A race marathon winner can't seem to win

Toward the end of his 26.2-mile journey through New York, Meb Keflezighi found the energy to point to the red letters on his singlet: USA.

Wade can flee after season, so show him how much he's needed

If you see Dwyane Wade on the street, give him a hug.

If you see him in a restaurant, pick up his tab.

Linda Robertson | Borich case shows the damage hits can cause

Mike Borich died among strangers. He met them at a bar. Later that night he passed out and couldn't be revived. He was 42.

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For victorious Miami Hurricanes, the possibilities are endless

ORLANDO -- The game with the most immediate impact on the University of Miami's football season occurred inside UCF's stadium, nicknamed ``The Trampoline'' for the way the stands jiggle under the weight of 48,453 bouncing fans who turn the place into a clean-cut mosh pit.

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Cuban gymnast is raising the bar on the competition

Danell Leyva, who came to Miami with his parents when they fled Cuba, is fulfilling their aspirations as a U.S. medal hopeful on the horizontal bar at the world gymnastics championships.

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Linda Robertson | U.S. soccer team gaining identity on world stage

The U.S. men's soccer team was ready to revel a little against Costa Rica. The team hoped to play with abandon and relief, having already clinched a 2010 World Cup spot -- an amazing sixth consecutive invitation for the country soccer supposedly forgot.

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Miami Hurricanes are a team to be reckoned with

The University of Miami swerved, sprinted and spun through a four-game obstacle course to start the season. First, the Hurricanes had to dodge flaming spears in Tallahassee. Then came the buzz-saw running back, followed by a deluge in the mountains.

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An Olympic decision awaits IOC

While bicycling along the Lake Michigan shoreline, I took in the panorama, swinging my head to the right to admire Chicago's magnificent skyscrapers and to the left to watch sailboats tacking in the breeze.

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A lofty ranking for Miami Hurricanes disappears in mist

BLACKSBURG, Va. -- It was a bone-soaking rain. All day it drummed down from the gray sky. Mist filled the Blue Ridge hollows and shrouded the mountains and, by the fourth quarter, seeped inside Lane Stadium.

Linda Robertson: UM coach Randy Shannon can sleep easier now

Randy Shannon doesn't sleep much during football season. Too many details, too much adrenaline and, lately, lots of late-night congratulatory phone calls.

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Miami Hurricanes' fortunes are in receivers' hands

It's a roll call that takes you on soaring flights of fancy: Michael Irvin, Lamar Thomas, Andre Johnson, Eddie Brown.

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Rants by Serena, Jordan epitomize decay of civility

Serena Williams would like to embrace the line judge she verbally assaulted in a ``big ol' hug.''

Would the hug be any more sincere than the belated and orchestrated apology to the woman she humiliated on national TV, threatening to stuff the ball down her throat while spewing the F-word and thrusting her racket like a club?

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Miami Dolphins' Jake Long, offensive line struggle against Falcons

ATLANTA -- Jake Long was flattened into a 317-pound pancake by defensive end and human spatula John Abraham.

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Linda Robertson | One play in thriller changes fortunes of two exciting teams

What if the football had been caught? What if Jarmon Fortson had rescued that burrowing pass instead of squishing it into the end zone grass?

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UM-FSU a spectacle well worth watching

For the University of Miami and Florida State football teams, there is no easing into the season. No warmup games against straw-man opponents. No tomato cans. No cupcakes.

Booker T. dedicates season to slain player

Eduardo Clements, 17, has attended six funerals for fellow teenagers in his young life. The most recent, for Booker T. Washington High football teammate Anthony Smith, was the most wrenching.

SPEEDSKATING

Local speedskater ready for liftoff

Eddy Alvarez is bidding to be the second Cuban-American athlete from Miami to make a U.S. Winter Olympic team.

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South African runner's gender test controversial, complicated

Caster Semenya proved she is the fastest 800-meter runner in the world.

Now she must prove she is a woman.

The tests she undergoes will be vastly more difficult than anything she has confronted in competition, for her very identity is at stake. The gold medal she won in commanding style prompted the tests -- had she finished seventh, no one would have ordered sex verification. But by the time the results come out, the gold medal will be an afterthought, if it isn't already.

Track worlds offer a shot for U.S. redemption

Ayear ago at the Beijing Olympics, inside Bird's Nest Stadium, where the air was as thick as shark fin soup, four South Florida athletes ran for gold and came up short. Their performances mirrored that of the U.S. track and field team, the deepest but not the shiniest. The Americans were upstaged by Usain Bolt and Jamaica's sprinters.