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L.A. officially in 2024 Olympic bid race
Two-time Olympic host Los Angeles has officially thrown its hat in the ring again. "I am pleased to confirm our enthusiastic interest in bidding to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games," Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa wrote to U.S....
Tags: Chicago Mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, Sports Organizations, Tom Hanks, Robert A. Iger
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Lance Armstrong scandal: Head of UCI resigns from IOC committee
Pat McQuaid, the head of the International Cycling Union, has stepped down from a key International Olympic Committee panel as he deals with the fallout from the Lance Armstrong doping scandal. McQuaid is on the committee that is evaluating bids for the...
Tags: Sports Organizations, Tom Brady, International Cycling Union, National Football League, Lance Armstrong
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No ringing endorsement, yet, for NHL players in Sochi Olympics
The countdown to the Sochi Olympics slipped beneath the one-year mark last week with a huge question looming: Will NHL players participate in Russia's first-ever Winter Games? The answer should be clearer after executives of the NHL, NHL Players' Assn....
Tags: Chicago Blackhawks, Tim Thomas, Jonas Hiller, Ice Hockey, Kimmo Timonen
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Lance Armstrong interview with Oprah Winfrey in less than 2 hours
Lance Armstrong’s interview with Oprah Winfrey, in which he is expected to deliver a confession to using performance-enhancing methods to win the Tour de France seven times, is less than two hours away. Armstrong, 41, sat down with Winfrey for 2...
Tags: U.S. Postal Service, U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, The New York Times, Tour de France, World Anti-Doping Agency
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Review: Muse goes big -- as always -- at Staples Center
The English band Muse does everything on a grand scale: giant prog-rock riffs, elaborate laser-light displays, songs with titles such as “Supremacy” and “Exogenesis: Symphony Part 2 (Cross-Pollination).” When the International...
Tags: Muse (music group), BBC, Justin Bieber, Music, Radiohead (music group)
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2014 Winter Games
They installed the first outdoor Olympic rings Wednesday in Sochi, Russia, a 60-by-30-foot reminder that Thursday marks a year to go before the opening of the 2014 Winter Games. The temperature was 61. That incongruity brings up the first of a baker's...
Tags: Pairs Skating, Julia Mancuso, Chicago Blackhawks, Bode Miller, Ice Skating
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Lance Armstrong on sponsors leaving: A $75-million day in losses
A night after Lance Armstrong admitted to doping throughout the course of his athletic career, the disgraced cyclist spent the second half of his much-hyped television interview with Oprah Winfrey talking about fallout from the scandal. Armstrong, who...
Tags: U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, Psychology, Corporate Crime, Breach of Contract, Lance Armstrong
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Colleges could feel impact of losing wrestling from Olympics
Over the past 40 years, college wrestling programs have been in a frequently unsuccessful fight for their lives. Nearly half of the 147 Division I wrestling programs that existed in 1982 are gone. Athletic directors would lop off wrestling teams, then...
Tags: Feminism, Sports Organizations, College Sports, College Football, Wrestling
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Grappling with the process for wrestling to stay Olympian
Now we are going to see how obstinate the International Olympic Committee can be. Its two traditional sports superpower nations, the United States and Russia, both have vowed to do everything possible to overturn the IOC executive board decision to dump...
Tags: Canoeing and Kayaking, Rugby Union, Rugby 7, Wrestling, Sports Organizations
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Lance Armstrong scandal: Should cycling be dropped from Olympics?
Banned cyclist Lance Armstrong, a bronze medalist in the 2000 Games, is said to have admitted doping to Oprah Winfrey in an interview that will air later this week. Writers from around the Tribune Co. discuss whether the International Olympic Committee...Tags: Cross Country Skiing, Weightlifting, World Anti-Doping Agency, Cycling, Sports Organizations
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Conflicts of interest abound in IOC decision on wrestling
Wrestling was present at the creation. It is in the Book of Genesis, where Jacob goes to the mat with an angel. It is portrayed on a renowned, 2,500-year-old Greek vase, with Hercules wrestling the life out of the previously invincible Antaeus. It...
Tags: Phil English, Wrestling, Elections, Sports Organizations, 2016 Olympic Games
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Can a new pope save the Catholic Church?
Bill PressIt's been a busy week. The Senate voted 78-22 to renew the Violence Against Women Act. Christopher Dorner, ex-cop turned cop killer, was finally tracked down near Big Bear, Calif. Leaders of the International Olympic Committee voted to drop wrestling from...Tags: Christopher Dorner, Religious Leaders, Heart Problems, Current TV (tv network), Violence Against Women Act
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