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Baseball diplomacy: Ripken hosts Japanese teens
Thinking backon his efforts as an ambassador of baseball, Cal Ripken Jr. recalled howthe teens he worked with in Nicaragua were so excited it was impossible to corral them into groups, while the kids in China were so reserved it was hard to get them out...Tags: Natural Disasters, Baltimore Orioles, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Hillary Clinton, Multi-Sport Events
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Sliding up in importance
In recent years, Skate America, one of six stops on the annual Grand Prix figure skating circuit, has been held in third-tier cities barely able to attract a respectable-sized crowd. This year, it's in a community of 102,000, a half-hour north of Seattle....Tags: Tanith Belbin, Evan Lysacek, NBC (tv network), 2016 Olympic Games, Ice Skating
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Meissner can get her edge back
Time to push the panic button? Time to buy Kimmie Meissner a gold retirement watch and thank her for her service to figure skating? Not so fast. Rome, as skating analyst Julius Caesar used to say, wasn't built in a day. Meissner, who suffered through...Tags: Scott Hamilton, 2016 Olympic Games, Ice Skating, Kimmie Meissner, Johnny Weir
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Ripken to visit South Africa in envoy role
Sun reporterCal Ripken Jr.'s personal mission to teach baseball to children around the world will continue next spring, when the Hall of Fame Oriole and other Ripken Baseball representatives visit South Africa. It will be the second time in about 18 months that...Tags: World Baseball Classic, Condoleezza Rice, New York Yankees, Baseball, Lou Gehrig
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Meissner hopes new instructor helps artistic side shine through
The newest member of Kimmie Meissner's coaching team is a free spirit who cheerfully concedes that he knows nothing of figure skating, travels the country in a clunker Jeep with a bungee-corded tarp for a roof and 260,000 on the odometer, and keeps his...Tags: Dancing, 2016 Olympic Games, Peggy Fleming, Dance, Ice Skating
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Worlds win gives Meissner jump on earning potential
Sun reporterThe title "world champion" implies that one can't do a whole lot better. In the high-stakes arena of sporting fame and product endorsement, however, Olympic gold is the ultimate prize for a figure skater. Thus, Bel Air's Kimmie Meissner has work to do...Tags: Marketing, 2016 Olympic Games, Ice Skating, Kimmie Meissner, Contracts
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Ripken to visit China as envoy
Sun reporterCal Ripken Jr. has developed a lucrative, baseball-centered career that includes stints as a television analyst, co-owner of a minor league team and a long list of other business interests since retiring from the Baltimore Orioles in 2002. But when he...Tags: Condoleezza Rice, Heads of State, Hospitals and Clinics, Baltimore Orioles, Henry Kissinger
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Rising to the top
Sun reporterThe judges for the Winter Olympics women's figure skating competition got it right. What fun is that? Of course, there was hardly any way they could have gotten it wrong after yesterday's long program. Not even the French judge would have dared try to...Tags: 2016 Olympic Games, Kimmie Meissner, Judges, Sasha Cohen, Oksana Baiul
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Meissner retooling for a repeat
Sun reporterShe medaled at two international competitions this season and is the reigning U.S. figure skating champion. Still, after a last-place performance at her first Grand Prix Final last month, some people are asking: "Is there something wrong with Kimmie...Tags: YouTube, Multi-Sport Events, Scott Hamilton, NBC (tv network), 2016 Olympic Games
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Fresh start for Meissner
Sun reporterOn her way to Toronto recently to work with her choreographer for the new figure skating season that begins this week, Kimmie Meissner stopped at the border crossing. A guard asked the U.S. champion the reason for the visit. "Business," said Meissner,...Tags: 2016 Olympic Games, Ice Skating, Philosophy, Colleges and Universities, Kimmie Meissner
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Routine operation
Sun reporterWith a new season on the horizon, U.S. figure skating champion Kimmie Meissner is channeling her inner Michelle Kwan. Her short program music, "The Feeling Begins," is what Kwan used on her way to national and world titles. The footwork, spins and...Tags: Tanith Belbin, Ice Skating, Johnny Weir, Pairs Skating, Multi-Sport Events
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New spin for Meissner
Sun reporterWith six weeks to go before the World Figure Skating Championships, Kimmie Meissner has dropped her longtime coach in favor of one she hopes will provide a quick fix. In: Richard Callaghan, who guided Tara Lipinski to Olympic, world and national titles...Tags: National Hockey League, Multi-Sport Events, Singles Skating, 2016 Olympic Games, Ice Skating
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