A pair of handmade Nike track shoes from the 1972 Olympic trials has sold for $50,000.
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Many of Team USA’s new players made a good showing in a 97-78 victory over a select team of younger NBA players Friday night at T-Mobile Arena.
Players and assistants have been raving about coach Gregg Popovich during Team USA’s camp at UNLV’s Mendenhall Center this week.
Shaun White is pressing forward with plans to shoot for the Summer Olympics in skateboarding.
The Summer Olympics will return to Tokyo next year for the first time since 1964. The world’s best athletes will be on display, of course, but so will Japan’s sprawling capital — a dense mix of the traditional and the eccentric.
The only Russian track athlete holding a world title called on the country’s officials and coaches in the sport to be replaced because of the slow pace of anti-doping reforms.
The price tag on the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics is now $6.88 billion, a $1.36 billion increase that comes mainly because of accounting measures designed to better reflect inflation over the long lead-up to those games.
Lindsey Vonn straddled a gate mid-air during the super-G at the world championships Tuesday and ended up sliding down the hill face first.
Chinese President Xi Jinping says his country is well on track to deliver a “spectacular” 2022 Winter Olympic Games.
Five-time Olympic champion swimmer Nathan Adrian has been diagnosed with testicular cancer, but he plans to continue training for the 2020 Tokyo Games.
U.S. Figure Skating announced Friday the Orleans Arena will host the 2019 Skate America event Oct. 18-20. The event is the first of six stops of the International Skating Union Grand Prix of Figure Skating Series.
More South Korean female skaters are accusing their coaches of sexually abusing them, a group representing the athletes disclosed Monday following claims by two-time Olympic champion Shim Suk-hee that her former coach had repeatedly raped her.
Jared Allen and three other former NFL stars — none with any prior experience — are attempting to qualify for the U.S. national curling championships against players who have been throwing stones for most of their lives.
The head of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency has asked President Vladimir Putin for help in getting key doping data released to World Anti-Doping Agency inspectors.
Five-time Olympic champion Missy Franklin is retiring from swimming at age 23. She cites chronic shoulder pain that has affected her for the last 2½ years.