Heavy Hearts Big Factor Tonight: Oden, Hunter Try to Cope With Deaths of Loved Ones
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By Bob Baptist, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Jan. 31--It was a challenging week for the Ohio State men's basketball team before death arrived to make everything else seem trivial. The small matter of a game, however, is something the Buckeyes must confront tonight.
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CHICAGO, Feb. 18 -- Families of those killed last week at Northern Illinois University began laying their loved ones to rest Monday.
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Trail Blazers center Greg Oden, the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft, will undergo exploratory arthroscopic surgery this week because of pain in his right knee.
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Philadelphia 76ers center Samuel Dalembert tried to smile when asked about Alonzo Mourning&#39;s first game back after a kidney transplant less than a year ago.
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Drivers try to focus on racing with the tragedy that killed 10 still weighing on their minds. By BRANT JAMES, Times Staff Writer. HAMPTON, Ga.
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Wing players with beautiful jump shots inspire the imagination,ÃÂ but teams with a great big man win titles, and that's why Greg Oden should go No. 1.
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By Mark Gokavi Staff Writer  Go ahead, make Thad Matta's day.   Foul Greg Oden. Send the 7-foot center to the line to shoot free throws left-handed until his right wrist fully heals.
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Whenever Alonzo Mourning tried to buck the odds, battled a life-threatening kidney disease and play basketball, he always did so with the odds stacked against him in the form of a diseased organ
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Number one overall draft pick Greg Oden said on Thursday he was heartbroken about missing the entire NBA season because of injury but vowed to become the best benchwarmer possible.
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NBA players grieve in their own way. In memory of recently traded Walter McCarty, friend and former teammate Mark Blount will wear sweatbands on his head and upper left arm for the remainder of the season.
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NORTH VERNON, Ind. - When hunter Jim Mick went into the woods to bag himself a deer, he never expected to come out empty-handed - and badly bruised.  The 69-year-old bowhunter was treated for injuries he said he suffered during a wrestling match with an angry buck.
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Alonzo Mourning wasn't ready Tuesday to put too much strain on his body, and the New Jersey Nets weren't rushing Mourning along in his attempt to become the second NBA player to return after a kidney transplant.
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By KEVIN McNAMARA  On Wednesday night, Boston Celtics' fans witnessed a potential glimpse of their team's future in one four-hour window. It was must- see TV.   First up was Greg Oden, the Ohio State 7-foot center who is the closest thing to Patrick Ewing in  many years.
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Hearing shocking news, such as a family bereavement, really can break your heart, researchers suggest
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GILBERT, W.Va. -- When his craving for painkillers got to be too much, Steve Dotson lay down and let his wife drive a car over his leg. It hurt, but he could dismiss the pain with thoughts of the medicated bliss that would follow. Soon, he lost his house, the state took his children away and he w...
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In Quezon province, hit earlier this week by a typhoon, relatives were looking for loved ones when second storm hit. BY PAT ROQUE.
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There were serious discussions this morning to move this weekend&#39;s Titans-Dolphins game, originally scheduled for Sunday, to Saturday because of approaching Hurricane Ivan.