Cayard's hopes stalled; Tornado duo eyes medal
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ATHENS -- A disappointed Paul Cayard embraced the Star Class gold medalist, Brazil's Torben Grael, yesterday as they came off the water and assessed his own chances to leave Athens with a medal.
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The Chinese powered their way to another men's gymnastics world championship Thursday. Can anyone catch them in time for the Olympics in Beijing? Hardly looked like it with the way they performed and everyone else stumbled.
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All week, Jeremy Wariner and his two teammates planned their 400-meter Olympic final together. Wariner, Otis Harris and Derrick Brew did not know the order the three would finish
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All season, Chris Barnicle seemed prepared for just about everything, but the Newton North senior was not ready for the hot weather he encountered yesterday in San Diego at the Footlocker Cross-Country National Championships. Racing in humid conditions with temperatures in the 70s, the Massachusetts Division 1 state champion finished sixth in 15 minutes 34 seconds in the 5-kilometer race. ...
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The headline "A White Tornado" in the  Chicago Tribune this week referred to white American sprinter  Jeremy Wariner's 400-meter Olympic victory, but the wording  touched off American sensitivities over race.
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The news on East and West Coasts this week reflected the fragility of hope based on an aging pitcherÂs arm and a young pitcherÂs value.
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Keith Langford and Christian Moody were limited in practice Tuesday, but No. 2 Kansas hoped to have at least one of the injured starters available for Wednesday night's game at Iowa State.
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Texas was cruising to another Big 12 win when the weather put everything on hold for more than an hour. No matter. By the time the rain and lightning had cleared, Iowa State was in no position to mount much of a rally.
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LOS ANGELES  - Some things just elude   prognostication. Middle East politics, Midwest weather patterns   and college basketball's March Madness tournament, for example,   are so unpredictable that to impose any set of expectations on   what the future might bring is futile.
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ATHENS -- A year ago in Anaheim, Calif., they were out of uniform and on crutches, their world meet over before it began, their careers in doubt. Annia Hatch had dislocated her left knee and torn her anterior cruciate ligament. Courtney Kupets had ruptured her left Achilles' tendon. Last night, they were both on the Olympic medal stand with medals ...
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KAPALUA, Hawaii -- So far as golf's best one-two punch goes, yesterday's final round of the Mercedes Championships was disappointing.
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The severe weather that spawned deadly tornadoes throughout the South threatened to delay Thursday's planned launch of shuttle Atlantis, already two months late in getting to the space station with a new lab.
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It didn't seem like tornado weather. The rain was sparse, and there was no thunder. But in the morning, the high  school students in Enterprise, Ala., were herded into the interior hallways to brace for the possibility. Kids joked and chatted.  They had been through this drill before.
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With just 300 meters remaining in the Bob McIntyre Bay State Cross Country Invitational Division 2 race yesterday at Franklin Park, Katharina Eidmann began doubting herself. &quot;I was surprised,&quot; said Eidmann, a junior at Winchester. &quot;My plan was to have people pushing me but I kind of pulled away early. When Greta [Wicklund] came up on me toward the end, ...
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The steady rain was getting to Bronson Arroyo, and not because it presented the clear and present danger of frizzing his cornrows. &quot;It's pretty slick out there,&quot; he reported, 2 hours 10 minutes before the scheduled start of Game 3 last night. &quot;It's very difficult to get your footing. I don't like it. It will be tough ...
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How the athletes who do not win a medal face defeat could be crucial to their future success.
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ATHENS -- US sailors needed a big day to bring home gold and bronze medals from the sailing finale here yesterday. But rolling the dice on windshifts and starting tactics backfired both in Star and Tornado classes, and the Americans had to settle for a single silver medal.