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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.

Recently a resurgence has occurred in the art of quilt making. And far be it from me to let anything re-surge without me.

Almost lost in the commotion over the 100-meter runoff that didn't materialize between Allyson Felix and Jeneba Tarmoh at the U.S. Olympic trials was an array of world-class races and enough noteworthy leaps and bounds to suggest the team will come close to its goal of 30 medals at the London Games.