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Leaders Geoff Ojilvy Jim Furyk Phil Mickelson 6 6 i 1 I able. But apparently he didn't spend enough time on the one shot that would have saved him Sunday the ricochet off the hospitality tent off the 18th tee. Instead of his first U.S. Open championship before Colin Montgomery PadfaigHarrington7 And then he blew it with a mental malfunction that might forever remain etched on his psyche. Mickelson never prepared more for a challenge than he did for this tournament and this harrowing course, devoting much time over the last 12 months, imagining every unimagin MAMARONECK, N.Y.

-Once again, the Big Apple reflected the scale of the lump within Phil Mick-elson's throat. History was perched atop his tee at No. 18 a third straight major championship, a legitimate claim to the title of best golfer on the globe and the beginning NOTABLES Vijay Singh David Duval DREW SHARP of a bona fide duel between the game's top two equally majestic heavyweights. Graeme McDowell 17 MEL EVANSAssociated Press See SHARP, 8D 3M PERFORMANCE 400 pps 4-gonc conclusion: MIS' 4th rain-shortened race is Kahne's 4th win in '06 The top four plus one Driver Start Kasey Kahne 1 Carl Edwards 31 Dale Earnhardt Jr. 6 Greg Biffle 10 Reed Sorenson 25 V.2'- A.

-j I fm I ''Iff V- .1 Go fourth This was Kasey Kahne's fourth Nextel Cup win of the season: SUKSAY 3M PERFORMANCE 400 Start 1 LAPS LED f4)JJ yCy MAY 28 i St mB PAUL SANCYAAssociated Press Kasey Kahne holds up four fingers after winning at Michigan International Speedway on Sunday. Kahne earned a series-best fourth win of the year, but is third in the Nextel Cup chase. LAPS LED APRIL 9 SAMSUNGRADIO SHACK 500 THE RACE: Pole-sitter leads 19 of 129 laps, but luck holds DAY 4: Mayfield suffers tlirough another gloomy day 1 1 vrp By MIKE BRUDENF.LL FREE PRESS SPORTS WRITER By SHAWN WINDSOR HREF. PRESS SPORTS WRITER Start 1 63 LAPS LED MARCH 19 GOLDEN CORRAL S00 with Ford's Carl Edwards second at the time and Chevy's Dale Earnhardt Jr. in third place.

With rain pelting the cars on pit road, NASCAR officials red-flagged the race on Lap 129, with 71 laps remaining. It was just the fourth time in MIS history that a Cup event has been called because of rain the other rain-shortened races were in July 1969, June 2000 and August 2001. Sunday's nine cautions equaled the record for yel- Sce NASCAR, 7D find the top 10 after the two most consistent seasons of his career, when he made the chase for the cup, NASCAR's version of the playoffs. He and his Dodge team had hoped that returning to Michigan International Speedway, where he won last August, might get his year going. All it did was leave him further behind.

He knew it on the first lap of the race, when he couldn't take the turns with any speed, and began a long, steady slip toward the back. See MAYFIELD, 6D ROMAIN BLANQUARTOetrolt Free Press Jeremy Mayfield walks back to his motor home after a disappointing run at Michigan International Speedway. BROOKLYN, Mich. -It ended in the rain. And all Jeremy Mayfield could do was spit expletives.

Not because he was soaked as he walked in a downpour from pit row back to his motor home, not even because he finished 36th in the 43-car field. But because he didn't know why. "We are missing something somewhere," he said. "I'm not sure what it is." For the 15th time this season, Mayfield failed to BROOKLYN, Kahne overcame the Happy Hour blues, an overheating engine and the elements to eventually win a stop-and-start, rain-shortened NASCAR Nextel Cup 3M Performance 400 at Michigan International Speedway on Sunday. The Dodge driver, who started on the pole, was leading the race on Lap 125 before heavy showers brought out the third, and what would be the final, caution of the day for rain, Mayfield The Free Press followed Jeremy Mayfield Start 1 85 dii wee as lie diiempieu 10 biop a ii- manic wk race win ess streak.

He finished 36th on CimHif Dn-A Krt rnrinr frPPn.rnmMaufiplH LAPS LED Field day at Wrigley for Tigers, Rogers (200th win) DETROIT 12, CHICAGO CUBS 3 Kenny Rogers was helped by eight homers by the Tigers, who finished a three-game sweep. He and Mets lefthander Tom Glavine are baseball's only 10-game winners. By JOHN LOWE FREE PRESS SPORTS WRITER six-run first inning that included three home runs off Mark Prior, who came off the disabled list for his first start this season. The Tigers hit eight home runs, tying the club record set in Toronto in 2000. They Best in baseball TM W-L 6B PET 46-24 -CWS 44-25l' STL 42-'26 3 BOS 39-28 How about his first postseason victory? "There aren't a ton of things I still want to do, but that's one of them without a doubt," Rogers said.

"Winning in the postseason would help my team, so I'd love to do that one. Hopefully we'll keep doing what we're doing, and I'll get a good shot at it." A good shot at it, as in this season. The world-champion White Sox have the second-best record in the majors. But they continue to trail the Tigers by l'z games in the American League Central. The Tigers sent Rogers to his 200th win Sunday with a CHICAGO -Now that Tigers left-hander Kenny Rogers is a 200-game winner, what milestone might be next? See TIGERS, 10D JEFF ROBlRSONAssMiatwl Press.