Marion Jones entered prison to serve her six month sentence for lying to investigators about using performance enhancing drugs and also for her part in a cheque fraud scam. The Olympic track star will serve her sentence at Federal Medical Center Carswell.
The federal prison is located in Fort Worth, Texas. Jones turned herself in to [...]
A senior Chinese government official announced that the Beijing Olympics could be threatening the livelihoods of millions of the Chinese people. Water is being diverted for the games putting a strain on many local water supplies.
A project underway will divert water from southern China to the north with the use of tunnels, dams and canals. [...]
Florida Panthers forward Richard Zednik was the victim of a freak accident Sunday night as a teammate’s skate came close to severing his carotid artery. Zednik lost five pints of blood in the accident.
Sunday night an emergency surgery was performed that lasted an hour to reconnect the artery at Buffalo General Hospital. Zednik is in [...]
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The 22nd Winter Olympics isn’t until 2014 but that hasn’t stopped Russia from starting to build a 350-hectare island complex. The infrastructure being built in the Black Sea is shaped like Russia and is expected to house Olympic athletes.
Russia has asked a consortium of Japanese companies to help with the building of the massive project.
The [...]
A sixty year old man was having the time of his life racing around the Daytona International Speedway on Monday when he had a life ending heart attack. Robert Boswell of Apopka completed three laps before he slumped over and crashed going about 70 mph.
Boswell was enjoying a birthday gift at Daytona’s track. People [...]
Major sporting events can produce stress and excitement for their fans to such a degree that it can trigger a heart attack for those with heart conditions. Being in the heat of the moment may cause those with heart conditions to have some health concerns.
German researchers found that the rate of heart attacks increased [...]
Trained dogs will be part of the security team to keep Super Bowl fans safe on Feb. 3 this year. The dogs are trained to sniff out explosives like the ones used by Islamic extremists.
The ATF plans on having an undisclosed number of trained Labrador Retrievers at the game. The dogs have been trained to [...]
Disgraced sprinter Marion Jones was sentenced to 6 months in prison Friday for lying to federal prosecutors about using steroids. She plead guilty to the charges in October. She teared up as she admitted that she had betrayed the trust of her fans.
Jones lied about her steroid use and that of her knowledge that [...]
Roger Clemens is mad. The pro baseball star is now having to work hard to clear his name after he has been accused of being hopped up on steroids during part of his long baseball career. He admits trainer McNamee injected him but not with steroids.
The injections according to Clemens who played with the Toronto [...]
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