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Russian Youth Olympic team bags 7 medals!
August 22, 2010The Russian team ends the eighth day of the first ever Youth Olympic games with three gold, one silver and three bronze medals. Ekaterina Bleskina, 17, took the first gold for Russia on Saturday in the hundred meter hurdles event after she finished the...
Sharapova named world's highest-paid female athlete!
August 21, 2010Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova was named the world's highest-paid female athlete by Forbes magazine. Sharapova pulled in $24.5 million over the past year, she earned $1 million in prize money and the rest was derived from endorsements and appearance...
Zoltan Mesko, NFL’s romanian player that speaks five languages and has two degrees
August 20, 2010The wonderfully named Zoltan Mesko speaks five languages and grew up dreaming of being an aerospace engineer before graduating from Michigan with a business degree and a master's in sports management. Mesko rediscovered American football and give it...
Usain Bolt: "I'm not unbeatable. I can be beaten”
August 10, 2010STOCKHOLM -- It turns out Usain Bolt can be beaten. From Beijing to Berlin, it seemed that Bolt and his long, turbocharged strides were more than a match for anyone over 100 meters. But Tyson Gay upset the defending world and Olympic champion Friday...
Tour de France- Mark Cavendish takes win number three!
July 16, 2010By Gabriela Didcov Cavendish went on to win his third stage of this race and the 13th of his career at the Tour. Renshaw went home, thrown out for aggressive riding. “Julian Dean hooked his left elbow over Mark’s right and Mark used his...
What an interview, emotion and kiss! Casillas and Sara (video)
July 13, 2010By Gabriela Didcova Keeper Iker Casillas sealed Spain's first ever World Cup win by kissing his TV reporter girlfriend, who had been accused of distracting him, before millions of viewers during a live on-air interview. The 29-year-old told Sara Carbonero...
Great game, great team, great party!
July 12, 2010By Gabriela Didcova With a goal from Andrés Iniesta in the 26th minute of extra time, Spain became the eighth country to win the World Cup, beating the Netherlands by 1-0 before 85,000 fans at Soccer City in Johannesburg and millions of television...
Uruguay, Netherlands face off in World Cup semifinals Tuesday
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July 06, 2010Uruguay and the Netherlands will face off Tuesday in the first semifinal at the World Cup football tournament in South Africa. The match-up in Cape Town will feature a two-time World Cup champion, Uruguay, versus a two-time World Cup finalist, the Netherlands...
July 04, 2010It was announced that Cristiano Ronaldo is a proud father of a son! The 25-year-old Portuguese soccer star shared via Facebook and Twitter: “It is with great joy and emotion that I inform I have recently become father to a baby boy. As agreed with...
June 29, 2010By Gabriela Didcov There was a deserved standing ovation on Centre Court for both women as Serena Williams defeated Maria Sharapova 7-6, 6-4 in a fourth round contest in which they hammered the ball at each other for an hour and 36 minutes. Serena, the...