PARIS — Breaking — more commonly called breakdancing — is making its Olympic debut here at the 2024 Paris Games. The competition opens with the B-Girls, and medals will be decided by the end of…
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COSTA MESA, Calif. – Maybe the big decision looming for Raiders coach Antonio Pierce to determine the winner of a well, less-filling quarterback competition, isn’t so complicated. Just listen to the participants. As Gardner Minshew…
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Why would a fighter grieving the death of his son head back into the MMA cage? It’s a question this week that hung over Francis Ngannou, the former UFC heavyweight champion. Three months after announcing his 15-month-old…
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Following a tough double bogey on Hole 15 at Le Golf National that took herself out of a tie for first place on the leaderboard, the United States golfer ended her Round 3 at the…
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Kevin Sullivan, better known to professional wrestling fans as ‘The Taskmaster,’ who became one of the sport’s great villains and later carved out a role as a booker creating intriguing storylines, has died at the…
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SAINT-DENIS, France — High school phenom Quincy Wilson wasn’t at his best in his highly-anticipated Olympics debut. The U.S. men’s 4×400 relay team featuring Wilson, Vernon Norwood, Bryce Deadmon and Christopher Bailey needed a blistering…
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SAINT-DENIS, France – Keisha Caine Bishop ran through the bowels of the Stade de France with an understandably frantic look on her face. Her son, Noah Lyles, had been removed from the track moments earlier…
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PARIS – Ange-Jacques Gabriel lived for 83 years, born here during the reign of Louis XIV and departing this Earth with France in the midst of so much economic and social crisis that revolution would…
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Tara Davis-Woodhall had just won an Olympic gold medal in the long jump and, after an initial celebration that included sand angels in the sand pit at Stade de France in Paris, she sprinted toward…
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PARIS — The decision, so seismic in the moment, looks so obvious now. Emma Hayes knew the front line of Trinity Rodman, Sophia Smith and Mallory Swanson had the potential to be something special. But…