O&#39;Connor snubbed in Texaco awards
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Cian O&#39;Connor has not been included in this year&#39;s 2004 Texaco Awards amid the continuing controversy over his horse&#39;s failed drugs test.
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Pro Bowl voters honored the memory of Sean Taylor. They also used a lot of votes on Dallas Cowboys and none on the NFC South, which didn't get a player into the league's all-star game.
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European Ryder Cup hopeful Thomas Bjorn   launched an angry attack on captain Ian Woosnam on Monday after   being overlooked for a wild card for the September 22-24 match   against the United States in Ireland.
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A SECOND dope test on a blood sample taken from the horse of Irish Olympic show jumping gold medallist Cian O&#39;Connor has tested positive for banned substances.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (Sports Network) - Texas senior Derrick  Johnson, Southern California senior Matt Grootegoed and  Virginia sophomore Ahmad Brooks were named the finalists  Thursday for the 2004 Butkus Award.
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Australia's highest-ranked women's player Samantha Stosur was left out of the Fed Cup team named Wednesday for this month's Asia/Oceania zone group one competition in Bangkok.
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Kix Brooks of Brooks &amp; Dunn says their nomination for entertainer of the year by the Country Music Association came as a surprise.
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ANAHEIM, California  - With no Sidney Crosbys or Alexander Ovechkins lurking among this year's crop of graduating players, it is uncertain whose name will be called first at next month's NHL draft.
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Tom Lehman will be disappointed. The   captain of the American Ryder Cup team joked last month he   would not turn up to the event's opening ceremony in Ireland   next week if Irish rockers U2 were not there.
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - Riding gelding Waterford Crystal, Ireland&#39;s Cian O&#39;Connor won his country&#39;s first Olympic gold medal in jumping on Friday night.
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Ireland&#39;s only medal winner at the Athens Olympics, showjumper Cian O&#39;Connor, withdrew from a nationally televised ceremony Saturday to receive the Irish Person of the Year award -- after his horse failed a drugs test.
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Tim O&#39;Connor decided tired arms were a small price to pay so his 4-year-old grandsons could get a bird&#39;s eye view of a giant yellow sponge with a red tie.
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts  and Sciences on Thursday named the producers eligible to accept  this year's Oscar for best film, and among those excluded was a  man who waged a court fight to be listed as a producer of  Oscar-nominee "The Aviator."
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As expected, Auburn is the odd team out of the BCS national championship game, and Texas has bumped Cal out of the Rose Bowl. In addition to the Longhorns&#39; last-minute jump, there was another shocker: Texas
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Denver forward Carmelo Anthony, whose season has been marred by a ban for fighting, was snubbed in the selection of the National Basketball Association All-Star reserves.
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New Zealand names were absent from the list of five nominees for the International Rugby Board&#39;s player of the year announced on Wednesday.
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The announcements made in Los Angeles Tuesday morning saw No Country for Old Men getting eight but the big surprise was the  same number of nominations for the much acclaimed There Will Be Blood which was expected to pocket three or four noms. Both films were nominated in the best picture categories.