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Plus: IOC chides Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt; BMX gets rained out Misty May-Treanor, right, and her teammate Kerri Walsh won their beach volleyball match over China's Tian Jia and Wang Jie. The Chinese and the wretched Beijing...
Gene Upshaw, the Hall of Fame guard who during a quarter century as union head helped get NFL players free agency and the riches that came with it, has died. Upshaw died Wednesday night at his home in Lake Tahoe, Calif., of...
ST. LOUIS - Rams running back Steven Jackson ended his holdout on Wednesday and St. Louis appeared on the verge of signing him to a new multiyear contract. Jackson told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch he had agreed “in principle”...
The United States had dominated softball throughout its four-Olympic run, all the way to the last game. The team had rolled through 22 consecutive opponents dating to 2000, outscored its 2008 Olympic opponents, 57-2, and looked...
Women still at home three days after being officially notified of punishment Son: Women under surveillance by government-backed neighborhood group Swarms of plainclothes police set upon four foreign activists BEIJING, China...
Jamaican Sprinter Scolded for Showing Off Jamaican double sprint gold medalist Usain Bolt is now on a par with the great U.S. sprinter Jesse Owens but should show more respect to his fellow competitors, IOC chief Jacques Rogge...
BEIJING (AP) — Olga Kaniskina of Russia has won the women's 20-kilometer (12.4-mile) race walk gold medal in a dominating start-to-finish performance in wet conditions at the Beijing Olympics. The 23-year-old Kaniskina opened...
Maarten van der Weijden of Netherlands competing in the men's marathon open-water swimming race Thursday. (Aly Song/Reuters) From leukemia to gold, Dutch swimmer wins 10-kilometer race : Dutch swimmer Maarten van der Weijden...
Bronson Arroyo and two Cincinnati relievers made it a rare night at Wrigley Field. Not only did the Reds beat the Chicago Cubs in their home park, a difficult enough task, they limited the NL Central leaders to just three hits...
