Carmelo Anthony, the New York Knicks all-star guard prepares to play in his record fourth Olympic basketball tournament for Team USA next month.
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The IOC executive board announced steps on Tuesday following a scathing report by a World Anti-Doping Agency investigator who accused Russia’s sports ministry of overseeing doping of the country’s athletes across 28 Olympic sports.
He still has a couple of months before he gets to work in Oakland. But Kevin Durant will get a taste of the Warrior life in the coming weeks through USA Basketball.
The World Anti-Doping Agency on Monday recommended that the IOC and International Paralympic Committee should consider banning all athletes entered by the Russian Olympic Committee for next month’s Rio Olympics.
Team USA head basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski is in town for the team’s pre-Olympic training camp at Mendenhall Center. The U.S. is shooting for its third straight gold medal when it competes in next month’s Olympics in Brazil.
Katy Perry has released a new single that marks her first new music since her smash 2013 album, “Prism.”
Jordan Spieth said pulling out of the Olympics was the hardest decision he’s ever made, and that it likely will haunt him as he’s watching golfers compete for a gold medal in Rio de Janeiro for the first time in 112 years.
The United States has won the last three Olympic gold medals. The team opens the tournament in Brazil against New Zealand on Aug. 3 at Mineirao Stadium in Belo Horizonte.
Jordan Spieth withdrew from the Olympics on Monday, leaving golf without its top four players when the sport returns to the games for the first time since 1904.
Randall Cunningham II didn’t advance in the men’s high jump preliminaries at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials in rainy Eugene, Oregon, on Friday, failing to clear the opening height of 7 feet, ¼ inch.
U.S. Open champion Dustin Johnson withdrew from the Rio Games on Friday because of concerns over the Zika virus, costing golf three of the world’s top four players for its return to the Olympics after a 112-year absence.
Silverado High School and UNLV alumna Amanda Bingson fell short Wednesday at qualifying for her second straight Olympic team in the women’s hammer throw.
Las Vegas resident Rubens Nicolas hoped to qualify as a heavyweight boxer for Haiti in the Olympics this summer, but he was denied a passport.
Silverado High School graduate Amanda Bingson, who first took up the event as a freshman at UNLV and holds the American record, will be favored to secure her second consecutive Olympic berth Wednesday.
Bishop Gorman High School product Vashti Cunningham is headed to the Rio Olympics in August after finishing second in the women’s high jump at the U.S. Track & Field Trials at the University of Oregon’s Hayward Field on Sunday.