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The Week In Sports

SOCCER
A 23-year-old's leadership carries U.S. to fifth straight World Cup • Yank ranks at top of Premier League

BASEBALL
How Junior got his groove back • Contenders, beware: These four hot hitters might spoil your stretch drive

NFL
A rookie back gets the call in Miami • St. Louis's Kevin Curtis is primed for breakout year • Dr. Z's first-week forecast

VOLLEYBALL
Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh take season title with win in Chicago • Karch Kiraly and Mike Lambert to split

TENNIS
James Blake, back and better than ever, reaches his first U.S. Open quarterfinals • Feisty Czech phenom Nicole Vaidisova

PHOTO

Photograph by David Bergman

ON TO GERMANY

Goalkeeper Kasey Keller (18) and the U.S. team celebrated in Columbus, Ohio, last Saturday night after they clinched a berth in the 2006 World Cup with a 2--0 thumping of archrival Mexico.