School athletics
Rutgers hires Nikki McCray-Penson as assistant hoops coach

Jun. 28, 2022 01:08 PM EDT
PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — Rutgers has hired former Tennessee star Nikki McCray-Penson as an assistant coach for the women’s basketball team. Scarlet...

O'Toole wins Athletes Unlimited AUX Softball competition

By Cliff Brunt Jun. 27, 2022 05:34 PM EDT
Pitcher Danielle O’Toole won the inaugural Athletes Unlimited AUX Softball competition, capping a comeback in which she went from nearly worst to first. ...

Ann Meyers Drysdale prepares her court-side broadcast prior to a Phoenix Mercury basketball game, Friday, June 3, 2022 in Phoenix. Ann Meyers Drysdale was the first woman to receive an athletic scholarship at UCLA. The Hall of Famer, longtime TV basketball analyst and mother of three shares how Title IX has shaped her life and career in a story for The Associated Press, and what needs to be done over the next 50 years for the law to continue to have a positive impact on young girls and women. (AP Photo/Matt York)
Red Sox at Athletics 6/3/2022

Jun. 20, 2022 02:44 AM EDT

Ann Meyers Drysdale prepares her court-side broadcast prior to a Phoenix Mercury basketball game, Friday, June 3, 2022 in Phoenix. Ann Meyers Drysdale was the first woman to receive an athletic scholarship at UCLA. The Hall of Famer, longtime TV basketball analyst and mother of three shares how Title IX has shaped her life and career in a story for The Associated Press, and what needs to be done over the next 50 years for the law to continue to have a positive impact on young girls and women. (AP Photo/Matt York)
Title IX: Ann Meyers Drysdale shares how law shaped her life

By Ann Meyers Drysdale Jun. 20, 2022 02:43 AM EDT

Penny Taylor speaks during the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Knoxville, Tenn., Saturday, June 11, 2022. (Jamar Coach/Knoxville News Sentinel via AP)
Taylor calls for Griner's release at Hall of Fame induction

By Teresa M. Walker Jun. 11, 2022 08:02 PM EDT

University of Pennsylvania transgender athlete Lia Thomas competes in the 500-yard freestyle finals at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships, Thursday, March 17, 2022, at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
Column: Lia Thomas sparks all sorts of conflicting thoughts

By Paul Newberry Mar. 18, 2022 04:34 PM EDT

AD group makes recommendations to augment Olympic pipeline

By Eddie Pells Oct. 13, 2021 05:27 PM EDT
DENVER (AP) — Olympic sports organizations will look into co-hosting championship events with the NCAA as a way of preventing the U.S. gold-medal pipeline from...

Sunisa Lee competes on the beam during the women's U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Trials Sunday, June 27, 2021, in St. Louis. For decades, high-profile college-bound Olympians were forced to make a choice: turn pro to cash in on their notoriety or remain an amateur to go to school. That's no longer an issue for athletes like gymnasts Sunisa Lee and Jordan Chiles after legislation cleared the way for them to profit off their Name, Image and Likeness. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Golden opportunity: College-bound Olympians look to cash in

By Will Graves Jul. 02, 2021 04:01 PM EDT

FILE - John Roethlisberger, of Falcon Heights, Minn., hugs his dad Fred after his final event in the men's 2000 U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Trials in Boston, in this Saturday, Aug. 19, 2000, file photo. Roethlisberger was chosen for the U.S. Olympic team. The cutback in NCAA athletic programs due to the COVID-19 pandemic is being felt acutely in men's gymnastics. For decades Division I programs have produced an overwhelming majority of the US Olympic team. The number of Division I programs, however, is shrinking. The University of Minnesota and the University of Iowa will stop offering it as a scholarship sport at the end of the month. That will drop the number of Division I schools to 11. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)
Olympic Gold: Men's gymnastics struggling to survive

By Will Graves Apr. 09, 2021 12:04 PM EDT

This undated photo provided by Kameron Jones shows Kameron Jones at an American Track League athletics event in Fayetteville, Ark. Kameron Jones' lasting mark on the Clemson track program may not have anything to do with the times he turns in or the medals he brings home. Jones has a gold-medal mindset when it comes to saving the men’s track and field program — along with cross country — from being cut by the school for budgetary reasons. (Kameron Jones via AP)
Olympic gold: Clemson men's track tries to save its program

By Pat Graham Apr. 07, 2021 02:26 PM EDT

Graphic looks at the college sports that have been cut by school due to the pandemic; 2c x 5 inches
Olympic gold: Colleges, Team USA search for new ways to win

By Eddie Pells Apr. 06, 2021 12:47 PM EDT

Paralympian Melissa Stockwell named to Olympic panel

Dec. 29, 2020 07:15 PM EST
WASHINGTON (AP) — Paralympian Melissa Stockwell and University of Oregon athletic director Rob Mullens are among the picks for a Congressional committee tasked...

Buffalo Bills Head Coach Sean McDermott runs practice form the middle of the field with a mask on during the second day of training camp opened to the media at ADPRO Sports Training Center's outdoor field in Orchard Park, N.Y., Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020. P (James P. McCoy/Buffalo News via AP, Pool)
The Latest: 7 on Kansas State football team test positive

By The Associated Press Aug. 28, 2020 07:29 AM EDT

FILE - In this July 23, 1996, file photo, members of the United States women's gymnastics team wave to the crowd after being awarded their gold medals in the team competition at the Centennial Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta. From left are Amanda Borden, Dominique Dawes, Amy Chow, Jaycie Phelps, Dominique Moceanu, Kerri Strug, and Shannon MIller. (AP Photo/John Gaps III, File)
Summer of Women: Females stole the show at 1996 Olympics

By Paul Newberry Aug. 13, 2020 03:48 PM EDT

FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2019, file photo, Hockey Hall of Fame inductees, from left, Sergei Zubov, Hayley Wickenheiser, Jim Rutherford, Vaclav Nedomansky and Guy Carbonneau flip pucks in the air during a ceremony in Toronto. The Hockey Hall of Fame has postponed its 2020 induction because of the pandemic. The ceremony was to have taken place Nov. 16 in Toronto. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP, File)
The Latest: Asian Beach Games postponed

By The Associated Press Aug. 10, 2020 09:24 PM EDT

Senate passes bill to drastically overhaul USOPC

Aug. 04, 2020 05:21 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bill that would give Congress the power to dissolve the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee's board of directors and would more than...

FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2018 file photo, Larry Nassar, former sports doctor who admitted molesting some of the nation's top gymnasts, appears in Eaton County Court in Charlotte, Mich. The sentencing Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020, of former Michigan State University head gymnastics coach Kathie Klages to 90 days in jail for lying to police during an investigation into ex-Olympic and university doctor Larry Nassar is the latest development from the sexual assault scandal that has rocked the school.  (Matthew Dae Smith/Lansing State Journal via AP, File)
How the Larry Nassar scandal has affected others

By The Associated Press Aug. 04, 2020 01:12 PM EDT

Flanked by her attorneys Mary Chartier, left, and Takura Nyamfukudza, former Michigan State gymnastics coach Kathie Klages is sentenced in Judge Joyce Draganchuk's courtroom Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020, in Lansing, Mich. Klages was found guilty of two counts of lying to police related to an interview about her knowledge of Larry Nassar's abuse in 1997. Draganchuk sentenced her to 90 days in jail with credit for one day served. (Matthew Dae Smith/Lansing State Journal via AP)
Judge sentences ex-MSU coach to jail in Nassar-related case

By Anna Liz Nichols Aug. 03, 2020 11:50 PM EDT

FILE- In a Feb. 14, 2020 file photo, former Michigan State gymnastics coach Kathie Klages testifies in Lansing, Mich., during her trial where she faced two counts of lying to police. A jury found Klages guilty of lying to police when she denied that two teen athletes told her of sexual abuse by sports doctor Larry Nassar in 1997, nearly 20 years before he was charged. Klages is due to be sentenced on Wednesday, July 15, 2020. (Matthew Dae Smith/Lansing State Journal via AP_File)
Former coach's sentencing delayed in Nassar-related case

By Anna Liz Nichols Jul. 15, 2020 07:53 AM EDT

Head football coach Bob Wager, right, and sophomore safety Cameron Conley greet each other at the re-opening of strength and conditioning camp at Arlington Martin High School, Thursday, June 18, 2020, in in Arlington, Texas. While states have been easing the economic and social lockdowns prompted by the coronavirus pandemic, some are now letting high school athletes return for summer workouts before teachers have even figured out how they are going to hold classroom instruction. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
The Latest: American sailor Caleb Paine ends Olympic bid

By The Associated Press Jun. 22, 2020 07:50 PM EDT