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Project Greenlight (Bravo, Thursdays, 10 P.M. E.T.) The moral of this Hollywood reality show, formerly on HBO, is that we get the movies we deserve. This year's victim--er, winner--John Gulager, is picked to shoot a horror flick by Dimension Films, only to be immediately undermined by paranoid executives. We end up rooting for him and against ourselves--since all those straitjacketing studio decisions are based on a thorough knowledge of what we will pay for at the box office...
Retiring. Lance Armstrong, 33, six-time Tour de France winner; after this year's Tour ends in July. Armstrong, who overcame testicular cancer in the late 1990s, told reporters covering the Tour de Georgia, probably his last U.S. event, that he missed his three children and his younger, fitter body. "It's not an old man's race," he said...
...ahead of him, including similarly-touted Kyle Orton of Purdue and Stefan LeFors of Louisville (both fourth round) as well as lesser-known players such as Tulsa’s James Kilian and USC’s Matt Cassel. Cassel, who saw little action as junior Heisman Trophy winner Matt Leinart’s backup this season for the national champion Trojans, was taken by the New England Patriots in the seventh round in a move that surprised many who predicted that Patriots’ head coach Bill Belichick had his eye on Fitzpatrick as a late-round pick...
...thing that people often forget is that there used to be 20 rounds,” Rote said. “To be drafted in the seventh round is still a significant honor. The quarterbacks from Florida [State], Miami, the former Heisman trophy winner, the all-time leader in NCAA passing yards—all of them were not drafted...
...winner will advance to the championship at Fenway at 5 p.m. tomorrow. The consolation game will be played...