2010 Olympic Games

The Paralympic Winter Games are in part about gaining equality and respect for disabled sport. It can be slow progress, to be sure, but skier Lauren Woolstencroft made rare inroads early.

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Paralympian Lauren Woolstencroft skis for love of sport, not praise

I have always been a rabid follower of basketball and not much of a hockey fan. But last Sunday I did the previously unthinkable and after switching channels back and forth between games for an hour or so I finally turned off the Lakers-Denver game to…

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Letters: Hockey steals the show in Vancouver

Vancouver skiing medalists Lindsey Vonn and Bode Miller have donated equipment to raise money for charitable causes.

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Miller, Vonn Donate Equipment For Good Causes

The torch for the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games arrives in Quebec City on its only stop in a francophone community on its relay across the country.

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Quebec City welcomes Paralympic torch

AP – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says that sport in his country needs a major shakeup after the dismal showing by its Olympic teams at the Vancouver Games.

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Putin chides sports officials over Olympic flop
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HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) — The drivers keep saying how much the racing has improved in the opening month of the NASCAR season, yet there’s all sorts of evidence that defies their optimism. Television ratings?

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Jeff Gordon: NASCAR needs some rivalries, trash-talking to shake out of lethargic start

TORONTO (AP) — Canadians basked in glory hearing their national anthem played a record 14 times at gold medal ceremonies at the Vancouver Winter Olympics. But they raised an outcry when the Conservative government surprised everyone by announcing it…

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Public outcry prompts government to back off plan to change lyric to anthem "O Canada"

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An electronics technician injured this week in a Coast Guard helicopter crash in the Utah mountains is out of critical condition and two of her crew mates also have been upgraded. A spokeswoman at University Hospital in Salt Lake…

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Helicopter crash survivors’ conditions upgraded

Daniel Bernard Roumain gets excited when he talks about Margate. He speaks faster and more excitedly and says things two and three times for emphasis because of the love he has for the hometown he returns to every few months. Without Margate, he said,…

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Violinist hops genres and cities but pines for Margate

AP – U.S. Olympic gold medalists Lindsey Vonn, Shaun White and Seth Wescott are the latest athletes to grace the Wheaties box.

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Olympians Vonn, White, Wescott grace Wheaties box
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