2001 at a glance

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August

 Aug. 3 -- Rashidi Wheeler, a 22-year-old starting on Northwestern, collapsed during preseason conditioning drills and died shortly afterward. Bronchial asthma was considered the cause of death.

 Aug. 3 -- Mark Buehrle of the Chicago White Sox pitched a one-hitter and faced only 28 batters in a 4-0 win over Tampa Bay.

 Aug. 3 -- Dmitri Young, Jason LaRue and Pokey Reese hit consecutive home runs in the sixth inning, leading Cincinnati to a 9-2 rout of the Padres.

 Aug. 5 -- Maurice Greene shook off false starts by three of his opponents and won his third consecutive world title, in 9.82 seconds -- the third-fastest time in history. He had the two fastest times -- his world record of 9.79 and 9.80, both set in 1999.

 Aug. 5 -- Se Ri Pak won the Women's British Open by two strokes and moved within one victory of the career Grand Slam. Pak finished with an 11-under total of 277 to add to her 1998 U.S. Open and LPGA Championship titles. Mi Hun Kim finished second, giving South Korea its first 1-2 finish in a major.

 Aug. 5 -- The Cleveland Indians tied a major league record and became the first team in 76 years to overcome a 12-run deficit to win, defeating the Seattle Mariners 15-14 in 11 innings. Jolbert Cabrera's broken-bat, one-out single in the 11th, the 40th hit of the game, scored Kenny Lofton from second with the winning run to end the 4-hour, 11-minute game. The Indians, who fell behind 12-0 after three innings, trailed 14-2 when they batted in the seventh.

 Aug. 6 -- Marion Jones' magnificent winning streak of 42 consecutive victories in 100-meter finals ended at the World Championships when a Ukrainian sprinter clipped her by fractions at the finish line. Zhanna Pintusevich-Block thwarted Jones' bid for a third consecutive world title, beating her with a world-leading 10.82 seconds. Jones finished in 10.85. It was Jones' first loss since her final race of the 1997 season when she was beaten in Japan by Merlene Ottey of Jamaica.

 Aug. 6 -- Boston's Scott Hatteberg performed the ultimate baseball opposite. Hatteberg hit a grand slam one at-bat after lining into a triple play, powering the Red Sox to a 10-7 win over the Texas Rangers. Hatteberg lined into a triple play in the fourth inning and in the sixth he hit his second career grand slam to move Boston ahead for good.

 Aug. 7 -- Atlanta Braves pitcher Greg Maddux set the National League record for consecutive innings without a walk. Maddux pitched six innings to extend his streak without a walk to 70 1-3 innings, surpassing the record of 68 set by Christy Mathewson in 1913 and matched by Randy Jones in 1976. Bill The Braves beat the Houston Astros 6-5.

 Aug. 8 -- Damion Easley went 6-for-6 with a home run and three RBIs as Detroit routed Texas 19-6. The Tigers tied a modern major league record by scoring 13 runs in the ninth inning of a 19-6 victory over Texas.

 Aug. 9 -- Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs hit three homers in a 14-5 loss to Colorado. He was lifted from the game after hitting his 40th homer in the seventh inning.

 Aug. 9 -- Mike Hampton tied the NL record for pitchers with his seventh homer as the Rockies beat the Cubs 14-5. Hampton's seventh homer matched the NL mark shared by Don Drysdale (1958, 1965) and Don Newcombe (1955). The major league record is nine by Cleveland's Wes Ferrell in 1931.

 Aug. 11 -- Barry Bonds hit his 50th homer of the season to lead the San Francisco Giants to a 9-4 victory over the Chicago Cubs. No player has ever reached 50 home runs faster than Bonds.

 Aug. 12 -- Wendy Ward set LPGA scoring records for a 54-hole tournament to win the Wendy's Championship for Children by three shots. Ward's 54-hole hole total of 21-under 195 was a tour record for a 54-hole tournament, both in relation to par and scoring total.

 Aug. 12 -- Jeff Gordon became NASCAR's King of the Road, setting a record for road course victories by winning at Watkins Glen International. The three-time Winston Cup champion won for the seventh time on a road course, breaking a tie with Rusty Wallace, Richard Petty and Bobby Allison for the most in NASCAR history.

 Aug. 12 -- Greg Maddux's streak without a walk ended at 72 1-3 innings when the Atlanta Braves pitcher intentionally walked to Arizona's Steve Finley. He gave up 12 hits in a 9-1 loss to Arizona.

 Aug. 12 -- Mark McGwire hit his 575th career home run and St. Louis beat the New York Mets 4-1. McGwire's last 11 hits have been homers.

 Aug. 13 -- The preseason opener for the Baltimore Ravens and Philadelphia Eagles was postponed because of problems with the turf at Veterans Stadium. Officials from both NFL teams thought uneven cutouts in the field could affect players' footing.

 Aug. 15 -- Stephanie Ready became the first woman named to coach a men's professional team when she was appointed as an assistant on the Greenville Groove of the new National Basketball Developmental League.

 Aug. 15 -- Trevor Hoffman pitched a perfect ninth inning for his 300th career save, completing a two-hitter that lifted the San Diego Padres over the New York Mets 2-1.

 Aug. 15 -- Shawn Green hit three home runs and had a career-high seven RBIs as Los Angeles beat the Montreal Expos 13-1.

 Aug. 16 -- Kansas City first baseman Mike Sweeney was suspended for 10 games and Detroit catcher Robert Fick was suspended for eight for their roles in a brawl on Aug. 10.

 Aug. 17 -- Jeff Frye became the second Toronto player to hit for the cycle as the Blue Jays beat Texas 11-3. Frye tripled in the second inning, doubled in the fifth, homered in the sixth and hit a shot to the right-center field gap in the seventh. With the game in hand, he held up at first.

 Aug. 17 -- Shingo Katayama shot a 6-under-par 64, and David Toms shot a 65 to share the second-round lead in the PGA Championship. Katayama and Toms at 9-under 131, tied the PGA record for 36 holes last set by Ernie Els at Riviera in 1995.

 Aug. 17 -- Jose Ortiz went 3-for-5, with three home runs and four RBIs, to power Colorado to a 12-5 victory over the Florida.

 Aug. 19 -- Davis Toms played it conservatively on the decisive 18th hole and made it pay off with a 10-foot par putt to win the PGA Championship with a 1-under-par 69 and deny Phil Mickelson a major. He finished at 265, breaking by two strokes the record first set at Royal St. George by Greg Norman in the 1993 British Open and later matched by Steve Elkington.

 Aug. 19 -- Michael Schumacher got his fourth Formula One championship and matched Alain Prost's series record of 51 victories by winning the Hungarian Grand Prix.

 Aug. 19 -- Stock car champion Dean Roper, 62, died from injuries in an ARCA event at the Illinois State Fairgrounds, 10 months after his son, Tony, was killed in a NASCAR truck series race in Texas.

 Aug. 19 -- Mike Cameron homered twice and tied a team record with eight RBIs in Seattle's 10-2 rout over the Yankees. Cameron hit a three-run homer in the first inning and a grand slam in the seventh.

 Aug. 19 -- Arizona set a major league record for pinch-hit home runs in a season with 13 when Greg Colbrunn hit one in the seventh inning of a 13-6 win over Chicago. The old record of 12 was held by the 1957 Cincinnati Reds, 1983 New York Mets and 2000 Los Angeles Dodgers.

 Aug. 21 -- Chris Mundorf set a USGA record with a 9-under-par 63 and claimed medalist honors in the 101st U.S. Amateur. Mundorf's round at Druid Hills Golf Club was a record in relation to par in a USGA championship.

 Aug. 21 -- Shannon Stewart, Carlos Delgado and Raul Mondesi hit consecutive homers in the sixth inning as Toronto spoiled Brad Radke's return from the disabled list by beating the Minesota Twins 7-5.

 Aug. 22 -- Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs hit three homers and drove in six runs in a 16-3 win over Milwaukee.

 Aug. 23 -- Randy Johnson struck out 16 in seven innings to become the first pitcher to strike out 300 in four straight seasons, only to see his eight-game winning streak end as Kevin Young's two-run homer led the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 5-1 victory over Arizona.

 Aug. 23 -- St. Louis third baseman Albert Pujols became the 22nd major leaguer to hit 30 homers in his rookie season in 12-2 loss to Cincinnati.

 Aug. 24 -- Morocco's Brahim Boulami broke the Kenyan stranglehold on the steeplechase, setting a world record at the Van Damme Memorial in Brussels, Belgium. Boulami beat the four-year-old mark of Kenyan Bernard Barmasai finishing in 7 minutes 55.28 seconds. He was chased by Kenyan world champion Reuben Kosgei to the tape, who finished in 7:57.29.

 Aug. 24 -- Colorado starting pitcher Jason Jennings went 3-for-5 in his major league debut, including a homer and an RBI single, while giving up five hits and striking out eight in a complete game shut out over the Mets, 10-0. The right-hander became the first pitcher in modern history to throw a shutout and hit a homer in his first game.

 Aug. 25 -- Roger Clemens became the fourth pitcher since 1900 to win 17 of his first 18 decisions as the Yankees beat Anaheim 7-5. Clemens joined Rube Marquard of the New York Giants (19-1 in 1912); Don Newcombe of the Brooklyn Dodgers (18-1 in 1955); and Elroy Face of the Pittsburgh Pirates (18-1 in 1959).

 Aug. 25 -- Tokyo Kitasuna rallied for two runs in its last at-bat, this time beating Apopka, Fla., 2-1 in the Little League World Series championship. Nobuhisa Baba hit a line drive off the shortstop's glove in the bottom of the sixth and final inning, driving in two runs and giving Japan its fifth Little League World Series title.

 Aug. 26 -- Sammy Sosa hit his 50th and 51st home runs to power Chicago to a 6-1 victory over the Cardinals. Sosa joined Mark McGwire and Babe Ruth as the only major leaguers with four 50-homer seasons.

 Aug. 26 -- Lisa Leslie of the Los Angeles Sparks was chosen as the WNBA's most valuable player, making her the first to capture All-Star and regular-season MVP honors in the same season.

 Aug. 28 -- Sammy Sosa hit his 52nd homer of the year, tying Willie Mays' NL record of 17 homers in August, but the Chicago Cubs fell to Florida 4-3 in 14 innings. The major league record for homers in August is 18, set by Detroit's Rudy York in 1937.

 Aug. 28 -- Alex Rodriguez hit his 40th home run, becoming the second shortstop in major league history to reach the mark in four straight seasons, as the Texas beat the Minnesota 10-1. Rodriguez joined Ernie Banks (1957-60) as the only shortstops with four consecutive 40-homer seasons.

 Aug. 29 -- Luis Gonzalez hit his 50th home run as Arizona defeated San Francisco 2-0. Gonzalez became the 19th major leaguer to hit 50 home runs in a season.

 Aug. 29 -- Bret Boone became the third AL second baseman to hit 30 homers as Seattle beat Tampa Bay 5-2. He joined Bobby Grich (1979) and Joe Gordon (1940, 1947-48) in accomplishing the feat.

 Aug. 30 -- Ashley Martin became the first woman to play in a Division I football game, kicking three extra points without a miss to help I-AA Jacksonville State hand Cumberland its 18th straight loss, 71-10.

 Aug. 31 -- Pitcher Danny Almonte who dominated the Little League World Series with his 70 mph fastballs was ruled ineligible after government records experts determined he actually is 14, and that birth certificates showing he was two years younger were false. The finding nullified all the victories by his Bronx, N.Y., team, the Rolando Paulino Little League All-Stars, and wiped out all its records -- including Almonte's perfect game and an earlier no-hitter.