Christopher Bowman, Skating Champion, Dies
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Mr. Bowman was a former U.S. figure skating champion dubbed âBowman the Showmanâ for his flair on the ice.
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She doesn't train harder than other snowboarders, just with more frequency. That's what US snowboard team program director Jeremy Forster has to say about 19-year-old Lindsey Jacobellis , who followed her X Games snowboardcross gold medal last week by taking the overall US Snowboard Grand Prix title Saturday in Mountain Creek, N.J., with a halfpipe win. Jacobellis shared the podium ...
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado  - Turning the tables on the media, world champion Tong Jian had a question for journalists during the recent Four Continents figure skating championships.
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Chris Hayward, an Emmy-winning television writer who helped develop the bumbling animated Canadian Mountie Dudley Do-Right and other offbeat characters for the Rocky and Bullwinkle TV show, has died. He was 81.
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Paul Shmyr, the former NHL and WHA defenseman who captained the Edmonton Oilers in Wayne Gretzky's first season with the team, has died after a battle with throat cancer. He was 58.
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Former Nashville Predators center Sergei Zholtok died yesterday in his native Latvia of an apparent heart ailment. He was 31. The Predators&#39; website said
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Dale Baird, the winningest thoroughbred trainer with more than 9,400 victories, died in a crash along an icy highway after he lost control of his pickup truck while hauling a livestock trailer. He was 72.
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Four-time Iditarod champion Susan Butcher died Saturday in a Seattle hospital of a reoccurrence of leukemia after a recent stem-cell transplant, her doctor said. She was 51.
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ST. PAUL - Not since proper ladies began skating for titles in 1914 has there been a night like this. Three of the top four finishers here, including champion Mirai Nagasu, aren't old enough to go to the world championships in Sweden. And the woman who ruled the planet just two years ago had the worst performance by a reigning ...
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BOWLING GREEN, Ohio -- Bowling Green goalie Jordan Sigalet couldn't feel how hard he was gripping his stick or squeezing his glove. He couldn't even tie the laces on his shoes. The numbness in his hands was brought on by multiple sclerosis, and Sigalet, one of college hockey's top players, thought it could end his dreams of playing in the ...
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MONTREAL (CP) - The embattled main organizer of Montreal's failed effort to host the 2005 world aquatic championships was found dead Wednesday, a spokesman for the organizing committee said after several media reported his suicide.
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The Soviet Union's most successful ice  hockey player, Alexander Ragulin, has died aged 63, his former  club CSKA Moscow said Thursday. One of only two players along  with Soviet goaltender Vladislav Tretyak to win 10 world  titles, Ragulin also claimed three consecutive Olympic gold  medals in 1964, 1968 and 1972.
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PORTLAND, Ore. -- All week long at the Rose Garden, the joke was that the judges were handing out 6.0s as if they were going out of style. One night alone, dancers Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto grabbed nine, as many as Brian Boitano managed in his entire career at the US Figure Skating Championships.
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RIGA, Latvia (Sports Network) - An autopsy performed  Thursday stated that veteran NHL center Sergei Zholtok died as  a result of heart failure. Zholtok, who was 31, passed away  Wednesday after leaving a game in Belarus.
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Alexander Ragulin, a defenseman on the great Soviet teams of the 1960s and 1970s and a three-time Olympic champion, died at 63.
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MELBOURNE, Australia -- Peter Norman, the Australian who stood alongside the U.S. athletes staging the civil rights protest from the medal podium at the 1968 Olympics, died Tuesday of a heart attack. He was 64.
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Former U.S. figure skating champion Christopher Bowman died of a suspected drug overdose in a Los Angeles motel on Thursday, authorities said. He was 40.