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Friday, November 20
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Saving Best for Last
Kenenisa Bekele, center, surged to win the men’s 5,000, after the defending champion, Bernard Lagat, left, passed him with about 50 meters to go. Bekele became the first man to win the 5,000 and the 10,000 at the same world championships. |
BERLIN--The German capital usually turns quiet on a Sunday, as the building cranes and most of the shops shut down.But on the last day of the world track and field championships, the central thoroughfares remained full of shouts and murmurs with medals still at stake. At the Brandenburg Gate in the early afternoon, Bai Xue of China won the women’s marathon in 2 hours 25 minutes 15 seconds after shaking free of Yoshimi Ozaki of Japan in the final kilometer. Kara Goucher, in 10th, was the top finisher from the United States in a race that provided China with its first and only
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Wally to Play Pro Ball with League in Europe
An Oklahoma Cityan will be leaving this month to join one of the big basketball leagues in Europe.Jason Walley, 25, who had a knee replaced after he was diagnosed with osteosarcoma and wears a left leg prosthesis, will play for the Casa Murcia Gestafe wheelchair basketball team of Spain. He
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Bolt Shreds 200 Mark
“My main aim is to become a legend,“ said Usain Bolt, who earned his second $100,000 world record bonus check. |
BERLIN--“Insane Bolt.” “That’s what we call him,” U.S. sprinter Wallace Spearmon said of Usain Bolt. The playful Jamaican obliterated his second world record of the world championships on Thursday night, running 200 meters in a once-inconceivable 19.19 seconds. Bolt sliced 0.11 off the record he set last year at the Beijing Olympics, the same margin by which he broke his 100-meter world record on Sunday when he ran 9.58. “]To run] 9.5,” teammate Steve Mullings said, “is just crazy, 19.1 is just sick. He’s got an 18-second
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‘Sincere in His Remorse’
ATLANTA--Michael Vick is officially looking for work again.The former Atlanta Falcons quarterback was conditionally reinstated to the National Football League on Monday, critical to restoring a career derailed by his role in dogfighting that resulted in him serving a 20-month sentence. Vick,
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Rockets Optimistic
The acquisition of Ron Artest reunites him with Coach Rick Adelman. |
HOUSTON--He is controversial and combative, a combustible cat with nine--or is it 90?--National Basketball Association lives. Ron Artest also is one terrific NBA player. New city, new teammates--a “new” No. 96 jersey? “So far, Ron has been great,” Houston Rockets Coach Rick Adelman said. Artest, 28, has survived, and sometimes thrived in, a nine-year sojourn that has led him to four franchises, including stops with the Chicago Bulls, Indiana Pacers and Sacramento Kings. Besides lock-down defense, stout rebounding and reliable scoring, teams have received
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More Headlines
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Thunder Fails To Clap Loud In First Game
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Coach Turns to Core
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Expectations High For Oden With the NBA
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Rivalry
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Coming Off the Bench
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Difficult Twists
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A Veteran’s Rout
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