 1.3 billion people, Major League Baseball has invested tens of millions of dollars into seeding the sport in China, league officials said.

Sonics take a page out of history (253 diggs) Amazing. Without a single revision, no call for updates and nary a shift in tenses from present to past, the Seattle SuperSonics' 2007-08 media guide was transformed, overnight, into a history book.

The Biggest Wave Ever Surfed (& caught on video) (1,038 diggs) Youtube comments seem to dispute whether this is at Peahi off of Maui (aka "Jaws") or Cortez Bank, west of San Diego CA. Anybody know for sure? Either way...Holy Freaking Shit!

Venus beats sister Serena to win her 5th Wimbledon title (436 diggs) Venus Williams won her fifth singles title at Wimbledon on Saturday with a 7-5 6-4 win over her sister Serena Williams in the final.

Phelps breaks world swimming record (516 diggs) By Steve Keating OMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters) - Michael Phelps broke his own world record in the 200 meters individual medley at the U.S. Olympic swim trials on Friday, clocking a time of one minute, 54.80 seconds. Pushed to the wall by good friend...

41-year-old Dara Torres wins, headed to 5th Olympics (465 diggs) Forty-one-year-old Dara Torres completed her improbable Olympic comeback, making the U.S. team for the fifth time by winning the 100-meter freestyle at the U.S. Olympic trials. Wearing goggles older than some of her competitors, Torres got off to a blazing start and guarded her lead on the furious return lap to win in 54.78 seconds.

Winning the Tour de France Takes Cutting-Edge Technology (309 diggs) Sure bulging legs and tremendous stamina will keep you in the race, but the right gear is crucial if you want to win

Olympics a Bust for Beijing Business (338 diggs) Even as Beijing prepares to welcome the world for the Summer Olympics, some of the city's foreign residents are planning their farewell parties. China's epic economic transformation has, in recent years, swelled the city's expatriate population to an estimated 250,000.

Kinetic Energy for Formula One (332 diggs) An innovative fuel-generating system could bring car racing into the green era.

Favre dismisses report of comeback (318 diggs) Brett Favre dismissed an ESPN report that he's considering coming out of retirement as "all rumor." Favre responded Wednesday to the ESPN report by telling his hometown newspaper Web site, SunHerald.com in Gulfport, Miss., that "it's all rumor."

The top 7 sports mugshots (395 diggs) Athletes like get awful photos taken of themselves after committing a crime.

All American Final: Venus, Serena advance to final (315 diggs) Venus and Serena Williams won in straight sets Thursday to set up their third all-sister Wimbledon final and seventh Grand Slam championship matchup.

1424 Kickflips on a skateboard in a row (634 diggs) A Kickflip is defined as a variation on an ollie where the skateboarder flicks his front foot off the heel edge of the board as he ollies, causing it to flip once, twice or even three times before he ‘catches’ the board with his feet and lands the trick.

Mad, High-Tech Dash to Rock Climbing Record: 2900 Ft in 2:43 (400 diggs) Legendary rock climber Hans Florine and his Japanese partner snatched the world record for fastest climb up the Nose of El Capitan on Wednesday in a thrilling, heart-stopping display of strength, endurance, concentration and pure guts.

At Swim Trials, Record Broken, Then Broken Again (450 diggs) Jason Lezak broke his American record in the 100-meter freestyle, then rapidly lost it to Garrett Weber-Gale.

Arizona Catcher Chris Snyder “Fractures” Left Testicle (559 diggs) When RBI heard of the terrible mishap, we asked around to find out what exactly it means to “fracture a testicle".....

Pole Vault Fail (1,011 diggs) Ow! From http://failblog.org/ 2008/07/02/pole- vault-fail/ ...

20 Top Earning Soccer Players (414 diggs) These 20 soccer stars earned top euro, thanks to fat playing contracts and growing endorsement revenues.

7 Wimbledon Questions Answered (327 diggs) The Championships, Wimbledon are in full swing at London ’s All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club. As Roger Federer and Venus Williams defend their singles titles at the only grass court Grand Slam tournament, we thought we’d answer some questions about the world’s oldest tennis championship.

Has a footballer ever been arrested on the field of play? (326 diggs) In 2005, police swooped on the Quilmes defender Leandro Des ábato at the final whistle of his team's 3-1 Copa Libertadores defeat to São Paulo. Desábato, it was alleged, had racially slandered opposition striker Grafite and was summarily hauled off to a local police station for questioning.

Seattle SuperSonics moving to Oklahoma (624 diggs) The City of Seattle and the Oklahoma City-based owners of the Seattle SuperSonics National Basketball Association franchise announced today they have reached a settlement that will allow the team to break their Key Arena lease and play their games in Oklahoma in November...

A Unique Surfing Perspective (553 diggs) Brian Conley get barreled and gives you a view inside the pipe like you have never seen before.