Kelly Ripa interviews illusionist David Blaine while both of them are hanging upside down above Central Park's Wollman Rink in New York. Blaine begins his latest endurance challenge 'David Blaine: Dive of Death' Monday morning Sept. 22, 2008. Blaine is set to hang upside down without a safety net for 60 hours. He will then conclude his exhibition with a plunge.
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In this undated photo released by the N. C. Wildlife Resources Commission, David Hayes holds his state record-breaking channel catfish while his three-year-old granddaughter Alyssa holds the Barbie rod and reel that Hayes used to reel in the 21-pound, 1 ounce fish in Elkin, N.C.
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Rescuers sift through the debris of a house collapsed by a strong earthquake in Kashiwazaki, northwestern Japan, Monday, July 16, 2007. A 6.8-magnitude earthquake rocked Japan's northwest coast on Monday, killing at least two people. The quake...
The San Antonio Spurs' black and silver was joined by another color Sunday -- the gold of the team's fourth championship trophy in nine seasons. Lining the banks of San Antonio's famed River Walk, tens of thousands of fans decked out in the Spurs' colors waited in the oppressive heat to catch a glimpse of their favorite players and congratulate the team.
San Francisco Giants' Barry Bonds hits a two-run home run off of Toronto Blue Jays' Josh Towers to score Ryan Klesko in the fourth inning of a baseball game in San Francisco, Monday, June 11, 2007. It was Bonds' 747th career home run. The Giants won...
They've got the superstar center, the speedy point guard and the super sub. The San Antonio Spurs have a trio unlike any other on an NBA team. They're three of a kind who are just two wins from another title. Tony Parker scored 30 points, Manu Ginobili had 25 and Tim Duncan added 23 as the Spurs schooled Cleveland in championship basketball for 3 1/2 quarters, overpowering the Cavaliers 103-92 in...
The Puerto Rican Day parade can't be any better of a show than what Miguel Cotto and Zab Judah put on at a raucous Madison Square Garden. And Cotto gave the sellout crowd what it came for: a knockout of one of its own. The popular Puerto Rican welterweight thrilled his fans, who made up a majority of the filled-to-the-rafters Garden on Saturday night, by stopping Brooklyn's Judah in the 11th round...
Manny Pacquiao received the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) Boxer of the Year award in New York, Los Angeles, according to a report by www.philboxing.com Saturday.
MANILA, Philippines—Chess and arnis, considered Philippine strongholds in the Southeast Asian Games, won’t be included in the SEA Games calendar in Thailand this December.
LeBron James finally scaled the big stage, and like a bunch of burly bouncers, the San Antonio Spurs tossed him off it. Welcome to the NBA finals, young fella. James couldn't solve San Antonio's stifling defense and the pick-and-rolling Spurs, as fundamental and selfless as ever, outclassed Cleveland in an 85-76 victory in Game 1 on Thursday night.
The Tour de France no longer considers Bjarne Riis the winner of the 1996 race after the Danish cyclist admitted using performance-enhancing drugs. "We have removed him from the list" because of the doping admission, Tour spokesman Philippe Sudres said Thursday. "We consider philosophically that he can no longer claim to have won." Riis, now retired, admitted last month that he used the...
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(AP/Newsvine) Serena Williams overcame two breaks in the second set to beat Dinara Safina of Russia 6-2, 6-3 Sunday and reach the quarterfinals of the French Open.
Williams, an eight-time Grand Slam champion who is trying to win her second title at Roland Garros, took a 4-0 lead in the first set, but struggled at times in the second.
(AP) Sultan Ibragimov, right, of Rostov-na-Donu, Russia, lands a punch on Shannon Briggs, of New York, during the 7th round of WBO World Heavyweight Championship Boxing in Atlantic City, N.J. on Saturday, June 2, 2007. Ibragimov won by unanimous...
