Waters finally calm for Bowie’s Hall
A good wind is filling the sails of Olympian Kevin Hall. The sailor from Bowie has been cleared to compete in Athens by the International Olympic Committee and the international...
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Out of the blue
BLUEFIELD, W.Va. -- Opening Day, like summer, comes late to this small city in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. And like summer, the annual love affair between the townspeople...
Kupets turns rehab into repeat as U.S. co-champ
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Even if Courtney Kupets had finished second last night at the U.S. Gymnastics Championships, it would have been a storybook comeback to a year filled with injury...
Kupets tops U.S. field, appears fully healed
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Courtney Kupets may have torn her Achilles' tendon last summer, but she didn't show weakness in her heel or anywhere else last night at the U.S. Gymnastics...
Cancer survivor fights for his shot to compete
Kevin Hall has done everything in his power to be an Olympian. The 34-year-old sailor from Bowie dominated the Finn class competition at the team trials in Florida in February....
In Wheaton, the snakehead resurfaces
A Montgomery County fisherman has bagged a northern snakehead, the same voracious, fin-walking Asian predator that made national news when it took over three Crofton ponds in the summer of...
Everything is falling into place for Kupets
Interviewed on the Today show by Katie Couric in February. Named to the honor roll at Rockville's Magruder High School in March. And the subject of her own Sports Illustrated...
Activists urge House panel to stop Oct. black bear hunt
Several dozen animal-rights supporters asked a House committee yesterday to block Maryland's first black bear hunt in 50 years this fall, saying there are not enough animals or human conflicts...
In her return, Kupets shines in uneven bars
The rust didn't show at all last weekend as 2003 U.S. gymnastics champion Courtney Kupets of Gaithersburg won the event that made her a world champion in 2002. Performing only...
Women’s gymnasts on the mend for U.S.
If the U.S. women's gymnastics team is looking for a mascot, they might consider the Six Million Dollar Man. Two key athletes were lost to injury and another was left...