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COLOR PHOTO: PHOTOGRAPH BY VINCENT YU/AP Chinese Take-out Laila Ali stings like a bee during her bloody fourth-round TKO over Kristina King in Guangzhou.

FOUR COLOR PHOTOS: PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHN W. MCDONOUGH Four Flusher Shaquille O'Neal's block of Vlade Divac was captured by four remote cameras rigged to fire simultaneously during the Lakers' 117-107 victory over the Kings in Game 1 of their first-round NBA playoff series.

COLOR PHOTO: PHOTOGRAPH BY PHIL VELASQUEZ/AP/CHICAGO TRIBUNE Batter or Parque? Last Saturday, in Chicago, Detroit's Bobby Higginson put a choke hold on White Sox pitcher Jim Parque after he had hit Dean Palmer with a pitch. When the beaning and brawling were done, a total of 11 Tigers and Sox had been ejected.