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SALT LAKE CITY (AP)—Sarah Burke was an X Games star with a grass-roots mentality—a daredevil superpipe skier who understood the risks inherent to her sport and the debt she owed to it.
The pioneering Canadian freestyler, who helped get superpipe accepted into the Olympics, died Thursday after a Jan. 10 crash during a [...]

The banner year for the USWNT continues as the World Cup run led to their three main stars: Alex Morgan, Hope Solo, and Abby Wambach being nominated for the highest individual honor a women’s soccer player can achieve.
The following ten women soccer players are up for the title of FIFA Women’s World Player of the [...]

After just over five years as the manager of the United States men’s national soccer team, the United States soccer federation has announced that Bob Bradley has been fired and will no longer be the manager of the USMNT. Bradley took over the job from Bruce Arena in January of 2007 and lead the [...]

How do you sum up her career?

-23 Veteran of the Women’s National Team
-2005–2007 Captain of the U.S. National Team
-Runner up World Player of the Year ’06
-U.S. Soccer Player of the Year 1993, 2005, 2006
Played in 5 World Cups– 1991,1995,1999,2003,2007
-Played in 3 Olympics– 1996, 2000, 2004…

Michael Phelps hasn’t been on the scene as of late, so it’s quite possible that some of you may have been wondering how he was doing. Well, if the above picture means anything, he is doing quite alright. And if that single picture isn’t enough of an indication on how well Phelps…

If you thought the inaugural edition (November) of SJ Magazine was spectacular, just wait till you get a load of the Holiday (December) edition!

This incredible compilation of timely & pertinent sports & fun intellectual capital will knock your stockings off the fireplace!

You and I are hockey fans. We love hockey. We’d watch hockey on a 13-inch black and white TV even if it was fuzzy and an Oilers game. We don’t care.
But say you’re just some guy that didn’t care about hockey up until last Sunday’s Olympic gold medal game, and you watched that game and [...]

Coach Jochen Danneberg was walking toward the bottom of the jumping hill at the Whistler Olympic Park on Friday when he spotted a familiar face across the fence. Alissa Johnson, an American ski jumper who holds 10th place in the women’s world rankings, was standing on the side reserved for spectators.
“Where are your skis?” Danneberg, [...]

Sure, the Olympics are great. Men and women from different countries pitting their athletic talents against each other in dozens of events. Events like basketball, wrestling, swimming…

Wait.

The winter Olympics?
Yeah, those are cool too.

Join Mark and Ben as they discuss the Saints’ victory in the Super Bowl and help you deal with football withdrawal. Plus, we’ll talk NASCAR and Olympics!
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