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Daily News Briefs: July 18, 2012
KickingTiresThe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is looking at nearly 730,000 Ford Escapes and Mazda Tributes for possible cases of unintended acceleration, according to Bloomberg News. The investigation into 2001-04 Escape and Tribute models was...Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, Automotive Equipment, Bloomberg L.P.
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Daily News Briefs: July 27, 2012
KickingTiresJeep, GM and BMW plan marketing splashes in London's 2012 Olympic Games, which kick off tonight. Automotive News reports BMW is the Olympics' official automotive sponsor, with 3,200 vehicles shuttling athletes and dignitaries around London during the...Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Suzuki, Jeep, Dodge, Chrysler
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Mini Rocketman Concept Gets Even More British
KickingTiresIn commemoration of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, Mini has repackaged its Rocketman Concept, which was first seen at the 2011 Geneva International Motor Show, to give it even more British overtones. Additions include red, white and blue...... -
Daily News Briefs: May 21, 2012
KickingTiresAfter saying it would cease buying ads on Facebook, GM dropped a bigger advertising bombshell Friday when it announced it will not participate in next year's Super Bowl advertising, according to Bloomberg. Joel Ewanick (pictured), GM's chief marketing...Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Advertising, Satellite Technology, Football, Sports
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Olympic softball field is just the stuff of dreamers
LONDON — It was a cool evening. The setting sun found a tiny hole in the clouds. The occasional sprinkle fell on Regent's Park, and tall grasses that looked as if they belonged on a Midwest prairie began to sway. Then you looked at the grass,...
Tags: Softball, Modern Pentathlon, International Olympic Committee, Sports Organizations, Sports
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Gymnast Sender back for unfinished business
One in an occasional series on the Road to London for the 2012 Olympics, which open July 27.
David Sender figured the type of goldfish he bought for an eighth-grade science project at James Fenimore Cooper Middle School in Buffalo Grove would live one or...Tags: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Gymnastics Clubs, Gymnastics, Sprained Ankle, Vault Gymnastics
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Morgan's header makes her new face of U.S. women's soccer
MANCHESTER, England — Amid the chaos at the bottom of a mound of joy that formed after Alex Morgan's goal in the 123rd minute gave the U.S. women's soccer team an epic 4-3 Olympic semifinal victory Monday night over Canada at Old Trafford, Abby...Tags: Soccer, Yankee Stadium, Manchester United F.C., Sports, Hope Solo
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Loukas dives right in
LONDON — Silence filled the Aquatics Centre on Friday as U.S. Olympian Christina Loukas gathered herself on the 3-meter springboard before her first preliminary dive. Then a fan who couldn't contain his excitement yelled something that would have...
Tags: Tiger Woods, Ryan Lochte, Paul McCartney, Gossip Girl (tv program), Christina Loukas
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Usain Bolt, ready to strike twice
LONDON — They didn't introduce Usain Bolt on Saturday at Olympic Stadium so much as anoint him. And this is a place that knows something about coronations. First came the bouncy Eurythmics song, "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)," followed by polite...
Tags: Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Bailey (track and field), Usain Bolt, Football, Sports
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Penn State Lehigh Valley student Matt Baranoski cycles to success in Scotland, Mexico
Matt Baranoski started his spring semester at Penn State Lehigh Valley, and then took off for Scotland two weeks later. Baranoski, the Pennridge High School graduate and budding Olympic track cycling hopeful for 2016, took two weeks off from school early...Tags: The Pennsylvania State University, Sports, Marty Nothstein, Cycling, Lauren Tamayo
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Wrestling gets no respect from Olympic committee
Boy did the IOC executive board make a huge blunder and underestimate exactly what it was doing when it made a purely political decision by recommending the removal of wrestling for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games. Tennis, anyone? How about golf?...
Tags: Pete Sampras, Modern Pentathlon, Wrestling, Tiger Woods, International Olympic Committee
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If Armstrong loses Olympic medal, why not East Germans?
The International Olympic Committee has a tendency to make up rules that suit its purposes. To wit: the attempt to impose a 2012 Olympic Games ban on any athlete who received a two-year doping suspension, even if that suspension expired before the...
Tags: U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, Cycling, Sports, International Olympic Committee, International Cycling Union
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Aug 6, 2012
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Feb 14, 2013
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Dec 11, 2012
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