Sunday Stories

Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe writes who will be moving as the baseball trading season is open... "They (Phillies) would also be in on a No. 1 such as C.C. Sabathia if the Indians are serious about peddling him or Erik Bedard if the Mariners rip things apart. They are also taking a good look at A.J. Burnett, who has an opt-out, as well as Bronson Arroyo and Derek Lowe. The official said the Phillies see this year as a prime opportunity to make it to the World Series." ...
Nick Cafardo

Vincent Mallozzi of The New York Times writes about a person who sells cars to the stars... "Macky Dancy has made it his business to get the signatures of professional athletes — in triplicate. Dancy, who was born in Memphis and grew up in Brooklyn rooting for the Yankees, the Knicks and the Giants, sells luxury cars to athletes and entertainers." ...
Vincent Mallozzi

Erin Hicks of the Daily News writes about her try-out for the Nets dance team... "But when I heard the Nets basketball team was holding auditions for the 2008-09 dance team I thought: "Sure, I'll give it a go. Can't be that hard. All I have to do is flip my hair and shake my hips. Easy deal." Wrong. So wrong." ...
Erin Hicks

George Solomon of the Washington Post writes how the Washington Nationals are going to honor the late sports journalist Shirley Povich today... "For the next 27 years, Povich doggedly lobbied and wrote columns in hopes of helping to return baseball to the city he moved to in 1922 and lived in until his death in 1998." ...
George Solomon

With the NBA Draft on Thursday, the Chicago Sun-Times sports staff give their thoughts on who the Bulls should take with the number one pick...
Chicago Sun-Times

Greg Couch of the Chicago Sun-Times writes how Ozzie Guillen has choked this weekend in the series with the Cubs... "It's a little too easy to say Guillen blew both games. But he did. It's a little too easy to say that a manager who won a World Series is choking under the pressure of playing the big, bad Cubs, but he is. But it is not too simple to say that the Cubs are exposing the Sox for their flaws. That's exactly what's happening." ...
Greg Couch

K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Tribune writes about Michael Beasley's background... "Beasley grew up without a father figure under the watchful eye of his mother, Fatima Smith, who worked numerous jobs to support him and his siblings." ...
Jay Mariotti

Chuck Culpepper, special to the Los Angeles Times, writes about Roger Federer and the upcoming Wimbledon... "Even as tennis intellectuals whisper his empire's crumbling, the world's No. 1 player had the gall to turn up Saturday on the outside Court No. 10 for practice, looking sublime as ever, attracting a small crowd on the barren grounds of the All England Club two days before the action. After his hitting session under the usual grim sky, he stopped repeatedly to pose for photographs, even waiting alongside one child as her mother spent epochs adjusting the camera." ...
Chuck Culpepper

Paul Coro of the Arizona Central writes about new Phoenix Suns head coach Terry Porter... "After playing 17 seasons in the NBA and coaching for five, Porter may feel blessed to get a second crack at being a head coach but nobody who crossed his life's path will tell you he has not earned it or deserved it. They just didn't expect it." ...
Paul Coro