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Football Legends to Quarterback NFL-Themed Crystal Cruise
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- For those for whom football fever lingers well after the Big Game, ultra-luxe Crystal Cruises is offering a showdown of gridiron greats during a spring "NFL ...

Next at NBC Sports: The Olympics...And Baseball?
As the network looks to add content, NBC Sports chief Mark Lazarus calls baseball a premiere...

Maria Sharapova sets sights on London Olympics
Maria Sharapova is making the London Olympics one of her top priorities this year after missing the Beijing Games with an injury.

Israel must stop using Olympic mascot
TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- A judge has ordered the Olympic Committee of Israel to stop using its cactus-shaped mascot, saying it's too similar to a 1970s educational TV character.

Egypt Football Riots a Reminder that Sport Isn't Life
Football isn't life. No sport is life. Nothing is life except, of course, life . 74 people are dead, and that number may very well go up sooner than later, after the post-match violence that occurred in a football stadium located in Port Said, Egypt.

Historic Venues of the 2012 Olympics
London has evolved from a rich, historic background, to a modern city. Likewise, the Olympics now combine both old and new sporting traditions. The London 2012 Olympics will make use of some of the city's oldest buildings and grounds as venues for international competition.

From heaven to hell, Greek sport in freefall
ATHENS (Reuters) - Peeling paint flakes from Athens' Olympic park. Its entrances locked, this once sparkling edifice to sporting greatness lies rotting and largely unused -- maintenance costs too high for near-bankrupt Greece to operate. The rate of decay and dilapidation in just eight years provides a visual clue to the Greek scenario, one as effective as any economist's report or politician's ...

U.S. runners have tough road at Olympics
The 2012 Summer Olympic Games , officially known as the Games of the XXX Olympiad, are set to begin July 27 in London, England. The Games, which will run until Aug. 12, will be held in the United Kingdom's largest city for an unprecedented third time. Lon

Sports court strips Contador of 2010 Tour title
Alberto Contador was stripped of his 2010 Tour de France title Monday and banned for two years after sport's highest court found the Spanish cyclist guilty of doping.