49ers emerging as serious player in Manning pursuit

Jim Harbaugh coaching Peyton Manning. In the Bay Area, they are beginning to think about the possibility and believe it truly might happen. A former NFL quarterback, Harbaugh worked wonders with Alex Smith last season and now all signs point to the 49ers being a serious player in the Manning sweepstakes. Smith, who had a three-year offer on the table to return, traveled to Miami on Sunday to meet with the Dolphins. The Tennessee Titans and Denver Broncos, the other ...

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Police arrest man for allegedly racist tweet about Muamba

A man has been arrested after allegedly making racist remarks on Twitter relating to critically ill Bolton player Fabrice Muamba. Police state a 21-year-old man from south Wales was held earlier Sunday. Muamba is fighting for his life in hospital after going into cardiac arrest and collapsing during an FA Cup match at Tottenham on Saturday. South Wales Police state the man who allegedly wrote racially offensive comments is being held in custody in Swansea Central. Former footballer turned TV ...

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Reviewing the Hyundai Azera

March 16, 2012, 5:35 pm By THE NEW YORK TIMES In Sunday’s Automobiles section, Lawrence Ulrich reviews the Hyundai Azera, which sits between the Sonata and Genesis in the ascendant Korean automaker’s sedan firmament. Redesigned for 2012, the Azera is more expensive, but no longer the indifferently styled Lexus wannabe that its predecessor was when it began sales in 2006. As Mr. Ulrich writes, part of the Azera’s appeal lies in its lack of pretension or benchmarking of vehicles that ...

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Nesbitt clinches speedskating Grand World Cup

Canada’s Christine Nesbitt won the 1,000 metres at the speedskating finals Sunday to take her second overall title in two days and clinch the women’s Grand World Cup. Nesbitt, from London, Ont., who won the 1,500 World Cup title on Saturday, claimed the last 1,000 race of the season in one minute 15.04 seconds, with Heather Richardson of the United States second, 0.73 seconds behind. Zhang Hong of China was third, 0.79 seconds behind Nesbitt, who tops the standings with ...

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Canada’s Drolet places 3rd in 1,500m at short-track worlds

Canada’s Marie-Eve Drolet completed third Friday in a 1,500-metre race at the world short-track speedskating championships, an event dominated by South Korea and China. Drolet of Laterriere, Que., stopped the clock in two minutes 23.474 seconds. China’s Li Jianrou posted a winning time of 2:23.217, followed by Liu Qiuhong’s 2:23.411. “The final was quite different [than the semifinal] because there were eight skaters [instead of the usual six],” stated the 30-year-old. “For sure my coach Sebastien [Cros] and I thought ...

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Reviewing the Buick Regal GS

March 2, 2012, 8:39 pm By THE NEW YORK TIMES In Sunday’s Automobiles section, Lawrence Ulrich drives the 2012 Buick Regal GS, the sportiest version of a sedan that began life as a European corporate relation, the Opel Insignia. Mr. Ulrich regards the GS as a nod to Buick’s earlier dalliances with performance models, including the Grand Sport models of the late 1960s and ’70s, as well as the Regal Grand Nationals of the ’80s. Unlike its forbears, however, the ...

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Driving the Fisker Karma

February 24, 2012, 7:05 pm By THE NEW YORK TIMES In Sunday’s Automobiles section, Jerry Garrett takes a first drive in the Karma sedan, the first automobile from Fisker Automotive, a start-up company founded by Henrik Fisker, a former designer for Aston Martin, BMW and Ford. The road to market for the Karma, a luxury plug-in hybrid, has not been without its bumps and detours, as Mr. Garrett writes. A $20,000 increase over the company’s initial price projection, a rather ...

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Surveying the Plug-In Landscape

February 17, 2012, 8:09 pm By THE NEW YORK TIMES Sunday’s Automobiles section takes the measure of purely electric and hybrid vehicles that are currently on sale or coming to market in the next couple of years. Bradley Berman spent a week with the BMW ActiveE, a purely electric version of the 1 Series coupe that serves as a test platform for BMW’s electric car program. By gutting the internal-combustion innards and packing the vacated spaces with 192 battery cells, ...

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Lacoste earns the women’s spot at skating worlds

Amelie Lacoste will represent Canada in the women’s singles at the 2012 world figure skating championships in Nice, France. That decision was announced Sunday by Skate Canada, after Lacoste beat Cynthia Phaneuf by percentage points in the Four Continents event at Colorado on Saturday night. “It was not a very strong performance,” stated Lacoste, in a release from the national body. “I made a lot of mistakes. I’m happy about landing the triple Lutz and the main goal was to ...

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Canada’s Maltais wins short-track speedskating bronze

Canada’s Valerie Maltais took bronze Saturday in women’s 1,500-metre World Cup short-track speedskating. The La Baie, Que., native completed with a time of two minutes and 31.351 seconds. South Korea’s Ha-Ri Cho won gold in 2:31.162, while compatriot Eun-Byul Lee took silver in 2:31.223. “I wanted to try a strategy that I could use at the world championships,” Maltais said. “I wanted to be patient during the race, progress slowly and explode at the end. That’s what I did. I’m ...

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