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LAS VEGAS – Buried in a ballroom amid the opulence of a high-rise casino hotel on the Las Vegas Strip, the 12 members of the U.S. Olympic basketball team were unveiled Saturday.

The Badwater Ultramarathon, for those of you who don't know, is one of the world's toughest races. It starts at Furnace Creek (elevation -280 feet) in Death Valley and finishes 135 miles away at the Mt. Whitney Portal at an elevation of 8,300 feet.

Why No American Flags on the golf course? With the Fourth of July having passed by this week, many golfers asked why golf courses do not use American flags on each hole to celebrate the holiday. Although the course would like to use American flags on all patriotic holidays, we can’t. Golfers lay the flag pole - with the flag – on the ground while putting.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The problem with the All-Star Game isn't that the rosters are too big, to the point that dugouts have the feel of a crowded supermarket. And the problem with the All-Star Game isn't that a player from every team has to be selected, so that middle relievers from bad teams stand next to millionaire sluggers from good ones.

KOHLER, Wis. - It was like playing golf in a sauna and a tanning bed. At the same time. Yes, it was hot at the 67th U.S. Women's Oven . . . er, Open.

Lamar Odom, traded last week from Dallas to the Los Angeles Clippers, informed USA Basketball on Tuesday that he won't be available to play for the national team in the London Olympics.

WIMBLEDON, England – Serena Williams served her first ace in the first game of her Wimbledon semifinal match Thursday against second-seeded Victoria Azarenka. It was up the middle, and it raised a dust ball on Centre Court. And it was a trend-setter.

Coldest Gilroy Fourth of July in my memory. Geez, it felt like early November with the wind whistling over the west mountains with chilly gusts rustling the trees. Meanwhile, most of the nation sweltered in 100-degreeish heat and awful humidity. The cool breeze didn’t stop the illegal fireworks dumbkopfs who were out in seemingly greater force than usual. Something unfortunate is going to happen – an apartment building on fire, or a child hit with an errant bottle rocket – and that will be the flashpoint argument for those who want to ban fireworks altogether in Gilroy. And, again, the minority will tyrannize the majority who enjoy the legal fireworks and the show at the high school.

A recent study published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine  reported  that  too much running may  actually be harmful.  The report gathered publicly available reports of deaths during or shortly after all  known Marathons in the US from 2000 to 2009. There have been other studies that have come to this conclusion as well. Most of these deaths occurred because of heart attacks and mostly among men.

OMAHA, Neb. – If Michael Phelps was the signature name of the swimming competition in the last Olympics, then the relay was the signature moment.