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Byline: Dave Sheinin STORRS, Conn. - Geno Auriemma has been swashbuckling onto basketball courts in this far-flung town for four decades now, but never had he been greeted with a [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin PHILADELPHIA - Mentally drained from an eight-games-in-seven-days gantlet with their very survival on the line, facing a hated but well-rested division rival in the most intimidating road [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin Less than a month after an underwhelming performance by the American Olympic swim team at the Paris 2024 Summer Games, USA Swimming has begun remaking the top [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin PARIS - A 9½-ounce sphere of synthetic leather such as a regulation Olympic volleyball, met near the top of its parabola by the hammer of Thor otherwise [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin PARIS - Brazilian skateboarder Pedro Barros was midway through his final run of men's park prelims Wednesday at Place de la Concorde when his ear buds suddenly [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin PARIS - The match over, the gold medal secured, Amit Elor threw her hands up to her mouth in astonishment, as if she couldn't believe she just [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin PARIS - Brazilian skateboarder Pedro Barros was midway through his final run of men's park prelims Wednesday at La Concorde Plaza when his ear buds suddenly and [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin NANTERRE, France - The longest Olympic swim meet in history, 35 events and 17 sessions spread out over nine days and nights, came down to the last [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin PARIS - In the chaotic aftermath of the impossibly close men's 100-meter final on the Stade de France track Sunday night - as American Noah Lyles, Jamaican [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin NANTERRE, France - For a precious few moments Saturday night, American Alex Walsh was, as far as she or anyone else knew, the bronze medalist in the [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin NANTERRE, France - The Caeleb Dressel who appeared behind a bright blue barricade Friday night, bare-chested and still dripping with chlorinated water, for a two-minute soul-baring with [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin NANTERRE, France - From the ready room to the starting blocks to the final few meters of her race to the top step of the medal stand, [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin NANTERRE, France - All that was required of Leon Marchand to fulfill the mission he set out Wednesday night was to pull off a pair of victories [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin NANTERRE, France - A strange thing happened in the final of the women's 400-meter freestyle Saturday night at the Paris Olympics, an event billed as a potential [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin NANTERRE, France - The freshly constructed pool deck at Paris La Défense Arena, stretched atop the floor of a rugby stadium in the city's western suburbs, looks [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin NANTERRE, France - If you somehow could harness the energy pulsing through Paris La Défense Arena during the breaststroke leg of the men's 400-meter individual medley final [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin Team USA has dominated international swimming for so long that it has become almost a given to see the Americans atop the medal table - by a [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin NANTERRE, France - A few minutes before 9 p.m. Paris time Saturday at La Défense Arena, across the surface of the 50-meter-long competition pool constructed atop a [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin NANTERRE, France - As Caeleb Dressel flung himself from the starting blocks Saturday at Paris La Défense Arena, at the end of the first finals session of [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin PARIS - If swimming's global leaders expected the stain of this year's Chinese doping controversy to fade away once the world's best swimmers converged for the Paris [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin And on the seventh day - Sunday, a swimmer's traditional day off, so universal and cherished as to be almost sacred, the weekly reward for enduring 10 [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin On Jan. 17, 2004, at an otherwise unremarkable, early-season swim meet in Auburn, Ala., a 30-year-old Frenchman and two-time Olympian named Xavier Marchand climbed the starting blocks [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin INDIANAPOLIS - There could be only one thing more harrowing and nerve-shredding than having to race a tiebreaker swim-off - in front of thousands of people in [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin INDIANAPOLIS Çô Fans walking to Lucas Oil Stadium from the downtown hotels here for the U.S. Olympic swimming trials each day pass by an 84-foot-tall, 214-foot-wide action [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin INDIANAPOLIS - The week's biggest crowd at Lucas Oil Field had already been treated to a seven-course menu of delights Wednesday night at the U.S. Olympic swimming [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin INDIANAPOLIS - The one universality about elite-level international swimming is that the sport will eventually break you, or at least try to. It is the rare swimmer [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin INDIANAPOLIS - It is the nature of human physiology, the sport of swimming and the unyielding Olympic quadrennial to produce a constant churn of names on Team [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin INDIANAPOLIS - The glory and the agony of being an elite swimmer in the United States were on full, visceral display Sunday night at the U.S. Olympic [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin INDIANAPOLIS - For seven of the eight swimmers in Heat 7 of the women's 100-meter breaststroke preliminaries Sunday morning at the U.S. Olympic trials, the 1996 Atlanta [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin INDIANAPOLIS - Right around the spot where the orange pylon would normally mark the corner of the south end zone at cavernous Lucas Oil Stadium, Katie Ledecky [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin INDIANAPOLIS - At his best, as during the Tokyo Olympics three summers ago, Caeleb Dressel is the world's fastest human in water - a record-setting sprinter and [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin Elite American swimmers often say the most pressure-packed meets of their careers are not the Olympics, as most would assume, but the Olympic trials. Earning a spot [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin On July 29, 2021, Katie Ledecky swam a blistering anchor leg for Team USA in the final of the women's 800-meter freestyle relay at the Tokyo Olympics, [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin BALTIMORE - Morning-line favorite Muth, the Bob Baffert-trained colt who had just arrived at Pimlico Race Course from his Southern California training base, was scratched from Saturday's [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin By now, Katie Ledecky is used to someone coming along every so often and draping a medal around her neck: 10 times in the Olympics and 26 [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin HIGH POINT, N.C. - By the time Eddie Pope was hired as the chief sporting director for Carolina Core Football Club last fall, returning to his hometown [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin Katie Ledecky is 26 years old and had not been beaten in the final of an 800-meter freestyle race since 2010, when she was 13. That winning [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin A proposed bill to ban tackle football for children under the age of 12 passed through a committee of California's State Assembly on Wednesday, sending the measure [...]

Byline: Emily Giambalvo and Dave Sheinin Over the past three years of Michigan football's charmed existence, the program's long-awaited breakthroughs - beating rival Ohio State, winning the Big Ten and [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin Baltimore's dilapidated Pimlico Race Course, home of the Preakness Stakes for the past 150 years, would undergo a massive revitalization and be owned by a newly formed, [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin It was Klete Keller's Team USA Olympic jacket that made him such an easily identifiable participant in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. It [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin BALTIMORE - To have grown up in Baltimore in the last quarter of the 20th century was to have known a hundred Brookses. The scrappy kid on [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin GAINESVILLE, Fla. - When Katie Ledecky first joined up with Anthony Nesty's Gator Swim Club in the fall of 2021, among the first things the coach told [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin INDIANAPOLIS - Twenty-three summers ago, at the 2000 U.S. Olympic swimming trials, a gangly 15-year-old out of Towson, Md., by the name of Michael Phelps qualified for [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin INDIANAPOLIS - As the current symbols of American dominance in swimming, 26-year-old superstars Caeleb Dressel and Katie Ledecky came into a pivotal week on the competition calendar [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin BALTIMORE - Bob Baffert, Pimlico Race Course and the entire sport of horse racing had a little more than five hours Saturday to travel between the poles [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin BALTIMORE - The Pimlico Race Course winner's circle is a grassy, hedge-lined ring near the finish line where, on the third Saturday of each May, the new [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin BALTIMORE - On the same day and at the same track where Hall of Famer Bob Baffert returned to Triple Crown racing for the first time in [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - From his spot a few paces off the first base bag, Terrell Tatum had all the data points he needed. He checked the positioning [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin Every January, as the NFL's best teams head into the playoffs, many of its worst dive into the task of finding a new head coach, a chaotic [...]