Olympic speed skater Allison Baver works out 8 hours a day The Examiner | At 29-years-old, Allison Baver works out 8 hours a day, seven days a week to stay primed for her role on the Women's Winter Olympics team. As a world champion speed skater, Baver is also the face of Secret's "Fear of Nothing" ads. | After ranking third in the world during the 2005-2006 s...
Super Bowl Judgements: Saints clear every tough hurdle to title CBS News | Tell Clark your opinion! | 1. Beating Indianapolis is big. Beating Kurt Warner, Brett Favre and Peyton Manning in succession is bigger. All three are Hall of Famers waiting to happen, and the Saints got to the top by climbing over all of them in the playoffs. "What more can be said?" Saints runnin...
Canada's athletes prepare for final exams at 2010 Olympic Winter Games Breitbart VANCOUVER, B.C. - The pressure is on the home team to shine at the Vancouver Winter Games. | Canadians have set their most ambitious Olympic target ever. Win more medals, no matter what colour, than any other country. | "We'll be winning medals prett...
Winter athletes fight to get day in sun Newsvine The TV ad opens with a Michael Phelps pool plunge. Hardly a creative splash. But then a swimming Phelps explodes through the pool wall into a street, churning up pavement, butterfly-stroking next through a wheat field until, finally, he plows up an e...
US troops killed in Afghanistan and Africa The News & Observer | Marine Cpl. Jamie R. Lowe | Jamie R. Lowe's parents wanted their son's funeral to be upbeat and patriotic, just like he was, so they asked people to show up in blue jeans and played lively music. | Jeff Milner, who was Lowe's best friend at Cisne H...
Texans draft watch: RB Joique Bell The Examiner | Continuing our draft watch series, let's take a look at senior running back Joique Bell from Wayne State (Detroit). | The Texans primary needs entering the 2010 draft are at running back, free safety, interior offensive lin...
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Top international athletes: Pacquiao no. 5 The Examiner | Manny Pacquiao: # 5. Facebook (Getty) Examiner.com > | Subscribe International Sports Examiner Business and Finance Examiner Houston Boxing Examiner -...
Seeking Your Inner Federer, if the Muscles (Groan!) Allow Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Wesley Chapel, Fla. | TECHNICAL commands were sprayed with the same tormenting frequency as the fluffy yellow balls: "Move your feet ... racket back ...turn ... turn ... turn!" |...
War on smokers: the backlash The Guardian | The government wants to halve the number of cigarette users, infuriating the tobacco industry and diehard smokers | Smokers were here! Photograph: Linda Nylind | This week, the D...
US troops killed in Afghanistan and Africa Houston Chronicle | - Marine Cpl. Jamie R. Lowe | Jamie R. Lowe's parents wanted their son's funeral to be upbeat and patriotic, just like he was, so they asked people to show up in blue jeans and played lively music. | Jeff Milner, who was Lowe's best friend at Cisne...
US troops killed in Afghanistan and Africa The Press Democrat | Jamie R. Lowe's parents wanted their son's funeral to be upbeat and patriotic, just like he was, so they asked people to show up in blue jeans and played lively music. | Jeff Milner, who was Lowe's best friend at Cisne High School in Cisne, Ill., b...
Boxing 'roo wins fight at Athletes' Village CBC The Australian team draped its boxing-kangaroo flag from balconies at the Athletes' Village on the shore of Vancouver's False Creek. (CBC) | The Australian Olympic team will be able to fly a giant flag of a boxing kangaroo from its balconies in the O...
‘Drogba’llistic missiles sink Gunners Deccan Chronicle ‘Drogba’llistic missiles sink Gunners | Feb. 8: Chelsea beat Arsenal 2-0 to stay ahead of Manchester United in the race for the Premier League title. | Didier Drogba scored twice in the first 23 minutes to establish a dominance that Arsenal was unable to overturn despite an improved second-half performance. | Victory lifted the Blues to 58 poin...
Zlatan Ibrahimovic unconcerned by goalless spell at Barcelona The Guardian | • Swedish striker says barren stretch is 'normal' | • Ibrahimovic trumpets value to team-mates of 'assists' | Zlatan Ibrahimovic has scored once in 2010. Photograph: Pierre-Philippe Marcou/AFP/Getty Images | The striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has said that he is not concerned by his recent barren spell in front of goal. | The Swede enjoyed a flyi...
