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European soccer leaders have unanimously backed a proposal to limit participation in future Olympic Games to players under the age of 21. The International Olympic Committee wants to keep the status quo of under-23s plus three overage players, which allows countries to bolster their teams with star talent and enhances the appeal and credibility of the Olympic tournament.
FRANKFURT — Five-time Olympic speedskating champion Claudia Pechstein lost her appeal against a two-year ban for blood doping Wednesday and will miss the Vancouver Games.
America's best known weatherman Al Roker, who is already a top-selling author, changes gears with "The Morning Show Murders", a mystery thriller set in his world of network breakfast television.
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.
Brazil is seen as an economic success story and its people revere President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva like a star. He is on a mission to turn the country into one of the world's five biggest economies through reforms, giant infrastructure projects and by tapping vast oil reserves.
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 grand jury didn't indict Mayor Lionel Rivera, who earlier this year survived a city Ethics Commission investigation of his role as financial advisor handling Marshall's money in 2007 as the city was about to consider USOC proposals from developers. by Pam Zubeck A local grand jury has handed down a 33-count indictment of Ray Marshall and James Brodie, two officials with LandCo Equity ...
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.
EL PASO COUNTY - USOC headquarters developers indicted by a grand jury on 33 counts, none of which are related to USOC deal.
At 41 years old, most athletes are well past their prime, especially Olympic-level competitors.
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...
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 ...
