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

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.

Chain saw competitions, carnival games, concerts, chicken chuckin' and greased pig contests are on tap for the 10th annual Farwell Lumberjack Festival.

VIETNAM has banned ads for online games after several cases in which young people committed murder or robbery to get money to pay to play.

Monday was time to say a big “thank you” to the 2010 BC Summer Games volunteers.