A runner named Kiprotich winning the Olympic marathon? Hardly a surprise.
That he was the one from Uganda and not Kenya? Major surprise.
Slipping and sliding around oil-spattered Watkins Glen International on the last lap and fighting for the lead, Marcos Ambrose and Brad Keselowski didn’t know what lay around the next turn.
LONDON – Most medals, most gold medals. The U.S. got what it wanted from these Olympics.
Liberty’s American Legion baseball team was down to its final three outs and staring at elimination Sunday.
Top-seeded Novak Djokovic won his second straight Rogers Cup title and third overall, beating Richard Gasquet 6-3, 6-2 on Sunday in Toronto.
Rory McIlroy dressed the part as golf’s next star, and played like it, too.
Imagine swarms of drone aircraft fighting the wars of the future. One big remotely piloted “bird” could control an array of stealthy planes with bombs and missiles to “knock the door down” for manned fighter jets high over enemy territory via satellite links to a ground station in Nevada. Or South Dakota. Or anywhere.
Maybe next time. Even before GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney named U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., his running mate, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval had dropped out of real contention, if he were ever truly in the game.
It was a different crop of prospective students that showed up Friday morning for orientation at the College of Southern Nevada. Instead of fresh-faced high school graduates, about forty mainly gray-haired military veterans gathered in hopes of improving their prospects.
Seventeen days ago, before Usain Bolt again proved himself the planet’s fastest human, before a man with fiber legs competed against able-bodied athletes, before Michael Phelps won more medals than anyone in Olympic history and American gymnast Gabby Douglas made her own for a person of color, before more questions about doping arose and female badminton players brought disgrace to the games, the goal was to inspire generations.