NIMES, France, July 18 (UPI) -- Mark Cavendish used a perfectly timed burst of speed to win Friday's 13th Stage of the 2008 Tour de France, giving him four stage victories this year.
NARBONNE, France, July 17 (UPI) -- Mark Cavendish held off the field with a strong final sprint Thursday in winning his third stage of the 2008 Tour de France.
TOULOUSE, France, July 12 (UPI) -- Briton Mark Cavendish won his second stage of the Tour de France Saturday, sprinting through rain to take the Stage 8 run from Figeac to Toulouse.
CHATEAUROUX, France, July 9 (UPI) -- Mark Cavendish used a furious sprint in the final 50 yards of Wednesday's 139-mile race and won the fifth stage of the Tour de France.
RESTON, Va., Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Virginia-based Sprint Nextel Corp. said Monday it is buying wireless affiliate Alamosa Holdings Inc. of Texas for $4.3 billion.
NEW YORK, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- The Cavendish, the version of the banana that tops most U.S. cereal bowls, is being wiped out by fungus.
OVERLAND PARK, Kan., July 11 (UPI) -- Phone group Sprint agreed to buy US Unwired, a wireless company, for about $1.3 billion in cash Monday.
OVERLAND PARK, Kan., June 24 (UPI) -- Sprint Corp. of Overland Park, Kan., which is buying Nextel Communications Inc., has begun to subordinate the Nextel name.
OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Sprint Corp. is close to a $1.2 billion deal to sell its cell phone-tower business to Global Signal Inc., a Sarasota, Fla., tower operator.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, July 11 (UPI) -- Centenarian Philip Rabinowitz has set an official record in a 100-meter sprint at Green Point Stadium in Cape Town, South Africa.
