The U.S. men’s basketball team heads into a World Cup warmup vs. Spain on the heels of a definitive scrimmage loss to a group of players culled mostly from the G-League.
A triathlon test event and Olympic qualifier in Tokyo saw sequence of bizarre events -- a shortening of the race due to extreme heat, a crash taking out a top U.S. contender, and a double disqualification.
Summer Rappaport is the only U.S. triathlete to qualify for the Olympics from the women’s qualification event in Tokyo, which was shortened due to heat and saw U.S. favorite Katie Zaferes crash out of the race.
Reigning Olympic marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge, who plans another shot at breaking the two-hour barrier in the event, said Wednesday that the feat would hold a high place in the history of human achievement.
South African runner Caster Semenya emphatically said Wednesday she does not plan to retire despite a ruling that she cannot compete in the near future.
Road cycling’s world championships will be able to proceed through a stretch of road that was used in the 2014 Tour de France despite the destruction of the road’s key bridge in Yorkshire.
Major league veterans Willie Randolph and Scott Brosius will return to USA Baseball’s staff for the Premier12, a tournament that will determine two qualifiers for the 2020 Olympics.
The FIVB is demanding an explanation and Instagram users are furious after Argentina’s men’s volleyball team celebrated its Olympic qualification with “slant-eye” gestures.
MOSCOW (AP) — Five Russian weightlifters, all of them world or European championship medalists, face doping charges which could herald a new wave of cases across a range of sports.
Kelly Slater will participate in a mandatory event for Olympic qualification, joining a U.S. team that features the top-ranked man and woman in the world.
Caeleb Dressel took his record eighth medal of the world swimming championships while the U.S. women smashed the medley relay world record on a two-gold night for Lilly King and Simone Manuel as the competition wrapped up Sunday in Gwangju, South Korea.
Egan Bernal left little doubt about his status as the best rider in the 2019 Tour de France, finishing alongside the other viable contenders in Stage 20.
