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HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Carroll College women's basketball coach Shawn Nelson has announced the signing of two recruits.

Miles Community College player Sarah McNamee of Miles City and guard Kirstin King of Anaconda have signed with the Saints.

McNamee averaged 15.6 points, four rebounds and three steals per game, earning honorable mention All-America honors. Miles Community College posted a 31-2 record and advanced to the Region IX championship game.

King received second-team all-conference honors as a member of the state Class A championship team and holds the school record for the most 3-pointers made in a game. King also played volleyball and softball at Anaconda.

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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- Dannica Brennan of Great Falls, Montana, competed in the preliminaries of the 200-meter backstroke at the U.S. Olympic Trials on Friday.
She added just over a second to her qualifying time of 2 minutes, 17.93 seconds and finished 78th with a time of 2:19.21.
The 17-year-old Brennan trains in Federal Way, Washington.
She also swam in the 100 back at the Trials, finishing 111th in Monday's preliminaries.
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Polson-native Melinda Owen has qualified for the women's pole vault finals at the U.S. Olympic Trials being held in Eugene, Oregon.
The former University of Idaho star posted a mark of 13 feet, 9.25 inches to advance. She tied for 10th in a field of 26, with the top 12 advancing to compete Sunday afternoon for three Olympic spots.
Meanwhile, Montana State's Ellie Rudy failed to make it out of the preliminaries. She landed her second attempt at 13 feet, 5.25 inches. But her Olympic hopes were dashed after she missed all
three tries at 13-9.25. Rudy holds the Big Sky Conference record in the event.
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Former Montana State track star Lyle Weese failed to advance past the preliminaries of the 3000-meter steeplechase at the U.S.
Olympic Trials being held in Eugene, Oregon.
Weese finished 18th with a time of 8:41.78. Anthony Famiglietti finished first with a time of 8:25.17.
Weese is a former All-American in track and field at Montana State and graduated in 2003 with the school record in the event. He gave up the sport while training with an Olympic development group in Minnesota, but began thinking this year of returning to
competition at the elite level.
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MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) -- Nine-time Olympic gold medal swimmer Mark Spitz is scheduled to visit Missoula next weekend.
Spitz will meet with Missoula's youth swim teams at Splash Montana at 4 p.m. on July 11.
Spitz's appearance is part of an Olympic promotional tour sponsored by Panasonic. He will be signing autographs at Vann's in Missoula on July 12 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Spitz won a record seven gold medals in the 1972 Olympics in Munich, setting seven world records. He also won two gold medals in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.
Michael Phelps will try to break Spitz's record by winning eight gold medals at this summer's Olympics in Beijing. Spitz has said he expects Phelps to succeed. Phelps won five gold medals and three bronze medals at the Athens Games in 2004.
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NBC Universal will present more than 3,600 hours of coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the most ambitious single media project in history and more than the combined total of every Summer Olympics ever televised in the United States. The Beijing Olympic Games will begin August 8, 2008, with unprecedented around-the-clock coverage and, for the first-time ever in the U.S., live streaming Olympic broadband video coverage.

Following are highlights of NBC Universal's planned Beijing Olympics coverage:

3,600 HOURS:

Over the 17 days of the Beijing Games (Aug. 8-24, 2008), NBC Universal will present more than 3,600 hours of coverage highlighted by NBC in primetime which will feature live swimming, gymnastics and beach volleyball, despite the 12-hour time difference from the U.S. eastern time zone to Beijing.

SURPASSES COMBINED TOTAL OF ALL PREVIOUS SUMMER OLYMPICS:
The 3,600 hours is 1,000 hours more than the total coverage for every televised Summer Olympics in U.S. history. Note: Dating back nearly 50 years to CBS in Rome in 1960 (20 total hours) through NBC in Athens in 2004 (1,210 total hours), the 12 Summer Olympic Games broadcasts have totaled 2,562 hours.

212 HOURS A DAY OR 8 DAYS A DAY:
NBC Universal coverage will average nearly 212 hours per day for 17 days - more than eight days of coverage during every single day of the Olympics.

ON-AIR, ONLINE, ON-DEMAND & ON-THE-GO:
ON-AIR: NBC Universal-NBC, USA, MSNBC and CNBC will all provide coverage from Beijing with high definition coverage on NBC HD affiliates, USA HD and Universal HD. Spanish-language Olympic coverage will be seen on NBC Universal- Telemundo.

ONLINE: Olympic fans will have access to approximately 2,200 total hours of live streaming Olympic broadband video coverage on NBCOlympics.com.

ON-DEMAND: In addition to the 3,600 total hours of coverage mentioned above, NBCOlympics.com also will feature approximately 3,000 hours of Highlights, Rewinds and Encores.

ON-THE-GO: On-the-Go (wireless) coverage will be detailed in the coming months.


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