FORT MYERS, FL-- - This winter, snowbirds set their sight on both sunshine and savings, as one of the top Sanibel Island luxury hotels launches its limited-time "20/20" sale. Travelers who book ...
When UNLV's Jerry Tarkanian lost a recruit to a school that gave the kid a nicer vehicle than the Rebels were offering, Tark would grump, "We got vanned." Cal got Twittered. The Bears lost three prized football recruits...
Rising middle-distance runner Matthew Centrowitz is chasing his father's footsteps with a chance for everything to come full circle on Oregon's famed oval track. It was at Hayward Field, nearly 36 years ago, that Matt Centrowitz -- a brash kid from New York brimming with confidence -- became a surprise Olympian in the middle of his collegiate career with the Ducks.
College baseball is the backdrop to an engrossing if sometimes implausible tale of male bonding Chad Harbach's The Art of Fielding cross-breeds two genres with limited gene pools, the baseball novel and the campus novel, and comes up with a vigorous hybrid, entertaining and engrossing, though almost absurdly high-minded. There are only a few passages of unrelieved sporting technicality ("Rick O ...
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Cameroon 'juju men' fail to help national football team
Rising middle-distance runner Matthew Centrowitz is chasing his father's footsteps with a chance for everything to come full circle on Oregon's famed oval track.
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Journey of Hope: After a snowmobile accident, Grant Korgan was told he would never walk again. A year later, with his wife by his side, he proves what love and determination can accomplish.
Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to be a Yankees fan, or the fan of any team that has created a dynasty in its particular sport. I wonder what it would be like to approach every season with a "championship-or-bust" mentality. Sometimes I think it would be kind of cool, knowing that your team is going to do whatever it takes, and spend whatever needs to be spent to create a team that, at ...
A professional athlete of any sort has to have a certain amount of conditioning to stay competitive, but as we've seen from a number of baseball players throughout the years, some don't take that point too seriously. Others, on the other hand, do. In the steroid era, we saw players bulking up more than ever, and while players like Jim Thome were just as big but didn't have the association, many ...
When Mahathir Mohamad took over the leadership of Malaysia from the late Hussein Onn in 1981, he immediately embarked on a series of development programs, corporatizing and privatising national agencies and assets including road-building and utilities.
Black Caviar's flawless success has made her a favourite to win at Royal Ascot, writes Chris Roots.
Fifteen years ago, Bobby Thomson's hyperbolically named "Shot Heard Round the World" – a league-winning home run that was likely rather better heard in Upper Manhattan than Uttar Pradesh – set in motion Don DeLillo's epic Underworld, and the search for a pattern of meaning in a half-century of cultural flotsam.
Surprisingly green, Abu Dhabi. When Sheik Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, father of the United Arab Emirates, wished to affect climate change, he did so by planting flora in a strip 55 kilometres long, along the main highway to Dubai.
I have never been enamored with the NFL.
STATE OF STATE REACT: Gov. Pat Quinn called for tax cuts, greater spending for education and helping Illinoisans get or keep housing. The Chicago Democrat focused much of his speech on listing the state's success, with no mention of a budget shortfall that includes $8.5 billion in unpaid bills.
Labour leader Ed Miliband today urged tougher action to rein in the bonus culture after Royal Bank of Scotland chief Stephen Hester was pressured into giving up £1 million.
In some parts of the country – particularly the Midwest and the South – football is practically a “religion” of sorts.
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