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WRESTLING BEGINS
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:33PM August 04, 2012 CommentThe wrestlers have waited long enough. It's time to hit the mat.
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US men's basketball gets test, and LeBron wins it
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:22PM August 04, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — It's a collection of superstars with MVP trophies, scoring titles and all sorts of impressive statistics. And it wasn't until the U.S. men's basketball team was finally challenged that it found its leader.
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Women's boxing makes long-awaited Olympic debut
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:22PM August 04, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — Queen Underwood is grateful to every woman whose collective fight allowed her to become the first American woman to climb into an Olympic boxing ring.
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Column: Pistorius revolutionizes Olympic notions
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:13PM August 04, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — There are times when history only becomes clear with hindsight and others — rarer, more goose-bumpy — when you actually feel it being made. Oscar Pistorius revolutionizing our notions of what is possible with every clink, clink of his prosthetic legs on the London Olympic running track was one such moment.
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Montoya takes pole at Pocono Raceway
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:55PM August 04, 2012 CommentLONG POND, Pa. (AP) — Juan Pablo Montoya's contribution to the NASCAR highlight reel so far this season was his crash into a jet dryer in the season-opening Daytona 500.
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Covering Olympics from New York
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:50PM August 04, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Between Olympic soccer matches, NBC analyst Marcelo Balboa fields texts and emails from friends who ask him, "How's London?"
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Goodell tells kids: Play the game right
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:12PM August 04, 2012 CommentAKRON, Ohio (AP) — More than 100 youth football players knelt in the grass in front of the white goal post, waiting to strap up their new helmets. First, they got a warning from NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.
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Expats search for home-country Olympics
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:24AM August 04, 2012 CommentFrom the Irish pubs of Stockholm to bustling Koreatown in Los Angeles, expat Olympic fans around the world are following — or trying to follow — their favorite back-home athletes, an often lonely and difficult pursuit in our otherwise connected world.
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Ryan Lochte's parents face foreclosure in Florida
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:24AM August 04, 2012 CommentDELAND, Fla. (AP) — The parents of U.S. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte are facing foreclosure in Florida.
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EYES ON LONDON: Electric 100-meter dash coming up
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:33AM August 04, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — Around the 2012 Olympics and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of the games to you:
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St. Kitts sprinter Collins sent home from Olympics
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:19AM August 04, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — Former 100-meter world champion Kim Collins was sent home from the London Olympics for disciplinary reasons on Saturday.
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Obama pays tribute to US Olympic team
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:05AM August 04, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he is proud of the hard work and sacrifice of the U.S. Olympic team competing at the London Games.
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Pistorius makes it to semifinals of Olympic 400
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:47AM August 04, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — It began with a smile at the starting line.
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Handball's Olympic venue is the 'Box That Rocks'
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:08AM August 04, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — Inside the Olympic Park, the handball venue is the "Box That Rocks."
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US' Errol Spence fights on after overturned result
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:51AM August 04, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — Errol Spence thought he was out of the Olympics, one last U.S. boxer done in by the vagaries of the amateur scoring system. The welterweight thought he had taken the final defeat in the worst Olympic performance ever by the American team that once reigned atop the sport.
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Men's 100 starts with Bolt, Blake ... and Gatlin
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:40AM August 04, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — All anyone's talking about ahead of the men's 100 meters is the showdown between Olympic champion Usain Bolt and world champion Yohan Blake, a pair of Jamaicans who train together.
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Olympic Viewing: NBC's poorly timed commercial
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:22PM August 03, 2012 CommentNBC says no offense was intended by a poorly timed promotional ad featuring a monkey on gymnastics rings that aired on the network directly following a commentary by Bob Costas on Gabby Douglas' gold medal inspiring other African-American girls to take up the sport.
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Phillies trade RHP Blanton to Dodgers
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:53PM August 03, 2012 CommentPHILADELPHIA (AP) — Joe Blanton earned a World Series ring the last time he was traded. He's hoping for an encore.
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Clemson All-American Watkins to miss 2 games
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:42PM August 03, 2012 CommentCLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — Clemson will be without star receiver Sammy Watkins for its season-opening showdown with Auburn after Tigers coach Dabo Swinney suspended the All-American for two games after an offseason drug arrest.
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UCI tries to block USADA charges against Armstrong
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:57PM August 03, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Cycling's international governing body is trying to block the case American anti-doping officials filed against Lance Armstrong, saying there may be a lack of due process and that witnesses were promised "advantages" in exchange for incriminating statements against the seven-time Tour de France winner.
