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Byline: Nancy Armour, Columnist, USA TODAY The federal lawsuit sparked by San Jose State possibly having a transgender woman on its volleyball team ought to terrify everyone. Not for any [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, USA TODAY Bela Karolyi, the larger-than-life coach who led Nadia Comaneci and Mary Lou Retton to Olympic gold while revolutionizing the sport of gymnastics, only to see [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, Columnist, USA TODAY No team can wreck a quarterback, and the future of the franchise, quite like the Chicago Bears. Given how abysmally Caleb Williams' rookie season [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, Columnist, USA TODAY For those of us who woke up Wednesday feeling sick, devastated and distraught to know that hate is not a disqualifying factor to millions [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, USA TODAY The past few years have given us a glimpse of what could be the norm: Packed arenas and blockbuster TV ratings for women's games while [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, Columnist, USA TODAY Dee and Jimmy Haslam are free to spend their money any way they see fit. If they want to waste it on support of [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, Columnist, USA TODAY Mikaela Shiffrin has decided to lean into the hype. Talking about records and victories has always made the two-time Olympic champion uncomfortable. Which is [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, Columnist, USA TODAY The hate comes so easily. So, too, the lies and the gaslighting. And in the middle of it is a young woman who was [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, Columnist, USA TODAY Breanna Stewart has been doing this long enough to know there are some nights the shots just aren't going to fall. The best players [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, Columnist, USA TODAY When a woman stands up for herself, when she demands to be treated equally and doesn't tolerate nonsense or disrespect, she's often described as [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, Columnist, USA TODAY Aaron Rodgers now owns the New York Jets. Technically it is still Woody Johnson's team. Sorry, Ambassador Johnson's team. That's in name only, though. [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, Columnist, USA TODAY No one is ever going to suggest the WNBA is scripted. While other leagues are a petri dish for conspiracy theories - the NFL [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, Columnist, USA TODAY AUSTIN, Texas - It just hits different when it's Mauricio Pochettino telling the U.S. men's national soccer team he has confidence in them. Pochettino [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, USA TODAY MILWAUKEE - Simone Biles wants to go to another Olympics. A Winter Olympics. The 27-year-old hasn't made any decisions about her gymnastics career or competing [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, Columnist, USA TODAY Of all the things Caitlin Clark has been asked to do the last two-plus years, this is the most important: She needs to publicly [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, Columnist, USA TODAY That Diana Taurasi refused a farewell tour, that she forced the Phoenix Mercury to drop hints large and small about her retirement so fans [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, Columnist, USA TODAY As promising as the video evidence backing Jordan Chiles' claim to her bronze medal is, it never should have come to this. And nothing [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, Columnist, USA TODAY Not every athlete can be LeBron James or Megan Rapinoe. Remember Michael Jordan's comment about Republicans buying shoes? There's a long history of athletes [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour and Tom Schad, USA TODAY The floor exercise final at the Paris Olympics was even more screwed up than already known. Video submitted Monday as part of [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour and Tom Schad, USA TODAY If Jordan Chiles gets to keep her Paris Olympic bronze medal, she might have teammate Simone Biles - and her Netflix documentary [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, Columnist, USA TODAY It's easy to see why U.S. Soccer was willing to break the bank for Mauricio Pochettino. This isn't just about getting the best coach [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, Columnist, USA TODAY A rivalry is not an excuse for racism. See how easy that is to say? Yet WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert couldn't even manage that [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, USA TODAY Jordan Chiles said her "heart was broken" when she was stripped of her Paris Olympics bronze medal because of mistakes by gymnastics officials and she'll [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, USA TODAY U.S. Soccer is hoping this coach with Chelsea ties works out as well as the other one. Mauricio Pochettino was officially announced as the new [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, Columnist, USA TODAY Kara Welsh and Rebecca Cheptegei would seem to have had little in common. Welsh was an American gymnast, a Division III national champion on [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, Columnist, USA TODAY CHICAGO - Caleb Williams did something Eli Manning, Matthew Stafford, Andrew Luck and Joe Burrow could not. He won his NFL debut. Not since [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, Columnist, USA TODAY Alex Morgan is the rare athlete whose impact off the playing field was as great as it was on it. Maybe even greater. Morgan, [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, Columnist, USA TODAY NFL owners really don't want Tom Brady to be part of their club. That's the only way to read the restrictions the league is [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, Columnist, USA TODAY There are several lessons to be had from Ronda Rousey's apology for sharing, however briefly, a Sandy Hook conspiracy video. The first is that [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour USA TODAY The NWSL is scrapping its draft and moving to unrestricted free agency in its new collective bargaining agreement, a first for a major American professional [...]

Byline: Stephanie Armour, McKenzie Beard It has become a rhetorical theme for Democrats working to hold on to the White House: Allies of former president Donald Trump, they say, want [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, USA TODAY Jordan Chiles and two Romanian gymnasts would all get bronze medals if an arbitration panel could award them, and the panel also said "a great [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, USA TODAY Alex Morgan got caught up in a numbers game. USWNT 2024 Paris Olympics roster by position (caps/goals) GOALKEEPERS (2): Casey Murphy (North Carolina Courage; 19), [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, Columnist, USA TODAY CHICAGO - WNBA Finals aside, this was the league's biggest game since, well, ever. No disrespect to other exceptional games there've been over the [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, Columnist, USA TODAY It is possible to be fans of, or at least appreciate, more than one female athlete at a time. You can think Caitlin Clark [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, Columnist, USA TODAY CHICAGO - All those folks who doubted whether Angel Reese's game would translate to the WNBA must feel pretty silly these days. A month [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, Columnist, USA TODAY Leaving Caitlin Clark off the U.S. Olympic team was a basketball decision, plain and simple. As it should be. The selection committee was not [...]

Byline: Lindsay Schnell and Nancy Armour, USA TODAY We already knew who wasn't on the U.S. women's basketball team roster for the Paris Olympics. Now we know who is. Diana [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, Columnist, USA TODAY Leaving Caitlin Clark home from the Paris Olympics was the right decision for the U.S. team. Right decision for Clark, too. While Clark would [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, Columnist, USA TODAY Someone is going to get hurt. The increasingly widespread narratives that fellow WNBA players hate Caitlin Clark and are playing her dirty are not [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, Columnist, USA TODAY FORT WORTH, Texas - Simone Biles is a gimme for the Paris Olympics. Because, duh. Did you watch her at the U.S. Championships? Or [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, USA TODAY FORT WORTH, Texas - Given the selection procedures for the U.S. men's gymnastics team practically require a Ph.D. in math to understand, and are heavily [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, Columnist, USA TODAY CHICAGO - Angel Reese isn't the villain here. Oh, she's willing to play the role. Has gotten comfortable in it, too, over the past [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, Columnist, USA TODAY FORT WORTH, Texas - The best thing Simone Biles did on her way to her ninth U.S. title won't show up in the score [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, Columnist, USA TODAY FORT WORTH, Texas - Most athletes are at their peak for a couple of years. If they're lucky, they can stretch it to four [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, USA TODAY FORT WORTH, Texas - Shilese Jones is out of the U.S. gymnastics championships with a shoulder injury, disrupting her Olympic preparations less than two months [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, Columnist, USA TODAY The final scoreline didn't matter as much as how the U.S. women looked in Emma Hayes' debut. For the first time in a long [...]

Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have a rare point of agreement in their otherwise bitter and divisive contest: It’s up to the government to cut high [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, USA TODAY FORT WORTH, Texas - Gabby Douglas' comeback is over. The 2012 Olympic champion withdrew from this weekend's national gymnastics championships Wednesday, ending her hopes of [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, Columnist, USA TODAY There's a reason Emma Hayes was worth the wait for the U.S. women's soccer team. That she's a proven winner is obvious. Six months [...]