Participants compete in the wife-carrying world championship in the remote central Finnish village of Sonkajarvi, which lies deep in forest and a few hours' drive from the Arctic Circle on July 3, 2004. Two Estonian students clinched the country's seventh straight wife-carrying world championship on Saturday, winning the 'wife's' weight in beer and a sauna. (Lehtikuva/Reuters)
Takeru Kobayashi, center, of Nagano, Japan, poses with 53 1/2 hot dogs after winning the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating contest, Sunday July 4, 2004, in New York. Kobayashi, the number one eater in the world broke his previous record of 51 1/2 hot dogs by eating 53 1/2 hot dogs in twelve minutes. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
July 5, 2004
San Francisco Giants (news)' Barry Bonds (news) holds the first base bag after it was presented to him when he became baseball's all-time walks leader Sunday, July 4, 2004, in San Francisco. Bonds broke Rickey Henderson's major league record when he drew his 2,191st from Oakland Athletics (news) reliever Chad Bradford (news) in the eighth inning. (AP Photo/Dino Vournas)
San Francisco Giants (news)' Barry Bonds (news) gets hit by a pitch thrown by Oakland Athletics (news)' Mark Mulder (news) in the second inning, Sunday, July 4, 2004, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Dino Vournas)
San Francisco Giants (news)' Ray Durham (news) is hit by a pitch from Oakland Athletics (news)' Mark Mulder (news) in the fifth inning Sunday, July 4, 2004, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Dino Vournas)
San Francisco Giants (news) manager Felipe Alou argues with the umpires after Giants pitcher Tyler Walker (news) was ejected for hitting Oakland Athletics (news) pitcher Mark Mulder (news) with a pitch Sunday, July 4, 2004, in San Francisco. Alou and pitcher Felix Rodriguez (news) were both ejected in the eighth inning after Rodriguez hit. Eric Byrnes (news).(AP Photo/Dino Vournas)
Really unfair how Rodriguez and Walker were tossed as well as Alou for unintentional pitches. This was just horrible. And the double plays did not help either. Tied with the A's for number of games won 22-22.
