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Visa is conducting an integrated campaign for the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver to urge consumers to use the company's credit cards while traveling there. The effort builds on Visa's effort for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, which used the tagline, "Go World."
CORPUS CHRISTI — He won’t hit his 17th birthday until Nov. 19, but Jeremy Longoria is continuing his pace for reaching an Olympic dream. The latest step came early last month in Houston, where Longoria was among 100 young fighters participating in the Texas Elite Amateur Showcase. At the invitation-only event sponsored by Undefeated Magazine, Longoria scored a 4-1 decision over Houston’s O ...
We are under 100 days and counting until the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games. The quadrennial running of the Olympic
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — Los Angeles Galaxy forward Landon Donovan will be among those missing when the United States plays Slovakia in an exhibition game Saturday.
Michael Phelps failed to qualify for the finals of the 100-meter freestyle and 100 backstroke events at a World Cup short-course meet while wearing an old-style swimsuit.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The U.S. Olympic Committee has signed a sponsorship deal that makes DISC Sports and Spine Center its official medical services provider through the 2012 Olympics.
- Michael Phelps plans to wear the old-style swimsuit that will become the standard next year at the European World Cup meet.
Swimming legend Michael Phelps failed to make it past the 100 metres freestyle heats when he returned to action in the Stockholm leg of the short-course World Cup on Tuesday.
By Samantha Critchell The Associated Press Ralph Lauren's affinity for Americana will be on full display on athletes at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia - complete with red, white and blue, stars-and-stripes flags and, of course, polo ponies.
LONDON — World Cup organizers say there was never an emergency plan to move the 2010 tournament if South Africa were not ready. FIFA president Sepp Blatter said the United States was among countries that could host at short notice.
Yale Law School students gathered Monday for a bone marrow drive in support of a recent graduate — Nigeria’s first Winter Olympian hopeful — who has been diagnosed with aggressive cancer.
LAKE STEVENS — Ursula Grobler James is unsure what the future holds for her rowing career. But her present just keeps getting better and better.
A San Francisco artist recovers after being stabbed while painting on Market Street.
As Supreme Protein prepares to expand its award-winning product line of premium-nutrition super foods with the introduction of Raptor, a breakthrough pre-training performance-enhancing energy bar, its Team Supreme continues to grow as well.
COMMERCE — Services have been scheduled for Dr. Jesse Jefferson Hawthorne, who garnered multiple awards and honors during more than three decades as an educator at East Texas State University (now Texas A&M University-Commerce).
PASSAGE of health care legislation in the U.S. House on Saturday had President Barack Obama the next day urging the Senate to "take up the baton and bring this effort to the finish line.” Unfortunately for backers of Obamacare, it won’t be that simple.Picture two sprinters trying to execute the baton transfer — with Gerald McCoy bearing down on them from their blind side. That’s the reception ...
Dr. Peter Snell, adjunct associate professor of internal medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center and a three-time Olympic gold medalist for his native New Zealand, has won yet another honor - a knighthood in his homeland.
With the U.S. PGA looking to foster closer ties with China, it was fitting that Phil Mickelson was the first winner of a World Golf Championship event in the country at the HSBC Champions over the weekend.
The Deep South's oldest rivalry on Saturday just might come down to the foot of a kicker from South Florida. Georgia's Blair Walsh and Auburn's Wes Byrum both went to schools in Fort Lauderdale. Both were named Monday among the 20 semifinalists for the Lou Groza Award for nation's top kicker.
Heidi Grimm wishes she had a manual detailing how to work with disabled soldiers who become active in adaptive sports. She knows it doesn’t exist, meaning Army bases across the country must determine the best programming, with help from U.S....
A charitable foundation is donating $3 million to help keep the U.S. Olympic Committee headquarters in Colorado Springs.
