Ransom weaves to Games win
In sporting dog agility competition, bullying through the course of 13 narrowly-spaced weavepoles is not a prerequisite to gaining peak performance.

Ransom wins Superweave
Showing consistency in her times through four rounds, 4-year-old Ransom won the Agility Superweave gold medal in the ESPN Great Outdoor Games presented by Dodge at the Alliant Energy Center Saturday.

Raising Mayhem
Chris Parker didn't count on the name for her border collie to describe so well what the two would eventually go through together. Parker's dog is Mayhem. The two will be competing in the Large Dog Agility and Large Dog Super Weave.

Dogs: On a DeCaff high
Susan Garrett presents a good case for challenging the myth that dog owners mirror the behavior of their beloved pets. Garrett and DeCaff, her Jack Russell terrier-border collie mix, took the bronze medal in the Sporting Dog Small Agility competition a

Dogs strike gold at Agility event
In a sport where Jack Russell terriers and border collies typically rule the competition, it was a miniature schnauzer that owned the day in the Sporting Dog Small Agility event at the ESPN Great Outdoor Games.

Top dogs ready for Agility events
In the world of agility dogs the debate over which breed is the top performer is akin to NASCAR fans squabbling over the performance contrasts between Ford and Chevy. In either case, the debate rages on.

Echo wins Super Weave gold
It's probably appropriate the large dog Super Weave gold medal winner at the 2003 ESPN Great Outdoor Games is named Echo. After Friday's performance at Reno's Rancho San Rafael Park, people will be repeating her name.

'Devil Puppy' wins gold in Super Weave
She might have started out life as a "devil puppy," but Taz, a 7-year-old Shetland Sheepdog, is now a double-gold medalist at the ESPN Great Outdoor Games. Taz and her handler, Jean Lavalley, captured the small-dog gold medal in the Super Weave.