Ferrari races to Stage 11 victory in Giro d'Italia

Roberto Ferrari sprinted to his first Grand Tour stage victory in the 11th and longest leg of the Giro d'Italia on Wednesday, while Joaquin Rodriguez retained the overall lead.

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Wed. Pa. boys' and girls' roundup: Zaza races to two victories

Strath Haven's Wellington Zaza sprinted to victories in the 100-meter dash and the 110 hurdles Wednesday at the Central League individual boys' track and field championships at Lower Merion.

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Waterfronts: Wet Wednesday races to set sail next week

The wildly popular Wet Wednesday sailboat racing series begin next week at both Channel Islands and Ventura Harbors.

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No betting on old horse races

A bill to allow gambling on old horse races is dead after going down to the wire Wednesday in the Nebraska Legislature.

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Rudisha plans only three races before London Games

LONDON (Reuters) – Kenya's 800 metres world record holder David Rudisha plans to run no more than three races before the London Olympics, starting with the opening Diamond League meeting in Doha next month. Rudisha is favourite to add the Olympic title to his world crown won in Daegu last year, However, he told reporters on Wednesday his style of running from the front made it difficult to …

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SRT Viper races back into the marketplace

New York — Chrysler Group LLC unveiled the 2013 SRT Viper at the New York International Auto Show on Wednesday, and announced the iconic Detroit two-seat sports car will return to the American Le Mans racing circuit.

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Illinois features high-profile congressional races

Illinois Republicans emerged Wednesday from a combative primary in which a freshman congressman ousted a 20-year veteran and pledged to aggressively defend the party's recent gains, despite a new congressional map that whittles the state into districts favoring Democrats.

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Running notebook: 10K, 5K races giving back what drought took away

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Aqueduct: Dominguez wins five on card, four of the pick six races

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Jockey Ramon Dominguez won five races Wednesday at Aqueduct, four of those winners coming in a pick-six sequence that returned $7,970.

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Video: Alford: JFK & I 'had races with rubber ducks in the bathtub'

Rock Center's Meredith Vieira talks to Mimi Alford, a woman who says she had an affair with President John F. Kennedy when she was an intern at the White House in the 1960s

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