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Byline: Nina Mandell and Bailey Schulz USA TODAY As the world scrambles to understand the severity of the new omicron variant, dozens of countries - including the United States - [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, USA TODAY They started as magenta, have changed designs each year, have slogans that have been shared earnestly and mocked by the Twittersphere, have been hijacked as [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, USA TODAY LOS ANGELES Jenn Sterger has spent most of the past decade trying to build a career and life -- far away from the stories that [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, USA TODAY COLUMBUS, Ohio - At the first Final Four Geno Auriemma made with Connecticut in 1991, he fielded friendly questions from locals in New Orleans, where [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, USA TODAY The women's college basketball world is facing a familiar challenge in the NCAA tournament: Keep UConn, the overall No. 1 seed, from going home with [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, @ninamandell, USA TODAY Sports The WNBA is heading to Las Vegas. The WNBA's San Antonio Stars are relocating to Las Vegas, becoming the third professional sports team [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, @ninamandell, USA TODAY Sports Even for a program such as Connecticut, Elena Delle Donne was a big deal. The Huskies routinely bring in top classes, but by [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, @ninamandell, USA TODAY Sports Tony DiCicco, who took over the U.S. women's national soccer team in 1994 and guided it to a groundbreaking 1996 Olympic gold medal [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, @ninamandell, USA TODAY Sports Kelsey Plum, the University of Washington senior who broke the NCAA record for points in a season, was selected first in the WNBA [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, @ninamandell, USA TODAY Sports For Lisa Borders, as she heads into the 21st WNBA season and her second as league president, there's one way to measure success. [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, @ninamandell, USA TODAY Sports Brook Lopez's love affair with the three-point shot began as a means of survival. Not in the NBA, where an increasing number of [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, @ninamandell, USA TODAY Sports Lane Kiffin never seems to leave a job gracefully. Though he said it was his decision, Kiffin is out as Alabama's offensive coordinator [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, @ninamandell, USA TODAY Sports It started as a bet with the loser buying the winner Chipotle. Austin Brizee, a junior who plays in the Ohio State marching [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, @ninamandell, USA TODAY Sports The Minnesota Lynx have been here before, facing a Game 5 in the WNBA Finals after a back-and-forth series. For the WNBA, that's [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell After the Australian Olympic Committee said the Olympic Village in Brazil was uninhabitable, we called Johnny Quinn for advice. Quinn, as you might recall, had to break [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, @NinaMandell, USA TODAY Sports When the Minneapolis Police Federation president took a jab at the Minnesota Lynx's 'pathetic' fan draw while defending four police officers' decision to [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell TNT sideline reporter Craig Sager highlighted the winners at Wednesday's ESPY Awards when he was presented with the Jimmy V Award for Perseverance by Vice President Joe [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, @ninamandell, USA TODAY Sports At some point between Stephen Curry's arrival in the NBA and his emergence as league MVP, his Davidson teammate and college roommate, Bryant [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, @ninamandell, USA TODAY Sports The legacy of the 2016 Verizon Slam Dunk Contest is yet to be seen, but for Dikembe Mutombo, one of the judges, the [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, @ninamandell, USA TODAY SPORTS If it was up to Gregg Popovich, history might not have been made at this year's NBA All-Star Game. When the league called [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, @ninamandell, USA TODAY Sports Touchdown celebrations still leave a bad taste in Brian Urlacher's mouth. Even when he's watching them on television, meaning he's not a fan [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, @ninamandell, USA TODAY Sports With two kids and a wife to support and an NFL career he wasn't ready to end, Joe Anderson had to do something. [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, @ninamandell, USA TODAY Sports In the Cleveland Cavaliers locker room and on the team bus, LeBron James is in charge of the music. After all, he's the [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, @ninamandell, USA TODAY Sports Tina Charles grew up in Queens, talking to anyone who would listen, even opponents on the basketball court. In Brooklyn, Epiphanny Prince was [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, @ninamandell, USA TODAY Sports Cappie Pondexter's arrival with the Chicago Sky through an offseason trade brought a veteran scorer who is deadly when given half a step [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, @ninamandell, USA TODAY Sports Lisa Hill, the mother of the late basketball player Lauren Hill, has had good days and bad since her daughter died in April [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, @ninamandell, USA TODAY Sports While her teammates were traveling during her seven-game suspension to start this year's WNBA season, Brittney Griner found herself working out with a [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell Rob Gronkowski is giving his father perhaps the best Father's Day ever. The New England Patriots tight end will drive the pace car at Chicagoland Speedway on [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, @ninamandell, USA TODAY Sports The first time Gabrielle Union's father met Dwyane Wade, he had a simple request: 'Hey,' he said to the man who would eventually [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, @ninamandell, USA TODAY Sports He's the 2014 Boston Marathon champion, but, as he nears 40, Meb Keflezighi is facing the same problem many face when they hit [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, @ninamandell, USA TODAY Sports Michigan State coach Tom Izzo is making his seventh -- and perhaps most unlikely -- trip to the Final Four. So how did [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, @ninamandell, USA TODAY Sports He threw the greatest pass in NCAA tournament history, but Grant Hill's love of March Madness didn't begin when he was wearing a [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, @ninamandell, USA TODAY Sports The moment Christian Laettner made the shot generally considered the greatest moment in NCAA tournament history, Rob Lowe was watching at a friend's [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, @ninamandell, USA TODAY Sports Sheryl Sandberg, in a new partnership with the NBA, is hoping to spread a message to men that she has been spreading to [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell A few angry tweets from ESPN's Keith Olbermann to Penn State supporters landed the veteran TV personality in a familiar spot: briefly suspended. The trouble began Sunday [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, @ninamandell, USA TODAY Sports NBA All-Star Weekend is four days in New York City, but when Shaquille O'Neal packs his suitcase for the trip as part of [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, @ninamandell, USA TODAY Sports The human head weighs 10 to 12 pounds, but the mascot heads for the Washington Nationals' racing presidents are about five times that. [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, @ninamandell, USA TODAY Sports Nick Cannon doesn't understand why he keeps getting invited back to the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game. After all, he says, he's terrible at [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, @ninamandell, USA TODAY Sports The New England Patriots can count Kim Kardashian among fans rooting for them in Sunday's Super Bowl for one important reason: Gisele Bndchen. [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, @NinaMandell, USA TODAY Sports When his phone stopped ringing after six seasons in the NFL, Aaron Francisco wasn't quite ready to call it quits. Then another ex-player, [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, @ninamandell, USA TODAY Sports The San Francisco 49ers play their last game of the season Sunday against the Arizona Cardinals, which, according to a number of reporters [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, @ninamandell, USA TODAY Sports Mark Cuban's negotiations with Sony might have been released by a hacker, but don't expect the majority of his communications with Dallas Mavericks [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, @ninamandell, USA TODAY Sports When Bo Pelini was fired as Nebraska football coach, few were caught more off guard than the man who anonymously runs @FauxPelini, a [...]

Police and the St. Louis Rams were at odds Monday over whether a team official apologized for the 'Hand's Up. Don't Shoot!' gesture performed by players before Sunday's game. St. [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, @ninamandell, USA TODAY Sports A bus ride from Pittsburgh to Niagara University is supposed to take about four hours, but for the Niagara women's basketball team the [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, @ninamandell, USA TODAY Sports For a split second, when Mark Schultz looked out of the corner of his eye on the set of Foxcatcher, he saw the [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, @ninamandell, USA TODAY Sports In a commercial filmed this year, Johnny Manziel stood on one side of the set dancing with women meant to emulate a college [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, @ninamandell, USA TODAY Sports In the 1990s in New York City, Lesley Visser, Billie Jean King, CBS Sports director Suzanne Smith and Mary Carillo would be at [...]