ZURICH - The IOC said it had not detected any significant abuse of clenbuterol after finding "very low levels" of the banned substance during retesting of samples from the Beijing Olympics.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA - Ernie Els has memories at every corner of Augusta National, typical of someone who is playing the Masters for the 23rd time.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA - Masters stars on Monday pushed for banning television-review penalties like the one that cost Lexi Thompson the first women's major of the year on the weekend.
GLENDALE, Arizona - It's OK; you can open your eyes now.
GLENDALE, Arizona - The teenager who plays hoops for a year in college and then leaves for the NBA used to be part novelty, part nuisance.
With just over a week left in the NBA regular season, there's still much to be decided before the playoff field is set.
Eight decades after Flash Gordon hinted that aliens might not have our best interests at heart, mankind still risks destruction in the movies to make contact with extraterrestrial life.
Two things stand out immediately about British actress, filmmaker and rising star Alice Lowe that make her an unusual subject in the rarefied but often pretentious world of celebrity interviewing.
Zhou Meisen, a sharp dresser and an unconventional artist, once had many influential contacts in positions of power. Some of them are still in power. Some are in prison.
Gerelchimeg Blackcrane is more than 1.9 meters tall and when he shows up at public events, he wears Mongolian gowns.
Sun Yat-sen and his wife dined here. So did the Irish dramatist George Bernard Shaw. Chairman Mao hosted visiting heads of state and welcomed Chinese writers, and Premier Zhou Enlai ate and drank with US envoy Henry Kissinger.
I confess I was a bit taken aback to hear that Temple Restaurant Beijing, often lauded as the best restaurant in the capital, was abandoning the more laid-back format of its elegant spinoff, TRB-Bites. The company has reshaped the child more in the image of the father, to deliver the same fine-dining experience, the same menu and the same superb wine list at both locations.
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