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Athletics: The 10 Best Moments for US Distance Running in 2006
As 2006 closes, it is time to recognize and celebrate the "Best Moments" in U.S. distance running, and this year, there were plenty of exciting and historic individual and collective moments (and some disappointments). 2005 was a good year for the sport and 2006 was even better as the Top 10 moments below attest. #10
U.S. Women Strike First Ever U.S. Gold at World Mountain Running Trophy
In Bursa, Turkey last September, the Teva U.S. Women's Mountain Running Team won this country's first gold medal in the 22-year history of the World Mountain Running Trophy. With 35 points, Team USA turned back challenges from the Czech Republic and Italy, 37 and 39 points respectively. First-time team members Nicole Hunt (9th) and Rachael Dobbs (10th) and Chris Lundy (16th) led the U.S.
EW review: 'Happyness' is terrific
(Entertainment Weekly) -- Will Smith doesn't seem the likeliest candidate to play a desperate, struggling man. Whatever the role (love coach, alien fighter, Ali), he projects speed and good times, an almost aerobic self-confidence. But in "The Pursuit of Happyness," which is set in San Francisco in 1981, at the dawn of the age of go-go capitalism, Smith doesn't just wear a few flecks of gray in his hair. He slows himself down, playing a man who awakens to the reality that life is nickel-and-diming him to death. It's a beautiful and understated performance, one that hums with a richer, quieter music than Smith has mustered before. What hooks you in this shrewdly touching movie, based on a true story, is how specific it is about one man's economic perils. Smith's Chris Gardner is an earnest fellow in his late 30s who sells medical equipment -- or, rather, one particular item, a high-density bone scanner that he hawks, with middling success, on a freelance basis.
Feigen: Bonzi's Last Chance
It apparently did not take Wells long to wear his welcome out to its last threads. So after cameos in two games, Rockets coach Jeff Van Gundy sent Wells to the cardio room under the apparent assumption that if he was stuck with Wells, he could at least live with less of him. He also might have thought Wells could be a better player if he wasn't carrying another player; if he did not look as if he retired three years ago. Less clear -- and there was a great deal that Wells and Van Gundy have been careful to leave unclear -- was when Van Gundy decided he would be much happier if Wells were somewhere else. We know this much: Wells showed up for training camp terribly out of shape, saying it was because he did not want to work out while unsigned and was slowed a bit by his groin injury last season.
Features / The Detroit News
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Indoors or out, keep moving this winter to beat the blues and feel ...
DETROIT - Winter weather is here. As if anyone needed to tell you that, right? And with it comes the bracing cold and the "I-don't-want-to-go-outside-or-to-the-gym" feeling that has derailed many a well-intentioned exerciser. No more. There are plenty of reasons to start up or keep up a fitness routine heading into the coldest, darkest season. No. 1 could be - it won't last forever. Soon enough it'll be spring and you'll be wishing you were in better shape to enjoy the great outdoors. Or maybe you're headed to sunnier, warmer locales and want to be in top shape once you shed the layers of clothes you need up here but won't need there. The best reason could be that exercise is a great way to beat the winter blues. Whether you are a cold weather wimp looking to become a winter warrior by working out outdoors, or you're ready to start a challenging indoor workout, we have advice from local experts on putting together a fitness plan that you can stick to.
Climbers have lofty goal for cancer research
From Jan. 4-13, 21 valiant amateur and intermediate climbers, mostly from the Baltimore area, will scale the world's highest volcano (19,500 feet), Mt. Cotopaxi in Ecuador.
The team members, half of whom are Jewish, include former Clevelander Jennifer Evans. All anticipate the climb - dubbed “Climb for Hope" - as a grand adventure and a chance to raise money for promising research in the fight against breast cancer. The more than $121,000 funds raised so far will be directed toward a cancer vaccine being developed at Johns Hopkins University, explains Andrew Buerger, publisher of the Baltimore Jewish Times and climb organizer. The vaccine will address some of the most aggressive and lethal forms of breast cancer. There is also hope the vaccine will lead to advances for many other forms of cancer.Buerger has a very personal reason for getting involved.
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