Pop Warner to adopt USOC/USA Football safety program
Pop Warner, the largest youth football league in the country, will be offering USA Football's American Development Model this year, the first national implementation of the U.S. Ol... MARCH 23, 2018
Shiffrin’s $738,000 tops skiing World Cup prize money list
ARE, Sweden (AP) Mikaela Shiffrin topped the skiing World Cup prize money list after winning 12 races in the season and retained her women's overall title. MARCH 19, 2018
Paralympics: Disabled people experience accessibility issues
GANGNEUNG, South Korea (AP) As the world's top Paralympic athletes competed on ice and snow, Erica Mitchell steered through her own obstacle course on Pyeongchang's narrow and une... MARCH 19, 2018
Kirui of Kenya, Gedo of Ethiopia win Los Angeles Marathon
LOS ANGELES (AP) Weldon Kirui of Kenya pulled away in the 24th mile to win the Los Angeles Marathon for the second time in three years. Sule Utura Gedo of Ethiopia won the women's... MARCH 18, 2018
Shi upsets Lin to win All England men’s badminton final
BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) Seventh-seeded Shi Yuqi beat six-time champion Lin Dan 21-19, 16-21, 21-9 Sunday in a major upset at the All England Championships to win the men's single... MARCH 18, 2018
Speedskater Lorentzen wins 500 meters title at World Cup
MINSK, Belarus (AP) Norwegian speedskater Havard Holmefjord Lorentzen added the men's 500 meters title at the World Cup to his Olympic gold medal in the same distance on Sunday. MARCH 18, 2018
Heidi Weng retains cross-country ski World Cup title
FALUN, Sweden (AP) Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo, 21, became the youngest man to win the overall cross-country ski World Cup title Sunday, while his fellow Norwegian Heidi Weng retaine... MARCH 18, 2018
Final World Cup races called off, Rebensburg wins GS title
ARE, Sweden (AP) Viktoria Rebensburg won her third season title in the giant slalom on Sunday without hitting the slopes at the World Cup finals. MARCH 18, 2018
US, Australia to play 2 men's hoop exhibitions in Melbourne
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) The U.S. men's basketball team will play two exhibition games against Australia in Melbourne ahead of the 2019 Basketball World Cup. MARCH 17, 2018
Klaebo nears x-country World Cup title, Bolshunov wins race
FALUN, Sweden (AP) Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo of Norway narrowly missed out on securing his first World Cup cross-country skiing season title in a race won by Alexander Bolshunov of... MARCH 17, 2018
Fourcade wins pursuit to close in on 7th overall title
OSLO, Norway (AP) France's Martin Fourcade won a pursuit race Saturday to close in on his seventh straight World Cup biathlon title. MARCH 17, 2018
Olympic champion Hirscher leads 1st run of season-ending GS
ARE, Sweden (AP) Overall champions Mikaela Shiffrin and Marcel Hirscher dominated the penultimate World Cup races of the season on Saturday. MARCH 17, 2018
6N: Best says 'scummy Irish' comments just a sideshow
LONDON (AP) Ireland captain Rory Best insists Eddie Jones' ''scummy Irish'' comments are a mere sideshow to his team's Six Nations Grand Sl... MARCH 16, 2018
Host Sweden wins Alpine team event at World Cup ski finals
ARE, Sweden (AP) Olympic slalom champions Frida Hansdotter and Andre Myhrer powered host Sweden to victory in the team event at the World Cup finals on Friday. MARCH 16, 2018
Klaebo, Falk win cross-country sprint races
FALUN, Sweden (AP) Norway's Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo ended his strong sprint season in the cross-country World Cup with yet another win on Friday, while Sweden's Hanna Falk won th... MARCH 16, 2018
Gymnastics coach who fled US pleads guilty to child porn
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) A former California youth gymnastics coach who fled the country more than a decade ago to avoid prosecution has pleaded guilty to possessing child pornogra... MARCH 16, 2018
6N: Bastareaud to lead France against Wales, Guirado injured
Reticent, sensitive, and racked by self-doubt for much of his career, Mathieu Bastareaud would have been many people's last bet to become ca... MARCH 16, 2018
Weirather retains World Cup super-G title as Goggia wins
ARE, Sweden (AP) This was a bonus win for Sofia Goggia. MARCH 15, 2018
Repair shop integral part of competition at Paralympics
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) Away from the stadiums, it's the most hectic place at the Paralympic Games - a white warehouse on a corner of Pyeongchang's athletes' village, where... MARCH 15, 2018
Norwegian musher wins Iditarod sled dog race in Alaska
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) Joar Ulsom's dreams of making it big in the dog-mushing world started small. MARCH 14, 2018
Goggia takes World Cup downhill title; Vonn gets win No. 82
ARE, Sweden (AP) Sofia Goggia and Lindsey Vonn each had something to celebrate when their season-long rivalry in downhill concluded Wednesday. MARCH 14, 2018
International Soap Box Derby to expand into China
AKRON, Ohio (AP) The Ohio-based International Soap Box Derby has announced that it will expand into China. MARCH 14, 2018
Coroner: USA hockey executive died of heart disease
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) Heart disease caused a longtime USA Hockey executive's death less than three weeks before the Pyeongchang Games. MARCH 13, 2018
Germany fires Steffi Jones as women’s national team coach
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) The German soccer federation says it has fired Steffi Jones as coach of the women's national team following recent poor results. MARCH 13, 2018
Foot injury rules Medvedeva out of figure skating worlds
MOSCOW (AP) Olympic figure skating silver medalist Evgenia Medvedeva has withdrawn from the world championships, ending the prospect of another showdown against friend and rival A... MARCH 13, 2018
