'Jumper' hurtles competition, earns $27M
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The globe-trotting thriller "Jumper" leaped to a box office win with $27.2 million on a weekend when Hollywood offered something for everyone, with new films for action fans, teens, family audiences and the date-movie crowd.
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Long jumper Anju Bobby George, who won India's first world championship medal by claiming bronze in Paris last year, was awarded the country's highest sports prize on Wednesday.
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He returns to the US Open as its defending champion and is ranked No. 2 in the world. He&#39;ll turn 22 on Monday and already he has achieved pop culture status -- which means Web sites and magazines
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Santi Costello admits his nervousness negatively affected his jumping last year. After his performance yesterday, it may be time for his competition to get jittery.
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After opting out of his contract and looking for a better deal elsewhere, the swingman Devean George is going back to the Dallas Mavericks.George has agreed to a roughly one-year, $2.4 million deal that keeps him as a reserve on one of the N.B.A.âs top teams and puts him in position for a bigger payday next summer, his agent, Mark Bartelstein, said yesterday.George would have made around $2 million under the deal he signed last summer, but he opted out of it last month. Bartelstein spoke with several teams.
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Before flying to the United States to  pursue his NBA dream in April, Yi Jianlian said he wanted to  step out from the shadow of Yao Ming and carve out a career in  the world&#39;s top league in his own way.
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Donald Thomas, a high jumper who took up the sport only 18 months ago, became world champion against the likes of veteran technicians Stefan Holm and Yaroslav Rybakov.
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Often dismissed as a quirky pipe dream, it took a thrill-seeking mogul to energize one of mankind's oldest desires. By James Lee from Wired magazine.
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Only a bona fide superstar can parlay a moment of stardom into a long and lucrative career.
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From shaggy rebel to bald dad, a tennis icon caps an unlikely - and very public - career.
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Before flying to the United States to pursue his NBA dream in April, Yi Jianlian said he wanted to step out from the shadow of Yao Ming and carve out a career in the world's top league in his own way.
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Jumper, a sci-fi thriller film starring Hayden Christensen, makes its debut at number one in North America.
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In another era, say as far back as the pre-BALCO days, it would have been a wonderful moment. The host country&#39;s new hero, a rising star, sets an Olympic
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ATHENS -- Matt Hemingway gambled in the men's high jump last night, passing on the fourth height of the competition (7 feet 6 inches) to save himself for later. He easily cleared his next two jumps to take the silver.
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For millions of Americans, gymnast Paul Hamm&#39;s fame began only when the broad-shouldered Olympian shrugged off a fall in the vaulting competition last week and made an inspired comeback to win gold.
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When training camp competition demanded Raef LaFrentz jump repeatedly in pursuit of a rebound, and when doing so did not give him pause, the power forward knew he could once again compete in the NBA. That was the best news on Day 1 of preseason.
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Doug Liman, director of the new sci-fi thriller Jumper, employs teleportation technology to connect two different environments for a split second.