Diana Taurasi and Sue Bird will try and become the first players ever to win five Olympic gold medals in basketball when the United States women’s team begins play at the Tokyo Games. Taurasi and Bird both played with Dawn Staley on the 2004 Olympic team. Staley helped start this ...
The latest stop on the perennial search for the younger, attention-span-challenged audience for the Olympics might look familiar — the blacktop, and 3-on-3 basketball. Not a pickup game, mind you. Once the Olympics gets hold of this version of street hoops, it will only share a faint ...
The Americans — coached by Gregg Popovich — will be led by Kevin Durant, seeking his third Olympic gold, and have past gold medalists Kevin Love and Draymond Green back on the roster as well. The rest are Olympic first-timers, including Phoenix’s Devin Booker, Miami’s Bam Adebayo and ...
For skateboarding, a sport where the No. 1 rule is that there are no rules, the straight jacket of the Olympic Games, with its dense thickets of tradition and regulation, may not be a natural or immediate fit. So at the Tokyo Games, freewheelin’ skaters and Olympic officials are going to ...
While most Olympic events are a competition among the best, the better you are in baseball, the less of a chance you have of playing for gold. Major League Baseball did not allow players on 40-man rosters to participate in the six-nation Olympic tournament. Rosters for the Olympics remain ...
Ken Eriksen predicts tight competition in softball as the sport returns to the Olympics. “Over the last probably 16 years you’ve seen the world catch up in softball because of the opportunities that USA Softball provided in the teaching and the clinics overseas, but also the colleges ...
