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Book Review: 'Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias'
Special to the Los Angeles TimesWonder Girl The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias Don Van Natta Jr. Little, Brown: 404 pp., $27.99 So do you know who made the Top 10 when ESPN chose its 50 Greatest Athletes of the 20th Century? Here they are: (1) Michael Jordan....Tags: Social Sciences, Susan Clark, Jim Thorpe, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Willie Mays
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Steven Tyler's national anthem: Worst ever? [Poll]
Sports NowSteven Tyler turned in a weird, screechy rendition of the national anthem before Sunday's AFC Championship game. But was it the worst ever?... -
Sports Legend Revealed: Did the U.S. vote against sending NBA players to the 1992 Olympics?
The Fabulous ForumBASKETBALL LEGEND: The United States voted against sending NBA players to the 1992 Olympics. From the first men's basketball tournament in the Summer Olympics in 1936, where the United States won a thrilling, high-scoring 18-9 victory over Canada (okay,... -
Carl Lewis announces candidacy for New Jersey Senate
The Fabulous ForumCarl Lewis is one of the best track and field athletes of all time, with nine Olympic gold medals, including four in the long jump. Now we'll see how he does making another jump -- from athlete to politician. On...... -
Michelle Obama goes for the gold in Copenhagen, wearing golden clothes
Top of the TicketIt was fitting symbolism for a first lady pitching her hometown as the site of the 2016 Olympics. As the Ticket reported earlier, First Lady Michelle Obama delivered a from-the-heart pitch for Chicago to the International Olympic Committee, talking about.... -
What Michelle Obama told the International Olympic Committee about her Chicago (and father)
Top of the TicketFull text of her plea involving her late father and what the Games would have meant to him.... -
Philip Hersh: Lewis-Powell long jump -- the best in my quarter-century of globetrotting
L.A. Times Olympics BlogFor a quarter century, I have had the best job in the world. It began when I convinced the sports editor who brought me to the Chicago Tribune, Gene Quinn, that the success of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics (which,...... -
Ticket Replay: What Michelle Obama told the Olympic Committee about her Chicago (and father)
Top of the TicketNeither Michelle nor Barack Obama's remarks worked, but they got to see Copenhagen from the inside of an armored car.... -
Carl Lewis sells Pacific Palisades house
Ten-time Olympic medal winner Carl Lewis has sold his Pacific Palisades home for $2.5 million, the Multiple Listing Service shows.
The contemporary Mediterranean, built in 1991, is on nearly a third of an acre with ocean and canyon views, a swimming pool...Tags: Personal Service, Track and Field, Awards and Prizes, Banking
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Keeping track of Carl Lewis
Ten-time Olympic medal winner Carl Lewis has crossed a finish line of sorts, selling his Pacific Palisades home for $2.5 million, according to the Multiple Listing Service.
On the market since January, the contemporary Mediterranean, built in 1991, is on...Tags: Personal Service, Track and Field, Movies, Celebrities, Homes
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PASSINGS: Scott Davis, Ed Moose, Frank Kermode, Ghazi Algosaibi
Scott Davis
Mount SAC track and field announcer
Scott Davis, 66, a longtime track and field announcer and statistician who added to the prestige of the Mount San Antonio College Relays by attracting such stars as Marion Jones, Carl Lewis and Asafa...Tags: Track and Field, United Kingdom, Restaurants, London Theatre, Science and Technology
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10 Olympic sites: Revisit past glories
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNot everyone can have the raw strength of wrestler Rulon Gardner or the flexibility of gymnast Nadia Comaneci. Oh, and forget about having the blinding foot speed of sprinter Michael Johnson. But with the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing to inspire...Tags: Track and Field, Michael Johnson (football, safety), Career and Workplace, Nadia Comaneci, Ice Skating
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