Inside: The Week In Sports

Baseball
Dustin Pedroia can add Team USA's locker room at the WBC to the list of worlds he has conquered • Randy Johnson's impressive spring training bodes well for the 45-year-old's prospects in San Francisco

The NHL
The return of Erik Cole has lifted Hurricanes fans out of their seats and his team into playoff position • Martin St. Louis's model behavior • Give the Devils their due on Paul Martin

Soccer
Chivas USA's Sacha Kljestan has established himself as the best young American in MLS • 2009 forecast: Chicago and Houston are the teams to beat

NOT EVEN CLOSE
Third baseman David Wright was late with the tag on Puerto Rico's Ramon Vazquez, one of many things that went wrong for Team USA in its 11--1 loss last Saturday in the World Baseball Classic; the game was stopped in the seventh inning because of the WBC's mercy rule.

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Photograph by Lynne Sladky/AP