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Get Ready For Bike To Work Day (And Share Your Photos) NPR | 05-16-12

Bike to Work Day is this Friday. And that prompts a question: Do you bike to work? If so, you should prove it -- by taking a photo of yourself and your bike. Then share the picture, and we'll consider it for a Bike to Work Day gallery. Post it to Twitter or Instagram with the hashtag #NPRbike.
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Gymnast's Journey: Toddler Tumbler To Golden Girl NPR | 05-16-12

Aly Raisman started gymnastics like millions of other kids -- in a toddler tumbling class. Now 17, the Massachusetts athlete is considered one of the best tumblers in the world. And she's on track to make the 2012 U.S. Olympic gymnastics team.
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The American Way: Winners And Losers, And No Ties NPR | 05-16-12

It's not whether you win or lose -- it's how you play the game. But Frank Deford says its downright un-American to have a tie in sports.
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Debate: Should College Football Be Banned? NPR | 05-14-12

In recent years, college football programs have been hit by a series of scandals. And observers have long raised questions about the risks of head injuries. A panel of experts looks at the state of college football in the latest Intelligence Squared U.S.
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Santa Cruz Surfers Make Coastline A Reserve NPR | 05-14-12

You may think of surfers as slackers. But in Santa Cruz, Calif., they're city council members and business owners. And they're also conservationists -- who just got their piece of the central California coast named a World Surfing Reserve.
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Red Sox Slump Threatens Home Sellout Streak NPR | 05-11-12

The Boston Red Sox have sold out Fenway Park ever since 2003. But they're stuck in the basement of their division, losing 11 of their last 12 home games -- and ticket resale prices are plunging. The Sox's skid is putting Major League Baseball's record sellout streak in jeopardy.
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Chess Champ Hikaru Nakamura: Next Bobby Fischer? NPR | 05-11-12

The 2012 U.S. Chess Championships are under way in St. Louis, and all eyes are on America's top-ranked player, Hikaru Nakamura. At the age of 24, he's believed to have the best chance of any American since Bobby Fischer to become No. 1 in the world. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Nakamura, the "game changer" of American chess.
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Deford: How Sportswriting Has Changed 'Over Time' NPR | 05-11-12

NPR sports commentator Frank Deford says he has always been "more interested in the people than in who was winning the games." In his new memoir, Over Time, he says it used to be easier for writers to get close to athletes.
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Russian Agency Says It Foiled Potential Attack On Sochi, 2014 Olympics Host City NPR | 05-10-12

A Russian anti-terrorism agency says that its secret service agents have thwarted a planned attack on Sochi, the city slated to host the 2014 Winter Olympics. Russia's FSB security service says it found 10 caches of weapons.
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Pushing The Limits: Solo-Sailing The Americas NPR | 05-09-12

Matt Rutherford spent 10 months alone at sea and set a new record for circumnavigating the Americas. He commanded a 27-foot sailboat nearly 27,000 miles -- starting in Annapolis, Md., through the icy Northwest Passage, back south around Cape Horn, and up the Atlantic Ocean to the mid-Atlantic.
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