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Sochi, the Russian city that will host the 2014 Winter Olympics, has been chosen as the venue for an international peace and sport conference in 2012. The decision was announced Wednesday at the opening in Monaco of the 2009 Peace and Sports International Forum, whose patron is Prince Albert. He is also a member of the International Olympic Committee.
The 338-person guest list was a study in contrasts, mixing wonky Washington, Hollywood talent, prominent members of the Indian community in the U.S. and Obama friends, family and campaign donors. VIEW SLIDESHOW
Both the readers and editors agree: The Tiger Slam was the biggest golf news story of the last 10 years.
There is a strange fixating pull to the implosion at Notre Dame, where Coach Charlie Weis’s imminent demise has become the slow-motion car crash no one can stop craning their necks to watch.
One of the enduring images of Rio's beaches -- coconuts opened to yield their sweet water -- is about to be a thing of the past under a new clean-up campaign by authorities.
The Longhorns recently held the first annual Bevo Cup, a sprint race that combines novice and varsity rowers. AUSTIN, Texas -- Meg George knew about rowing, because she saw a picture of it once, in the back of a magazine. She didn't actually dream herself to be a rower, though.
Natalie Benson has created a sort of domino effect for the Huntington Beach Water Polo Club.
Noted: UCCS replaces FAC Modern, snowplow outsourcing, Clark down on DHS, changes at Humane Society and more. Marshall, Brodie charged in real-estate scheme A local grand jury has handed down a 33-county indictment of Ray Marshall and James Brodie, two officials with LandCo Equity Partners, the firm at the center of the citys deal with the U.S. Olympic Committee, in connection with a real estate ...
After being photographed using an inhaler prior to extra-time in his MLS Cup Final, the news that David Beckham has been an asthma sufferer since childhood has propelled the condition into the limelight.
Top American swimmers, including members of the 2008 U.S. Olympic Swim Team, will compete at the 2009 AT&T Short Course National Championships, December 3-5 at the King County Aquatic Center.
A mother changes her family’s Thanksgiving menu to fit her dieting needs.
Two Iowa State University psychologists and video game researchers offer parents tips on how they can promote healthy video game play with their kids this holiday season.
China executed a dairy farmer and a milk salesman Tuesday for their roles in the sale of contaminated baby formula.
Work on the roof of the new U.S. Olympic Committee headquarters is finished. “Let it snow!” city spokeswoman Sue Skiffington-Blumberg said in an e-mail. After a snowfall last week, blocks of snow and ice fell off the roof of the building at 27...
Here's a look at Monday's sports in brief around the world.
Duke and Connecticut take the Garden's stage in the Dick Sporting Goods NIT Season Tip-Off.
Mike Plant was elected to the 15-member UCI Management Committee by the UCI Congress in Lugano, Switzerland during the UCI Road World Championships in September. A previous member of the UCI Management Committee from 1997 to 2004, Plant joins the president of the Pan American Cycling Confederation, Cuban Jose Pelaez, for another four-year term representing the American contingent to cycling's ...
USA Cycling announced today the return of the nationandrsquo;s professional cross country mountain bike series designed to amplify athletesandrsquo; opportunities, increase exposure for mountain biking domestically and to maximize U.S. start spots on the sportandrsquo;s highest stages. The USA Cycling Pro Mountain Bike Cross Country Tour (Pro XCT) presented by US Cup will consist of six UCI ...
L’Observateur LaPlace’s Charles “Chuck” Wisher was honored last Saturday as Louisiana’s Senior Olympian of the Year at the Celebration of Athletes luncheon in Baton Rouge.
Two men were executed in China on Tuesday for their roles in a contaminated milk powder scandal that led to the deaths of at least six infants and sickened up to 300,000, state media said.
Kelvin Garmon, who played for the Dallas Cowboys, is among them.
