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(Photo: AP / Ivan Sekretarev)Bradley Wiggins in London's cycling jungle
Britain's Bradley Wiggins pedals during a Track Cycling training session at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Monday, Aug.11, 2008....Full Story

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(Photo: AP / Peter Dejong)Dirk Kuyt ruled out for four weeks
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The gymnastics week in review: U.S. best at Pan Am Championships, and the scoop on ...
| Sandra Izbasa cleared to compete: The Olympic floor champion, who tore her Achilles tendon right before the 2009 Worlds, is set to compete at the Ghent World Cup next weekend. (ProSport) | Imagine being nine years of age and training for 37 hours a week: That's the le...Full Story
Use of vuvuzela in CWG will disturb athletes: Malhotra
--> Use of vuvuzela in CWG will disturb athletes: Malhotra | Share ARTICLEURL Duffer's Guide Commonwealth Games Vuvuzela more | Indian Olympic Association vice-president Vijay Kumar Malhotra on Tuesday said the idea to let the spectators use vuvuzela during the Commonwe...Full Story
Gymnastics: OU's Dalton, USA claim gold
Oklahoma All-American sophomore Jacob Dalton helped the U.S. National Team claim the gold medal at 2010 Pan-American Championships in Guadalajara, Mexico, on Sunday. | The U.S. team score was 352.150, besting Brazil and Canada, which tied for second. OU assistant coach ...Full Story
Aziz Disqualified In IAAF Continental Cup
Aziz Zakari failed to replicate his silver medal winning performance in Kenya this year as he was disqualified for a false start in the 100m finals of IAAF Continental Cup in Croatia at the weekend. | Africa's best performance in the 100m was a fifth place finish by Ivo...Full Story
Hakizimana Paces Up for Delhi Games
Rwanda's 3000m steeple chase athlete Gervais Hakizimana is well on track as far as his preparations for next month's Commonwealth Games in Delhi are concerned. The athlete, who is based in France, told Times Sport yesterday that he has intensified his build-up campaign ...Full Story
Cranes Plot Next Hurdle Against Stars
The Cranes will regroup on September 27 for their next Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Kenya's Harambee Stars. | ...Full Story
Ex-TU athletes volunteer time to peewee team
COWETA - Former University of Tulsa football players Mike Bryan and Curt Puckett missed football. But not for long. | Bryan and Puckett, whose TU careers ended last November, are back on the field as volunteer assistant coaches for a second-grade team in their hometown ...Full Story
Matt Carson makes the most out of a chance to play
Carson makes most of playing opportunityMatt Carson's opportunities have been few, and he admitted it's been a tough adjustment being a part-time player. | ...Full Story
Beaver Island Marathon results and race recap for 2010
| Close to 250 runners looking for a truly unique marathon experience hopped on boats and planes to attend the Beaver Island Marathon on September 4. | Beaver Island, MI is the most remote inhabited island in the Great Lake region and according to race organizer Ron Suf...Full Story
Man dies after completing Sunday's Rock 'n' Roll Virginia Beach Half Marathon
| A 27-year-old Virginia man died after completing the Rock 'n' Roll Virginia Beach Half Marathon on Sunday, September 5.  | The man's name and a cause of death have not yet been released. | According to the Virginia Pilot, the man went to the medical tent after finish...Full Story
Kauai Marathon results and race recap for 2010
| It was still dark when over 1,500 competitors lined up for the 6:00 a.m. start of the second annual Kauai Marathon and half marathon on Sunday, September 5.  | This year runners had an added incentive to blast out a PR, the $15,000 Kauai Marathon Challenge, a speed b...Full Story
Australian swimmers given permission to abandon Commonwealth Games
| AUSTRALIAN swimmers have been given permission to abandon the Commonwealth Games if they are worried about security. | Swimming Australia president David Urquhart said yesterday he had told the team any swimmer who felt unsafe after landing in Delhi and wanted to leav...Full Story
Indian athletes aim for best-ever haul in CWG
| The missing star power of Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell might have taken some sheen off it but the athletics event of the Delhi Commonwealth Games promises to be enthralling nonetheless with home-grown talents such as PT Usha-protege Tintu Luka gearing up to make a mark...Full Story
NASCAR Sprint Cup Points Race
More News | Race for the Chase | RkDriverPointsTrail 1.Kevin Harvick3,590- 2.Jeff Gordon3,366-224 3.Kyle Busch3,330-260 4.Tony Stewart 3,302-288 5.Carl Edwards 3,288-302 6.Jeff Burton3,261-329 7.Jimmie Johnson3,247-343 8.Kurt Busch 3,228-362 9.Matt Kenseth3,225-365 10.D...Full Story
After season's first win, Tony Stewart seems like prime contender for Sprint Cup title
Dave Martin With Sunday's win, Tony Stewart (center) is right in the thick of things in the Sprint Cup. "factbox" --> More News | CHARLOTTE, N.C. | Tony Stewart went to Atlanta Motor Speedway mired in a 31-race winless streak and an afterthought, at best, on the list of...Full Story
Athletes of the week
ERIC KLINE | Blaine, football | In 2009, Kline, then a junior, was understandably insecure. | A wide receiver the previous season, Kline was taking over at quarterback, a position of high importance and responsibility in Blaine's potent spread offense. | "I was uns...Full Story
Athletics 6, Mariners 2: Holiday yawn-fest over real quick
| Well, hopefully most of you spent Labor Day doing something more interesting than watching the Mariners for two hours, 19 minutes today. They lose, 6-2, in a game that was pretty much over after a couple of first-inning pitches by Jason Vargas. | Seattle managed just ...Full Story
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Spotter's Stand: Carl Edwards Races Into Sprint Cup Contention
FanHouse Carl Edwards is flying under the championship radar no more. | After a second-place finish in Sunday night's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Edwards let everyone he's going to contend in the Chase for the Sprint Cup. | "I kno...
 ASA elections could be deemed undemocratic
Independent online | South African Sports Congress and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) took a decision at their General Meeting in Bloemfontein at the weekend that Athletics South Africa (ASA) should hold elections to replace the seven board members that resigned during the...
NNOC Launches a Scathing Attack on Athletes
All Africa In an effort to improve the performance of athletes at international sporting events, the Namibia National Olympic Committee (NNOC) on Tuesday announced a series of measures to ensure the country wins medals at future Olympic games. | ...
Gill slams dope tainted athletes
Zeenews New Delhi: Sports Minister M S Gill on Monday slammed dope flunked athletes who have caused a major embarrassment to the country barely a month before the Commonwealth Games saying that India does not want “dope tainted” medals. | “We don’t w...
Markel Susaeta: Athletic Bilbao Are A Stronger Side This Season
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I would love to come to India: Bolt
Zeenews New Delhi: A back injury and an unfavourable timing of the event forced Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt to skip the Commonwealth Games but the Olympic gold medalist said he would love to visit India some day. | "Based on the programme my coach has for m...
Indian athletes aim for best-ever haul in CWG
Zeenews New Delhi: The missing star power of Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell might have taken some sheen off it but the athletics event of the Delhi Commonwealth Games promises to be enthralling nonetheless with home-grown talents such as PT Usha-protege Tintu L...
Indian athletes aim for best-ever haul in CWG
Deccan Herald New Delhi, Sep 6 (PTI): Monday, September 06, 2010 --> | The missing star power of Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell might have taken some sheen off it but the athletics event of the Delhi Commonwealth Games promises to be enthralling nonetheless with home...
Tony Stewart collects first Sprint Cup win of year
Nashville Tennessean individual: 10 numChar :2122 | -->TOTAL ELEMENTS IN ARRAY: 13 | TOTAL CHARACTERS IN ARRAY: 2503 | TOTAL CHARACTERS IN PAGES: 2122 | LAST PAGE CONTAINS: 381 | -->--> | HAMPTON, Ga. Tony Stewart raced to his first victory of the year, pulling away fr...
Kevin Kouzmanoff leaves game with back spasms
Contra Costa Times Kouzmanoff leaves game because of back spasmsThe A's could be without third baseman Kevin Kouzmanoff for a period after he left Sunday's 7-4 loss to the Angels with lower back spasms. | ...
U.S. gymnasts grab another trio of gold medals as Pan American Championships conclude
The Examiner | U.S. gymnasts won another three gold medals during the second day of event finals at the Pan American Championship in Guadalajara, Mexico. | Newcomer McKayla Maroney won her second individual title of the championship on floor exercise with a 14.22...
Bosnia present tough hurdle for ailing France
The Guardian By Mitch Phillips LONDON, Sept 6 (Reuters) - After his campaign to restore pride in the French jersey suffered a first-day setback with a home defeat by Belarus, new France coach Laurent Blanc could have done with an easier task than a trip to Bosnia...
'Tintu a world-class athlete'
The Hindu | Stan Rayan | - File Photo | BIGGEST GAIN:Tintu Luka's (in pic) coach, P.T. Usha, feels that going under two minutes has given the young athlete a lot of confidence. | KOCHI: Breaking the two-minute barrier in the 800m is like getting a big load off...
Greene raises sights after beating 29-year-old record
The Independent | Not since the days of the great Edwin Moses has there been a faster winner of the 400m hurdles in athletics' quadrennial team competition - formerly known as the World Cup and re-branded as the IAAF Continental Cup in Split over the weekend. In eme...
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