Author: Staff Reports

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The AP is reporting: The U.S. women earned a place in the championship game of the Peace Queen Cup with a 2-0 victory Thursday over Italy on two goals by Abby Wambach. The win clinched Group B for the Americans, […]

The AP is reporting: Willie Randolph figured the New York Mets would fire someone. He just didn’t think general manager Omar Minaya would pick him. “I thought he was talking about whacking a couple of my coaches,” the ex-manager told […]

The Palm Beach Post writes: The Green Bay Post-Gazette is reporting the Packers recently “made an exploratory inquiry” to the Dolphins about DE Jason Taylor‘s availability. “We don’t comment on rumors,” Dolphins spokesman Harvey Greene said of the report. The […]

The Nashville City Paper writes: Tennessee Titans linebacker Ryan Fowler couldn’t say much about the allegations regarding performance-enhancing drugs against him that surfaced last week, but he did deny using steroids. In speaking to the media Wednesday for the first […]

HOWARD ULMAN of the AP writes: Paul Pierce had not slept in 36 hours but the Boston Celtics captain was more than ready to greet the tens of thousands of fans who turned out Thursday for the rolling rally celebrating […]

Former Oregon State University rower Josh Inman has made the U.S. Olympic Team in the men’s pair. Inman, a graduate of Hillsboro High School, teamed with Matt Schnobrich of St. Paul, Minn., with a time of 6:38.104 over the 2,000-meter […]

Brendan Ziegler, an assistant on the Sports Performance Center staff at Oregon State University, captured the men’s division title at the 17th annual Oregon Weightlifting Classic Saturday at the Casanova Center on the University of Oregon campus. Ziegler cleared the […]

DOUG FERGUSON of the AP writes: The focus fell to golf’s biggest stars, with fans crammed together a dozen deep in spots at Torrey Pines to see how Tiger Woods dealt with a tender knee and whether Phil Mickelson could […]