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Kentucky tight end Jacob Tamme went to the Indianapolis Colts in the 4th round, with the 127th overall pick. His Wildcats teammate, wide receiver Keenan Burton, went next to the St. Louis Rams with the 128th overall pick. Wildcats quarterback Andre Woodson went to the Super Bowl champion New York Giants in the 6th round, with the 198th overall pick.

Wildcats wide receiver Steve Johnson went to the Buffalo Bills with the 224th overall pick.

Louisville quarterback Brian Brohm started things off Saturday, becoming the 56th overall pick by the Green Bay Packers. Three of his teammates had to wait until Sunday to find out where they were headed.

The Atlanta Falcons tabbed Louisville wide receiver Harry Douglas in the 3rd round with the 84th overall pick.

Yawn.

Then came the wake-up call: trade after trade after trade, affecting 14 of the 31 first-round picks.

At one point, five of seven selections had been bartered. A little while later, it was another five of six.

Jake Long just sat back and smiled -- right from the outset.

It may not be the most sportsmanlike thing to do when it comes to entering a horse in the Kentucky Derby.

But it is within the rules.

"I'm not the one who made the rules," said Larry "Cowboy" Jones.

"It's an unusual circumstance," said Rick Porter.

Lennie House, owner of the Horsemen, may not have needed a haircut, but he got one anyway. It was courtesy of Will Wolford, his counterpart with the Fire in the first game of the teams' arenafootball2 rivalry before 5,790 fans.

"He looks good," Vicki House said of her newly bald husband. "He's a very handsome man."

The haircut at midfield satisfied a bet between the two owners.

The game was decided by Bassuener's sterling performance, a tough defense and big plays.

But that's not the only way the Wildcats will look different next fall, as UK will break out new uniforms for the 2008 season.

UK didn't have prints of the new uni's available for the public, but they aren't a drastic change from the most recent model which made their debut in the 2004 season. The lettering and numeral design will remain the same, with the most notable differences coming on the sides. The big stripe down the side of the jersey and pants has been replaced with a smaller, more traditional set of diagonal stripes around the rib cage area.

The new uniforms will also feature more black trim, particularly around the sleeve and collar areas. Since the big stripe going down the pants has been eliminated, UK will also be able to mix combinations. For example, the Cats could wear the white jerseys with blue pants or blue jerseys with white pants. The helmets will remain the same.

Representatives from Nike meet with coaches across the country several times a year to discuss equipment and apparel, and UK Coach Rich Brooks played a big part in the new design.

Matt Cusick's leadoff homer in the eighth inning snapped a 2-2 tie, and the Legends went on to beat the Lakewood BlueClaws 4-2 before a crowd of 6,000 fans at Applebee's Park.

Lexington snapped a 10-game home-field losing streak and a five-game skid that began on the road.

The Legends can split the four-game series with a win Sunday afternoon.

A night after dropping a 12-11 slugfest in 11 innings, the Legends relied on superb pitching to set the table for Cusick.

"This is a big one," Pearl told the Knoxville News Sentinel after Hopson signed. "It breaks a door down for me, my first McDonald's All-American, a guy with a lot of visibility."

Of course, Pearl has done wonders without the benefit of a marquee recruit. He's elevated UT from a basketball backwater into a top 25 program. Hopson could be for Tennessee what Mike Miller was for Billy Donovan and Florida in the late 1990s: a prospect who signals a new national contender.

Hopson, a 6-foot-6 shooting guard for University Heights, joins 6-11 center Philip Jurick, 6-1 point guard Daniel West and 6-8 wing Renaldo Woolridge. The latter is the son of former Notre Dame and NBA player Orlando Woolridge.

Rivals.com rated Hopson at No. 5 in the Class of 2008. Woolridge is No. 53 and Jurick is No. 68.

Collin Cowgill, Ryan Wilkes, Chris Wade and Keenan Wiley all had two-hit days for the Cats. Wiley extended his hit streak to 15 games, the longest hitting streak for a Wildcat this season. Wilkes finished with a double and a triple, driving in a team-best two runs.

Making his second Southeastern Conference start, sophomore southpaw James Paxton was solid through 41/3 innings, allowing four hits and one run, walking two and striking out one. UK got an excellent outing from its bullpen as seniors Aaron Lovett and Andrew Albers closed out the game. Lovett got the win (3-2), tossing two innings, allowing two hits, one run, walking two and striking out one. Albers got his first save of the season, working the final 22/3 innings, allowing two hits and striking out two.

Kentucky (32-11, 10-10 SEC) won despite stranding a season-high 16 runners on base. UK got on the board with a three run, two-hit third inning. After Bryan Rose led off with a hard flyout to left field, Cowgill was hit by a pitch. Sawyer Carroll drew a full-count walk and Chris McClendon scored Cowgill with a single to left field, with both runners moving up a base after a botched throw. Wilkes notched his first triple of the year, a hard liner into the right-center field gap to score Carroll and McClendon.

It may not be the most sportsmanlike thing to do when it comes to entering a horse in the Kentucky Derby.

But it is within the rules.

"I'm not the one who made the rules," said Larry "Cowboy" Jones.

"It's an unusual circumstance," said Rick Porter.

Only this time, the crash happened behind Busch. Instead of leaving Talladega Superspeedway with a smashed-up car, he drove into Victory Lane. The kid who couldn't conquer Talladega finally won at the harrowing track Sunday, and in this breakout season for Busch, it was only fitting that he coasted to the victory.

"I'd like to say that I'm smarter than I look, but that's certainly not the case," Busch said. "Today was just due to having a great car. Getting a lap down, that was like, 'Oh, typical Talladega' there. But I didn't wreck today and I was definitely happy of that, and I was greatly appreciative that I was able to win today because it's certainly been a struggle for several years.

"I don't think I've ever finished one here yet without some sort of damage. We still had damage, but it wasn't enough to keep us from Victory Lane."

Busch came back from a lap down, then survived a near wreck with Jamie McMurray for his first win at Talladega. It was won under caution when a 12-car accident brought out the yellow flag on the final lap, freezing the field and allowing Busch to slowly make his way across the finish line - a rare completion considering his history at the track.

It's the first three-game winning streak of the season for the Dodgers under new manager Joe Torre, who used his 24th different lineup in 25 games as he continues to search for a consistent combination after making the playoffs in each of the last 12 seasons with the New York Yankees.

Los Angeles has had six different managers since winning the 1988 World Series under Tommy Lasorda, and has won only one postseason game since then.

It was the fifth extra-inning game this season for the Rockies, including a 22-inning win at San Diego on April 17 and a 13-inning loss to the Dodgers on Friday night. The Rockies' pitching staff on Monday night will break the franchise record for most innings worked in April. The 1998 staff threw 240 in the month.

Manny Corpas (0-2), working his second inning of relief, walked Rafael Furcal and pinch-hitter Mark Sweeney to open the 10th. Both runners advanced on Matt Kemp's sacrifice bunt, and Loney grounded a 1-0 pitch through the right side of the infield to end it.

"I think they tried to frustrate him and they were doing a good job at it," New York coach Juan Carlos Osorio said.

Unfortunately for the expansion club, the 18-year-old had an opportunity late in the second half and used it to draw a penalty kick, which Mike Magee buried for the game winner in a 2-0 Red Bulls victory.

"It was very fresh to see that open up and (John) Wolyneic played a superb ball to space and I went at the guy," Altidore said. "Luckily for me he made a mistake we got the PK and got our first goal of the game."

Altidore added another goal five minutes into stoppage time to seal the victory, New York's second of the season.

The Braves right-hander allowed four runs and seven hits in a season-low four innings. He also gave up his first two home runs of the season.

Smoltz (3-2) came in having allowed just two runs in his first four starts, for a 0.78 ERA.

Smoltz said the discomfort prevented him from delivering pitches the way he wanted. He was vague about what will happen next.

"The next couple of days I should know what paths we're looking at," Smoltz said.

Sivtsov, competing in his first race in the United States, survived a rash of flat tires on the streets of Atlanta to win the Tour de Georgia.

Sivtsov won the weeklong Georgia race as his Team High Road teammate Greg Henderson won the 63-mile final stage - 10 laps on a 6.3-mile course.

The course in downtown Atlanta was swept before the race, but late-morning rain washed debris back onto the streets, possibly including broken glass from the March 14 tornado that hit downtown Atlanta. Windows in high-rise hotels and office buildings near Centennial Olympic Park - the site of Sunday's start and finish - are still being replaced.

According to one estimate, there were 17 flat tires in the first 30 minutes of Sunday's final stage.

Helms hit an 0-2 pitch off Seth McClung (1-1) about five feet over the left-field wall for his first home run since last Aug. 10. Playing for injured first baseman Mike Jacobs, Helms went 3-for-5 and drove in a pair of runs.

Matt Lindstrom (1-0) pitched the ninth, allowing a pair of base runners before striking out Ryan Braun to end the threat. Kevin Gregg, the Marlins' eighth pitcher of the game, came on for the 10th inning and earned his fourth save in five chances. He struck out Craig Counsell with runners on first and third to end the game.

The Brewers again went deep into their bullpen, using seven pitchers in their eighth extra-inning game this season. Milwaukee fell to 5-3 in games decided after the ninth.

Milwaukee took the lead in the first when Corey Hart's sacrifice fly scored Rickie Weeks from third, but Florida countered with two runs off Brewers starter Manny Parra in the sixth.

Webb (6-0), the 2006 Cy Young winner, allowed just one unearned run and twice escaped bases-loaded jams before leaving after six innings. He became the first six-game winner in the majors and lowered his ERA to 1.98.

Chris Snyder, who was pulled from the starting lineup Saturday because of the flu, hit a two-out home run in the second after Peavy walked Stephen Drew. It was Snyder's first home run since Sept. 16.

Peavy (3-1) gave up four hits in seven innings, losing at home for the first time in 10 starts since July. Peavy had gone 6-0 with a 0.68 ERA in that span.

Webb became the first Diamondbacks pitcher to win his first six decisions since Randy Johnson in 2002. Johnson holds the franchise mark by winning seven consecutive decisions to start the 2000 season.

Raja Bell scored 21 of his 27 points in a dominant first half to help Phoenix bring a one-sided end to the defending NBA champions' nine-game playoff winning streak. The Suns were 11-0 in the regular season when Bell scored at least 20.

Phoenix still trails the first-round series 3-1, with Game 5 on Tuesday night in San Antonio. No NBA team has come back from 0-3 to win a series.

Steve Nash and Leandro Barbosa scored 15 apiece for the Suns. Shaquille O'Neal had 14 points and 12 rebounds.

Phoenix coach Mike D'Antoni drew two technicals and was ejected with 3:38 to play and his team up 104-80.

Volquez (4-0) allowed one run and five hits to win his third consecutive start, and Ryan Freel's two-run single keyed a six-run first inning for Cincinnati. Freel later doubled and scored as the Reds won consecutive games for the first time in more than two weeks.

Zito, winless in his first six starts for the first time in his career, gave up eight runs and walked three in only three innings. The left-hander, who signed a $126 million, seven-year deal prior to last year, was booed frequently by the crowd at AT&T Park during his shortest outing of the season.

Phillips hit solo home runs in the seventh and ninth, the fourth time in his career he's had two homers in one game. Both came off Pat Misch, who was called up from Triple-A Fresno earlier in the day after the Giants placed starter Kevin Correia on the 15-day disabled list.

Volquez, who was acquired from Texas in an offseason trade, gave up Randy Winn's RBI single in the third but pitched out of a one-out, bases-loaded jam in the inning.

Watson and North teamed for a better-ball 64 at The Club at Savannah Harbor for a 31-under 185 total. Stadler and Sluman shot a 61 on the island course in the middle of the Savannah River. Sandy Lyle and Ian Woosnam (60) finished two strokes back.

"To hit quality shots when it counts, that's what makes me tingle," said Watson, who won the Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am last week in Florida.

They started the day with a four-stroke lead, but in a format that produces tons of birdies, it wasn't surprising that others finally made a run at Watson and North.

"I birdied No. 11," Sluman said. "But, I had eagled it the previous two days, so Craig was a little disappointed there."

Seattle starter Felix Hernandez cruised through seven innings, giving up just four hits and striking out 10. But he could not escape trouble in the eighth.

Hernandez (2-1) walked Jack Hannahan on a 3-2 pitch to open the inning as the Safeco Field roof slowly closed with a light rain falling. Mark Ellis then doubled and Daric Barton walked on a 3-2 pitch to load the bases, and Brown dumped a broken bat single into left that ended Hernandez's day.

Brandon Morrow entered for Seattle and continued the trend, walking Frank Thomas on a 3-2 pitch. Cust, who struggled in the field with a pair of deep fly balls and struck out twice, lined a single into right to score Barton, giving Oakland its first lead.

Ryan Sweeney capped the rally, lining a single into left past a diving Adrian Beltre to score Brown. Sean Green finally got Seattle out of the inning with a strikeout of Hannahan.