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Cardinals speedster, Lonnie Smith, holds the franchise record for stolen bases in a single game with five stolen bases in a game against the Giants.
The highest seed not advancing after the first weekend turned out to be the two-seed Wisconsin Badgers. It seems the UNLV Runnin’ Rebels were too much for the cheeseheads.
Also exiting early are the Texas Longhorns. The four-seed left early after stumbling to Pac-10 darling, USC.
Florida, Butler, UNLV, Oregon, Kansas, Southern Illinois, Pittsburgh, UCLA, Memphis, Texas A & M, Georgetown, Vanderbilt, Ohio State, Tennessee, North Carolina and USC have danced their way into the Sweet Sixteen.
This season marks the first time in recent years that a double-digit team did not advance to the second weekend. #7 UNLV is the lowest seed to move on.
Jimmie Johnson closed the door on Tony Stewart with three laps remaining to win the Kobalt 500 at Atlanta for his second consecutive victory.
Side-by-side racing like the show Johnson and Stewart put on at the race’s end was one of the reasons Montoya traded in his high-tech F1 machine for a stock car.
Johnson caught Stewart on the inside lane coming off of Turn 4, nudged ahead going into Turn 1 and thought he was clear going into Turn 2.
Thought was the key word.
As Johnson slid up the track to make his exit out of the turn he pinched the hard-charging Stewart into the wall. Stewart wasn’t happy about it afterwards.
“If I pushed the issue we both would have crashed,” he said. “I wish he’d given me a little more room. I don’t think I ever pinched him or kept him from having room on the track to race.
“He had a faster car. He’s probably going to get around us anyway. I just would like to see him give us room to race us for it.”
Had Johnson and Stewart raced each other that way in F1, they both likely would have crashed regardless of what Stewart did.
Two Hall of Famers hit the final two home runs in Busch Stadium I - San Fransisco Giants sluggers Willie McCovey and Willie Mays, both connected deep on May 8, 1966.
