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Friday, March 05
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Davis Is Solo Act on Skating Rink
CHICAGO--Olympic and world champion Shani Davis is noticeably absent from U.S. Speedskating’s media guide, except for in the small type in the records section. He is not among the eight athletes picture on the cover. His biography is omitted inside. All by his choice. Three of Davis’ four main sponsors are European companies virtually unknown in the United States. Team Davis, as his Website refers to its endeavor, is an exclusive club. It’s, essentially, Davis and his mother, Cherie Davis, who serves as his manager. On the ice, he is, essentially, his
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Unlikely Stopover on a Journey
METAIRIE, La.--The road to the Super Bowl rarely runs through a halfway house, which is what makes Saints defensive tackle Anthony Hargrove’s story special--and, to those who care about him, a little unsettling. Eight months after being treated in south Florida for alcohol and drug addiction, Hargrove is headed back there for Super Bowl XLIV. The ramifications hit Hargrove with the same force as his bone-rattling collisions with Vikings quarterback Brett Favre in New Orleans’s overtime victory against Minnesota in the National Football Conference championship
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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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