LAKE PLACID With every step they took, runners at Saturday's fifth annual Dr. Tom McDonald Caladium Festival 5K helped a local family realize the dream of owning their own home. ...more

August 25, 2008

Sanya Richards clutched this medal, stared at it, smiled at it. A few feet away, Allyson Felix did the same. ...more

August 24, 2008

Tyson Gay reached back to grab the baton "and there was nothing." He's not the only American track favorite who will leave Beijing empty-handed. ...more

August 22, 2008

Usain Bolt kept driving for the finish line, knowing the race was won but there was something even bigger out there. ...more

August 21, 2008

TAMPA - Moments after finishing a mere hundredth of a second from winning her first Olympic medal, Tampa's Damu Cherry sat inside Beijing's National Stadium with U.S. teammate Dawn Harper. ...more

August 20, 2008

Tampa's Damu Cherry came as close as you can to winning an Olympic medal Tuesday night in the finals of the women's 100-meter hurdles at the Beijing Games. ...more

August 19, 2008

An ex-NFL player and his estranged wife, a former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader and her actor brother, recent divorcees, a pair of Southern belles and fraternity brothers are among the 11 two-person teams hurrying for the finish line — and the $1 million grand prize — on the upcoming 13th edition of CBS' "The Amazing Race." ...more

August 19, 2008

The U.S. track and field team's savior draped an American flag over her shoulders Monday night and ran a victory lap wearing the biggest smile she could muster, a most unlikely heroine in an event that has been an American afterthought for decades. ...more

August 19, 2008