Tenn. Man's 5-Day Dive Sets World Record
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HAMPTON, Tenn. - A Tennessee man beat his own record for staying underwater with scuba gear after five days in a lake - complete with recliner, a checkerboard, music and good friends to keep him company...
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South Korea's Lee Kang-Seok set a world record of 34.25 seconds to win the 500m title here Friday at the World Speedskating Championships.
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Kay-Jay Harris laughed when someone suggested he had another record- setting night for West Virginia&#39;s football team. Harris, who ran for a school- record 337 yards
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ATHENS - Tim Mack of Knoxville, Tenn., grabbed a pole, flew down the runway and set an Olympic record in the pole vault. When Mack landed yesterday, he not only had earned the day&#39;s only gold medal for the
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Every ounce of his energy was expended, leaving an empty fuel tank. But, even in a depleted state, Brendan Hansen found a way to bolster his ever-growing swimming legacy.
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Aaron Peirsol of the United States  set a short course world record of one minute, 50.52 seconds in  the men's 200 meters backstroke at the world championships on  Monday.
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Peirsol plays a part in 2 world records: Aaron Peirsol of Irvine, Calif., lowered his world record in the 200-meter backstroke at the short-course world championships, which ended last night in Indianapolis.
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Michael Phelps has proven he is the best swimmer ever -- in and out of the pool. Yesterday, the 6-ft. 5-in. 19-year-old from Baltimore won his sixth gold medal to add to his two bronze, making him the swimmer
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You probably haven't heard about one of the toughest endurance sports around: the deca-ironman. That's 38 km swimming, immediately followed by an 1800 km bicycle ride and a 420 km run. Currently, the world record stands at about 187 hours, held by a German housewife. Nobody else has ever finished the course below 192 hours.
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American champion Tim Mack won the  Olympic pole vault title on Friday with a Games record 5.95  meters after an engrossing duel with teammate Toby Stevenson.
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American Michael Phelps swam an Olympic-record time of 1 minute, 57.14 seconds in the 200-meter individual medley Thursday night.
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By The Gleaner  A 19-year-old man died on Sunday in Webster County after falling into a pond and drowning.  According to Webster County Sheriff Frankie Springfield, Arduro Gonzales Hernandez was fishing with three others on property off Charles Crowley Road in Dixon around 4 p.m.
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But he admits he never expected to be on the brink of breaking the NCAA career receptions record when he first arrived in West Lafayette five years ago.
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PALMETTO, Fla. - Mark Giorgio figured a 50-foot fall was worth $20. Giorgio, 47, was counting his money Monday while walking across the U.S. 41 bridge over the Manatee River when a $20 bill blew out of his hand and flew over the rail. He followed. And plummeted 50 feet into the river.
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Michael Phelps won the men's 100 meters  butterfly at the Athens Olympics Friday to collect his fifth  gold medal of the Games.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - James Wilhoit kicked a 50-yard field goal with six seconds to go to lift No...
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In winning the Olympic title on his first jump Thursday with the fifth-longest in 108-year Olympic history, Phillips took himself and American long jumping out from the lengthy shadow of four-time long jump gold medalist Carl Lewis and world record holder