Olympics just a day at beach for Ebersol
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The Olympic credo may be faster, stronger, higher, but NBC's Olympic motto is a lot simpler: &quot;Maximize ratings for advertisers, audience, and affiliates.&quot; &quot;The No. 1 rule is to get the largest number of viewers tuned in for the longest time,&quot; Dick Ebersol, chairman of NBC Universal Sports &amp; Olympics, said yesterday via phone from Athens.
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Score tied. One round to go. A shot at an Olympic boxing gold medal at stake. Apparently only US coach Basheer Abdullah didn&#39;t know his 178-pound fighter, Andre Ward, was even with
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TIMING. Itâs an Olympic thing. Itâs about getting it all absolutely perfect on the one day of your life when it matters. That, should you wish to know, is the reason
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ATHENS -- Some guys learn from their mistakes. Andre Dirrell didn't. America's middleweight medal hopeful followed the same pattern against Gennady Golovkin yesterday that he fell into during his quarterfinal victory over Cuba's Yordani Despaigne two days ago but this time he paid a more costly price than he had two days earlier, when he escaped with a 12-11 victory ...
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World record holder Roman Sebrle moved  ominously close to Dmitriy Karpov with just two disciplines  remaining in the Olympic decathlon Tuesday.
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It&#39;s easy to understand why. After almost a solid year of basketball that included a third straight NCAA championship, an Olympic gold medal and now WNBA Rookie of the Year honors, she plans to take three days off.
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The athletes have packed up. Olympic banners are coming down. But another challenge for the city of Athens is just beginning. It&#39;s a realization that&#39;s just starting to hit the Olympic hosts
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Montrose, CO (Sports Network) - NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol survived a charter plane crash Sunday that killed at least two people.
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Kristin Ott laced up her in-line skates at the parking lot by Green Lake&#39;s community center, ready to enjoy one of Seattle&#39;s last sunny days for a while -- and perhaps one of the last days of being able to park free at the park.
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Americans Misty May and Kerri Walsh continued their unbeaten streak to win their Olympics women&#39;s beach volleyball semi-final on Monday and will face an experienced Brazilian team in the gold medal match.
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Saturday marks the final day of swimming at the 2004 Olympics and even though American Michael Phelps will not be in the pool for the 400-meter medley relay he will have a chance to tie an incredible record.
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ATHENS, Greece -- The United States&#39; march toward a medal in women&#39;s basketball met minimal resistance today at the Summer Olympics.
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ATHENS, Greece  Take Mark Spitz off his back, and this Phelps kid is pretty fast. &quot;It is,&quot; Michael Phelps conceded, &quot;a little bit easier to get up on the (starting) block.&quot; ...
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The body of Edward &quot;Teddy&quot; Ebersol, the 14-year-old son of NBC Sports Chairman Dick Ebersol, was recovered from the wreckage of a charter plane last evening in Montrose
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Thursday was a relatively good day for US cyclist Tyler Hamilton. I say &quot;relatively&quot; because Hamilton was informed by the International Olympic Committee that he will be allowed to keep the gold medal he won last month.
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ATHENS, Greece -- The US Olympic team has excelled in the pool, on the courts, in the fields, on the track. Now you can add the beach.
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All four of them were hoping it would come to this. America's two beach volleyball duos won Olympic quarterfinal matches yesterday in Athens to set up a showdown for a berth in the women's gold medal match.