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Posted: 3/8/2013 3:03:28 PM EST
FILE - In this May 15, 2012 file photo, freestyle wrestler Jordan Burroughs poses for a photo at the 2012 Team USA Media Summit in Dallas. His performance at the London Games cemented his status as perhaps the best athlete in the world in his sport _ a sport that just a few months later in fighting for its very existence. (AP Photo/Victoria Will, File)
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Posted: 3/8/2013 2:23:33 PM EST
This Feb. 6, 2013 photo shows actress Tiffani Thiessen posing for a portrait in New York. Thiessen, best known for her former role as Kelly Kapowski on TV's "Saved by the Bell," says she had no idea at the time of how popular the show was. She says she's grateful she grew up in the limelight before TMZ and other 24 hour media outlets and gossip blogs came along. She currently stars in the USA series "White Collar." (Photo by Amy Sussman/Invision/AP)
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Posted: 3/8/2013 2:23:33 PM EST
This Feb. 6, 2013 file photo shows actress Tiffani Thiessen posing for a portrait in New York. Thiessen, best known for her former role as Kelly Kapowski on TV's "Saved by the Bell," says she had no idea at the time of how popular the show was. She says she's grateful she grew up in the limelight before TMZ and other 24 hour media outlets and gossip blogs came along. She currently stars in the USA series "White Collar." (Photo by Amy Sussman/Invision/AP)
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Posted: 3/4/2013 7:38:20 PM EST
FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2010, file photo, Canada's Sidney Crosby (87) leaps in the air after making the winning goal in the overtime period of a men's gold medal ice hockey game against USA at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia. With the Olympics less than a year off and both sides talking tough, chances that NHL players won't compete in the Winter Games are only slightly better than a snowball in well, Sochi. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)
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Posted: 3/3/2013 6:33:30 PM EST
Cleveland Indians relief pitcher Vinnie Pestano delivers against the Los Angeles Dodgers in the fourth inning of an exhibition spring training baseball game Sunday, March 3, 2013, in Glendale, Ariz. Pestano joins Team USA after the game to prepare for play in the World Baseball Classic. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)
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Posted: 3/3/2013 1:25:46 PM EST
Jenn Suhr poses next to the score board after setting a new women's indoor pole vault world record of 5.02 metres (16 feet 5 1/2 inches) at the USA Indoor Track and Field Championships in Albuquerque, New Mexico March 2, 2013. REUTERS/Eric Draper
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Posted: 3/3/2013 1:42:26 AM EST
Jenn Suhr poses next to the score board after setting a new women's indoor pole vault world record of 5.02 metres (16 feet 5 1/2 inches) at the USA Indoor Track and Field Championships in Albuquerque, New Mexico March 2, 2013. The 31-year-old American's stunning vault on the first attempt at the height, eclipsed the previous indoor mark of 5.01m set by Russian great Yelena Isinbayeva in 2012. REUTERS/Eric Draper
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Posted: 2/27/2013 3:18:27 PM EST
FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2010, file photo, then-Los Angeles Dodgers manager Joe Torre walks up the steps after a baseball game against the Arizona Diamondbacks in Los Angeles. Torre is returning to the top step of the dugout to manage the Americans at the World Baseball Clasic. Team USA have yet to even reach the championship game of this hugely popular international event played every three years. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
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Posted: 2/21/2013 7:53:22 PM EST
Cincinnati Reds second baseman Brandon Phillips tries on a USA World Baseball Classic uniform during photo day at the team's facility in Goodyear, Ariz., Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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Posted: 2/19/2013 6:58:27 AM EST
U.S. freestyle wrestling team members arrive at the Imam Khomeini airport in Tehran, Iran, early Tuesday morning, Feb. 19, 2013, to attend World Cup tournament. USA Wrestling has formalized plans for a committee charged with restoring Olympic wrestling. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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Posted: 2/19/2013 6:58:27 AM EST
U.S. National freestyle wrestling coach Zeke Jones, left, arrives with his team at the Imam Khomeini airport in Tehran, Iran, early Tuesday morning, Feb. 19, 2013, to attend World Cup tournament. USA Wrestling has formalized plans for a committee charged with restoring Olympic wrestling. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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Posted: 2/19/2013 6:58:27 AM EST
U.S. freestyle wrestling team members prepare to leave Tehran's Imam Khomeini airport in Iran after their arrival on early Tuesday morning, Feb. 19, 2013, to attend World Cup tournament. USA Wrestling has formalized plans for a committee charged with restoring Olympic wrestling. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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Posted: 2/19/2013 6:58:27 AM EST
U.S. freestyle wrestling team members arrive at the Imam Khomeini airport in Tehran, Iran, early Tuesday morning, Feb. 19, 2013, to attend World Cup tournament. USA Wrestling has formalized plans for a committee charged with restoring Olympic wrestling. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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Posted: 2/19/2013 6:58:27 AM EST
U.S. National freestyle wrestling coach Zeke Jones, right, and his team members arrive at the Imam Khomeini airport in Tehran, Iran, early Tuesday morning, Feb. 19, 2013, to attend World Cup tournament. USA Wrestling has formalized plans for a committee charged with restoring Olympic wrestling. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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Posted: 2/16/2013 11:43:48 PM EST
FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks about immigration at Del Sol High School in Las Vegas. The White House is circulating a draft immigration bill that would create a new visa for illegal immigrants living in the United States and allow them to become legal permanent residents within eight years, according to a report published online Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013 by USA Today. President Barack Obama's bill would create a "Lawful Prospective Immigrant" visa for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants living in the United States.(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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Posted: 2/11/2013 3:48:29 AM EST
Lunar New Year celebrants cover their ears as hundreds of firecrackers are set off by the Mak Fai Kung Fu Club, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013, in the Chinatown section of Seattle. (AP Photo/The Seattle Times, Alan Berner) MAGS OUT; NO SALES; SEATTLEPI.COM OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT; USA TODAY OUT
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Posted: 2/10/2013 3:48:33 PM EST
Italy's Sara Errani, left, and Roberta Vinci celebrate at the end of a Fed Cup World group first round tennis double match against United States' Varvara Lepchenko and Liezel Huber, at the 105 stadium in Rimini, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013. Italy beat the USA to progress to the Fed Cup semifinals after Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci cruised to victory over Varvara Lepchenko and Liezel Huber in the decisive doubles rubber on Sunday. Errani and Vinci proved again just why they are the top doubles pairing as they won 6-2, 6-2 in one hour and 11 minutes. (AP Photo/Felice Calabro')
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Posted: 2/8/2013 3:53:27 PM EST
Doug Thornton, vice president of the Superdome's management company SMG, watches Ron Forman address a City Council committee on Friday, Feb. 8, 2013, in New Orleans regarding the power outage during the Super Bowl. Thornton said that he was certain early on that the outage was not caused by too much demand for power on the stadium's electrical system. (AP Photo/The Times-Picayune, Robert Riddick) BATON ROUGE OUT USA TODAY OUT MAGS OUT NO SALES
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Posted: 1/31/2013 12:13:23 PM EST
FILE - A hedgehog sleeps at the SPCA in Largo, Fla., in a Monday, Jan. 7, 2013 file photo. In the last year, 20 people were infected by a rare but dangerous form of salmonella bacteria, and one person died. Investigators say the illnesses were linked to contact with hedgehogs kept as pets. Health officials on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013 say such cases seem to be increasing. (AP Photo/The Tampa Bay Times, Jim Damaske, File) TAMPA OUT; CITRUS COUNTY OUT; PORT CHARLOTTE OUT; BROOKSVILLE HERNANDO OUT; USA TODAY OUT; MAGS OUT
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Posted: 1/31/2013 10:28:25 AM EST
FILE - In this April 4, 2004, file photo, plainclothes contractors working for Blackwater USA take part in a firefight as Iraqi demonstrators loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr attempt to advance on a facility being defended by U.S. and Spanish soldiers in the Iraqi city of Najaf. Iraq. With thousands of civilian contractors remaining in Iraq and Afghanistan, Justice Department officials want Congress to resolve a legal issue that they say obstructs efforts to prosecute any such workers who rape, kill or commit other serious crimes abroad. (AP Photo/Gervasio Sanchez, File)
