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Athletics: Clay, Brown Trafton win 2008 Jesse Owens Awards

INDIANAPOLIS - Olympic gold medalists Bryan Clay and Stephanie Brown Trafton on Tuesday were named winners of the 2008 Jesse Owens Award by USA Track & Field. This marks the first time in their careers that Clay and Brown...

Why Marion Jones Can't Silence Victor Conte (38)

News Type: Opinion — Mon Nov 17, 2008 9:15 AM EST Story by Eric. Now that comprehension levels have apparently been made more advantageous through Federal deposition revelations and Marion Jones’s own testimony, can a...

A potential reading list for sports fans

Alonzo Mourning was the tallest author at the Miami Book Fair on Sunday. Mourning came downtown to sign copies of his new biography, Resilience, in which he writes with typical Zo passion and bluntness about his difficult...

Newsweek: Requests for presidential pardons roll in

By Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball | NEWSWEEK From the magazine issue dated Nov 24, 2008 The Justice department is getting flooded with a new wave of requests for pardons and commutations from convicted felons hoping for...

Pardon Me? Don’t Bet On It.

By Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball | NEWSWEEK From the magazine issue dated Nov 24, 2008 The Justice department is getting flooded with a new wave of requests for pardons and commutations from convicted felons hoping for...

Glamorous Achievement: A Definite Do

The annual Glamour Women of the Year awards leave one simultaneously inspired by the extraordinary accomplishments of the winners and fraught with anxiety that one's personal list of achievements amounts to: Remembered Mom's...

How Marion Jones and Trevor Graham Lied (31)

News Type: Opinion — Wed Nov 12, 2008 3:21 PM EST Story by Eric. Angel Guillermo Heredia, a former discus thrower, steroids dealer and nutritionist with ties in Mexico and Texas, swore in an affidavit that all associates in the...

Taylor's Million-pound Logic Will Mortgage Football's Future

Lawrence Donegan: There is breathtaking arrogance in the PFA chief's notion that football is somehow beyond the rules applied to other sports High on the list of things that hold no interest whatever for the average football...

Oh, for the days of Gloomy Gil and the Sun Dodgers

Column as I see ’em … One hundred years ago Friday, the Washington and Washington State football teams played to a 6-6 tie. This is worthy of note because it’d be another six years before Washington failed to win under head...

IOC to retest Beijing doping samples

Any athletes who thought they got away with doping at the Beijing Olympics shouldn't rest easy. The drug police are coming back. The International Olympic Committee said on Wednesday it will retest samples from the games to...

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