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The International Baseball Federation will elect a new president to lead the sport after its latest Olympic rejection. Italian federation president Riccardo Fraccari and IBAF secretary general John Ostermeyer of Australia are the candidates to succeed Harvey Schiller. The American steps down after the International Olympic Committee rejected baseball's bid for the games.
Here's a look at Monday's sports in brief around the world.
USA Track and Field has proposed a budget of $21 million for next year, a 40 percent increase over 2009 thanks largely to a new marketing deal with Nike. USATF chief executive officer Doug Logan unveiled the budget plan Thursday at the organization's annual... United States - USA Track & Field - Doug Logan - sport - Track and field athletics
For years, Santiago Chavez watched his big brothers practice jujitsu, wishing he could participate. But for a boy who once used a wheelchair and now needs crutches to walk, martial arts lessons were out of the question.
PHILADELPHIA - Placido Polanco is putting aside his Gold Glove and switching positions to have a chance at winning a championship. Polanco, 34, returned to the Philadelphia Phillies yesterday, agreeing to an $18 million, three-year contract. The free agent won Gold Gloves at second base for the Detroit Tigers in 2007 and this year, but will shift to third base, which hasn’t been his primary ...
St. Helena resident Paul Asmuth is about to give another meaning to the phrase “going the distance.” Asmuth has been inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
Going to Canada? You may be detained at the border and interrogated. I was, last week. I was heading from Seattle to give a talk at the Vancouver Public Library. My detention provoked outrage across Canada, making national news. It has serious implications for the freedom of the press in North America. I drove to the border with two colleagues. We showed our passports to the Canadian guard and ...
BEAVER CREEK, Colo. - For years, you could count on seeing Daron Rahlves and Bode Miller as top finishers in the world's biggest ski races. But, for the Americans, there wasn't much hope beyond those two. Times have changed for the U.S. team. Its talent now extends well beyond established vets like Miller and Ted Ligety. Buoyed by up-and-comers skiers who are itching to break out, the team has a ...
COATESVILLE — Even if he had normal vision, he wouldn't have seen this coming at the start of last summer.
TRENTON - Two of Burlington County's most famous residents are now Hall of Famers.
Butte High sophomore Lew Yong Gerbrandt will be among the entries as top American swimmers, including members of the 2008 U.S. Olympic Swim Team, will compete at the 2009 AT&T Short Course National Championships through Saturday.
Arbitron Inc. announced today that together with online marketing research and analytics companies comScore, Inc. and Omniture, an Adobe company , it is collaborating with NBC Sports, a division of NBC Universal, Inc. to provide reliable and credible cross-platform audience measurement for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
There are about 200 active rugby players in the Charleston area, estimates Andy Pelland, president of the Charleston Rugby Club. But if Pelland and his mates have their way, that number will soon be on the rise.
What the 2008 Olympics did for Beijing - blasting China's capital onto the world stage - Expo 2010 will do for San Francisco's sister city, Shanghai. More than 190 countries have signed up to put their best faces forward there. Under the theme Better City,... Shanghai - Beijing - China - San Francisco - Expo 2010 Shanghai China
Hillsborough resident, and four-time Olympian, Joetta Clark Diggs will be inducted into the United States Track & Field Hall of Fame.
COPPER MOUNTAIN - The money goes where the medals are. It's one of those Darwinian truths that often undercuts the oft-told Olympic fairy tale about the journey being as important as the result.
Luminetx Corp.'s board of directors has agreed to sell the company's assets to Japan-based Christie Digital Systems Inc. The acquisition is subject to a vote by shareholders of Luminetx, a Memphis-based vascular imaging company. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. "Luminetx is both excited by the potential and fully supportive of the pending acquisition," said Chris Schnee, the privately held ...
Alex Rodriguez, Michael Phelps and Tiger Woods are three sports icons who tarnished their reputations and stole the headlines in 2009 for their actions off the field.
A Call for Action at Atlanta Chamber's 150th Annual Meeting
HONG KONG (AP) — Armed with a host of Olympic gold medalists, China is expected to dominate the East Asian Games that officially kick off in Hong Kong on Saturday, but Japan, South Korea and North Korea will offer stiff competition in some sports.
Brush aside all those stodgy notions about curling.
