Beijing, Dec.31 — Construction started yesterday on the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, which will hold the 14th World Swimming Championships in 2011. The 2-billion-yuan (293 million U.S.dollar s) center along the southern stretch of the Huangpu Continue ..

Looking for the latest daily Fix column? It’s here . Also, check out the Fix’s favorite columns from December . The average Daily Fix contains a dozen links to sportswriting from around the Web, which over a year adds up to some 3,000 sports Continue ..

From Shasta College’s Memorial Stadium to the Bird’s Nest at the Beijing Olympics, north state sports in 2008 had its ups and downs. While the Knights’ football program completed a monumental turnaround, West Valley product Nicole Teter pulled up Continue ..

PARIS: Usain Bolt gave athletics the boost it so desperately needed when he won an unprecedented Olympic sprint treble in world record times in Beijing. With former 100m world record holder Tim Montgomery and former five-time Olympic medallist Marion Continue ..

Happy New Year, I hope. Here are 10 reasons why 2008 was a rotten year to be a sports columnist: 1. The Giants made me look really stupid. 2. I covered exactly two soccer matches all year, but got hundreds of emails that told me, “Why don’t you just Continue ..

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