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Texas high schooler does it all at track meet.
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Venus Williams, on tonight's edition of HBO's "Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel," tells Gumbel that one of the perks of being a celebrity is that when you fly coach you sometimes get upgraded. >>
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The Dallas Cowboys will conduct preseason camp in Oxnard and HBO will be there filming for its series "Hard Knocks." >>
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The Chicago White Sox have been red in the face over a blow-up doll controversy this week, but now some are pink in the chin. >>
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Military personnel have made the makeshift Crossed Swords Golf Course a popular spot. All that's lacking is a view, grass, real holes and a sense of safety. >>
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White Sox trying to do anything to break out of their slump. >>
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LeBron James and Cavaliers get the better of this promotion. >>
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Fred Willard, who plays sportscaster Marsh McGinley on the Fox sitcom "Back to You," attended his first Kentucky Derby over the weekend. >>
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The Chicago Cubs outfielder graces the Sports Illustrated cover with no effect on his game. >>
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has made the run for the rose garden a horse race, and apparently is going to great lengths (even a few furlongs) to get to the finish line first. >>
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Fox Sports President Ed Goren brought an Emmy to Hollywood . . . uh, Hollywood, Fla. . . . for the Bowl Championship Series meetings this week. It was a victory-lap moment, as his network received the award for televising Boise State's wild victory over Oklahoma in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl. In that game, Ian Johnson scored the game-winning two-point conversion in overtime on a Statue of Liberty play, then ran to propose to his girlfriend, Chrissy Popadics. >>
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There have been some tough days at North Carolina lately. >>
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Apparently, chaos reigns in cricket's Indian Premier League, and we're not talking about a few grass stains on those spiffy white pants they wear. >>
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Attention network golf commentators: Tiger Woods isn't very interested in what you say about him. >>
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David Beckham may be good for soccer in the United States, but he seems to be a divider. >>
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The former Kings forward has applied to be an intern at Vogue this summer. >>
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The rock star's two sons choose baseball over music, with one playing for the Las Vegas 51s and his brother a 2004 draftee of the Kansas City Royals. >>
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A clubhouse ban on candy and other sweets doesn't go over so well. >>
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Not to imply that Elton John is a real "Rocket Man," but he sure seems to be getting around. He performed at the Honda Center in Anaheim on Saturday night, and earlier last week he sang for more than an hour at the Women's Sports Foundation annual fund-raiser at the Beverly Hilton. >>
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Call it rout 66. >>
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Sheila Johnson is on the team at Grand Canyon, and it's definitely not the junior varsity. >>
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Construction workers building the new Yankee Stadium jackhammered through two feet of concrete Sunday and extracted a Boston Red Sox No. 34 David Ortiz jersey planted there by a former member of the crew. >>
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The average price of gasoline in 1959 was 30 1/2 cents a gallon, and now it's close to $4. However, that increase is minuscule compared with how sports salaries have become inflated. >>
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Six Masai warriors from Tanzania running in the London Marathon today have been issued a four-page briefing of cultural dos and don'ts that warned them, among other things, not to urinate in public or attempt to herd sheep and cows, the London Daily Mail reported. >>
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When the Baltimore Orioles traded for outfielder Luke Scott, they figured they were adding an offensive weapon, but they probably didn't realize that weapon came with a weapon. >>
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North Dakota State pitchers combine for no-hitter, but team loses. >>
Michael Vick's real-life sequel to "The Longest Yard" never really happened, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. >>
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San Antonio police arrested a ticket scalper Monday night after bitter customers tracked him down upon learning that the tickets they bought for the national championship game were fake, according to an Internet report by San Antonio television station KENS. >>
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It's probably good that the NCAA tournament ends today, because our nation's columnists have become obsessively enamored. >>
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John Daly's addictions have been well chronicled. Now it seems as though PGA tournaments have an equal addiction -- to Daly. >>
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Perhaps it was an omen for a certain slugging third baseman who wears No. 13 for the New York Yankees when a red-tailed hawk attacked a young girl who was touring Fenway Park on Thursday. >>
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An Associated Press investigation has revealed the obvious: Alex Rodriguez makes a lot of money. >>
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Freshman Derrick Rose had a sensational game in Memphis' 85-67 rout of Texas on Sunday, leaving UCLA wondering how to stop him when the Bruins face the Tigers in the Final Four semifinals Saturday. >>
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Dave Romleski is hanging up his furry green suit after the season and moving to Germany -- where life will be much safer. >>
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In Jose Canseco's new book, he insinuates that Alex Rodriguez used steroids. But it can't be true, a former Yankees teammate asserts. >>
The last time Western Kentucky was this close to UCLA in the NCAA tournament, the Hilltoppers were full of shenanigans. >>
The Mount Sinai School of Medicine Department of Orthopaedics released "Tips for a Safer, Injury-Free Golf Game," just in time for . . . hushed tone, please . . . "The Masters." >>
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Coaches are always looking for something to fire up their players. For the University of San Diego's Bill Grier, it wasn't what he heard before his Toreros knocked off Connecticut in the first round of the NCAA tournament, it was what he didn't hear. >>
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What can make a college basketball player feel better about playing in the NIT and watching the NCAA tournament? Playing in the NIT and watching the College Basketball Invitational. >>
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Forget ultimate cage fighting, there's plenty of potential for violence on the ice these days. >>
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Only Obama gives a firm answer about NCAA pick. >>
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Huntsville has an offer for Clemens. >>
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First-round matchup against Cornell is one game the fans won't have to dumb down the smack talk. >>
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Celebrities dotting major league rosters -- charming experiment or harmful pattern? >>
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Colts are flush with memories >>
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He might have better rapport with fish than with basketball players. >>
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The equine Spurrier will attempt to make a name for himself. >>
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Taking part at the Masters no turkey shoot for Weekley. >>
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The Lakers have certainly had their moments -- you know the history -- but testimony about life inside the New York Knicks, detailed as part of the Isiah Thomas sexual harassment trial in a New York federal court is making Lakerdom look placid. >>
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Green Bay has its Packers, but whether the season ends today or in two weeks after the Super Bowl, fans will still have their fishing. >>
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