Oracle Wins Twice To Keep USA Alive In America's Cup
Jimmy Spithill and his mates with Oracle Team USA were masterful in light air Sunday on San Francisco Bay, winning two races against Emirates Team New Zealand to stay alive in the America's Cup.
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Jimmy Spithill and his mates with Oracle Team USA were masterful in light air Sunday on San Francisco Bay, winning two races against Emirates Team New Zealand to stay alive in the America's Cup.
Dean Barker and Emirates Team New Zealand regained the momentum in the America's Cup when they pulled ahead of defending champion Oracle Team USA on the fourth leg to win Race 10 by 17 seconds Sunday on San Francisco Bay.
Oracle Team USA's heart-stopping victory in Race 4 of the America's Cup may have saved the event as well as the syndicate's chances to retain the oldest trophy in international sports.
Ten years after Team New Zealand lost the America's Cup to a countryman and a European billionaire, the Kiwis are in San Francisco for a singular mission.
Hours after being hit with the harshest penalties in the 162-year history of the America's Cup, skipper Jimmy Spithill defiantly declared defending champion Oracle Team USA to be an underdog that "will come out fighting" against Emirates Team New Zealand starting Saturday.
An international jury has begun hearings into what could be one of the biggest scandals in the 162-year history of the America's Cup.
Two sailing powerhouses that have spent the summer trading verbal jabs are finally set to meet in the ultimate grudge match -- the 34th America's Cup.
Emirates Team New Zealand is trying to wrap up a spot in the America's Cup match against defending champion Oracle Team USA as fast as it can.
Emirates Team New Zealand sailed away with another win because of a mechanical failure to Italy's Luna Rossa, taking a 2-1 lead in the Louis Vuitton Cup finals Monday.
Emirates Team New Zealand beat Italy's Luna Rossa by 3 minutes, 21 seconds in their final meeting in the round-robins in the America's Cup challenger trials Sunday on San Francisco Bay.
A Granada Hills man and his friends narrowly averted tragedy when the van they were sleeping in was swept away by a rising river in New Zealand.
Australia's #1 pizza joint has just opened up shop in Studio City.
The parents of a Boston University student killed in a collision in New Zealand were grieving Sunday, along with the families of two other BU students, one of whom had lived in Woodland Hills.
Three students from Boston University, including a 21-year-old from Huntington Beach, have died and five others were injured in a crash in New Zealand.
PBS officials say hackers have cracked the network's website. The hackers apparently posted a phony story claiming dead rapper Tupac Shakur was alive in New Zealand.
She thought she was doing the right thing, by setting her cruise control at 62 mph before starting her hygenic ritual. And even before that, she made sure she had killed all germs.
The latest New Zealand earthquake is five times smaller than the one that rocked the area last September yet caused much more destruction.
Los Angeles County firefighters are being mobilized for deployment to earthquake-stricken New Zealand.
