athletes. that's also a role that i take on to try to develop other areas at the same time and sometimes to council an athlete that maybe it's time to leave their sport. that's not always the most popular advice to give but i found that sometimes it's the most fruitful. >> so they should be well rounded and think of life not just as that sport but have other interests. when i come back later, i'm going to talk to an athlete who made an incredible transition. you'll want to hear his story. thank you, dr. baum, for being with me. howard has the forecast coming up next. >>> it's nice today but there's serious heat in the center of the country. i'll tell you when that moves into our neck of the woods. we'll go to break with a look at the allergy update. it's gone up significantly since yesterday. we have grass pollen in the high category. everything else is moderate. i'll be back with a hotter forecast when 9news now returns. >>> we've been searching through the day's daily deals, e-mails and retai

ix studentitle athlete. when i attended california state college at los angeles in the 1960's, we were still a full decade away from the enactment of title ix. financial assistance was available for all athletes and tennis players, but only for the men athletes and tennis players. two of the top men's tennis players were attending college down the road from a. stan smith was at a full ride at usc. arthur ashe had a full scholarship at ucla. even though i was arguably the best tennis player at cal state and had already won a wimbledon title, i was not receiving any rental assistance. i did have two jobs. one of which was handing out gym equipment in the locker room. i thought i was living large. men and women did not have equal opportunities. i'm very thankful to the people who made title ix's. they're my sheroes and my heroes. the efforts of edith greene and the senator who presented title ix to the senate. congresswoman patsy mink, senator ted stevens, and many others pave the way for us to right this wrong

it's now the most highly requested athletic field in our system. franklin square, that's a facility we actually renovated with synthetic turf in 2002 before the initiative. we added lights to increase play at that facility. south sunset on the west edge of the city, another success. crocker am adon playground, one of our theme primary ground sports facilities. this facility actually hosted three soccer fields before we did the renovations and through creative alignment we were able to add two additional soccer fields in the same footprint so we now have five full soccer fields the kimball in the western addition. nestled between two high schools we know this is highly utilized by youth organizations and neighborhood teams. it is a bustling facility out in the western addition. mission dolores. this say project that just had its first phase ribbon cutting tuesday of this week. it was an asphalt athletic field and we len 0 vated it with synthetic turf. it's a multifaze project. it was -- multiphase project. it was opened on tuesday and the latter hal

and finishing touches athletics stores descend on the russian capital for the annual moscow challenge certain events with a little over a month to go before the london olympics. but let's start with football where russia could only manage a one one draw against co-host poland but still top their group a at the european championships richard on port leeds watch the game for us. or russia's one hundred percent recording group a has been ended after a one one draw with poland but not all is lost for dick advocaat side as face still remain top of the group after two games or everything could have been so much better for the russians after hours ago it had given them the lead as moscow strike aircraft his first goal of the tournament were fine headed goal from a free kick or just says within the manchu of the czech republic russia did start slowly as the poles were on top but unfortunately they weren't able to turn their possession into goals and vendors are struggling support russia into really going into the half time break or coming out after halftime russia continued to dominate and re

years and dreams for a lot of the athletes. we like coming to a market that really supports usa gymnastics and our sport and that's what we get here in san jose. that's why we keep coming back. >> reporter: a field of more than two dozen will be whittled down to ten. five men and five women, who will become the u.s. olympic team. >> our athletes are literally fighting for a medal. because a place on our team almost assures you of a team medal. we're the only country in the world to have won a team medal for both men and women at the last two olympic games and we're hoping to repeat that in london. >> reporter: while tickets to the lower bowl are for the most part sold out, you can snag a ticket for the upper level with tickets starting at $30. >> where's the best i can get in the red? this is for my wife. >> reporter: mark decided to splurge on tickets, $65 a pop. >> prices are great. yeah, we've got good seats. and for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see olympics trials, they're great. >> reporter: the finals will be satur

it's possible some of those athletes could come from the bay area. an all-american athlete at stanford university, he took the past year off for fun suddenies, to train and hopefully beat out 14 other men for a spot on the team. it has taken a lot to get to this, but in having to cope with the death of his mother to cancer when he was 15. >> my sister and i have been

you're looking at two of our fit nation try athletes racing with triathlon relay teams.nted a taste of the real thing so he completed both the bike and run portion in asheville, north carolina. carlos is a type 2 diabetic and did the bike leg near los angeles and had his teammate, 13-year-old diabetic. ryan and carlos both won their division. congratulations to everybody. rick, you as well. >>> denise is another one of our fit nation tri athletes and joins us in the studio. good to see you. welcome back from hawaii. >> thank you. >> a pretty great trip. you're about to do a relay as well in philadelphia and will be racing with sarah reinerson and scott basset as well and both of them are athletes, both of them like you are missing a leg. first of all, how did this all come about? how did this relay come about? >> we're all part of the challenge athletes foundation, a nonprofit that works with people with disabilities. >> is it nerve-racking for you? obviously they've done this, i've met scout before and talked to her. how are you feeling about it? >> you know, i met them

russia's athletes have a number of sporting competitions. forward to one of them being the annual moscow challenge a religiously new tournament which has been boosted by being clued in the twenty twelve international association of athletics federations world challenge competitions there are sixteen official events on the program ranging from pole vault and short puts to various sprint events and despite attracting around eighty athletes from twenty countries many events at this year's most challenge would dominated by russians. both the women's four hundred and eight hundred meter sprint showcased only russian athletes in the four hundred meters not out in the beat out of fellow compact should still win first place the four by four hundred meter sprint x. but was happy to have finally won after a lengthy medal drought but stressed that it was too early to focus on the olympics less. our event is so tough and we have so many strong goals that you kind of think so far ahead we have his her include the russian championships in order to relax a

in the works we have six athletic fields with light renovations. beach chalet which we're talking about today and the renovations we are proposing at the muni facility why synthetic turf is the big question. simply put, it allows us to utilize these fields year round, from morning to night. we don't have to close these facilities like we do natural turf fields because of rain, rest, and regrowth. they're extremely safe, they're a lesm playing surface. they don't have geoffer holes or irregular surfaces creating problems for our youth on the fields the in 2008 we went through a very exhaustive task force that found that the synthetic turf was a safe product. also the e.i.r. process we went through identified that it's a safe program. there are other side benefits to our program that have come to light as part of it, as far as environmental improvements. obviously synthetic turf we don't have to water. we estimate we save 1.5 million gallons -- gallons of water on a single field, roughry 75 million gallons saved annually. we don't have to put herb i

and finishing such as athletics stars descend on the russian capsule for the annual moscow challenge servants with a little over a month to go before the london olympics. major injury this second major on the golfing calendar tees off this weekend as the u.s. open takes place in san francisco. and let's get rolling with football where this second round of action kicks off in group eight of the european championship in poland and ukraine team russia now it's all their quarter of following one old role against called spaulding's in warsaw and artie's a richard on port eight was right there for us. for russia's one hundred percent recording group a has been ended after a one one draw with poland but not all is lost for dick advocaat side as space still remain top of the group after two games or everything could have been so much better for the russians after hours ago it had given them the lead as moscow striker grabbed his first goal of the tournament were fine headed goal from a free kick or just says within the manchu of the czech republic russia did start slowly as the poles were on

college athletics, 71, 72. fewer than 30,000 men that participate in college sports compared to 170,000 to 384 men. in 2010, 2011, 193,000 females participated in college athletics as a sixtine increase over 1971 and men went from 170 doesn't to under 56,000 so there was a gain and they're also. so, it's just not so that simple because the women gained in sports that the man who lost. the second thing i would like to ask you all is let's look at sports. i've been pretty much involved in trying to encourage more physical exercise in schools for little kids, kids in elementary school to school. some kids don't take the competitive sports very well. i don't care how hard i try, i could never be a tennis player. i could never be a swimmer like you. i could never do that. i don't have those attributes. i could do a little bit of this and a little bit of that, but address yourself to competitive sports verses noncompetitive exercise for all kids in school who may not be able to engage in a competitive sport but need

like lauren profit said, we're not student athletes, we're athlete students, because the second we comees are supposed to be. >> i thought athletes from certain universities, if i had an opportunity to hire somebody and i was looking at a b athlete from the university of michigan versus an a student from who wasn't involved in athletics, i would take the b athlete because the ability to successfully time manage on campus and deal with those responsibilities is for more useful i would think in the real world. >> you to have look carefully at their major and what was demanded of them of that major. i know we can make a ton of jokes about basket weaving majors but athletes' are diverted away from their academic interests. they talk about their interests and are told there is a basket that needs to be woven right now. your basic point is correct the time demands on an athlete that's another change from the 1970's or mid 1980's. bo jackson starring, that would never happen now, they are expected to do this the entire year and carry a decent g.p.a. if you have a 4.0g.p.a. and not doing well o

with wendy just behind. >> i think when athletes look behind them, it's a bad sign.l bad sign. it is just a panic. when i saw her coming. >> when i came around that corner and i saw her falling, i'm like, now, i have to make my move now. >> she was like this big preying mantis running to the finish line with these wings that were just incredible. >> i was thinking, oh, my gosh, i'm able to pass her. she's down. i need to go faster. what if it becomes a sprint. how am i going to sprint. you want to get to that line first. you do. >> but as she is about to pass sian, wendy falls. the women are just feet away from the finish line. >> and then wendy fell. sian got up, wendy got up. they tried to run, but they couldn't do anything. they were helpless. >> and as you can hear, my mom is, go, sian! and then her voice becomes panicked seeing that i have some major problems here. >> and she really was thinking, maybe i could die. you know. >> their bodies are breaking down in an anguished battle for fourth place. >> i was like, oh, this is so frustrating. i was like, come on.

the moral athletics competition held in moscow every year has attracted athletes from over fifty different countries but while competitors from all over the world attracted to events held fifty kilometers outside the russian capital that's because it's held an a.f. status since two thousand and is now also one of the associations world challenge meetings it's also a very old competition now it's interesting to note that this particular event was actually established over fifty years ago in honor of two soviet champions in long distance running and serafin it's namin ski now the event itself has been held in various locations but it's been a staple fix to here ins namin ski just outside of moscow ever since this rather impressive meteoric stadium was built the competition features races over distances from one hundred meters to one thousand five hundred meters it also includes javelin throwing short porch and other olympic events in the high jump recently crowned russian champion irina. couldn't better norway's tanya angus and nor could she topple her personal best of two point zero two met

special olympics of maryland hosted 1400 athletes in towsend university. they competed in ve sports. athletes started training three months ago working three times a week to advance in the games. >> it is like opening day at orioles park. it is that excitement that comes every year. >> athletes come from all 24 counties in maryland. they are as young as 8. some are still competing in their upper 60s. >>> calls to 9-1-1 describing terrifying events, things you don't want to imagine in real life. >> i shot my wife. >> but what if you found out this was all a prank? coming up on abc 2 news the growing concerns of swatting. >> another 90-degree day across baltimore. we'll talk about that coming up at 6:30. [ female announcer ] with xfinity, you can always expect more. like more on demand shows and movies than ever. and more ways to discover them too. plus more speed from america's fastest internet provider. so you can run more devices at the same time. ♪ feel a firework [ female announcer ] and best of all, it keeps getting better. no wonder more people choose

tracy mcgrady one of a number of pro athletes undergone this treatment. this golfer fred couples had it. >> i thought this year i might not play any golf. >> baseball's alex rodriguez to treat a nagging knee and shoulder injury. today a-rod says he feels great. kobe bryant said it did wonders for his damage knee. >> elite athletes push us. frankly they have the desire and means to seek out novel treatment. >> it sunt just pro athletes hobbled by bad knees or aching backs. estimated 26 million americans live with the agony of chronic back pain and millions more with crippling oes owe arthritis with knee injuries. i'm one of them. this winter my back pain gotten so bad i couldn't stand or walk. i went to germmy at the end of january to be treated by this doctor. mcgrady had the treatment on his bad knee in 2010. >> i could tell difference in my knee. >> what did it feel stronger? >> not only did it feel stronger, but less pain. and sure enough, i felt better before i left. >> did it get better and better? >> better and better, gooder and gooder. since the t

if we were talking about taking a new space that had never been athletic fields and making it athletic fields, i think we'd have a different conversation but i think to the extent that we are talking about a renovation of an existing facility, and the challenge that we have, that we don't maintain our open space very well, and someone mentioned golf courses. if you've looked at lincoln park, that golf course is a mess. and a lot of our facilities suffer. there's a controversial ballot measure about clay tower. i think a lot of people feel there's a lot of needs within our recreation and park facilities that we need to deal with and we don't have enough funds or resources to deal with those things and that is a reality and i don't see that's changing in the near future. i, myself, played soccer. i wouldn't prefer to play on turf. i would prefer to play on grass fields. that's what i played on. doesn't seem appealing to me to play on turf but as a former soccer player and as a stepmom to a soccer player where i spend my weekend at soccer tournaments, when you play soccer, you care about

>> i was a much better writer than i was an athlete. it was told to me, "you write basketball better than you play it." how many kids at the age of eight or nine know what they wanted to be, and i did, and, of course, if i had not succeeded, what a huge disappointment, but, nonetheless, that made me, the fact that i wanted it. i wanted it desperately and am not afraid to say that. tavis: what kept your writing? when others become editors and move onto something else? >> the one time i was an editor was for "sports daily," and i lost money. that kind of tells me i should not have been an editor. i am not blaming myself entirely. there were a lot of business reasons, and i think it was a creative success, but i never wanted to be an editor or a boss. i just wanted to write, and it did not matter if it was fiction or short stories or whatever. that was what i was destined to do. that sounds of a highfalutin, but that is the way i feel. -- that sounds a little highfalutin. tavis: the people that you have covered and have been friends with,

calling meadows athletic fields renders them one purpose use. the functions they fulfill our negated because of this. it makes it that much easier to steal these resources, and to diminish the park as a whole. i strongly urge you not to certify it this eir. thank you. commissioner borden: [ -- president buell: [names are called] if you are ready. >> good evening, commissioners. my name is steve. i am a father of two soccer girls. i have lived in san francisco for 32 years. i would urge you to accept the eir. it has set aside any reservations we might have about what this is going to be. i love the san francisco sense of community. i find the recreational facilities are a big part of that. this will only build on that. i have gone to see my daughters play. you discovered it is not only for kids. it is for people who do not play soccer. it is a community-building facility. i think this will do the same thing for what is pretty much an underused area of golden gate park, particularly because it cannot be used for soccer often. i appreciate your tim

another athletic -- and other athletic news, the olympic eddenbrooenbrook.it and brok london is not the only city preparing for an influx of athletes and fans. in toronto, they are getting ready for a major sporting event. that raises whether this can also be a bit of a curve. >> the athletes' village in sporting venues are still being built, but do not panic. it is not that summer games. >> >> the largest games canada has ever seen. toronto has another three years to breed and -- to bring the infrastructure necessary. the opening and closing ceremonies will take place in downtown toronto at the stadium where the blue jays play baseball. the minister responsible for overseeing the games has no doubts about their value to his city. >> this is for to be a huge economic boost to the city and region. we are anticipating 15,000 new jobs by the creation. it is exhilarating infrastructure. paul henderson is a former olympian and member of the international olympic committee. >> i was the guy who had the idea to bring the games here. this is a wonderful place, but we have no sports facility for

. >>> and we're asking you to answer this question today, and should female olympic athletes ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪forming sounds ] [ male announcer ] transformers. the ride. >>> i ready to go back to cleveland and weighs them all >>> they're not laughing in cleveland. that is lebron james on david letterman last night. it got a standing ovation. he's scheduled to make more tv appearances fresh of their big win over the thunder. >>> futures trading points starting begins on wall street in a few minutes >>> stock showed modest gains yesterday erica ferrari joins us >>> stock markets posted positive gains after encouraging news in the u.s. housing market, housing prices rose 1% in april the first increase in seven months economists say the housing market is improving of all the job market slumps. the housing sector is tied to the health of the overall economy. tokyo's nikkei average rose spic and span 1% the dow was up 32 points nest egg in 17 points lawmakers average stay deal to keep student loan rates from doubling the deal comes less than a week from the deadline. student loans were set to jump t

she's the athlete. so what will the athlete in the family be doing in the olympics?nd i'm sure she'll be watching. i have a campaign to attend to, so i won't be able to see it perform. but i'm very pleased for her. >> that's right. the romney family definition of an olympic athlete is a person who participates in the purchase of an olympic athlete, in this case, a horse that the romneys own. now, mitt romney has always told the story of the family's entry into the breathtakingly expensive so-called support of dressage as a therapeutic option for ann romney's multiple sclerosis. >> dressage. >> yes, the sport of dressage. not many people are familiar with, but something for which she has a passion, and frankly, her getting back on a horse after she was diagnosed with ms was able, she's convinced, to help her regenerate her strength and renew that vigor. >> now, this is not in any way to make light of ann romney's difficulty with ms, it's obviously a very difficult thing to bear. and there are a lot of things you can do to try to deal with ms, but, come on, dressage do

i am a high school athletic director. i spent five years running san francisco delete here in the city. i am very much -- san francisco little league here in this city. i am very much in favor of this project. as a high school athletic director, we struggled with the condition of the grass fields in the city. we have parents that that does not to send our teams to play at feels that have become degraded and dangerous. we send our kids there and a kid gets injured, we felt horrible. the synthetic turf fields are the safest fields in the city. from an athletic director perspective, this is a fantastic project. as a former president of the youth sports organization, speaking on behalf of the people the care about their kids, i want to say how when pour into this project is. these people give us so much of their free time to the kids of the city and to be supported by the city is a fantastic thing. this eir process -- we understand the process needs to happen. please accept the eir. do not accept reasons that we do not believ

and now one of our fit athletes joins us right now from hawaii. that was a great trip.ut to do a relay as well in philadelphia and racing with sarah reinhardt and scott b bassert and like you are missing a leg as well. how did this come ant? >> we are all part of a nonprofit that works with people with disabilities. >> is it nerving racking for you? both of them have done it befored a i have met scout and talked to her about it, and what do you think about it? >> well, i met them three months after my amputation at a foundation run clinic, and they are incredible women and to have the chance to race alongside them at the phil ly event is amazing. >> tell us about t. >> it is a nonprofit that helps people to get back on their feet if they have lost a limb or are chair-bound, and they help people get ba on their feet. >> and they are helping coach as well, people like you, and how is that going? >> well, it is very well. you cannot describe the feeling of what you get when you help an athlete at the first time. this happened for me at the run clinic and two years at the d

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he is not only a special olympics athlete, but the chairman of the athletic congress, an organizationhin special olympics. >> i get to do so many different things that a lot of people thought were not possible for me to overcome all of those barriers and challenges. >> last summer, he carried the olympic torch in greece. it was part of the international law-enforcement torch run. he said it was an unbelievable experience. >> i got to cross the acropolis. greg? >> achievements -- >> but achievements that some thought they'd he would never achieve. with hard work and determination, nothing has stopped him. and working for special olympics means he can now help other athletes. >> i'm getting back to an organization that means so much to me. -- getting back to an organization that mean so much to me. >> and this summer, adam will be competing with again, his 17th year of competing. >> people have always said to me, adam, you can do it. just keep on trying. you will make it if you really want it. and i really wanted it. >> we wish all of the special olympic athletes the best of luck in thi