Swimming at the Cold Water Championships isn't easy -- no bull. 
Deborah Scanzio of Italy competes in the women's moguls finals at the freestyle skiing world championships at Deer Valley near Park City, Utah.
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This AP photo taken with a fisheye lens shows a layer of ice outside Cowboys Stadium during preparations for NFL football Super Bowl XLV.
Looks like Olbermann has burned too many bridges behind him. What he hasn't burned employers have.Olbermann, who anchored at ESPN from 1992 to 1997 and co-hosted a radio show in 2005, instigated trouble while employed there. In 1997, he was suspended for two weeks after making an unauthorized appearance on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.” During the appearance, Olbermann made negative comments about Bristol, Connecticut, ESPN’s headquarters. Olbermann said Bristol was a “godforsaken place.”
While delivering Cornell University’s 1998 commencement address, Olbermann told graduates that his ESPN position gave him “dry heaves” and would “make [him] ashamed, make [him] depressed, make [him] cry.”
After ESPN, Olbermann had a three-year stint with Fox Sports Net, but was fired by Murdoch, who called him crazy.
Olbermann's problems with women are also well known:
In 2002, Olbermann wrote in a Salon.com column that he was shocked and sorry to learn that he’d previously brought fellow anchor Suzy Kolber to tears while at ESPN.
“I now read with horror of my ESPN2 co-host, Ms. Kolber, sequestering herself in the women’s bathroom and weeping over how I treated her,” Olbermann wrote.
During a 2007 appearance on the “Late Show,” host David Letterman asked Olbermann, “What is it about you? You seem to burn bridges wherever you leave.”
Olbermann replied “I don’t burn bridges, I burn rivers. If you burn a bridge, you can possibly build a new bridge, but if there’s no river any more, that’s a lot of trouble. I just try to run the place.”
In that same interview, Olbermann added that he was banned from ESPN’s main campus in Bristol.
It looks like Olbermann is his own worst enemy. Burning rivers indeed.
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Vania King of the U.S. is framed by her racquet as she makes a forehand return during a first round match at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia
Maria Sharapova of Russia serves to Virginie Razzano of France during their second round match at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia
Fox replaces Josh McDaniels, who was fired Dec. 6 amid the Broncos worst slide in four decades and the embarrassing Spygate II videotaping scandal.
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John Kim, however, a producer for PGA.com (the PGA Tour runs the primary men's professional golf tours in North America), went on Twitter to ding Mr. Obama for excessive golfing.In response to learning of Obama's 50-plus rounds of golf since taking office, Kim wrote, "that's more than me! But then again, my job is ... golf. Wait, that doesn't seem right."
And later: "the old adage is: those who work in golf never get to play. Guess I need to run for president to hit the links!"
It was made famous (or infamous, depending on your point of view) during the 2010 World Cup soccer games in South Africa.
Vuvuzelas annoyed soccer players and fans alike, but spectators at the South African games blew into the tubular trumpets like there was no tomorrow, which, for the Vuvuzela, we hope there won't be.
Dozens of special shaped hot air balloons lift off during a mass ascension at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque, New Mexico last October.
A Florida State fan waits for the start of the game between FSU and Virginia Tech in the ACC Championship football game in Charlotte, NC.
Photo shows Josh McDaniels (left) with owner Pat Bowlen in January, 2009. Today the smiles are gone.Can you blame the Denver Broncos for firing Josh McDaniels?
Perhaps no NFL coach in recent memory has torn down a team as quickly as McDaniels, who was hired as a 32-year-old hot shot in January 2009 and fired less than 23 months later.
When McDaniels took over, the Broncos were on the doorstep of the playoffs and were a team that just needed some tinkering and refreshing after the 14-year Mike Shanahan era grew stale. McDaniels leaves Denver after 28 games with the franchise in terrible shape and without a true identity.
McDaniels gaffes include:
1. Parting ways with Mike Nolan, a very successful defensive coordinator.
2. Alienated Pro Bowl quarterback Jay Cutler who demanded a trade and now is likely on his way to the playoffs with the Chicago Bears.
3. Sending successful running back Peyton Hillis off to Cleveland for third-string quarterback Brady Quinn.
4. Trading Denver’s No.1 draft pick in 2010 for cornerback Alphonso Smith in the second round in 2009. Smith didn't work out and is gone.
5. The videotape incident when Bronco video director filmed a San Francisco 49er walk-through and planned to film a 49er practice. It was determined that McDaniels was aware of the plan.
The ESPN report ends by saying, "The timing of his firing may have been a surprise, but in the end it was deserved."
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The pro football players’ union has advised its members to save their last three game checks this year in case next season is canceled. In a letter to the players that was viewed by The Associated Press, NFLPA (National Football League Players Association) executive director DeMaurice Smith said the union’s “internal deadline” for agreeing to a new collective bargaining agreement has passed.
The NFL has not missed games due to labor strife since 1987, when the players went on strike and the owners continued the season with replacement players.
But the prospect of a lost season in 2011 intensified when owners opted out of the collective bargaining agreement in 2008, saying they could not make a profit if required to give almost 60 cents of every $1 in revenue to the players.
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Photo shows Nebraska freshman quarterback Taylor Martinez.
Antrel Rolle (pictured) admits he is a "bigmouth" and is unapologetic about it. HISS BOO!
The Huskers were National Champions in 1970, 1971, 1994, 1995, & 1997. The Buffs won their first and only National Football Championship in 1990.
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