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Brazil is one match away from winning its first Olympic soccer gold medal. Neymar and company will take on Germany in the gold medal match at the Maracanã Stadium. This is one of the most highly anticipated events at the Olympics for Brazilian fans as one of the proudest soccer nations in the world looks to win Olympic gold on home soil. The Maracanã will undoubtedly be packed to capacity…

For the fourth Olympics in a row, the United States put an end to Spain’s gold medal hopes. With an 82-76 win, the U.S. sent Spain to the bronze medal game and secured an opportunity to play for its third straight gold medal. Without a big performance from any of their stars, DeAndre Jordan led the United States to a stout defensive performance that proved to be the difference in…

Back in June, Steve Burke described what he called his Olympics “nightmare.” “We wake up someday and the ratings are down 20 percent,” the chief executive officer of NBCUniversal said at a conference. “If that happens, my prediction would be that millennials had been in a Facebook bubble or a Snapchat bubble and the Olympics have come, and they didn’t know it.” He has escaped that with the Rio games…

The most important thing you can possibly remember about baseball’s quest to shorten games is that you don’t matter. If you’re here, reading an article about baseball that you found through conscious, baseball-seeking choices, you’re already in. You’re the base. The odds are great you’re not going to leave over some mild dickering and rule changes. You’re the person on the far end of the political spectrum, whose platform gets…

BEIJING—The 2016 Olympic Games haven’t been kind to China, and as the country’s medal tally falters, introspection is falling upon officials and media used to touting sports prowess as a symbol of national strength. This year’s medal haul will leave Beijing with its smallest hoard of Olympic gold in two decades. For China, these Summer Games have piled defeat upon defeat in sports it once ruled, like gymnastics and badminton,…

U.S Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte has apologized for his behavior surrounding a late-night incident at a Rio de Janeiro gas station, saying he should have been more “careful and candid” about how he described what happened. Lochte said in a lengthy post on Instagram Friday that he was apologizing for his role in taking the focus away from other Olympic athletes. “This was a situation that could and should have…

And when synchronized swimming made its Olympic debut in the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles, it was the Americans Tracie Ruiz and Candy Costie who won the gold for the duet, the only synchro event that first year. In the Atlanta Games of 1996, the U.S. again made history, winning the first gold medal for the newly inaugurated team event (the duet event was taken off the program in…

RIO DE JANEIRO — In March, Richson Simeon ran the first race of his track career. He had to learn pretty quickly — in five months, he’d be racing in the same event as Usain Bolt. The 18-year-old from Sacramento had been tapped to be the lone male track athlete representing the Marshall Islands, his parents’ homeland, a tiny group of islands in the Pacific Ocean. In Rio, he…

While the workforce will be downsized and changes made to the the transport schedule, the biggest announcement was that the Deorodo Olympic Park would be closed and dismantled. Wheelchair fencing has now been switched to the Barra Olympic Park while equestrian, seven-a-side football and shooting will work as standalone venues. IPC president Sir Philip Craven said: “Since becoming aware of the full scale of the problem, we have focused all…

Whether you want to admit it or not, baseball has a problem. Baseball has become a regional sport. That regional model is financially successful, sure — according to Forbes, 25 of 29 American MLB teams ranked No. 1 on cable in primetime last summer — but it has made the sport as a whole more irrelevant. National TV viewership is down, and it’s not because of cable cutting. People care…

For those who are unfamiliar with my thought process, I aim to add as many home run hitters as possible to my daily fantasy baseball lineups. One way of doing that is to look at a player’s isolated power numbers (ISO). The ISO statistic removes singles and provides a larger weight for each extra-base hit. I also use the weighted on-base average (wOBA) metric. This stat takes every positive outcome into consideration. Last year,…

Brandon Todd reports. Posted:Aug 18 2016 09:35PM CDT Updated:Aug 18 2016 09:39PM CDT Community mourns loss of Paschal HS recent grad, incoming TCU baseball player \n \n News Community mourns loss of Paschal HS recent grad, incoming TCU baseball player The R.L. Paschal High School community is mourning the death of a recent graduate. The R.L. Paschal High School community is mourning the death of a recent graduate. Drew Medford…

During the 2016 Olympics, the U.S. enjoyed a brief, imperfect glimpse of a rare phenomenon in sports: gender equality. Notable gaffes in sexist Olympics coverage aside, high-profile women athletes like swimmers, gymnasts, and runners were front and center during prime-time viewing hours, and women in sports like rugby, field hockey, and shot put also got airtime. A team of researchers even found that NBC’s primetime telecast of the 2016 Rio…

x Embed x Share Lochte and three U.S. swimmers said they were robbed at gunpoint early Sunday, with Lochte saying their cab was pulled over by men impersonating police officers. Jimmy Feigen is one of three U.S. swimmers still in Brazil after allegedly being robbed earlier this week.(Photo: Rob Schumacher, USA TODAY Sports) RIO DE JANEIRO — The money that U.S. swimmer Jimmy Feigen must pay to resolve his legal cases in…

Image copyright EPA Image caption PV Sindhu is the youngest Indian to win an Olympic medal On Thursday night, a 21-year-old became the first Indian woman to qualify for a gold medal contest at the Olympic Games. Ninth-seeded PV Sindhu, lithe and lethal on court, routed her higher-ranked Japanese opponent Nozomi Okuhara 21-19, 21-10 in a fast-paced 50-minute game to enter Friday’s women’s badminton final at the 2016 Rio Games….

Media captionFootage has been released purportedly showing four US swimmers at a petrol station in Rio US Olympic swimmer Jimmy Feigen has agreed to pay nearly $11,000 to a Brazilian charity over his involvement in a dispute about an armed robbery. He was one of four gold medallists, along with star Ryan Lochte, who hit the headlines after Mr Lochte said the group had been robbed in Rio. CCTV footage…

We’re just over two weeks removed from the deadline-day trade that sent Carlos Beltran from the Yankees to the Rangers. In the time since, he’s adjusted to his new surroundings, hitting .315/.351/.500 with two home runs. Beltran has taken a liking to his new haunt in other ways, too — like preferring the vibes in Texas to those in New York. Here’s what he told KESN-FM about the difference between…

Media playback is not supported on this device Bolt wins third 200m gold Usain Bolt won the men’s 200m to claim his second Rio 2016 gold, his eighth at an Olympics, and keep alive his hopes of an unprecedented ‘treble treble’. The Jamaican ran 19.78 seconds to come home ahead of Canada’s Andre de Grasse and France’s Christophe Lemaitre. Britain’s Adam Gemili clocked the same time as Lemaitre, but was…

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