Sports: Olympic
Currently listing articles 93-51:
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BC Sports Treehouse Fort Headlines For July 18— All-Star Game goes 15 ... Greg Norman shocks the Open ... US Olympics break legs ... and a chainsaw injury.
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BC Sports Treehouse Fort Headlines For July 11— Cocaine... marijuana... EPO... caffeine... just another Treehouse Fort extravaganza.
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When Political Correctness Meets Automation: A Disaster Of Olympic Proportions— The Wild, Wild, Web: When automation and political correctness root out journalistic dishonesty.
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BC Sports Treehouse Fort Headlines For July 1— Marlins comebacks ... A-Rod says no to HR Derby ... NHL signings ... and the Baron in LA.
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Let Dwain Chambers Run In The Olympics— Chambers the drug cheat did the crime and has served his time. Let him run and see what happens.
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The Shanghai Diaries: Olympic Fever— I'm finally starting to catch Olympic fever.
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The Ramble: Steroids are Worse Than Gambling, Drug Free Olympics Impossible, Trevor Graham Trial Fallout, Horses on Steroids and the Dog Days of June— Talk of steroids, human growth hormone, EPO continue to dominate in the world of sports.
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Government Is Involved With Everything We Do, Not Just Sports
— Congress and other branches of the federal government are willing to involve themselves in the business of sport. Why is this a surprise?
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Should Softball's Chop Be No More?— The Baltimore Chop, one of the most underused plays in baseball, has found unparalleled success on the softball field.
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The Ramble: Steroids, Steroids Everywhere and Human Growth Hormone Too— Stories related to steroids (and other PEDs) dominate the sports pages, from the Kentucky Derby to the NFL, from baseball to the Olympics.
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The Ramble: Steroid Busts, Steroid Tests, Steroid Trials, Steroid Investigations, And Falling Production
— In the past week there have been a ton of stories dealing with steroids and human growth hormone (HGH).
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The Ramble: Smaller Baseball Players, an Olympic Weightlifting Drug Scandal, Drug Snitches and Drug Cheats, Hamstring Injuries and Tiger Loses the Masters— As a recurring theme, the steroids and HGH in sports story dominates the news once again. Oh, and Tiger lost.
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The Ramble Is Back: Canseco, Conte, Opening Days the Final Four and Brett Favre’s Comeback— Jose Canseco tries to stay relevant, baseball had all of its Opening Days and a whole bunch of growth hormone news.
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More Mainstream Media Human Growth Hormone Misreporting— The MSM drops the ball again when it comes to reporting about Human Growth Hormone and its performance-enhancing properties.
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Sweden's Susanna Kallur (7.68) Sets World Record in 60m Hurdles— Kallur set a new Swedish record in Stuttgart last week, breaking the 18-year-old world record.
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Soboleva Sets Second World Record in Moscow— Russian Yelena Soboleva set her second world indoor record at 1.500m and won two events in Moscow.
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CAS Upholds Stambolova, Veneva Doping Bans— The court's decision is categorical and accepted. Stambolova and Veneva will miss the Beijing Games.
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Jeremy Wariner Splits From His Coach— A double-gold medalist and four-time world champion has changed coaches mid-stream.
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UK Athletics Chief Calls For Tougher Anti-Doping Measures— Niels de Vos has demanded that drug cheats within his sport be subjected to criminal proceedings.
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Soboleva Sets National Russian Indoor Mile Record
— Russian Yelena Soboleva set a new national indoor mile record Sunday in Moscow, running 4 minutes 20.21 seconds.
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Athletes' Personal Space: Badly Needed, Hardly Granted— At what point, however, do we as fans give these human beings space to sort things out?
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Justin Gatlin Files for Olympic Reinstatement
— Suspended Olympic champion Justin Gatlin has appealed his four-year doping ban to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
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Is Dwain Chambers "Clean" Enough For Sport's Image?— Chambers will need to bottle up all of his anger, every bit of his remorse to stage a successful comeback.
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Marion Jones Speaks Out on Oprah— One needn't follow Marion Jones's footsteps to understand the degree of shame she has apparently faced.
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Marion Jones to Appear on Wednesday's Oprah
— This is her first interview since being sentenced to six months incarceration at a minimum-security facility.
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Justice Served: Jones Sentenced— Marion Jones' prison sentence is just the latest benchmark in a long line of events unfolding in 2008
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Felons on Wheels: Marion Jones Awaiting Time Schedule
— After lying about performance enhancers, no PEDs can save Jones from possible jail time.
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Nintendo Wii Review: Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games— Popular franchise characters provide a great physical workout and deep multiplayer experience with a variety of familiar events.
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On Road To the 2008 Olympics: 16th Annual Elite Pro-Am Swim Meet - Shootout at the OK Corral— During one of the worst ice storms in the state of Oklahoma, the heat was on and the house was rockin.
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Did Marion Jones Get A Plea Deal?— Why would she admit steroid use now? Was the admission part of a plea arrangement?
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It’s Been A Long Road For Marion Jones— It was simply a matter for time before Jones' guilty plea.
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Book Review: God In My Corner: A Spiritual Memoir by George Foreman— Having grown up in extreme poverty, I became a millionaire, and then went bankrupt. Now I’m better off than ever.”
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Amanda Beard Really Isn’t That Great Looking— There’s a lot of hubbub over this gold medal winner posing nude. None of it is about how good she looks.
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Satire: How to Win the 2016 Olympic Bid— Chicago can bring the Olympics back to the States — with the proper hats.
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Q: Why Would Irving Jaffee Cringe at the Song “Here Comes the Sun”?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Dedicated Steroid Coverage Remains Absent— An investigation into web-based pharmacies will lead to the arrest of physicians, pharmacists and business owners and implicate athletes.
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Q: Why is the Marathon Race Longer Now?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: What Track and Field “She” Was a "He”?— The mental_floss question of the day.
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Doha, Qatar Ready to Host The 15th Asian Games— The world's second largest sports event in one of the globe's smallest countries, starts on the 1st of December.
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Former Olympian Trudges to North American Wife Carrying Championship— Wife carrying for fun and prizes in Maine.
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Marion Jones Reportedly Tests Positive For Banned Substance— The cloud of suspicion that has hovered over Jones’ head for years becomes more than a just a cloud.
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Book Review: Pound For Pound by F.X. Toole— This is a novel about boxing the same way The Old Man and the Sea is a novel about fishing.
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The Ramble: The Short And Sweet Edition— Verbosity takes a holiday and breviloquence moves in, as there’s a two sentence limit per entry during The Ramble.
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