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Former star American sprinter Tim Montgomery pleads guilty to heroin charges
NORFOLK, Va. - Former track star Tim Montgomery, once dubbed "the world's fastest man," pleaded guilty Thursday to distributing heroin, averting a trial set for next week. He appeared briefly in U....
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Here are the sports results from Thursday: CFL Hamilton at Toronto, 7 p.m. Calgary at Edmonton, 10 p.m. American League baseball Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m. Kansas City at ...
American Venus Williams reaches Wimbledon final for the seventh time
LONDON - Serena Williams defeated Zheng Jie of China 6-2, 7-6 (5) on Thursday to advance to the Wimbledon final, where she will take on her sister and defending champion Venus Williams. Venus, a fo...
Olympic medals turned over to Beijing organizers for next month's Games
BEIJING - The gold, silver and bronze medals that will hang around the necks of athletes at next month's Olympics were formally handed over Thursday to the organizers of the Beijing Games. The 3,00...
Chambers files legal papers to overturn lifetime Olympic doping ban
LONDON - Dwain Chambers'lawyers launched a court appeal Thursday to overturn the British sprinter's lifetime ban from the Olympics so he can compete in the Beijing Games. Chambers' legal team filed...
UCI head says scandal-free Tour is 1st step to win doping fight, fans' faith
AIGLE, Switzerland - The head of cycling's world governing body believes it will take more than one scandal-free Tour de France to convince the public that cycling has beaten its doping problems. "...
Former track star Tim Montgomery pleads guilty to heroin charge
NORFOLK, Va. - Former track star Tim Montgomery has pleaded guilty to a federal heroin distribution charge days before he was set to go to trial in Virginia. Montgomery entered the plea Thursday an...
Canada's Cervelo Cycles a major player in Tour de France, Olympics
TORONTO - Some of the fastest legs in the world will pedal Canadian-made bikes in both the Tour de France and at the Olympic Games this summer. This is the sixth year of the Tour that the bottoms o...
David Coulthard announces he will retire at end of F1 season
SILVERSTONE, England - David Coulthard will retire from Formula One at the end of the season, ending a career that saw him win more than a dozen races but repeatedly fall short of the world championsh...
Raymond Domenech stays on as France coach despite Euro 2008 failure
PARIS - Raymond Domenech will stay on as France coach despite a humiliating first-round exit at last month's European Championship, the French federation said Thursday. The decision - taken at a Pa...
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