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The Tulsa City Council will hold a special meeting Tuesday morning with the Tulsa 2020 Committee to discuss the feasibility of Tulsa hosting the 2020 Summer Olympic Games. Reality Check: Tulsa's Olympic Bid | Read The Feasibility Study
No, Dwyane Wade is not auditioning for a berth on "The Biggest Loser".
The world's fastest man tests the limits of human performance and carries a nation in his wake
VAIL, Colorado - As many people may know, the Olympics originally began in 776 B.C. as a tribute to the Greek gods. Thousands of people would make the journey every four years to Olympia in order to cheer, watch, and participate in the Games. However, Emperor Theodosius abolished all pagan festivities, including the Olympic Games, in 393 A.D. due to the growing Roman influence in Greece. After ...
There's another fish left in the MLS pond for teams abroad to snatch up - Houston Dynamo midfielder Stuart Holden.
The 30-year-old skeleton racer is on course for his first Olympics in Vancouver after a suspension tied to his use of an antibalding medication.
Manuel Osborne-Paradis of Canada won the men's World Cup downhill race here on Saturday, seeing off Austrian Mario Scheiber by 0.13sec.
Casey Puckett is 37 years old and has two children, including a daughter with severe lung problems. His brother, a financial planner at the investment firm Edward Jones, offered to help find him a cushy job with the company. But Puckett's medium-length beard and sun-worn face suggest where his heart and ambition lie — out on the slopes, not behind a desk. The four-time Olympian isn't ready to ...
CORPUS CHRISTI —The Winter Olympic Games begin Feb. 12. For those of us who can’t wait that long, the holidays bring their own Olympic-caliber sport: the visiting-the-relatives marathon.With roots in the decathlon, the race entails leaping from home to home for face time with all family members on the day in question. Nothing says quality time like the dine-and-dash, right?The AAA predicts 87.7 ...
Olympic champion Cesar Cielo of Brazil broke the world record in the 50-meter freestyle on Friday, clocking 20.91 seconds during a meet in Sao Paulo.
USA Luge announced Friday that Norton Abrasives, which has done business with the team since the 1980s, will continue as its primary sponsor through the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
Placid No More: Once-Sleepy Adirondack Town Now Tourist Powerhouse, Thanks To Two Olympic Games Jim Shea paused for more than a moment, almost unable to imagine the thought of Lake Placid without the legacy of hosting two Winter Olympic games, in 1932 and 1980.
If you find the media frenzy surrounding Tiger Woods’ serial infidelities a bit much, trust me on this: it’s a neighborhood carnival compared with the five-ring Olympic circus that was Tonya Harding vs. Nancy Kerrigan at the 1994 Lillehammer Games.
Italy’s loss is Telluride’s gain. Due to a lack of snow, a snowboard World Cup race that was penciled for Europe is now slated for Telluride, giving the ski area its third World Cup event in the month of December, from the 15-20 of the month.
After skiing down Whistler Mountain's 5,280 feet of vertical fun, I glanced at the summit and wondered why this massive, snow-topped peak had been rejected as a Winter Olympics host at least three times since the 1960s.
Don Sleeman, a longtime cross country and track coach at Pioneer High School, was recently honored with a proclamation by the Ann Arbor City Council.
"Small little Adirondack resort" staged two Winter Olympics, including 1980's "Miracle on Ice," but it began as and remains a prime summer destination.
Published: Sunday, December 20, 2009 at 3:15 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, December 19, 2009 at 3:53 p.m. ATLANTA -- New York City has Times Square. New Orleans is known for the French Quarter, and in San Francisco, camera-toting tourists flock to Fisherman's Wharf.
The first decade of the 21st century was an unprecedented period of loss in Tucson sports.
The Alexander Ovechkin show rolled through the 2010 Olympic city on Friday, generating plenty of buzz but no victory as the NHL's Washington Capitals lost 3-2 to the Vancouver Canucks.
Here's a look at Thursday's sports in brief around the world.
