Port storm home for first flag
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PORT Adelaide claimed its first AFL flag and stopped the Brisbane premiership juggernaut with a stunning upset Grand Final win at the MCG yesterday.
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Erik Cole and Andrew Ladd scored first-period goals, and the Carolina Hurricanes beat Washington 2-1 Friday night to retake first place in the Southeast Division from the Capitals.
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New Orleans' Superdome stadium hosts its first game since Hurricane Katrina victims found refuge there last year.
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Union flag-bedecked Land Rovers of the Black Watch regiment stand ready for deployment. Photograph: Warrant Officer Giles Penfound/PA.
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The green flag flies today at 1 pm (TNT) on the NASCAR Nextel Cupâs new 10-race title fight at New Hampshire International Speedway.
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Exactly 145 years after the USS Monitor faced the Confederate ship CSS Virginia in the first clash of ironclads, a $30 million center dedicated to the Union vessel opened Friday.
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VERMONTVILLE -- A Wednesday evening storm ripped part of the roof off of an Eaton County high school and dropped it on the football field where the season&#39;s first home game is to be played Friday.
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ATHENS -- The fastest 49er on the Saronic Gulf yesterday was the one with the American flag spinnaker.
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Sport: Play begins after rain delays. Full coverage from SW19.
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Coming ashore south of Fort Pierce on Saturday. Across the peninsula and exiting into the Gulf of Mexico north of New Port Richey on Sunday.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Mark Martin needed an earlier yellow flag. "Nobody wants to see a grown man cry, all right?" sighed Martin. "That's what it is. And I'm not going to cry about it. This is what it is, and that's it. Their decision. They made the decision, and that's what we're going to live with."
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Alinghi and Team New Zealand take to the Mediterranean Sea on Saturday in the first race of a first-to-five match for the prized America's Cup.
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Navy opens its season at home against VMI on Saturday at noon, making this the earliest opener in the program's 101 seasons.
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FALMOUTH, England  - Ringed by a flotilla of fans,  Britain's Ellen MacArthur sailed home to a rapturous welcome  Tuesday after breaking the record for sailing solo round the  world.
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ARABI, La. -- Honie Bauer was the first to move back.
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Officials at both schools decided Friday morning to go ahead with their home football games. They had considered postponing the games because of the damage left behind by Hurricane Ivan.
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A SALTIRE that has flown above the Scottish Parliament is to be taken into space.  Astronaut Nick Patrick, whose mother is from Skye, will be carrying the flag when he goes into space for the first time in December.