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Nick Scandone dies at 42; Orange County gold medalist in sailing at Paralympic Games
Nick Scandone, an Orange County sailor who won a gold medal at the 2008 Paralympic Games in China six years after having been stricken with Lou Gehrig's disease, died Friday at his Fountain Valley home. He was 42.
Sailing since he was 8, Scandone was...Tags: Health, Multi-Sport Events, Paralympic Games, Lou Gehrig, University of California, Irvine
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Chicago third of four finalists for 2016 Olympics
![Mayor Richard M. Daley jumped out of his seat, thrust his fists in the air and emphatically whispered, "Yeah!" when the United States Olympic Committee announced 14 months ago in Washington it had selected Chicago as U.S. candidate to become host city of the 2016 Summer Olympics.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-06/39609248-05064827-140105.jpg "Mayor Richard M. Daley jumped out of his seat, thrust his fists in the air and emphatically whispered, "Yeah!\" when the United States Olympic Committee announced 14 months ago in Washington it had selected Chicago as U.S. candidate to become host city of the 2016 Summer Olympics.")
Tribune reporterMayor Richard M. Daley jumped out of his seat, thrust his fists in the air and emphatically whispered, "Yeah!" when the United States Olympic Committee announced 14 months ago in Washington it had selected Chicago as U.S. candidate to become host city...Tags: Sports Organizations, Multi-Sport Events, International Olympic Committee, 2016 Olympic Games, Sports
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Towson prepares for crowds along Phelps parade route
It's beginning to sound like a military operation, complete with maps, complex logistics, moving machinery and marchers in uniform.
With plans for the Oct. 4 parade to honor Michael Phelps and other Maryland Olympians rapidly taking shape, what became...Tags: Elections, Fort McHenry, Vehicles, Baltimore Orioles, M&T Bank Stadium
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Towson parade to honor Phelps, fellow Olympians
Eleven Olympic athletes with Maryland ties - foremost among them Michael Phelps - are being invited to take part next month in a parade in their honor in Towson, followed by a salute at Fort McHenry that will be capped off with fireworks. The formal...Tags: New York, Television, Regional Authority, Fort McHenry, Arts and Culture
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Local Paralympic Swimmer Dies
Eighteen year old Sammamish swimmer Marin Morrison has died. Her family says the girl died in her sleep Friday. After moving to the Seattle area in 2006, she began swimming for Eastlake High School, in Sammamish. Before that, Morrison was a...Tags: Cancer, Sports, Death
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'Murderball'
![The raucous and bold documentary "Murderball" looks at the sport of quad rugby, played on a basketball court on which players in wheelchairs maneuver, sometimes violently, to move a ball upcourt and across the goal line. Though the players are quadriplegics, meaning they have some form of restricted mobility in all four limbs, the sport is fiercely and passionately played, and at the international level, the stakes are high with gold medals, national and individual pride on the line.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2005-07/18372710.jpg "The raucous and bold documentary "Murderball\" looks at the sport of quad rugby, played on a basketball court on which players in wheelchairs maneuver, sometimes violently, to move a ball upcourt and across the goal line. Though the players are quadriplegics, meaning they have some form of restricted mobility in all four limbs, the sport is fiercely and passionately played, and at the international level, the stakes are high with gold medals, national and individual pride on the line.")
Times Staff WriterThe raucous and bold documentary "Murderball" looks at the sport of quad rugby, played on a basketball court on which players in wheelchairs maneuver, sometimes violently, to move a ball upcourt and across the goal line. Though the players are...Tags: Sex, Entertainment, Movies, Health and Safety at School, Forehead
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What's the big Harry deal?
Special to the TribuneThink "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" conjured some magic last holiday season? Even bigger things are expected this year, as Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Hermione (Emma Watson) and Ron (Rupert Grint) return to action Friday for "Harry Potter and...Tags: Health, Nike, Inc., Harry Potter (fictional character), Celebrities, Fiction
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Determination fuels an Olympic dream
Sun StaffFor an hour and a half and 4,000 yards, pausing only to swig from her water bottle, Jessica Long swims. Butterfly, freestyle, breaststroke and backstroke - a workout she repeats four or five times a week. The 12-year-old Baltimore County girl radiates a...Tags: Television, Education, Fox Broadcasting Company, Swimming, Arts and Culture
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Kayakers, canoers aim for Athens
Sun StaffThis weekend is the last chance for whitewater slalom kayakers and canoers to qualify for the Olympic team trials, from April 2 to 4 in South Bend, Ind. The event, at the Nantahalla Outdoor Center in North Carolina, will complete a field of 90 athletes...Tags: Television, Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Maryland, College Park, Multi-Sport Events
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Katz to compete in paralympics
Sun StaffSusan Katz will not only play in the Paralympics that follow the Summer Games, but she could produce the television coverage of the events to boot. The Silver Spring woman, who is associate producer of the ESPN nightly talk show Around the Horn, was...Tags: Television, Entertainment, Education, University of Maryland, College Park, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Passing word: `Disabled,' sports go together
Sun StaffWASHINGTON - The clinic for wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Medical Center on Wednesday night had nothing to do with doctors. Members of past and present U.S. Paralympic squads and other wheelchair athletes buzzed up and down the hardwood at Wagner...Tags: Health, Emergency Incidents, Multi-Sport Events, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Crime, Law and Justice
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Paralympics ceremony canceled after collision
From Staff And Wire ReportsThe festive segment of the Paralympics closing ceremony was canceled yesterday in Athens after seven high school students were killed when their bus collided with a truck on the way to the games. Instead of a party atmosphere at today's event,...Tags: Bus Accidents, Clarksville, 2016 Olympic Games, Dundalk, Death
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