[an error occurred while processing this directive] 03/10/2010

Marion Jones signs with WNBA's Shock
Marion Jones, the disgraced sprinter once called the world's fastest woman was introduced Wednesday as the newest member of the WNBA's Tulsa Shock, and she offered no apologies for her steroids use or her time in federal prison.

03/02/2010

Cowlishaw's NHL solution: Cut down to 24 teams
The NHL resumed play after a two-week layoff Monday night. How many people in this hockey-mad country of ours even noticed? The Canada-U.S. gold medal hockey game drew a 17.6 overnight rating on NBC Sunday afternoon. The highest rating for any World Series game played the last five years was a 13.5 for Yankees-Phillies Game 4 last fall.

03/01/2010

An exuberant end to a bittersweet Olympics
An Olympics that began with the death of a luger ended Sunday with an exuberant celebration of Canada – reflecting a determined comeback by the host country's organizers and athletes.

02/28/2010

For Stars' Brenden Morrow, joy and a place in history
According to the Stars' Brenden Morrow, no experience is remotely close to matching the joy – his word, not DMN's Jean-Jacques Taylor's – he experienced after Sidney Crosby's goal gave Canada a 3-2 win over the United States and an Olympic gold medal.

World's best hockey player makes it a golden day for Canada
Sidney Crosby is the world's best hockey player, writes DMN's Jean-Jacques Taylor. Or the second-best, if you prefer Alexander Ovechkin.

Medal haul validates U.S. as Winter Games superpower
In the ramp up to these Vancouver Olympics that culminated after 17 remarkable days Sunday, the U.S. Olympic Committee declined to reveal medals projections.

Canada defeats USA in overtime to win gold medal

Team Canada celebrates with their gold medals after winning the ice hockey men's gold medal game Sunday.
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Sidney Crosby scored 7:40 into overtime and Canada beat the United States 3-2 on Sunday to earn its second men's hockey gold medal in the last three Olympics.

Photos: Canada vs. USA

Taylor: Crosby makes it a golden day for Canada

Hairopoulos: U.S. validated as Winter Games superpower

Lehtinen wins fourth Olympic medal

More: Olympics

President Obama loses hockey bet with Canadian prime minister
President Barack Obama owes his Canadian counterpart a case of beer.

02/27/2010

At the Olympics, life's lessons are the flame that's never extinguished
No Olympic moment touched me like sitting in my hotel room watching Joannie Rochette's figure skating performance a few days after her mother's death.

Hedrick ends Olympic career with a speedskating silver, then looks ahead
Texan speedskater Chad Hedrick, tongue lolling out of his mouth with the effort, his hips aching, tried to will his two teenage teammates to victory over the gold-medal-hogging Canadians in Saturday's men's team pursuit final at the gleaming Richmond Olympic Oval.

02/26/2010

Denton skater earns first medal at last as U.S. clinches record
After all the disappointment he'd experienced in Vancouver, Denton's Jordan Malone ended his first Olympics by skating around Pacific Coliseum and letting an American flag fly.

U.S. confidence soaring for gold medal game
The Miracle at Squaw Valley produced the United States' first hockey gold medal in 1960. And the Miracle on Ice produced its second in 1980.

Hot air: Success of U.S. hockey delights NBC
NBC couldn't have drawn up a better script for the closing day of the Vancouver Winter Olympics. It will have the U.S. men's hockey team play in Sunday afternoon's gold medal game. Faceoff is scheduled for 2 p.m.

Royally gold: South Korea's 'Queen' makes history
Queen Kim Yu-Na is golden, all right, but she's no ice princess.

Dallas Stars' Jere Lehtinen, Brenden Morrow part of Olympic semifinals
Team USA meets Finland at 2 p.m. on NBC. Canada meets Slovakia at 8:30 p.m. on CNBC.

IOC will investigate Canadian women's on-ice drinking after win over U.S. hockey team
he IOC will investigate the behavior of Canadian women's hockey players who celebrated their gold medal by swigging beer and champagne on the ice.

02/25/2010

Canadian goalie gives U.S. women nothing to celebrate
Two minutes into the second period, U.S. defenseman Caitlin Cahow skated toward the scrum in front of Canada's net, her stick raised ready to celebrate.

02/24/2010

Misstep turns a night of triumph into agony for Denton's Malone
Short-track speedskater Jordan Malone's snake-bitten Olympics continued Wednesday night.

Stars' Morrow is Canada's heartbeat in win over Russia
Just when it seemed like the Russia might be positioning itself to rally against Canada, Brenden Morrow did what he's done his entire career.

Each game, a different star earning his stripes for U.S. men's hockey team
It would have been so easy for the United States to panic during the second intermission of its quarterfinal game against Switzerland on Wednesday.

Korean woman skates to top spot in short program

Rachael Flatt of the United States is in fifth place after the ladies short program.
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Despite skating clean, lively programs, Americans Rachael Flatt and Mirai Nagasu (above) remain outside shots to reach the podium.
Photos: Women's figure skating
Blog: Olympics

02/23/2010

With no expectations to weigh him down, U.S.' Bode Miller turns to gold
Bode Miller's last chance to make history will come in a few days after he missed a gate on his first run Tuesday in the men's giant slalom and failed to complete the race.

02/22/2010

Mother of star Canadian figure skater dies
Dressed in black, Joannie Rochette wiped her eyes and took a deep breath before stepping on the ice. The rink has always been her comfort zone, now more than ever. Rochette's mother, Therese, died of a massive heart attack early Sunday, just a few hours after arriving in Vancouver to watch her daughter compete.

Underdog U.S. shocks Canada to earn spot in hockey quarterfinals
Brian Burke, the man who put Team USA's hockey roster together, wanted a team built around youth and speed and grit.

02/21/2010

Gamble costly for Chris Del Bosco in men's skicross
The helmet-cam provided the first-hand views of Canada's Chris Del Bosco's crash in the men's skicross final Sunday: a jumbled, shaky view of snow, sky and searing disappointment.

Team USA hockey uniforms copy those of 1960 team
The United States uniforms for Sunday's Olympic men's hockey game against Canada are nearly identical to those worn by the 1960 gold-medal winning team at Squaw Valley.

Sherrington on ... the Olympics
In Kevin Sherrington's weekly Sunday Brunch column, he writes: "One of the Olympics' greatest charms is also one of its most problematic. Competitors from some countries aren't always world-class athletes."

Family helped racer fight addiction, reach Olympics

Chris Del Bosco, who grew up in Vail, Colo., but holds dual citizenship with Canada, won gold in ski cross at the X Games last month.
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Four years after Chris Del Bosco hit bottom and entered rehab, his sister, who lives in Plano, will watch him contend for Olympic gold today.
Taylor: U.S.'s Davis outdone
Hairopoulos: Ohno passes Blair
Photos: Speedskating | More
Blog: Olympics

Oh, yes: Ohno siezes bronze, passes Blair
Apolo Anton Ohno, Bonnie Blair and Eric Heiden.

02/20/2010

For once, U.S. speedskater Davis is outdone
Shani Davis' grimace gave away the result in the men's 1,500-meter speedskating final long before the Chicago native crossed the finish line, searching for his time.

02/19/2010

Biathlon poses an action-packed test

Hot air: Games cranking out gold-medal TV ratings
It happens every Olympics. The old debate: live vs. tape.

02/18/2010

Canadians eat, drink and suffer
Only steps from the Olympic flame, spectators crowded into every nook Thursday evening at the Elephant and Castle Pub, glued to the hockey game on television, groaning and hoping, praying for a Canadian goal. Curling tickets forgotten, chit-chat cut off, only Team Canada mattered.

Photos: Shaun White takes snowboarding gold at Olympics

Shaun White of the United States celebrates his gold-medal winning performance in the men's snowboard halfpipe during the Winter Olympics.
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White secured the win on his first run without trying his signature trick.
Taylor: White is without peer
Hairopoulos: Vonn's run solid gold
Blog: Olympics

Vonn fights through pain with a run that's solid gold
No trace remained Wednesday of the vulnerable Lindsey Vonn, who a week before, feared the pain from an injured right shin would raze her Olympics.

02/17/2010

Shaun White without peer as snowboarder
The effervescent personality. The ever-present toothy grin. The sense of humor.

02/16/2010

Unpredictable Johnny Weir makes figures skating fun
My mom always loved figure skating. As a kid, she used to drive me crazy because she'd hog the 25-inch TV in the den whenever an important figure skating competition was on the tube.

Another downer for Jacobellis as snowboarder falters again
For Lindsey Jacobellis, the curly mopped mix of American sweetheart and snowboarder punk, the Olympics are when she's yanked from the comfort of her like-minded X Games comrades and fans and plunked down in the middle of the mainstream.

In Olympic men's figure skating, drama turns on every quad
In the universe of Olympic men's figure skating, Vera Wang-designed costumes, Johnny Weir's engagingly unique, diva temperament and Russia's recent dominance can steal the attention, Olympics columnist Kate Hairopoulos writes. But among all that glitters, don't lose sight that this is an athletic competition.

Games organizers left down-and-out Eastside behind
Vancouver, as beautiful as any city in North America, wants us to see all it has to offer during the 2010 Olympics, Jean-Jacques Taylor writes. But the city doesn't want us to see the Eastside, about a 15-minute walk east of the exclusive waterfront area and the fashionable shopping district on Robson Street. It doesn't want us to see its homeless. Or its drug addicts. Or its mentally ill.

02/15/2010

Luge's celebration shaken in Vancouver
"This is the party place," the P.A. announcer bellowed. The knit-capped spectators and patriots at Whistler Sliding Center agreed, ringing cowbells, hollering and waving their nation's flags between swigs of beer and hot cocoa.

02/14/2010

U.S. hockey coach working on a golden encore
We all remember Mike Eruzione because he scored the game-winner against the hated Soviets in the U.S. hockey team's Miracle on Ice victory.

02/15/2010

US pair sets career best in short program
Ever since volunteering at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games, Mark Ladwig has had a single purpose: skate in an Olympics. It was worth the wait. Ladwig and partner Amanda Evora, the runners-up at U.S. nationals, set a career best in Sunday night's short program at the Vancouver Olympics. It earned them 10th place in, by far, the biggest competition of their career.

Police: Wife of slain Olympian arrested in California
The wife of an Olympic shot put medalist gunned down in his Southern California back yard last summer was arrested Saturday in the homicide case.

02/14/2010

Blaming luger for his death is absurd
The International Olympic Committee is a joke. So is the International Luge Federation.

Short day for Denton's Malone
Denton short-track speedskater Jordan Malone's unsatisfying Olympic debut lasted just over two minutes Saturday and ended with the judges tossing him from the ensuing rounds of the 1,500 meters.

Athlete's death casts pall over start of Vancouver Games

The United States' contingent enters the Winter Olympics' Opening Ceremony at the BC Place in Vancouver, Canada, on Friday, February 12, 2010.
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Luger Nodar Kumaritashvili's death reminded us once again that sports is never as important as we make it, Jean-Jacques Taylor says.
Blog: Olympics
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Raining or snowing, it's Olympics Games time
The legacy of these 21st Winter Olympics remains to be told, writes Kate Hairopoulos. Safety, a necessary concern in sports driven by athletes who want to go faster, sky higher and push limits and convention, could be one.

02/12/2010

Olympic luger dies after crash during Vancouver training run
A men's Olympic luger from the country of Georgia died Friday after a high-speed crash during training. IOC president Jacques Rogge said the death hours before the opening ceremony "clearly casts a shadow over these games."

02/11/2010

Denton speedskater in Olympics to represent U.S. - and those who got him there
Jordan Malone, a natural narrator with an eye for the dramatic, strolled into the ice rink at the Vancouver Olympics with video camera in hand.

2010 Winter Olympics preview: Speedskating
Americans have traditionally dominated speedskating (short- and long-track), winning 75 total medals.

Special moments essential to Winter Games
The Olympic Games are about indelible moments that remain with us for a lifetime.

U.S. flag bearer caught off-guard by honor
A day later, Mark Grimmette still couldn't believe the captains of the other U.S. teams honored him by making him the flag bearer for today's opening ceremonies.

Cold in Vancouver ... but colder in Dallas
Waiting for the Sky Train that shoots me into bustling, cosmopolitan downtown Vancouver, I was asked by a local volunteer where I was from.

After eye surgery, U.S. bobsled driver has visions of gold
Two years ago, Olympic bobsled driver Steve Holcomb's vision had degenerated so drastically, retirement seemed the only option. He made his living steering a bullet of a sled down an icy, turn-filled track with other lives dependent on him. What choice was there?

2010 Winter Olympics preview: Skiing/Snowboarding
Many look back at Bode Miller's 2006 Turin Games and see a partier who bombed when he could've been the world's best skier.

02/10/2010

U.S. skier Vonn worries that shin injury will keep her out of Game
When American Alpine skier Lindsey Vonn began what soon became a doomed slalom training run on an Austrian slope nine days ago, all was right in her world.

Blog: Vonn concedes she may miss Olympics
According to Kate Hairopoulos from our Olympics blog, alpine skier Lindsey Vonn conceded during a news conference today at the Main Press Center that she may not be able to ski in the Vancouver Games because of a deep contusion to her right shin.

Blog: Olympics

They're mad about hockey - win or lose - in Canada
To say that hockey is the sport of Canada would be underselling it a bit.

Olympic Hockey: Mike Heika's Top 6 Teams
The 12-team Olympic men's hockey tournament will run from Feb. 16-28 and will start with pool play in three groups.

Stars players in the Vancouver Winter Olympics

02/09/2010

Russia doping concerns IOC
International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge urged Russia on Monday to get tougher on drug cheats, voicing his concern at the high number of doping cases among Russian biathletes and cross-country skiers.

Figure skating preview: U.S. women face stiff odds for singles medal
Johnny Weir, the flashy, sassy figure skater, is striving to be taken seriously. Never mind the drama ranging from a fur-costume flap to his rollicking Sundance Channel reality show. Evan Lysacek, proven and confident, is the reigning world champion. Jeremy Abbott, the defending two-time national champion, could be the dark horse.

02/07/2010

Figure skating broadcasters reunite for Winter Olympics
As Katarina Witt took the ice in blue jeans and a brown jacket, Elizabeth Manley playfully sank to her knees and did several "I'm not worthy" bows in the direction of her former rival.

2010 Olympics: Looks like a U.S.-Canada border war
Dan Johnson, Colorado College economics professor and Olympic medal-projection savant, just so happens to hail from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.

02/06/2010

Keeping focus while watching Olympic Games
Columnist Barry Horn gives a list of items to ponder if you'll be watching all or any part of the XXI Winter Olympic marathon from Vancouver.

01/30/2010

Slider's journey to Olympic Games is a long, hair-raising ride
U.S. skeleton athlete Zach Lund, 30, will finally become an Olympian at next month's Vancouver Games. But what he's looking for now doesn't make up for what he lost four years ago, writes columnist Kate Hairopoulos.

01/29/2010

Texas-ex Sanya Richards could lose Olympic gold after teammates' admission
A member of the 1,600-meter gold-medal relay team at the Athens Olympics has accepted a four-year suspension and disqualification of her results for doping.

01/24/2010

Long shot status doesn't faze teen figure skaters
Two newly anointed members of the 2010 U.S. Olympic figure skating team will seek to continue the streak of American women medaling in every Winter Games since 1968. However, the odds may be against them, writes DMN Olympics columnist Kate Hairopolous.

01/23/2010

Two teens upstage veteran Cohen
Rachael Flatt, 17, and Mirai Nagasu, 16, all but certainly wrapped up berths to next month's Vancouver Olympics with strong performances that outshone even that of Sasha Cohen, writes columnist Kate Hairopoulos.

01/24/2010

Olympics notebook
Ashley Wagner suffered one serious bobble, a fall, in her short program during the opening round of the U.S. championships. But it was too much to overcome, even after a stirring free skate Saturday.

01/22/2010

Cohen needs to error-free in free skate
Hang around figure skaters long enough – near spots like the Kiss and Cry Area, where the skaters receive their scores from the judges – and age 25 will start to sound darn near creaky.

U.S. Figure Skating Championships: Cohen second after short program
Cohen, the 2006 Olympic silver medalist, showed no signs of having been away for almost four years. At 25, she could still jump and spin with the teenagers. Wearing red, she landed all her jumps in her short program and dazzled with her trademark grace and beautiful positions.

01/20/2010

Sasha Cohen has still got it
Despite all the fuss made over Sasha Cohen's Olympic comeback attempt over the last year, the images of her artistic figure skating remained those of the past.

01/16/2010

Party's on for Olympic speedskater, despite injury scare
Jordan Malone, injury-prone speedskater, is the last guy to be reckless with his health, writes Kate Hairopoulos. But in October, Malone stepped the wrong way in an inflatable sumo costume, suffering a partially torn ACL in his left knee. "Leave it to me to get injured wearing a suit full of padding."

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