He's like the wind: Sheriff Lee Baca in a 5K benefit run in February (AP)

Independent Sources blog does a close reading of the Times and finds L.A. Sheriff Leroy Baca would beat Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa ... in a 10K footrace: "The Los Angeles Times' recent story on Antonio Villaraigosa’s active schedule included a picture of the LA Mayor running the 5K Run for Victims’ Rights 5k. They noted that his time of 22:58 was quicker than his LAPD body guard. This is indeed impressive unless of course you compare it to the running exploits of Sheriff Lee Baca [....] If Villaraigosa were to run a 10k and slow [his] pace only to around 7:30/mile (a conservative estimate) because of the longer distance, Baca would beat him by a about a mile." Catch up with Baca in Times reporters Robin Fields and Stuart Pfeifer's Sunday story about the "quirky sheriff."