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Lynx gold-medal winners back home
Three members of the Minnesota Lynx who helped the U.S. win an Olympic gold medal in women's basketball received a hearty welcome back Wednesday at a Minneapolis press conference.
The extra playoff spot in Major League Baseball this season has thickened the races, with several teams well within October's reach despite taking mediocre records into the stretch run.
More than 100 former and current Big Ten student-athletes and coaches represented 32 countries in 24 sports at the 2012 Olympic games, winning 35 medals.
Olympics come to rocking end with a pop party
With a little British pomp and a lot of British pop, London brought the curtain down on a glorious Olympic Games on Sunday in a spectacular, technicolor pageant of landmarks, lightshows and lots of fun. The closing ceremony offered a sensory blast including rock 'n' roll rickshaws, dustbin percussionists, an exploding yellow car and a marching band in red tunics and bearskin hats.
The Minnesota Vikings have activated running back Adrian Peterson from the physically unable to perform list Sunday, with coach Leslie Frazier saying Peterson had done everything in his rehab that could be done working by himself.
2012 Olympics: Year of the U.S. Women
Every nation that sent a delegation to the London Games sent at least one female athlete - a first for the Olympics. This year's Team USA has more female than male athletes - and the women have won nearly twice as many medals: 100 total medals, by my count, to 59 for the men.
US women win gold, don't know what they'll do now
Exhausted but elated, the U.S. women's soccer team is taking a few days to revel in its latest Olympic gold medals -- to say nothing of the star treatment that goes with them -- before heading back home. To what, the players don't really know.