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LAS VEGAS — In a one-year span during the COVID-19 pandemic, Jim Boylen lost his brother to cancer, lost his marriage and lost his job as head coach of the Chicago Bulls. Adrift personally and…

Frederick Richard has big goals in mind when men’s gymnastics begins at the Paris Olympics later this summer. Winning a gold medal or two − something no American male has done in the sport since…

While Team USA has a stacked roster for the 2024 Paris Olympics there are, of course, other competing nations fans will want to keep an eye on.  As usual, many of the big-time swimmers to…

NHL general managers had money to spend this offseason with the salary cap rising from $83.5 million to $88 million. That led to a busy free agency season in which USA TODAY Sports’ top 25…

PARIS – Fiji won the first two Olympic gold medals in rugby sevens after the sport was introduced at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics — and the island country in the South Pacific displayed…

The Boston Red Sox announced Wednesday that they signed manager Alex Cora to a three-year contract extension through the 2027 season. The deal is worth $21.75 million, ESPN reported. That would mark the second-highest salary…

PARIS − Charlotte Dujardin, a six-time Olympic medalist in dressage who was expected to compete for gold at this year’s Games, withdrew from competition late Tuesday after she made what she called ‘an error in…

Stan Bowman, recently reinstated by the NHL less than three years after a report on a Chicago Blackhawks sexual assault scandal, was hired Wednesday as general manager and executive vice president of hockey operations of…

PARIS — She won’t start competing for a few days still, but already Angelica Delgado had an experience to remember at her third Olympic Games. Delgado, a U.S. medal hopeful at 52 kilograms, taught rap…

Unruly soccer fans disrupted an Olympic match between Argentina and Morocco on Wednesday, turning a 2-2 draw to a 2-1 win for Morocco after Argentina’s late goal scored was disallowed after video review. The chaotic…