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Italian skier Elena Fanchini treating tumor, ends season

MILAN – Italian skier Elena Fanchini is ending her season a month before the Pyeongchang Olympics due to a tumor. Without providing details, Fanchini says she is undergoing a seri...

DATE: Jan 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

False alarm on missile creates uneasy moment at Sony Open

HONOLULU – Charles Howell III was eating breakfast in his hotel when the restaurant at the Kahala started buzzing. Everyone had their phones. Everyone received the same push alert...

DATE: Jan 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Good night, Keith Jackson. And thanks.

Sunday died in April 2013; now, Saturday has gone along with it. Maybe they’re huddled together, in some football heaven. For just as the spare, reassuring voice of Pat Summerall ...

DATE: Jan 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Sports

Keith Jackson, 89, broadcaster with ‘Whoa, Nellie! call, dies

Keith Jackson, whose signature phrases like “Whoa, Nellie!” made him the down-home voice of college football during more than five decades as a sportscaster, has died. He was 89. ...

DATE: Jan 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Durango’s Pevny part of halfpipe build team for 2018 Winter Olympics

Durango man gets opportunity thanks to dedication in terrain park building

DATE: Jan 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Prep roundup: Bayfield boys basketball holds off Centauri in league opener

Ignacio girls blast Ridgway 84-7

DATE: Jan 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: High School Sports

No. 21 Fort Lewis College slips on offensive end, gets stung by Black Hills State

On its worst night of the season, the Fort Lewis College men’s basketball team fought until the bitter end but suffered the same fate as the FLC women on a tough night in Spearfish, South Da...

DATE: Jan 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: College Sports

Barton scores 17 points, Nuggets beat Grizzlies

DENVER – Will Barton scored 17 points, Trey Lyles had 16 and the Denver Nuggets overcame a slow start to beat the Memphis Grizzlies 87-78 on Friday night, snapping a season-long three-game l...

DATE: Jan 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports