Trophy&#39;s minnows sink without trace
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Goliath and his like have had a bad press over the years. But the Champions Trophy is doing all it can to leave us feeling sorry for the big fella and looking forward to the day when David slings his hook.
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By Jacob Luecke, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  May 29--Side channel projects to restore fish habitat along a stretch of the Missouri River have come to a halt under pressure from the state's Clean Water Commission.   The U.S.
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MIAMI - The Florida Marlins are fading so badly they can&#39;t even beat the Philadelphia Phillies anymore. Cory Lidle took a no-hitter into the seventh inning, Ryan Madson escaped a jam, and the Phils ended two
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The U.S. team continued to  dominate the world short course championships Friday, claiming  five gold medals without the help of Michael Phelps after he  was forced out of the meeting with an injured back.
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Andy Roddick and Mardy &quot;Silver&quot; Fish put the US up 2-0 Friday in their Davis Cup semifinal match-up against Belarus. Roddick overwhelmed Vladimir &quot;The Vladiator&quot; Voltchkov 6-1, 6-4, 6-4, followed by Fish defeating
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US women&#39;s water polo coach Guy Baker was seething so much about an unusual call that he could barely speak. His world champion squad was too &quot;crushed&quot; to explain what happened.
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The United States men didn&#39;t leave Olympic basketball&#39;s drastically altered landscape empty-handed on Saturday. A bronze medal was hardly what the Americans wanted or expected out of these Summer Games.
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By LEE GRAVES  On some lakes, pro anglers can feel like prizefighters, landing blow after blow with bruising bass.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. _ Florida's snook were in full retreat from winter, moving back to what vestiges of warm water they could find.  That put them in the "skinny" water of bayous, channels and backwater flats _ saltwater so shallow that it sometimes barely covers their fins.
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ONLY two of the eight Olympics singles semi-finalists are left after two rounds of the US Open. On the men&#39;s side, all the medal winners -- Chile&#39;s Nicolas Massu (gold), American Mardy Fish (silver) and Chilean
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Britain were neck and neck with Olympic minnows Slovakia and Zimbabwe and desperately hoping for an elusive gold medal later in the week.
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SHEBOYGAN, Wis. - The fish's long shadow slid under the ice, causing Darren Horness to blink. &quot;I was skimming some ice off the hole, and all the sudden I thought I caught a little bit of movement, and I had to kind of take a step back,&quot; said Horness, 36, of Howards Grove.
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By Lee Graves, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.  Dec. 6--They'll be catching stripers -- not catfish -- but the winning  margin might be just a whisker.   That's the prediction of David Dudley of Lynchburg.
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By Scott Richardson, The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.  Feb. 8--Jonn Graham doesn't wait for warm weather to chase smallmouth bass.   He fishes as long as the ice is off area rivers, including the Mackinaw and Vermilion.
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Another day, another mismatch: the contest that was meant to bring the Champions Trophy to life proved to be as one-sided as its predecessors.
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By Matt Weiser and Jim Downing, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 3--The fate of a water supply serving two in three Californians has come down to tides, temperature and the mysterious movements of a tiny fish.
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The Stanley Cup finals lost nearly a quarter of what already was a small television audience.