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Simone Biles sticks landing in balance beam, wins Olympic bronze
TOKYO — Simone Biles isn’t going home with a fistful of gold medals. A mental block — one brought on by exhaustion or stress or something the American gymnastics star still can’t quite grasp — that forced her to pull out of four Olympic finals saw to that. Yet standing...
Kevin Durant leads U.S. past Spain into Olympic semifinals
SAITAMA, Japan — Back and forth they went, the reigning Olympic champions from the U.S. on one side, the reigning Basketball World Cup champions from Spain on the other. The difference: The Americans had Kevin Durant. He’s never gone to the Olympics and not won gold — and clearly, doesn’t...
This date in sports history: Aug. 3Video
1852 — The first intercollegiate rowing race is held on Lake Winnipesaukee, N.H., where Harvard beats Yale by four lengths on the 2-mile course. 1949 — The NBA is formed by the merger of the National Basketball League and the Basketball Association of America. 1955 — Scott Frost, driven by...
T.J. McConnell stays with Pacers as point guards headline NBA free agent signings
Point guards were the immediate focus when the NBA’s free agency window opened Monday night, with Kyle Lowry headed to the Miami Heat, Lonzo Ball on his way to the Chicago Bulls while Chris Paul and Mike Conley landed lucrative deals to remain with their current teams. The Indiana Pacers,...
Allman’s Joy: Discus thrower waits out rain for gold medalVideo
TOKYO — The path to Valarie Allman’s gold medal — the first for the U.S. track and field team at Olympic Stadium — started with, of all things, a plate of spaghetti. That promise of pasta from her high school team was enough to lure her into the discus and...
Saban’s new deal worth at least $84.8 million over 8 yearsVideo
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Alabama coach Nick Saban will make $11.5 million in the final year under a new eight-year contract that’s worth at least $84.8 million. The university released details Monday of Saban’s previously announced deal, after the board of trustees’ compensation committee formally approved it. Saban, who has won...
Paul Guggenheimer: Men’s field hockey? Yes, it’s a thing and what a sport it is
A few days ago I was expressing my quadrennial lament to a colleague about the lack of coverage of one of my favorite Olympic sports — men’s field hockey. His reply: “Men’s field hockey? Men play field hockey?” “Yes!” I told him. “Men play field hockey all over the world,...
Japan rallies against bullpen to beat U.S. in 10 innings
YOKOHAMA, Japan — Brandon Dickson, a 36-year-old nine seasons removed from the major leagues, was the first out of the bullpen and the first to stumble. Edwin Jackson, a 37-year-old released by five big league teams, was the last. Four of seven U.S. relievers combined to give up five runs...
U.S. women lose in soccer, win in volleyball, basketball
TOKYO — The quest for gold medals is on track for the U.S. women’s basketball and volleyball teams after finishing at the top of their groups in pool play. The U.S. women’s soccer team can’t say the same. Jessie Fleming scored on a penalty kick in the 74th minute and...
Gymnast Jade Carey’s long road to the Olympics ends with gold in floor exercise
TOKYO — Jade Carey traveled the world for a spot in the Olympics. Germany. Qatar. Azerbaijan. Australia. A lot of long flights. A little bit of jet lag. One unrelenting vision of what could be possible. She wasn’t going to let a little thing like a sticky patch of carpet...
Canada upsets U.S. with 1-0 win in women’s soccer
KASHIMA, Japan — Jessie Fleming scored on a penalty kick in the 74th minute and Canada earned a 1-0 semifinal victory over the United States in the Olympic women’s soccer competition on Monday. Canada goes on to face the winner of the late semifinal in Yokohama between Sweden and Australia....
Simone Biles to return to Olympics for balance beam finals
The 2016 Olympic gymnastics champion will return to competition in the balance beam final on Tuesday, a little over a week after stepping away from the meet to focus on her mental health. “We are so excited to confirm that you will see two U.S. athletes in the balance beam...
U.S. junior varsity lineup upsets Mexico to win Gold CupVideo
LAS VEGAS — Miles Robinson scored on a header in the 117th minute, and a United States junior varsity lineup upset a mostly front-line Mexico team 1-0 on Sunday night to win the CONCACAF Cup. Kellyn Acosta, the only player in the U.S. lineup who gets playing time when the...
A pandemic Olympics, without all the crowds: What gets lost?Video
TOKYO — Any sporting event is, at its heart, a show. It has the actors on center stage, performing for the rest of us. It has the spectators, sitting in their seats watching raptly. And — in modern times, at least — it has the “home” audience, which in the...
‘Olympic Oak’ premiere: Facebook film launch of legacy of John Woodruff’s 1936 golden runVideo
Trib Total Media will host a Facebook Premiere of “Olympic Oak: the story of John Woodruff, the 1936 Berlin Olympics and the roots of Athlete Activism” at 7 p.m. tonight. Woodruff, a Connellsville native and University of Pittsburgh freshman, won gold in the 800-meters track and field final. His victory...
Olympics roundup: More medals for U.S. women gymnastsVideo
TOKYO — Sunisa Lee came to Japan to win a gold medal. And she did. Just not the one she really, really wanted. The 18-year-old from Minnesota is a revelation on uneven bars, where her routines are an intricate series of connections and releases completed with so much ease it...
Olympic swimming ends with splashy new records, U.S. gold
TOKYO — Caeleb Dressel finished off his gold rush at the Tokyo Olympics with two more dazzling swims. The guy who dreads all the attention won’t be able to escape it now. He’s one of the greatest Olympians ever. The 24-year-old Floridian captured his fourth and fifth gold medals of...
Quaker Valley grad Ryan Stowers finds home at Bluefield State
Ryan Stowers’ dream has always been to play college basketball at a four-year school and in late June it came to fruition when he signed on to play at Bluefield State, an NCAA Division II school in West Virginia. The journey to get there has had some twists and turns....
Plum grad Scott McGough helps Team USA baseball top South Korea at OlympicsVideo
YOKOHAMA, Japan — Plum graduate Scott McGough struck out two in a scoreless inning of relief to help the United States defeat South Korea, 4-2, on Saturday at the Olympics. The Americans improved to 2-0. Nick Martinez started and struck out nine over five innings, allowing one run and four...
Durant sets record, example for U.S. Olympic men’s hoops team
SAITAMA, Japan — Kevin Durant had been just ordinary so far in these Olympics. That’s probably not good enough for gold. Not on this U.S. men’s basketball team, an unproven and for now still unspectacular group. Durant is the top scorer to ever wear the red, white and blue, a...
Thompson-Herah breaks Flo Jo’s Olympic record in women’s 100
TOKYO — Streaking down the track, with only six steps to go until she reached the finish line, Elaine Thompson-Herah stuck out her left arm and started pointing at the clock. She knew she had the win. It was only a matter of what else would come with it. With...
This date in sports history: July 31Video
1932 — France beats the U.S., 3-2, for its sixth consecutive Davis Cup championship. 1934 — Britain, led by Fred Perry and Bunny Austin, defeats the U.S., 4-1, at Wimbledon to win the Davis Cup title. 1942 — Jockey Bill Turnbull wins seven of nine races at Rockingham Park in...
Americans Caeleb Dressel, Katie Ledecky win again at Olympic poolVideo
TOKYO — Caeleb Dressel added a world record to his growing medal haul. Katie Ledecky closed out her Olympics with another victory, too. Continuing his march to being perhaps the biggest star of the Tokyo Games, Dressel won his third gold medal with a world record in the 100-meter butterfly...
Olympics roundup: Biles pulls out of 2 individual events; Dressel, Ledecky add more goldVideo
TOKYO —Simone Biles, who was scratched from the women’s team competition and withdrew from the all-around event final after losing her ability to sense where she is in the air, withdrew from the event finals in the vault and uneven bars, which will be contested on Sunday. USA Gymnastics, the...
With a clothing line, Spencer Lee is in fast lane of NIL movement
“Excuses are for wusses.” You would be hard pressed to find four words that inspired a fan base more than those spoken by Spencer Lee during last season’s NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships. After the Iowa star out of Franklin Regional revealed he had competed — and won his third...
