All that stuff about the Olympic ideal, how it's all about taking part, not winning, can often seem like so much hot air, rendered hopelessly quaint and outdated by the ultra-competitive and mercenary world of modern sport. Until, that is, you speak to Kieran Behan. Ireland's first gymnast to qualify for an Olympic Games is a vaulting, somersaulting advertisement for believing in the bright...
SIOUX CITY -- My stomach tightened at the North High wrestling news two weeks ago. School officials suspended four North Star wrestlers, each accused of mistreating a teammate. Two faced assault charges.
IF YOU ASK ME:The Irish coach might not be allowed to pick Paddy Wallace but things could be a lot worse . . . he could be in charge of England, writes RISTEARD COOPER
PARIS (AP) -- All that stuff about the Olympic ideal, how it's all about taking part, not winning, can often seem like so much hot air, rendered hopelessly quaint and outdated by the ultra-competitive and mercenary world of modern sport. Until, that is, you speak to Kieran Behan.
PARIS (AP) -- All that stuff about the Olympic ideal, how it's all about taking part, not winning, can often seem like so much hot air, rendered hopelessly quaint and outdated by the ultra-competitive and mercenary world of modern sport. Until, that is, you speak to Kieran Behan.
Occasionally, a professional athlete achieves such total dominance of a sport that he or she becomes the standard by which all others are measured.
Director Samuel McKaig discusses his film about the intersection of parkour, breakdancing, and tricking subcultures.
THESE girls certainly aren’t teeing off fellow golfers with their sporting prowess.
One of boxing’s true icons is gone with the passing of 90-year-old Angelo Dundee. The former trainer of Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard — as well countless other fighters — and one of the torch bearers of the sport will be sorely missed.
At UFC 143 in Las Vegas, Carlos Condit won a five-round unanimous decision over Nick Diaz to capture the UFC interim welterweight title. After the fight, though, a visibly frustrated Diaz appeared to quit the sport, asserting he was the true winner. "I think I'm done with this MMA," Diaz told Joe Rogan in the postfight interview. "I don't need this [stuff], you know what I mean? I pushed this ...
Pro athlete: Troy Polamalu my youth minister always called me Troy Polamalu because I had really long hair and he would say it looks like his, I just think he plays a good game and hustles and goes hard.
As paragliding booms, the graying flock of hang gliders who once ruled the skies fear for the future of their sport. As the ancient Dodge van bumped and creaked up the mountain road to one of Southern California's legendary hang glider launches, a 68-year-old thrill-seeker sitting in back mentioned that the 83-year-old riding shotgun is attracting condors whenever he flies.
In a sport that thrives on individual competition, reaching the state swimming regional is usually a bench mark.
Occasionally, a professional athlete achieves such total dominance of a sport that he or she becomes the standard by which all others are measured. In the sport of reining -- a judged competition in which horses perform precise maneuvers such as spins and sliding stops -- the standard of excellence is a man named Shawn Flarida.
LEBANON — Garrett Urrutia is a bit of a throwback.
Will Pellum penned an autobiographical novel about his experiences playing football and how the sport helped him to achieve success in college and his career.
There can only be one winner in Sunday's Super Bowl but for two opposing players, a bigger battle has already been won, victory over cancer.
Indiana — the place where Peyton Manning, Larry Bird, the Hoosiers and more have created the stuff of legend — is undoubtedly a sports mecca.
Adam Starr knows the outdoors from an insider perspective.
Baseball, it appears to me, is the one sport where the best plans often go awry, and each season takes on different twists from the anticipated.
