Leading Off

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COLOR PHOTO: PHOTOGRAPH BY DAMIAN STROHMEYER There's No Place Like Home LSU's Ryan Theriot loses his head--and his helmet--after crossing the plate with the winning run in the bottom of the ninth to defeat Stanford 6-5 at the College World Series in Omaha last Saturday.

COLOR PHOTO: PHOTOGRAPH BY PASCAL GUYOT/AFP Sea Section More than 2,200 triathletes took to the water at the start of a 4-km swim, the first leg of the Nice Triathlon, on Sunday.

COLOR PHOTO: PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHN BURGESS Sweet Seventeen Tiger Woods attracted a bit of attention as he teed off on the 17th hole during the final round of the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach (page 58).