Olympics
Sports: Competition among the world’s best disabled athletes begins 10 days after the end of Salt Lake City Games. Organizers hope to keep momentum going in the interval.
April 30, 2000
Television
His name’s Sledge--Tommy Sledge.
May 23, 1991
Sports
Let the record show that on April Fool’s Eve, four-dozen adults at a South Pasadena party cheered as they witnessed the willful and gleeful destruction, by sledge-hammer and otherwise, of the following malfunctioning products of the technological age: A color television that reportedly conked out during the NCAA Final Four basketball playoffs, a clock radio whose alarm worked only half the time, an answering machine that hasn’t worked in 25 years and a cassette player whose cord was replaced nine times but still failed to function.
April 2, 1990
Annika Sorenstam was right where everyone expected her to be Thursday -- on top of her game and at the top of the leaderboard in the season-ending ADT Championship at West Palm Beach, Fla.
Nov. 22, 2002
Travel & Experiences
You will detect the approach of Leon Sharp as a harbinger of winter long before you catch sight of him trudging through the New England woods.
Oct. 19, 1986
Russian President Vladimir Putin -- who has a lot on his mind these days -- took a few minutes Monday to thank his country’s athletes for their dominant performance in the Sochi Paralympics.
March 17, 2014
Vladimir Putin praises dominant Russian team after Sochi Paralympics
Hockey
The Ducks are hoping to establish adaptive sled and Warrior hockey programs to bring the game to those who otherwise might not have a chance to play a contact sport.
Aug. 21, 2019
The Winter Games may be the big draw, but there’s plenty else to savor in this outdoorsy city.
March 6, 2014
Music
Joni Sledge, who belonged to the four-sister disco-era group Sister Sledge, best known for its No. 1 hit “We Are Family,” died Friday at her home in Phoenix, a spokeswoman for the group announced.
March 11, 2017