Special "Games Lanes" will be created on key roads to help get athletes and officials to and from Olympic venues.

Special "Games Lanes" will be created on key roads at Olympic venues including Weymouth and Portland.

The 16th X Games starts in Los Angeles on Thursday and the latest incarnation of the four-day gathering will once again feature athletes who have forged a lucrative career out of alternative street sports.

After four close games in four days, Quincy’s Babe Ruth team for 13-year-olds was eliminated from the state championship series. A 5-4 loss to Plymouth and a 3-2 loss to Wakefield knocked the Quincy team out of the competition.

London 2012 Olympics chief Sebastian Coe said Thursday he was confident the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi would leave a lasting legacy in the Indian capital.

GOOGLE is encouraging online-games makers to offer their wares on a new service the internet-search giant is building.

New Delhi, Jul 29 (PTI) Commonwealth Games have never been a "side-show" and the people of the capital would get a chance to watch the stars of tomorrow in action during the October 3-14 mega event here, feels legendary British athlete Sebastian Coe.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Only at the X Games, where athletes sometimes win medals before they graduate the eighth grade, would Travis Pastrana be considered an old man.