U.S. officials worry that no home Games will adversely impact sponsor and donor interest, leading to diminished performance by athletes.
Jess Ennis set to defend pentathlon title in UK trials, plus cycling's Tour of Qatar and archery's World Indoor Championships
Whenever a three-time Olympian speaks about their sport, you stop and listen.
Barbara Parker hopes working with a sport psychologist will help improve her times in the 3,000 metre steeplechase.
Three-time Olympic champion Jackie Joyner-Kersee was among three new members of the USA Track and Field board of directors announced on Monday by the national sport governing body.
Paul Gilmore of Anderson, Ind., tries curling in the Super Bowl Village as part of the festivities for Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis The U.S. curling team brought the sport to the Super Bowl in Indianapolis, hoping the exposure will bring new faces to the sport that was one of the biggest hits at the Vancouver Games.
Katy McLean's side stake a claim to being the best in the world and are aiming for a seventh successive Six Nations success Here is another, somewhat belated, offering for that shortlist that never was at the end of last year – that of the outstanding achievers in British sport who also happen to be female. Because England do boast a successful rugby team, after all, in the shape of their women ...
Charles Ruter, an iconic figure for USA Track & field after spending more than 60 years as an official in the sport, passed away Saturday evening at his home in Fern Creek, Ky., at the age of 91. He died of kidney failure.
A.J. Perez previously worked at USA Today , AOL and CBSSports.com covering beats ranging from performance-enhancing drugs to the NHL. AJ has also been a finalist for an Associated Press Sports Editors award for investigative reporting. Follow him on Twitter @ajperezfox.
(AP) -- Phill Drobnick's invite last fall to participate in a learn-to-curl event in Las Vegas gave him some idea just how far his sport has come.
Anyone else get incredibly excited watching pre-Olympic marketing hype during last night’s Super Bowl? With football season over, let the Olympic year commence.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- The most recognizable name in American wrestling was back on the mat for the first time since 2004 as Rulon Gardner competed for Team USA on Saturday in the Kiki Cup at the Olympic Training Center. read more
The non-Big Six conferences were headliners for most of the season off the field, but they did some good work on the field as well.
(AP) -- Phill Drobnick's invite last fall to participate in a learn-to-curl event in Las Vegas gave him some idea just how far his sport has come.
INDIANAPOLIS -- The most celebrated sprint rivalry in women's track and field kicks off in the 2012 Olympic year when American Allyson Felix and Jamaican Veronica Campbell-Brown run the 60 meters this Saturday at the USA Track & Field Classic in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Meg Cooke understands the importance of a fraction of a second when it comes to swimming. She had spent the last two years trying to get one-hundredth of a second faster so she could each the Olympic
Need to add something on saber. Here's what I found in USA Fencing: The difference in the saber classification is that fencers can score with the edge of their blade as well as the point.
Phill Drobnick's invite last fall to participate in a learn-to-curl event in Las Vegas gave him some idea just how far his sport has come.
Is New York big enough for two world-class track meets every winter? Or will a feud between the city’s top track venue and the sport’s governing body end up killing the venerable Millrose Games, or Madison Square Garden’s new U.S. Open, or both? For better or...
Is New York big enough for two world-class track meets every winter? Or will a feud between the city’s top track venue and the sport’s governing body end up killing the venerable Millrose Games, or the Garden’s new U.S. Open, or both? For better or worse...
