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

Special "Games Lanes" will be created on key roads at Olympic venues including Weymouth and Portland.

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.

The Broome County Senior Games is offering free clinics for anyone 55 years and older interested in learning how to play a new sport. The clinics are open to people that would like to learn the rules, how to play and different techniques of the games.

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.

The four-day X Games 16 begin today, including the first events at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum since 2003.

GOOGLE is encouraging online-games makers to offer their wares on a new service the internet-search giant is building.