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PARIS — Here we are, standing in the middle of the Place de la Condorde, face-to-face with newly-minted bronze medalist Cierra Burdick from the American women’s 3×3 basketball team. I feel a little bad for…

There are only six days left in the 2024 Paris Olympics, and medals will be awarded in 15 events on Tuesday. Track and field will again be in the spotlight, headlined by the women’s 200-meter final.…

Only one man could stop Kirby Smart the past three seasons. The GOAT, they called him. Now that Nick Saban works for ESPN, who’s going to stand in Smart’s way? Maybe no one. After Saban’s…

Nevin Harrison, like so many other Olympic athletes, spent years of her life working to win a gold medal and dreaming of the perks that would follow. She thought being a gold medalist would give…

Jourdan Delacruz bombed at the Tokyo Olympics. That’s not an editorialization, mind you. In Delacruz’s sport of weightlifting, ‘bombed’ or ‘bombing out’ is a technical term, used to describe a competition in which an athlete…

American Caroline Marks won a gold medal in shortboard surfing at the Paris Games on Monday and continued to alter the arc of her career. Her future was unclear in 2022 when she abruptly left…

On Tuesday night, the 19th season of the preseason edition of HBO’s ‘Hard Knocks’ kicks off as NFL Films’ sports reality documentary series follows the exploits of the Chicago Bears as they prepare for the…

The Chicago White Sox tied the American League record for consecutive losses with a 21st straight Monday night, succumbing to seven strong innings from left-hander JP Sears in a 5-1 defeat at the hands of…

PARIS – Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is headed back into the ring Tuesday at the Paris Olympics. She’ll be fighting for a chance to win a silver or gold medal despite an ongoing ordeal during…

SAINT-DENIS, France — Pole vaulters, American Sam Kendricks likes to say, use every single part of their body and uniform to excel in their event.  So when Kendricks was “really committing” to jumping 6.0 meters…