The athletic feat of a chockablock weekend

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Even in a sumptuous weekend with Dodgers and Angels and USC and UCLA and Cubs and Rays and two kinds of Sox, plus Colts and Redskins and Vanderbilt - Vanderbilt! - you could make a case the most impressive thing happened in the Atlanta suburb of Braselton.

There, Helio Castroneves helped Ryan Briscoe win that two-man, 10-hour American Le Mans Series Petit Le Mans race.

Castroneves’ feat positively astounds, because I think most of us would agree from personal experience that it’s just plain hard to drive with precision for hours after the Internal Revenue Service has indicted us for failing or forgetting to report that odd $5.5 million in income so that we have just been released on $10-million bail.

-- Chuck Culpepper

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