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...sportsman be a champion without being a winner? Richard Burns can. With three races left in this year's World Rally Championship, the English driver of the Peugeot team leads the points table - without winning a single race. While his nearest rival, Norway's Petter Solberg, has racked up a couple of wins, Burns has amassed points by consistently finishing second and third. TONY ASHBY/AFP-GETTY...
...Emblem is the most unlikely Triple Crown hopeful since Seattle Slew in 1977. Reineman couldn't get the $20,000 he asked for the horse as a yearling, so War Emblem went to work at places like Sportsman's Park in Illinois, a course known as a bullring. It's a short track with tight turns and bumper car tactics that tend to limit long-striding horses like War Emblem. The horse did well enough so that over the winter Reineman reportedly tried to dump him for $300,000 but again found no takers. Then War Emblem won the Illinois...
...Keen sportsman Guido, 44, is shaking and baking as he moves to expand Barilla, his family's tightly held 125-year-old company. Last month the father of five and former philosophy student negotiated a takeover of the German baker Kamps. Barilla, based in Parma, Italy, is the world's largest pasta maker, selling more than 30 varieties in 100 countries, including the U.S. The acquisition of Kamps gives Barilla broader distribution channels throughout Europe...
...team in Utah, said he hoped his dedication would inspire kids of Latin heritage. Cuban American speed skater Jen Rodriguez, who won two bronze medals, said the same. Apolo Anton Ohno, the smooth, smart, diamond-studded, hyper-charismatic short-track speed skater from Seattle, proved himself a wonderful sportsman when a late-race crash left him in second place in the 1,000-meter event. He was then rewarded for his graciousness with a gold medal at 1,500 meters to go with his silver...
...meter race last week, when the great sprawling crash in the last lap took everyone out, Ohno included, and allowed Steven Bradbury of Australia to cruise home free. Everything Ohno did and has done after falling has revealed him as a great athlete and wonderful competitor and sportsman...