Alpine team stuck with bill
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It has been no secret that the US Ski Team has fallen on tough financial times. That has been reflected in such items as reduced staff travel and even a failure to produce a printed team media guide, once an annual staple.
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By Joan Kent, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Feb. 20--Phil Weissenberger hasn't gotten the bill yet, but he knows he's  not going to like it.   The owner of Affordable Repair Service, 1303 S.
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Coach Mike Mularkey knows the word, and has heard it raised around town during the Buffalo Bills&#39; solid stretch run. Yet he refuses to even whisper it.
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BORMIO, Italy -- Before yesterday's slalom, US Ski Team executive director Bill Marolt was still gloating a bit about the way his skiers have dominated Europeans in the speed events -- downhill and super-G -- in their backyards, "where it hurts most."
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LIENZ, Austria  - American slalom specialist Resi Stiegler will be out of action for two months after tearing knee ligaments in a crash during the first leg of a World Cup giant slalom in Lienz on Friday.
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Hopes for an NHL season were left  hanging by a thread Thursday as players presented a proposal  that included a massive 24 percent rollback in salaries but did  not address owners' main demand for cost certainty.
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Former Colorado Avalanche forward Steve Moore, who suffered broken bones in his neck and was knocked unconscious when punched by Todd Bertuzzi last season, probably won&#39;t sue the Vancouver
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - A pair of Austrians prevented Bode Miller from claiming a place on the podium at the first European downhill of the men&#39;s alpine World Cup season.
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Rick Majerus backed out of a deal to become Southern California&#39;s new basketball coach just days after his hiring, and will stay at ESPN as a college basketball analyst.
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Buffalo Bills players have found it hard to take seeing their seriously injured team-mate Kevin Everett lying in a hospital bed, having ignored orders to wait a few days before visiting the NFL player.
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Bode Miller spent the off-season forming a large and costly support team to help him try to surpass Phil Mahre as the most successful racer to compete on Alpine skiingâs grueling World Cup circuit.
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At 27, in his third year on the US men's Alpine team, Jimmy Cochran is making his move.
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ARE, Sweden  - A mighty Austrian squad led by exciting newcomer Kathrin Zettel will be out to stop Anja Paerson's amazing run in the women's giant slalom at the world Alpine skiing championships on Tuesday.
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DALLAS A five (M) million dollar check owed Austin cyclist Lance Armstrong for winning a record sixth straight Tour de France isn&#39;t in the mail.
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PARIS Despite its revelation that it has fired Tyler Hamilton, its leader and the winner of a disputed gold medal at the Olympic Games in Athens, the Phonak team lost its appeal to be included in bicycle racing&#39;s reorganized structure, officials announced
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The overriding impression leaving the World Alpine Championships in Bormio, Italy, is that the United States has one terrific ski team with more depth than it has enjoyed for many years -- if ever -- but that it has a long way to go to close the gap with the Austrians.
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PITTSBURGH - General manager Peter Chiarelli , his Bruins now officially on holiday break, said yesterday that he continues to search for a trade or two. The recent losses of winger Glen Murray (hip pointer) and defensemen Aaron Ward (fractured left foot) and Andrew Alberts (postconcussion syndrome symptoms) have only added motivation to his search.