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PARIS − U.S. track and field star Noah Lyles is staying at the Paris Olympic Village, but this might be his final Games staying in the athlete housing. Lyles, who is one of the stars…

Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson could have just politely not answered the question. Athletes do that all the time. Or he could have answered it in a way that wasn’t so…so…so him. At the very least,…

The United States women’s basketball team opens play at the 2024 Paris Olympics with a rematch of the gold medal game from the previous Summer Games. Team USA will take on Japan on Monday in…

PARIS − Ilona Maher and Chase Jackson know they don’t have the body type most people think of when they hear the word ‘Olympian.’ And they’re fine with that − because they’re determined to change…

A little more than 12 years after he was college basketball’s biggest star, Jimmer Fredette found himself in the back of a vehicle in Kosovo, driven by a man he barely knew, careening deep into…

If I turned on the television to watch Olympic runner Nikki Hiltz competing for Team USA when I was a teenager growing up in the 1990s, I don’t know how I would have reacted. But…

In the 2024 Paris Olympics, as was the case in Tokyo, women are leading Team USA’s charge atop the Olympics’ medal count. Of the USA’s 113 medals in the Tokyo Games, most of any country…

PARIS – Noah Lyles isn’t lacking in confidence ahead of the Paris Olympic track and field competition. The U.S. sprinter doubled down on his belief that he’s the fastest man in the world amid some…

PARIS — The U.S. women’s gymnastics team used to joke about a non-Simone Biles division, an acknowledgement that Biles is so much better than everyone else that no one could beat her. The same still…

Yes, the Philadelphia Phillies remain the top-ranked team in USA TODAY Sports’ power rankings. But that’s only because every other elite team has been as bad – or worse – as them. The Phillies have…