A Regal Pursuit Is Run Down
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Farewell, at last, to tallyho. After seven years of angry debate, frustrated motions and legislative maneuvering, Britain&#39;s Parliament finally approved a ban on fox hunting
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MARTINSVILLE - Halfway into the Chase for the NASCAR Nextel Cup, the competition comes to a half-mile track where intensity â-nd history â - inherent.
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Once, the Thakur of Mandawa lorded it over the merchants of his parched Silk Road region. Today, the heir to that title needs a little help from those merchants-turned-moguls
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This giant's looking a little sluggish.
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In "The Fugitive," only  one person was on the lam, running to avoid capture for a crime  he didn't commit while tracking the real criminal. In  "Runaway," you have a whole family trying to evade the long arm  of the law.
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The days of seeking out ticket-scalpers in the shadows, ducking into alleys and dodging police for that elusive Yankees-Red Sox seat are fading fast.
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Time is running out in the race to make NASCAR's Chase for the championship, and Greg Biffle is feeling the squeeze as much as anybody.
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They couldn&#39;t get the big names to play in this year&#39;s Buick Championship and for the better part of yesterday&#39;s final round at TPC River Highlands
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The odds are against this trio.
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In this mountainous area, James Madison&#39;s Dukes seemed to play offense downhill last night. With a veteran offensive line and two physical runners, JMU overpowered Montana
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In the continuing quest to see if humans can outpace their electronic creations, the humans have lost another, perhaps decisive, round.
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IT IS impossible to achieve greatness in sport without being measured against history. On Saturday, the last night of athletics in the 2004 Olympics, a man and a woman, a king and a queen of the track, ran into history.
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Someone else is running out of things to close.
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This is what happens when Bode Miller fails to finish with a flourish.
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With a clash of mallets and the stomping of jumbo feet that shook the earth, the game was under way. Tense commands were shouted by pith helmeted players tied firmly to their two-ton mounts. The beasts collided and the ball disappeared in a forest of elephantine legs, raising some dust and much laughter. We had just witnessed a classic scrum in the whacky sport of elephant polo.
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SCOTT HARRISONâS 59second defeat of the hopeless Samuel Kebede did little to boost a fine world championâs credibility, but it did a great deal to tarnish the reputation of the sanctioning body that he represents.
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One was running to put a final stamp on his team's championship, the other to pull his squad near the top of the point totals.