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Clay, Brown Trafton win Owens Award
Indianapolis, IN (Sportsbooks) - USA Track & Field named Olympic gold
medalists Bryan Clay and Stephanie Brown Trafton as winners of the 2008 Jesse
Owens Award.
The Owens Award is the highest distinction given to the top U....
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USA Basketball to move offices to Glendale
Glendale, AZ (Sportsbooks) - USA Basketball, the governing body of
international basketball in this country, announced Tuesday it will move its
offices from Colorado Springs to Glendale, Arizona.
USA Basketball is responsible...
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Colangelo to chair USA Basketball's board from 2009-12
Colorado Springs, CO (Sportsbooks) - Jerry Colangelo, the chairman and
managing director of the Phoenix Suns, has been elected as chairman of
USA Basketball's Board of Directors for the 2009-2012 term.
Colangelo, who is cur...
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Grant Hackett retires
Sydney, Australia (Sportsbooks) - Australian Grant Hackett has decided to
hang up his goggles. Hackett retires as one of the most decorated Australian
swimmers.
Hackett, who is the only swimmer in history to win the same event at...
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Track and Field coach Graham gets house arrest
San Francisco, CA (Sportsbooks) - Trevor Graham, a former track and field
coach of Olympic athletes, was sentenced Tuesday to 12 months of house arrest
and five years of probation for his role in the Bay Area Laboratory Co-
operati...
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Yzerman named executive director for Team Canada
Ottawa, ON (Sportsbooks) - Former Detroit Red Wings superstar Steve Yzerman
was named the executive director for the Canadian men's Olympic hockey team.
Yzerman, currently the vice president of the Red Wings, will help put together
Canada...
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Liukin honored as Sportswoman of the Year
New York, NY (Sportsbooks) - Gymnast Nastia Liukin, the 2008 Olympic all-
around champion, was honored as the 2008 Sportswoman of the Year by the
Women's Sports Foundation on Tuesday.
The award was presented to Liukin at a din...
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May-Treanor has surgery
Colorado Springs, CO (Sportsbooks) - Two-time Olympic beach volleyball gold
medalist Misty May-Treanor underwent surgery on Tuesday to repair a ruptured
left Achilles tendon.
May-Treanor suffered the injury Friday during a rehearsal...
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Summer Olympic and Paralympic teams visit White House
Washington, DC (Sportsbooks) - President George W. Bush welcomed
the United States Olympic and Paralympic teams to the White House on Tuesday.
More than 500 U.S. athletes attended, including Michael Phelps, who won a
recor...
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Probst named to replace Ueberroth as USOC chairman
Colorado Springs, CO (Sportsbooks) - Larry Probst, a longtime executive of
video game giant Electronic Arts, has been named the new chairman of the
United States Olympic Committee.
The 58-year-old Probst replaces ex-baseball commi...
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Chinese women's gymnasts were of age in Beijing
Lausanne, Switzerland (Sportsbooks) - The International Gymnastics
Federation has concluded that members of the gold-medal winning Chinese
women's gymnastics team were old enough to compete at the 2008 Beijing
Olympic...
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