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3 hrs ago | ESPN

Book smart and street smart, Arum at top of boxing

The most powerful man in boxing is a Harvard-educated tax lawyer and a street-savvy businessman, a Talmudic scholar with a penchant for four-letter expletives.

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Related Topix: Manny Pacquiao

8 hrs ago | Free Press

Toronto beats two South American rivals to win bid to host Pan Am Games in 2015

After years of disappointments, Toronto has finally won a major international sporting event, beating two South American cities to host the 2015 Pan Am Games.

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Related Topix: Sports, Olympics, Olympic Winter Games, Olympic Swimming, Priscilla Lopes-Schliep, Swimming

12 hrs ago | The Winnipeg Free Press

Cone jumps clean round to take early lead at Canadian show jumping championship

Mac Cone jumped a clean round aboard Ole on Friday to lead after the first round of the $100,000 Canadian show jumping championship at the 87th Royal Horse Show.

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Related Topix: Mac Cone, Ian Millar, Travel

17 hrs ago | The Sydney Morning Herald

New world record for Australian swimmer

Australian swimmer Marieke Guehrer set a new shortcourse world record of 26.17 seconds for the women's 50-metre backstroke at the Moscow leg of FINA's World Cup series.

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Related Topix: Sports, Swimming, Felicity Galvez, Jessica Hardy

Fri Nov 06, 2009

CNN

U.S. Fed Cup team leans on Oudin for Italy final

Melanie Oudin has the bright lights on her again. Oudin surged from nowhere to reach the U.S. Open quarterfinals in September.

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Related Topix: Melanie Oudin, Sports, Tennis Players, More Sports, Tennis, US Open, Maria Sharapova, Francesca Schiavone (2008 Beijing Olympics), Elena Dementieva (2008 Beijing Olympics), Olympics, Olympic Summer Games

BBC News

Bolt guru Mills ends Jamaica role

Usain Bolt's coach Glen Mills is to step down after 22 years in charge of the Jamaican athletics team.

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Related Topix: Usain Bolt

The Sydney Morning Herald

Evans to ride in Tour Down Under

Cadel Evans will wear the rainbow jersey as the reigning world champion at the Tour Down Under.

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Related Topix: Cadel Evans, Sports, More Sports, Cycling, Lance Armstrong, Discovery Channel

CANOE

T.O.'s Pan Am bid proposes variety of venues

Canadian track and field athletes will race for gold at a new 15,000-seat stadium in Hamilton if Toronto is awarded the 2015 Pan American Games while swimmers will dive into a new pool big enough to host large-scale international events.

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Related Topix: Priscilla Lopes-Schliep, Olympic Track And Field, Sports, Swimming, Alexandra Orlando, Olympics, Olympic Summer Games

WXMI

US Open semifinalist Wickmayer withdraws from Bali tournament after 1-year suspension

US Open semifinalist Yanina Wickmayer voluntarily withdrew from the ongoing Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions on Friday after receiving a one-year suspension by a Belgian anti-doping tribunal.

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Related Topix: Sports, More Sports, US Open, Tennis, Anabel Medina Garrigues (2008 Beijing Olympics), Tennis Players, Xavier Malisse

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Gulf Times

Trentino enter semis, Cimed beat Al Arabi

NET DUAL: Puerto Rican club Corozal's Fernando Morales beats the block of Egyptian club Zamalek's Mohamed Badawy during their Pool - A' match in the FIVB Men's Club Volleyball World Championship at the Aspire Zone indoor hall yesterday.

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Related Topix: Lloy Ball

The Boston Globe

Lieberman breaks another basketball gender barrier

In this Aug. 23, 1999 file photo, Detroit Shock coach Nancy Lieberman-Cline, center, gives some instructions to the team in Auburn Hills, Mich.

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Related Topix: Kobe Bryant (2008 Beijing Olympics), Olympic Basketball, Sports, Dallas Mavericks, NBA Basketball

The New Zealand Herald

Cycling: Hutchings in 'lucky' stage win

Perth-based New Zealand cyclist Logan Hutchings had consigned himself to the role of water boy before a "lucky break" led to his victory in the third stage of the Tour of Southland yesterday.

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Related Topix: Jesse Sergent, Marc Ryan

WLNE-TV Providence

Swimming to Florida: Ri Olympic Pool Star Beisel Plans to be a Gator

Rhode Island Olympic swimmer Elizabeth Beisel has announced that she plans to attend the University of Florida next fall.

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Related Topix: Elizabeth Beisel, Olympic Swimming, Sports, Gregg Troy, Olympics, Swimming

MSNBC

Colbert swoops in to save speedskating team

A A Taylor Swift on - SNL' A A Taylor Swift chats about pulling double duty as host and musical guest on "Saturday Night Live" and which songs she will perform.

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Related Topix: Sports, Olympics, Winter Sports, Apolo Anton Ohno, Shani Davis, Speed Skating, Chad Hedrick, Parra, Derek Parra

National Post

Iron Chef America to raid the White House kitchen garden

America's First Couple have eaten a meal prepared by Jamie Oliver and visited New York's high-ranking Blue Duck Tavern this year for their wedding anniversary, so it's only fiting that the local-food crusading Obamas are set to factor heavily in North America's favourite culinary pastime: Iron Chef America .

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Related Topix: Natalie Coughlin

Wed Nov 04, 2009

SuperstationWGN.com TV

Winter Olympians celebrate 100 days until the Vancouver Games

A very confident adolescent boy stopped skating around the Rockefeller Center rink to ask Gretchen Bleiler something.

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Related Topix: Sports, More Sports, Figure Skating, Ice Skating, Winter Sports, Competitive Skating, Alpine Skiing, Olympic Trampoline, Biathlon, Olympics, Olympic Winter Games

Roch Around the Clock

In pursuit of pursuit: US cycling star Taylor Phinney's event may be bumped from 2012 Games

Minutes after pedaling off the Olympic track in Beijing, American cycling standout Taylor Phinney was already talking about winning a gold medal at the 2012 London Games in the individual pursuit.

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Related Topix: Taylor Phinney, Sports, Olympics, Olympic Summer Games

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Zhang says 'Blood Simple' has shades of Chow

In this March 12, 2008 file photo, Chinese director Zhang Yimou clasps his hands to express hope for good weather while speaking about the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games during a press conference held as part of the annual legislature meetings at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

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Related Topix: Sports, Olympics, Olympic Summer Games, Olympic Soccer, Olympic Shooting, Movies, Entertainment

ABC News

Organizers Struggle to Fill Beijing's Bird Nest

Chinese officials continue to struggle to find uses for the Bird's Nest Stadium, the iconic centerpiece of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

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Related Topix: Sports, Olympics, Usain Bolt, Olympic Summer Games

MSNBC

NYT: Is N.Y. marathon winner American enough?

As soon as Mebrahtom Keflezighi , better known as Meb, won the New York City Marathon on Sunday, an uncommon sports dispute erupted online, fraught with racial and nationalistic components: Should Keflezighi's triumph count as an American victory? He was widely celebrated as the first American to win the New York race since 1982.

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Related Topix: Outdoor Recreation, Marathon, Nastia Liukin

Olympic Medal Count

    Total
1 China 51 21 28 100
2 United States 36 38 36 110
3 Russian Fed. 23 21 28 72
4 Great Britain 19 13 15 47
5 Germany 16 10 15 41
6 Australia 14 15 17 46
7 Korea 13 10 8 31
8 Japan 9 6 10 25
9 Italy 8 10 10 28
10 France 7 16 17 40

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