Busy Americans flocking to circuit gyms
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The boxing bell rings and Alan Katz starts pounding away at a punching bag. After 30 seconds the bell rings again and it's off to arm curls at the next station.
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For Americans, it&#39;s just as well that the Olympics came to a conclusion Sunday. Over the weekend, the ends of America&#39;s almost
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A crowd of American sports leagues are racing to widen international appeal and revenue by playing more games abroad and expanding foreign marketing.
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For some the Paralympics, which opens on Friday, is a sideshow after the Olympic athletes have packed their bags and left town. For 4,000 competitors from 140 nations, 15,000
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Residents have taken more pride in their nation's Games as Friday night's kickoff has neared.
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ATHENS, Greece - The preliminaries in the 100 meters were perhaps just a sample of what's to come Sunday, when a talented group of qualifiers - including Americans Shawn Crawford, Justin Gatlin and defending champion Maurice Greene - will try to turn their competition into the fastest show at the Athens Games.    Five men broke 10 seconds in qualifying Saturday, led by Crawford's time of 9.89...
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The energized voters that candidates see on the campaign trail
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By Keri Brenner, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Feb.
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Across the country on Friday, millions of Americans rushed into malls, filled downtown shopping streets and mobbed discount stores everywhere.
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As more nations compete well in the Olympics, the space between each competitor has narrowed.
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On bicycles and on foot, some with children in tow, hundreds of thousands of people moved through areas of Manhattan on Sunday in rallies or mass demonstrations, carrying messages against war and the Bush administration.
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Many New Yorkers, armed with myriad excuses, are finding ways to attend the United States Open during working hours.
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LONDON -- Americans who live abroad are expected to vote in unprecedented numbers in the US presidential election, according to party and government officials involved in registration for absentee ballots around the world.
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The English-teaching circuit in Asia is filled with transient foreigners, from backpackers needing to make quick cash to recent college graduates looking for experience.
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Hail to the hills of San Francisco, Heartbreak Hill in Boston, the Austrian Alps, the Colorado Rockies, skyscrapers with access to stairs, stair climbers at the gym and elliptical cross trainers.
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Nearly a million American youngsters, some as young as 6, rely on personal trainers to shape up, lose weight or improve in sports, according to figures from the nation's leading sports club association.
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The status-seekers in menÂs college basketball juggle national exposure, money and the disadvantage of playing top-ranked opponents on the road.