Sports Briefs: Phoenix forces Game 5 in finals
INDIANAPOLIS Cappie Pondexter scored 22 points and the Phoenix Mercury beat the Indiana Fever 90-77 in Game 4 of the WNBA finals, tying the best-of-five series. Penny Taylor added 17 points for the Mercury while Diana Taurasi and Tangela Smith each...
 4.8K - Oct. 8, 2009; scored 197.0 Olympics headed to South America
COPENHAGEN ” Like sweet, sultry samba music, Rio hit all the right notes. Chicago had Barack Obama. Tokyo had $4 billion in the bank. Madrid had powerful friends. But none of that mattered. Rio de Janeiro had the enchanting story ...
8.3K - Oct. 3, 2009; scored 124.0 Rio to host 2016 Olympics
COPENHAGEN Finally, South America gets an Olympics. The 2016 Games are going to Rio de Janeiro. In a vote of high drama, the bustling Brazilian carnival city of beaches, mountains and samba beat surprise finalist Madrid, which got a big helping han...
4.6K - Oct. 2, 2009; scored 124.0 Why they will (or won t) win
Friday s vote by the International Olympic Committee in Copenhagen to select the host city for the 2016 Summer Games is too close to call. Any of the four candidate cities Chicago, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo could win. Then again, any city ...
6.0K - Oct. 1, 2009; scored 197.0 Sports Briefs: Sloan captures U.S. championship in gymnastics
DALLAS Bridget Sloan won the women s national gymnastics championship, overcoming an early deficit to outscore Ivana Hong 117.55-117.25 and capture her first title. Sloan, a member of last year s Olympic team, was trailing by 0.85 points coming int...
4.2K - Aug. 17, 2009; scored 249.0 Dream team picked for Hall of Fame
NORTHBROOK, Ill. The Dream Team is still dominating. The star-studded team that featured Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and Charles Barkley and won the gold medal in Barcelona headlines this year s inductees for the U.S. Olympic Hall of ...
2.5K - Jul. 1, 2009; scored 197.0 Sports Briefs: NFL tries to stave off work stoppage
NEW YORK The NFL and its players union opened talks in a bid to avoid a work stoppage in 2011, when the current labor contract expires. Commissioner Roger Goodell and DeMaurice Smith, the new executive director of the NFL Players Association, were...
7.0K - Jun. 4, 2009; scored 197.0 Track CEO pushes for pay for Olympians
The CEO of USA Track and Field recommended paying athletes $15,000 for setting a personal best at the Olympics, along with shortening trials for the games, as two ways of improving the team s performance after a disappointing effort in Beiji...
5.3K - Mar. 9, 2009; scored 124.0 Sports Briefs: Coker hired to start football program in Texas
SAN ANTONIO Former Miami coach Larry Coker has been hired to lead the new Texas-San Antonio football program, his first coaching job since the Hurricanes fired him in 2006. Texas-San Antonio plans to play its first season in 2011 in the Football Ch...
6.6K - Mar. 6, 2009; scored 249.0 Home Depot ending sponsorship of U.S. Olympic team
DENVER The days of walking into Home Depot and having an Olympic gold medalist help you pick out paint could be coming to an end. The big-box home store said Wednesday it was ending its multimillion-dollar sponsorship deal with the U.S. Olympic Com...
4.2K - Jan. 8, 2009; scored 416.0 Sports Briefs: Former Siuslaw standout leaves Oregon team
EUGENE Junior guard Ben Voogd, a former Siuslaw standout, is leaving the Oregon Ducks. Voogd has played in four games this season, averaging three minutes per game. He has averaged one point and .3 assists. Oregon Coach Ernie Kent says Voogd plans ...
5.6K - Jan. 7, 2009; scored 249.0 USOC eyes TV network
DENVER The U.S. Olympic Committee reorganized part of its management team, a move that will allow chief operating officer Norm Bellingham more time to focus on starting an Olympic television network sometime in the next few months. When the USOC hi...
2.7K - Nov. 20, 2008; scored 1000.0 | 
