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Gold medals represented when Sacramento Kings doctor Eric Heiden checked out Houston Rockets star Charles Barkley for a hernia.

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St. Olaf wrestlers who tossed their letter jackets at the feet of college president Mark Edwards after he announced plans to eliminate the sport.

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Bulbs blown out on a leftfield light standard at Charlotte County Stadium, a minor league ballpark in Port Charlotte , Fla. , that can't be replaced by workers because protected ospreys are nesting on the standard.

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Midwest schools—Mankato State, Bemidji State , Wisconsin , Ohio State , Minnesota-Duluth and St. Cloud State—scheduled to launch women's hockey programs within the next two years.

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Weeks of suspension handed down by the Andover and District Sunday League to Melvin Sylvester, an amateur soccer official in London who, after punching a player, threw himself out of a game.

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New sports magazines launched in 1997, a total surpassed only by the 111 new sex-related titles.