UC Berkeley team doctor has been suspended while under investigation
A University of California Berkeley team doctor has been on leave since December while a law firm hired by the school conducts an investigation into allegations of misconduct against the physician, the...
View ArticleAttorney alleges UC Berkeley coach Teri McKeever is the victim of gender bias
Allegations that University of California women’s swimming head coach Teri McKeever bullied dozens of swimmers over a decades-long period are clouded by gender bias in the standards female coaches are...
View ArticleServite removes name of priest from aquatic center amid sex abuse claims
Servite High School is removing the name of Father Kevin Fitzpatrick from the school’s aquatic center after allegations were made that Fitzpatrick molested a Servite student in the 1970s, according to...
View ArticleWorld Championships will showcase Tracktown, USA
EUGENE, Ore. — Like the river that runs northward through the heart of Eugene, the journey to the World Track and Field Championships this month is full of twists and turns, winding through parts of...
View ArticleWorld Championships an opportunity track and field must not ‘squander’
EUGENE, Ore. — Perhaps no other athlete has been as dominant in global track and field’s post-Usain Bolt era as American shot putter Ryan Crouser. Crouser owns the four longest throws in history, seven...
View ArticleAre Jamaicans ready to break FloJo’s records?
EUGENE, Ore. – For 33 years Florence Griffith Joyner’s 100-meter world record of 10.49 seconds has loomed over track and field like a bright star in the night sky, a giant glowing asterisk shining from...
View ArticleAllyson Felix caps final World Championships appearance with 4×400 mixed...
EUGENE, Ore. — One by one they approached her at the end of her final lap around a global stage. The Dutch. The Poles. The Jamaicans. The Dominicans. One by one they shook her hand, patted her on the...
View ArticleFred Kerley wins Worlds 100-meter title
EUGENE, Ore. — Fred Kerley was 12 when he got his first tattoo. It was a birthday present to himself and he paid a street artist in the central Texas town of Taylor $200 to ink the Bible verse “Psalm...
View ArticleShelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Team USA have record-setting day at World Championships
Gold medalist Ryan Crouser, of the United States, center, stands on the podium with silver medalist Joe Kovacs, of the United States, left, and bronze medalist Josh Awotunde, of the United States,...
View ArticleDates for 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games announced
The 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles will open July 14 and run through July 30, LA 28 officials announced Monday. The 2028 Paralympic Games will begin August 15 and run through August 27. “Today marks...
View ArticleUkraine’s Yaroslava Mahuchikh on a mission for her war-torn country
EUGENE, Ore. – On the morning of July 9, a Russian missile exploded into the home of Daria Kudel, a champion sports dancer, and her family in the central Ukraine city Kryvyi. Shrapnel tore through...
View ArticleNoah Lyles vs. Erriyon Knighton in the 200: The rivalry track and field has...
EUGENE, Ore. – The first time Noah Lyles and Erriyon Knighton, the two fastest runners over 200 meters this season, met after Lyle poured fuel onto global track and field’s five-alarm rivalry was...
View ArticleIngebrigtsen, Warholm upset on wild night at World Championships
EUGENE, Ore. – There is an old Norwegian proverb: Good fortune is loaned, not owned. Words the Scandinavian country, riding a five-year wave of global sports supremacy, was reminded of twice within 20...
View ArticleCaster Semenya unnoticed at World Championships
EUGENE, Ore. — How many times had South Africa’s Caster Semenya charged onto the Hayward Field homestretch seemingly in a different race than the rest of the pack, the sport’s most storied stadium...
View ArticleDonavan Brazier not making excuses after another setback
EUGENE, Ore. — Donavan Brazier didn’t want to hear it. Brazier didn’t want to hear about the injury that will require surgery next week. The 2019 World 800-meter champion didn’t want to hear any talk...
View ArticleNoah Lyles, Shericka Jackson shine during record-setting night at World...
Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson celebrates after winning the women’s 200-meter sprint at the World Track and Field Championships on Thursday in Eugene, Ore. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis) Gold medalist Noah...
View ArticleSydney McLaughlin obliterates her own world record in 400 hurdles
American Sydney McLaughlin competes in the women’s 400-meter hurdles at the World Track and Field Championships on Friday in Eugene, Ore. McLaughlin won the race and broke her own world record. (Photo...
View ArticleU.S. men, Jamaica womenn upset in 4×100 relays at World Championships
Gold medalist Twanisha Terry, of the United States, celebrates after the final in the women’s 4×100-meter relay at the World Athletics Championships on Saturday, July 23, 2022, in Eugene, Ore. (AP...
View ArticleSydney McLaughlin, U.S. women set 4×400-meter relay record at World...
Sydney Mclaughlin, of the United States, wins the women’s 4×400-meter relay final at the World Athletics Championships on Sunday, July 24, 2022, in Eugene, Ore. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis) Gold medalists...
View ArticleAttorney David Nisson, who represented some Mater Dei football players,...
An Orange County attorney for three Mater Dei High School football players in a pair of high-profile cases that have drawn national attention has been disbarred for misappropriating more than $500,000...
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