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Scrubbed: March Madness leads long list of canceled sports

The world’s sports schedule cratered at warp speed Thursday, with one of the biggest events on the U.S. calendar, the fun-filled and colorful college basketball tournament known as March Mad...

DATE: Mar 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Sports

Ride with Jake: Burton impact felt over bittersweet weekend

Snowboarding honors a godfather who made it a sport

DATE: Mar 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Patrick Mahomes leads comeback for the ages in Super Bowl win

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – They were celebrating the passage of time as much as football at this Super Bowl: 100-year-old war veterans at midfield for the pregame coin flip, a 50-years-young pop ...

DATE: Feb 3, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Protests or not, politics and Olympics are intertwined

More than a half-century later, Tommie Smith and John Carlos are cemented into Olympic lore – their names enshrined in the Olympic Hall of Fame in the United States, their portrait an indeli...

DATE: Jan 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Woods’ comeback at Masters named Sports Story of the Year

A green jacket. A heart-melting embrace. A stirring return to the top of golf by one of the sport’s all-time greats. In choosing Tiger Woods’ victory at the Masters as The Associa...

DATE: Dec 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Snowboarding game changer Jake Burton Carpenter dies

Cancer claims Burton founder at 65

DATE: Nov 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Outdoors

Renowned track coach Alberto Salazar receives 4-year doping ban

American coach trained top runners at Nike Oregon Project

DATE: Oct 1, 2019 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Ski federation signs onto UN climate change initiative

The International Ski Federation has signed onto a U.N. climate change initiative in a move some view as a welcome about-face from its president, whose comments about environmentalists alarm...

DATE: Sep 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Outdoors

Overhaul would give Congress power to fire USOPC board

Bill could quadruple U.S. Center for SafeSport money

DATE: Jul 30, 2019 | CATEGORY: Sports

Report urges new board, funding model for U.S. Olympic system

DENVER – A report examining the U.S. Olympic system urges a move away from the “money for medals” funding system and a reconfigured board of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee that wo...

DATE: Jul 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Sports

Los Angeles Olympics increases price tag to almost $7 billion

Initial project was budgeted for $5.3 billion

DATE: Apr 30, 2019 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Virginia tops Texas Tech in overtime to claim national championship

Cavaliers’ defense provides overtime spark

DATE: Apr 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: College Sports