What to watch: Big players evolve in women's game
The Associated Press
"Back in the day, if you were a big person, you were a back-to-the-basket kind of player," says Anne Donovan, a 6-8 force who won Olympic gold medals in ...

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2012 Olympic Park: rising to the challenge
Telegraph.co.uk
“That is the start of the temporary basketball venue. They will come down after the Games and when the Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva saw it ...

The dominance of the University of Connecticut is the best thing that could ...
ESPN
Yet the IOC didn't complain when the US started sending men's pro basketball players to the Olympics and they outscored teams by 412 points in every game. ...

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Hays Daily News
Special Olympics tourney ready for tip -3/18/2010, 12:10 PM
Hays Daily News
When athletes take to the court tonight for the opening ceremonies of the Kansas Special Olympics State Basketball and Cheerleading ...
Special Olympians head to Hays for state tournamentKUsports

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Subregional in San Jose: Steve Alford has New Mexico primed for a tournament run
San Jose Mercury News
Steve Alford always figured he someday would become a basketball coach. But after winning an Olympic gold medal and NCAA title at Indiana, ...

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MATT SCHUBERT'S MARCH MADNESS COLUMN: Area high school and college coaches ...
Peninsula Daily
As some of the North Olympic Peninsula's top hoops minds attest, they are just about sure things. Among the basketball coaches polled were Peninsula College ...

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Games first dope
The Province
WARSAW, Poland -- The Polish Olympic Committee says a second test confirms that Polish cross-country skier Kornelia Marek tested positive for EPO at the ...

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Nothing foreign about basketball to BLH's Mikkola
West Central Tribune
... who played on the Olympic team that earned a bronze medal. Mikkola has been an integral part of BLH enjoying its best season ever in girls basketball. ...

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KGMI
Jordan Approved As Owner Of Charlotte Bobcats
KGMI
An Olympic mystery was solved on Wednesday when officials said they had located the stick Sidney Crosby used to win the men's hockey gold medal. ...

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UPI NewsTrack Sports
UPI.com
WARSAW, Poland, March 17 (UPI) -- Polish Olympic cross-country skier Kornelia Marek has been barred from the 2014 Winter Games after failing a second doping ...

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TSN
The Paralympic patriarch - Sir Philip Craven
Pique newsmagazine
He's a five time Paralympian himself in wheelchair basketball (1972-1988) and swimming (1972), among his many accomplishments in competition. ...
Braxenthaler collects second gold in Vancouver, ninth in totalMore Than The Games
Kelly Gallagher claims fourth at Winter ParalympicsBBC Sport
With Glowing Hearts In CanadaBlackAthlete.net
CTV.ca -The Canadian Press -Around the Rings (subscription)
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Bleacher Report
Todd Lickliter Fired: 11 Candidates Who Could Replace Him as Iowa Head Coach
Bleacher Report
Why Yes: Two NCAA championships, Three Big Ten championships, Olympic gold medal winner. Diehard Hawkeye. Why No: There is no NO with Tom Brands.

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Mirror.co.uk
£6m for after-school Olympic clubs
The Press Association
From this autumn term sports such as badminton, boccia, fencing, handball, table tennis, volleyball and wheelchair basketball will be on offer at the first ...
School kids on guard to try fencing - exclusiveMirror.co.uk
Ben Bradshaw to announce £6m funding for after-school sports clubsThe Guardian

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Pucks, pool tables auctioned for Olympics
Vancouver Sun
There are no Olympic beds for sale yet, and nothing like basketball star Yao Ming's supersized cot, which was sold after the 2008 Beijing Games. ...

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NorthJersey.com
Assisting at the Special Olympics
NorthJersey.com
... Olympics Executive Committee, is shown with Special Olympics athlete Kevin Hasenbein at the Area 3 Special Olympics Basketball Skills meet on Feb. ...
OPRF wins gold in hoopsWednesday Journal
Special athletes win medals in state contestSioux City Journal
Special Olympics to hold spring games April 7WMBF
NorthJersey.com
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Katie Smith signs with Washington Mystics
The Associated Press
She also was a member of three Olympic champion US basketball teams — at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Summer Games. Smith missed the end of last season with ...
Katie Smith signs with Washington MysticsSI.com
Katie Smith Signs With WNBA's MysticsFanHouse

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NCAA exec backs Mo. bill for sports incentives
The Associated Press
The incentives could be used not only for collegiate championships, but also for Olympic competitions, World Cup soccer and Davis Cup tennis matches, ...

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Campus hosts Special Olympics
The DePauw
DePauw University once again hosted athletes from around the area for the annual Special Olympics women's basketball tournament. ...
Special Olympics successfulThe DePauw

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National Post
Golden puck going to Hockey Hall
Toronto Sun
Bench staff for the Beijing 2008 gold medal-winning US men's basketball team lost a shoving match with a Beijing Olympic committee worker over the final ...
The NHL Just Does Not DeliverBleacher Report
The Lance: Olympic hockey players: hurt or help NHL?my.hsj.org
EWU's Schuller coach of the yearThe Spokesman Review

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First 2012 sports exhibition opens
The Press Association
The first 2012 Olympic sports exhibition will open as part of the build-up to the London Games. Objects from Britain's sporting history, from the ball that ...

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