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From a ski resort in California to an Army post in Georgia, from a college town in Michigan to a ranch in Texas, U.S. Olympians are training feverishly for their day of reckoning in China

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HERE IT IS: The most selective ranking in all of sports. Of the more than 38,000 high schools in the U.S., fewer than one in a thousand made SI's list honoring schools with the nation's top athletic programs. Our...

•Ken Griffey Jr. clearly saw his 500th homer as a special occasion. Last week, shortly after hitting number 499, Griffey phoned Reds COO John Allen and requested that one of the team's longtime radio announcers,...

Katie Mullinix, WESTMINSTER, MD.SoftballMullinix, a senior pitcher at Salisbury (Md.) University, opened the 2003 season with back-to-back no-hitters, the first two hit-less games of her career. Those games were also...