LAKE PLACID, N.Y. Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s No. 88 fired up, the rumble of its exhaust echoing through the Adirondack Mountains. That can mean only one thing: The Geoff Bodine Bobsled Challenge is ready for its fourth run.

... Olympic Committee expels six members for taking cash, travel and lavish gifts from the winning Utah bidders for the 2002 Winter Games. 2000 Some 500 members of a doomsday cult die in a church fire in a remote part of southwestern Uganda. After ...

... Lake City Olympic organizers are alleged to have used bribery and the services of influence-peddlers to land the 2002 Winter Games. The International Olympic Committee and the Salt Lake Organizing Committee have launched inquiries into reports ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- Ray Rhodes, who left Mike Holmgren's Green Bay coaching staff five years ago, is reported to be ready to return as head coach of the Packers.

... bribes of International Olympic Committee members in an attempt to win votes in Salt Lake's successful bid for the 2002 Winter Games. A USOC statement said La Mont stepped down after informing the committee "of a previously undisclosed business ...

... payments and gifts from Salt Lake City Olympic officials during and after the successful effort to play host to the 2002 Winter Games. Pound also was quoted in today's Kitchener-Waterloo (Ontario) Record as saying he was once turned down ...

... City bid committee spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on International Olympic Committee members to secure the 2002 Winter Games. But Tanner said his bill is not a reaction to the bribery scandal. He said he has been working on it for 18 ...

... care and other favors -- reportedly totaling close to $800,000 -- stemming from Salt Lake's winning bid for the 2002 Winter Games. "There are cases among them that are just unacceptable, brutal corruption, when simply money was asked for ...

... spreading. Mitt Romney, whose Boston firm turns around troubled companies, was hired Thursday to do the same for the 2002 Winter Games, which have been tarnished by misconduct that has scared sponsors and shaken the Olympic movement. "These games ...

... meets next month. An ethics report on the bribery scandal surrounding Salt Lake City's successful quest for the 2002 Winter Games identified 24 IOC members who benefited from $1.2 million in improper inducements from Utah bidders. Nine members ...