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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: Bloomberg L.P., National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Automotive Equipment, Manufacturing and Engineering, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company
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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: NBC (tv network), Bloomberg L.P., Kia, Cadillac, Jaguar
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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: Football, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Automotive Equipment, Vehicles, Services and Shopping
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Just the facts: Verzbicas must be U.S. citizen to compete for USA at Olympics
It's time to clarify the situation about Lukas Verzbicas' eligibility for the 2012 Olympics.
Verzbicas, 18, is a citizen of Lithuania who has lived in the United States more than half his life and has applied for U.S. citizenship, but it seems unlikely...Tags: Career and Workplace, Immigration, Olympic Games, U.S. Congress, Lithuania
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With mementoes of her late dad close by, Uhlaender wins world title in skeleton
The last time she had raced in a World Skeleton Championships at Lake Placid, N.Y., back in 2009, Katie Uhlaender was mourning the death two weeks earlier of her father, Ted, the former major league outfielder who had urged her to keep competing even as...Tags: Leukemia, Summer Olympics, Katie Uhlaender, Skeleton, Baseball
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Chicago-area boxer fighting to reach Olympics
One in an occasional series on the Road to London for the 2012 Olympics, which open July 27.
Nathan Ridings had been carrying a lot of academic weight last year, taking several AP courses his senior year at Lockport Township High School.
With that off...Tags: Pan American Games, Awards and Prizes, Science and Technology, Dominican Republic, El Salvador
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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: Vault Gymnastics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Sprained Ankle, Gymnastics, Gymnastics Clubs
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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: NBC (tv network), Hope Solo, Manchester United F.C., Awards and Prizes, Pia Sundhage
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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: Boston Marathon, Pan American Games, Cycling, The Pennsylvania State University, Pursuit Cycling
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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: Modern Pentathlon, College Sports, Pentathlon Running, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Pete Sampras
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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: Wrigleyville, Tiger Woods, YouTube, Ryan Lochte, Awards and Prizes
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