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Byline: Dave Sheinin OMAHA, Neb. - On Saturday afternoon, on the eve of the meet that would define her swimming career to that point, Torri Huske began an answer to [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin OMAHA, Neb. - When Lilly King rounded a corner and stepped onto the pool deck at CHI Health Center Arena on Friday afternoon, five years since she [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin After won 33 swimming medals in at the Rio Olympics - more than three times any other country and including 16 golds - the United States is [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin Aliphine Tuliamuk measures her life out in increments rarely exceeding about three hours. She won the marathon at the 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials in just more than [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin BALTIMORE - Rombauer, the new Preakness Stakes champion, presumably has no opinion of the controversy that gripped the sport of horse racing in the week leading up [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin BALTIMORE - Rombauer's triumph in Baltimore came amid a turbulent week in horse racing, which saw Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit thrust back into the spotlight. The [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin BALTIMORE - After a week of controversy and contingencies for the sport of horse racing - with the Kentucky Derby outcome thrown into chaos, the most famous [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin BALTIMORE - Kentucky Derby champion Medina Spirit was cleared to race in Saturday's 146th Preakness Stakes after embattled trainer Bob Baffert agreed Tuesday to enhanced blood-testing and [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin SAN FRANCISCO - It was almost showtime, so somebody helped Willie Mays out of the orange jacket he wore to the ballpark and into a crisp black [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin BALTIMORE - Half of Pickles Pub's sprawling first floor sits in darkness, bar stools resting upside down on high-top tables - the universal bar signal for 'go [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin The text messages would ping from one phone to another within the insular world of elite Minneapolis-St. Paul youth basketball: kids, parents, siblings, coaches. It would be [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin There are precious few secrets anymore when it comes to Paige Bueckers, who was a Minnesota hoops phenom as a seventh-grader; who 13 months ago became the [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin Only five of the 789 U.S. professional athletes who tested positive for the coronavirus in 2020 developed serious heart disease, and none had significant issues after being [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin When Tiger Woods arrived in our collective, national consciousness somewhere around the second weekend of April 1997, he might as well have brought all his furniture, pets [...]

Byline: Cindy Boren and Dave Sheinin The road to recovery for golf legend Tiger Woods, injured in a in a single-car accident Tuesday outside of Los Angeles, began with a [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin When the team bus arrived back at campus around 3 a.m. Sunday, Renee Hill was parked there waiting for her husband. It had already been an emotional [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin Baseball's simmering labor battle, which informed the sport's halting response to the coronavirus pandemic and led to an acutely shortened 2020 schedule, has complicated plans to launch [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin Baseball's simmering labor battle, which informed the sport's halting response to the coronavirus pandemic and led to an acutely shortened 2020 season, has complicated plans to launch [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin The National Baseball Hall of Fame voters, who hold the awesome power of bestowing immortality on the greatest players in the sport - or, if you prefer, [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin Government officials from eight Cactus League cities sent a letter to Major League Baseball late last week asking the league to delay spring training from its scheduled [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin and Matt Bonesteel The air changed when Hank Aaron walked into the room, its occupants inevitably reacting in one of two polar-opposite ways, depending on the setting: [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin and Matt Schudel Hank Aaron, one of the greatest players in baseball history, who smashed Babe Ruth's all-time home run record in defiance of threats to his [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin Every big-money free agent signing in every baseball offseason is a leap of faith to some degree - an investment of tens of millions of dollars based [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin Don Sutton, who accumulated 3,574 strikeouts over a 23-year major league career that sent him to the Hall of Fame, died Jan. 19 at his home in [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin and Cindy Boren The New York Mets moved swiftly Tuesday morning to fire their new general manager, Jared Porter, less than 12 hours after ESPN reported he [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin and Cindy Boren The New York Mets moved swiftly Tuesday morning to fire their new general manager, Jared Porter, less than 12 hours after ESPN reported he [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin After a protracted, awkward dance that delayed a pairing that seemed inevitable, the New York Yankees and second baseman DJ LeMahieu finally found a pathway to extend [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin and Rick Maese The flood of text messages, photos and videos swirling through the insular community of former Olympic swimmers left no doubt about the who, what [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin It hasn't been difficult to find a baseball owner or management type to lament the 'biblical' or 'catastrophic' economic losses the sport faces as a result of [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin On a day when arguably the best shortstop in baseball went from one of the sport's smallest markets to its largest - in a blockbuster, six-player trade [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin For decades, baseball historians and fans have accepted it as gospel that Willie Mays collected 3,283 hits in his career, Bob Feller threw the only opening day [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin Cleveland's Major League Baseball team made official Monday its plans to change the team's name from 'Indians' following years of protests and pressure from Native American groups [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin Cleveland's Major League Baseball team will drop 'Indians' as its nickname, an official familiar with those plans confirmed Sunday night - a move that comes after years [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin As the weeks tick off the calendar in baseball's longest and loneliest offseason - including this past week, once reserved for the pandemic-canceled winter meetings - the [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin Having won the power struggle for control of the sport's player development pipelines, Major League Baseball on Wednesday took its first public step to roll out its [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin A while back, no one would have picked Trevor Bauer as the future bellwether for a free agent market in danger of collapsing on itself. The iconoclastic [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin Imagine you are a corner outfielder/first baseman/professional hitter type with six years of major league service time. You have arrived at free agency - a landmark career [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin Major League Baseball on Wednesday suspended veteran New York Mets second baseman Robinson Cano for the entire 2021 season following a second positive test for a performance-enhancing [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin By age 30, he had secured a place in Boston Red Sox lore as the general manager who guided the franchise to its first World Series title [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin After the initial feelings of euphoria and gratitude, after the first wave of congratulatory messages poured in - from folks like Sharon Robinson, Michelle Obama and Billie [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin At a basic level, the Miami Marlins' announcement Friday morning of their new general manager was most noteworthy for the new hire's extensive qualifications. In a sport [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin Freddie Freeman's 2020 season was a microcosm for the entire sport. He missed most of summer camp with a bout of coronavirus so acute he would later [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin Until the past 48 hours or so, it was easy to shrug off the Chicago White Sox's recent hiring of Tony La Russa as their new manager [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin On July 27 at Pittsburgh's PNC Park, with one out in the bottom of the seventh inning and the bases empty, Milwaukee Brewers rookie reliever Devin Williams [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin As the Boston Red Sox weighed whether to bring back Alex Cora as their manager these past few weeks, it was never the legalities of the move [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin Sandwiched between the pandemic-shortened, revenue-hemorrhaging 2020 season and the uncertain terrain of 2021, this baseball offseason is shaping up as the grimmest in the sport's recent history, [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin Measured by résumé, name recognition and ability, A.J. Hinch was the absolute best candidate the Detroit Tigers could have hired for their open managerial job - a [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin and Jesse Dougherty ARLINGTON, Texas - A tenuous, chaotic baseball season played amid a global pandemic was able to glide toward its finish line this week thanks [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin ARLINGTON, Texas - Validation came at 10:37 p.m. Central time, wearing the classic home whites of the Los Angeles Dodgers and streaming out of the first base [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin ARLINGTON, Texas - Late Sunday night, as Clayton Kershaw pushed himself away from the podium following his Zoom news conference after Game 5 of the World Series, [...]