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• PLAYING WITH PINKEYE
• Two-time defending gold medalist beach volleyball pair Kerri Walsh Jennings and Misty May-Treanor of the United States wrap up pool play Wednesday against Austrian sisters Doris and Stefanie Schwaiger -- and Walsh insists she won't be slowed by a case of pinkeye in her left eye.
• "It's super minor," she said. "It just looks worse than it is."
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• AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Ted Cruz is fond of saying that when he began his run for U.S. Senate, he was at 2 percent in the polls against Texas Republican juggernaut David Dewhurst, the state's lieutenant governor for nearly a decade.
• Actually, the 41-year-old former state solicitor general seemed an even longer shot than that.
• Gov. Rick Perry and much of the rest of the Republican establishment lined up to endorse Dewhurst for their party's nomination to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, and the party's mainstream doesn't lose much in Texas. After all, the state hasn't elected a Democrat to statewide office in nearly 20 years.
• But Cruz pulled off what had seemed an unthinkable upset Tuesday, and it wasn't even close. He trounced Dewhurst by about 13 percentage points, shaking one

of America's reddest states to its political core.
• His victory was all the more stunning considering Cruz lost to the lieutenant governor 44 percent to 34 percent during the state's May 29 primary. But simply making it to a second round of voting proved a major momentum-builder for Cruz, who vowed to prevail since his supporters were dedicated enough to turn out during the Texas summer doldrums.
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• LONDON (AP) -- Michael Phelps has always said he wanted to do something that no one has ever done before.
• He's all by himself now, and ready to go for more.
• The world's greatest swimmer cruised through the anchor leg of the 4x200-meter

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