The work ethic of the all-time sports greats has been well-documented through the years: Michael Jordan trained tirelessly every summer to prove his doubters wrong, even after the world began to worship him.
With a couple of Mike Krzyzewski’s former Team USA Basketball assistants choosing to focus on their respective NBA coaching careers - Mike D’Antoni is holding the Lakers together with Scotch tape while Nate McMillan is hunting for a job - Coach K had to dig into his rolodex for a new staff.
Joao Havelange Olympic Stadium, which will host track and field event for the 2016 Rio Games, was forced closed back in March, and will now stay closed for another 18 months while workers fix dangerous structural issues with the venue’s roof.
The IOC’s decision to put baseball/softball on its shortlist of candidate sports for the 2020 Games seemed to be a stay of execution for the pair of former Olympics disciplines, as the World Baseball Softball Confederation tried to convince the MLB to allow its players to compete in the Games.
You have to go all the way back to the Athens Games - yes, those held in 2004 - to find a calendar year when Maria Sharapova has beaten Serena Williams in a tennis match.
South African President Jacob Zuma said his country would be “very happy” to host the first Olympic on the African continent, and believes, after hosting the 2010 World Cup, they now have “sufficient facilities to do so” by 2024.
Athens 100m Olympic champ Justin Gatlin out-leaned world record holder Usain Bolt at the tape Thursday at the Diamond League meet in Rome to beat the Beijing and London gold medalist for the first time in their storied careers.
With the recent recommendation to remove wrestling from the Olympics, and squash and baseball/softball possibly sitting on the sidelines again, IOC Presidential Candidate Thomas Bach is asking for some “flexibility” regarding which sports are included in the Olympics program.
The International Olympic Committee officially opened up the two-year, three-phase bidding process for hosting the 2022 Winter Games Thursday, with many cities already declaring intentions of bringing the event home.
World record holder Usain Bolt has gotten the best of Justin Gatlin in all three head-to-head races of their careers, including at the London Olympics last summer when Gatlin took bronze.
If you need to know exactly how many days there are until the 2014 Sochi Games, you can either log on to NBCOlympics.com or simply ask figure skating gold medalist Evan Lysacek.
According to New York Post sources, Vancouver downhill champ Lindsey Vonn had to undergo mandatory drug testing Monday night while attending the Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards, aka: the “Fashion Oscars.”
Despite the rumors from top competitors and men in the know, swimming legend Michael Phelps has yet to dive in a pool competitively since London, and told a German paper Wednesday that he thinks top rival Ryan Lochte is trying to deflect some attention away from himself.
Kobe Bryant almost played under Coach Mike Krzyzewski at Duke, tried to lure him to the Lakers in 2004, and won two Olympic golds under him in Beijing and London.
World record sprinter Usain Bolt is hoping for a fresh start to the season in Rome this week after a disappointing showing in the Cayman Islands, where, despite winning, he ran only 10.09 seconds in the 100m; his slowest time in the finals of an event since joining the senior circuit.
South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius was in back court Tuesday for his first appearance since being granted bail Feb. 22 following the shooting of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentine’s Day.
Ryan Lochte was back in the pool last week, beating competitors to the wall and reestablishing himself as one of the best swimmers in the world after a year of making a name for himself on TV.
South African double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius has only been spotted twice in public since he was granted bail on February 22 following the shooting of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentine’s Day morning.
Swiss IOC Presidential candidate Denis Oswald said Monday he fully expects wrestling to return to Olympics, but said he’d like to see more sports added to the schedule in the near future.
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