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Wind or not, Gay's 100 performance was something special

By Jim Caple
ESPN.com

Sunday, June 29, 2008

EUGENE, Ore. -- Fortunately for fans, other sports don't need to account for wind or weather or any other conditions. Baseball officials don't say, Joe DiMaggio safely hit in 56 consecutive games, but it doesn't count as the record because 20 of those games were against the St. Louis Browns and Washington Senators, teams so bad they should have had Walter Matthau as a manager. Golf officials don't say Tiger Woods' U.S. Open score doesn't count because it was a sunny 78 degrees without humidi ...

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