The possible return of sports leagues and Atlanta Pride to Piedmont Park took another hit as park caretakers announced their efforts to dig a well failed. Now the Piedmont Park Conservancy will try again, drilling a second time beginning Wednesday. If they can hit water, the park hopes it would be enough to irrigate the park and skirt the drought-related regulations that prompted the booting of sports and large-scale festivals from the area earlier this year. Without a well, the conservancy says, the park won't be inviting its former inhabitants bak anytime soon.

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With the final numbers crunched, Action Cycling 200 announced its fund-raising tally on Sunday: $106,000. The amount surpassed the $100,000 goal organizers of the annual event set for themselves this year, and far exceeded fund-raising totals from past years. Since its inception in 2003, the event has raised more than $400,000 for the Emory Vaccine Center, a facility that researches vaccines for AIDS and other infectious diseases. The announcement came Sunday during Action Cycling’s closing event in the Sky Lounge at MidCity Lofts in Midtown, where riders, volunteers and officials with the vaccine center joined to toast the event, celebrate its fund-raising prowess and display an over-sized, six-figure check. Some 65 riders gathered about an hour after sunrise on May 17 for the event, which is a two-day, 200-mile journey from Decatur to Eatonton and back. To see photos from the ride, go here. For a gallery of photos from Sunday's closing event, go here.

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• When it comes to Atlanta Pride, sports groups bring it.

• Atlanta Dream wins one. Then another. Then they lose.

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• Olympic swimmer battles foe out of water.

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• Vince Young is smooth. No homo.

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• Hotlanta Softball looks to World Series.

• Gay jocks take on Olympic trials.

• Atlanta Dream wins one for the team.

• Frenchy and his pounds sent packing. Billy Bean, too (photo).

• Summer might just stink for pro sports in the ATL.

• A-Rod’s batting for Madonna.

• Run, gays, run.

• Atlanta Dream wants to win and draw a big crowd for ESPN2.

• NASCAR has gay fans. And they have a web site. Really.

• Flag football preps for title game.

• Gordon Beckham’s a cute loser.

• Candace Parker says, “Dunk this.”

• Mike Gonzalez is a sexy sparkplug.

• Jim Palmer’s got nothing on David Beckham.

• Wimbledon not so friendly to Ginepri.

• Zach Bogosian brings sexy back to the Atlanta Thrashers.

• Big Apple gets Big Cock.