04/02/2007

Dallas fighter renews bid for Olympic berth
Charles Hatley of Dallas meets Michael Moore of Ohio today at the Midwestern trials in Cincinnati, the first step toward earning a berth on the 2008 U.S. Olympic boxing team.

03/31/2007

Phelps' quest for record 8th gold ends when team gets DQ in relay
Michael Phelps' bid for a record eight gold medals at the world championships ended today with a shocking disqualification of his U.S. teammates in the 400-meter individual medley relay preliminaries.

Serena rallies for Key Biscayne title
A forgiving net cord saved Serena Williams from defeat, and she made the most of the lucky bounce.

03/30/2007

Canas, Djokovic push into Key Biscayne final
Best known as Roger Federer's new nemesis, Guillermo Canas may soon have another honorific: Sony Ericsson Open champion.

Lochte steals spotlight
Michael Phelps set another world record in the pool Friday night. This time, he needed help from his American teammates, including Ryan Lochte, who outdid Phelps with two world records at the world championships.

03/28/2007

Injury ends Roddick's title bid at Key Biscayne
As the shot sailed past Andy Roddick, he grimaced in pain and didn't even try for the ball. Instead, he limped toward Andy Murray at the net and extended his hand.

03/29/2007

Area cycling calendar

03/26/2007

Double Oak bowler 2nd in World Championship
Doug Kent became the sixth bowler in PBA Tour history to win two majors in one season, defeating Chris Barnes of Double Oak, 237-216, to win the Denny's World Championship.

03/21/2007

Area cycling calendar

03/18/2007

Duncanville fighter loses in Pan Am qualifying
Duncanville boxer Luis Yanez lost his semifinal bout in a Pan American Games qualifying tournament in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

03/17/2007

Holyfield comeback rolls on
Evander Holyfield's bid to become the first five-time heavyweight champion gained momentum Saturday night when the 44-year-old fighter stopped Vinny Maddalone in a bloody, one-sided bout.

Hutto grabs roping title and big check
Houston Hutto grabbed the tie-down roping championship Saturday at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, the richest event on the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association tour.

Lopez trio scores big at nationals
The three Lopez siblings from Sugar Land, Texas, each moved one step closer to repeating as world champions with victories in the USA Taekwondo Senior National Team Trials on Friday at the Dallas Convention Center.

03/16/2007

Duncanville boxer qualifies for Pan Am Games
Duncanville boxer Luis Yanez qualified for the Pan American Games on Friday with a quarterfinal win over Canada's Jean Michael Kind at a qualifier in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

03/15/2007

Area boxer vies for Pan Am Games spot

Sugar Land family eyes another sweep

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Steven Lopez (center) earned a gold medal in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.

The Lopez family from Sugar Land, Texas, made history almost two years ago when three siblings captured world championship titles in taekwondo the same weekend. Steven, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, won his third world championship in 2005 in Madrid, Spain.

03/14/2007

Area cycling calendar

03/13/2007

A final push in Iditarod
Lance Mackey made the final push Tuesday in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog race, trying to be the first musher to reach the finish line under the burled arch in Nome.

08/07/2005

For some, a tenth of a second is worth hundreds

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Instructor/trainer Will Lawrence (right) demonstrates technique during a morning session at Velocity Sports Performance.

Velocity Sports Performance is a burgeoning business concept in the youth sports world where the universal truth – regardless of the game – seems to be "faster is always better." Parents appear to be buying the concept, Barry Horn writes in the third installment of a four-part series on youth sports.

07/31/2005

Play dough: At PSA, fun and games are big business

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A basketball tournament fills the courts at the Plano Sports Authority's StarCenter.

Youth sports are about kids, fun and competition. Increasingly, they are also about dollars, Gary Jacobson writes in the second installment of a four-part series on youth sports. In the case of the Plano Sports Authority, millions of dollars. About 2.5 million people will pass through PSA's StarCenter at Carpenter Park this year. That's as many as attended Rangers games at Ameriquest Field in 2004.
• Interactive tour: PSA's StarCenter at Carpenter Park
• Youth Sports: Money Matters

What coaches make
The Dallas Texans Soccer Club, with $2.8 million in revenue, paid total coaching fees of more than $1.3 million for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2004, according to the organization's Form 990 filing.

Revenue: D-FW area youth sports groups
Soccer is king among the area's largest nonprofit youth sports organizations. Of the 22 groups examined by The Dallas Morning Newsthat generate more than $500,000 in annual revenue, 11 are devoted to soccer.

How the research was done
How the research was done

07/24/2005

Lured by national trophies, baseball parents dig deep

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Dallas Tigers catcher Kyle Woods listens to manager Linty Ingram between innings.

During their five years together, the Dallas Tigers have grown taller, fended off acne and had their voices evolve from squeaky to husky. They have played 300-plus games, taken numerous out of state trips, exhausted families' vacation days and expended a ballpark estimate of $500,000 of their parents' money, Brad Townsend writes in the first installment of a four-part series on youth sports.

Peewees to prospect: a family investment
Bill and Michele Beavan estimate they have spent $12,000 annually on son Blake's baseball development since he became a select player at age 9.

Cities super-size facilities for youth athletes
In McKinney, 14 first-class diamonds stretch into the suburbs. There are television-ready lights, slate-roofed concession stands, digital scoreboards and hot water in the bathrooms. And it's all built around pre-adolescent and teenage kids swinging bats.