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Two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon was killed on Sunday after his car collided with others during the IndyCar Series season finale at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. His death was pronounced approximately two hours after he was airlifted to University Medical Center.

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The White House has announced that President Obama, a well-known basketball afficionado, will attend a Veteran’s Day college game onboard the USS Carl Vinson — the aircraft carrier that buried Osama bin Laden at sea.

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Former Houston Astros' shortstop and team manager Art Howe is not a happy camper.  Howe says he hates the way he's portrayed in the new Brad Pitt movie "Moneyball".  He says he feels betrayed by the movie makers.

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Judging from the way some of the Southeastern Conference teams are licking their chops at the thought of playing Texas A&M every year, it's possible the Aggies could end up wishing they'd stayed home in the Big 12.

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The Boise State football program has been placed on three years’ probation and stripped of nine scholarships (three each for the next three years) after being hit with NCAA sanctions for repeated rules violations regarding extra benefits for recruits and players.

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Joe McGinniss’ new book about Sarah Palin,‘The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin,’ doesn’t hit stores until next week, but explosive new revelations are already trickling out, courtesy of The National Enquirer.

McGinniss reports that the former Alaskan governor and VP candidate slept with former NBA All-Star Glen Rice, used cocaine, and cheated on her husband, Todd, with one of his business partners.

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As you might expect this time of year, there are not a lot of marquee games and only one matchup between top 25 teams (#3 Alabama vs. #23 Penn State). But there are still a lot of intriguing matchups that will start to tell us who are contenders and who are pretenders

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At long last, it appears we may know soon what will happen to the world's first indoor sports stadium, which was once known as The Eighth Wonder of the World.

The Harris County Sports & Convention Corp. has hired a Dallas consulting firm to come up with what will be the final recommendations on the future of the Astrodome, and they want the recommendations in hand by the end of the year.

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