but the following year Los Angeles hosted the 1984 Summer Olympics and Newman’s hometown ballad became a hit. The actual lyrics about sunshine and happiness and mountains (and, um, Santa Ana winds) ...

The showing was supposed to be the precursor to the next summer ... would boycott the Moscow Games. The decision left Meagher obviously stung, used as a political pawn. At the Olympics, East ...

Somewhere between his greatest foreign-policy success (the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt) and his greatest failure (the Iran hostage crisis) sits the U.S. boycott of the ... boycotted ...

Kostadinova had improved by 10 centimetres in the summer of 1984, when Bulgarian athletes missed out on the Los Angeles Olympics because of the Eastern Bloc boycott, becoming only the eighth woman in ...

Shriver won 21 Grand Slam doubles championships — all but one alongside Martina Navratilova — a gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics and a total of 111 doubles titles. Shriver, now a TV ...

Supporters say the World Cup, Super Bowl and Olympics will boost morale and the ... will feature eight matches in the space of a month. The Summer Games will involve thousands of athletes, dozens ...

The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics may still be nine months away, but there is already controversy brewing as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called for a “diplomatic boycott” ...

The mint in France responsible for producing medals for the 2024 Summer Olympics will replace some of the hardware given out to athletes following complaints of deterioration in the medal varnish.

The Weeknd announced his boycott in 2021 after he was shut out of that year's awards, citing the complicated way nominees were determined at the time and accusing the Recording Academy of a lack ...

SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — Videos on social media are circulating showing Latinos rejecting or turning away from American products in response to mass deportations taking place around the country.

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