2022 Beijing Olympic Games

Commuters wearing face masks walk along a street in the central business district in Beijing, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Track's world indoors in China postponed again to 2025

Sep. 01, 2022 06:55 AM EDT

USA celebrate Hayley Scamurras 0-4 goal during the IIHF World Championship Women's ice hockey match between Japan and USA in Herning, Denmark, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022. (Bo Amstrup/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

US, Canada open women's hockey worlds with wins

Aug. 25, 2022 04:03 PM EDT

Birmingham agrees to $5M bailout of World Games debt

Aug. 24, 2022 09:39 AM EDT
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — City leaders complained, yet agreed to a $5 million bailout to help The World Games 2022 reduce a roughly $15 million debt from the sporting...

Sportlight-Week Ahead, Aug. 19-25

By The Associated Press Aug. 18, 2022 10:00 AM EDT
Aug. 19 1909 — The first race is held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Twelve-thousand spectators watch Austrian engineer Louis Schwitzer win a five...

Sportlight-Week Ahead, Aug. 19-25

By The Associated Press Aug. 18, 2022 10:00 AM EDT
Aug. 23 1898 — Malcolm Whitman wins the men’s singles title in the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association championship. 1926 — Molla Bjurstedt...

Sportlight-Usain Bolt wins the 200 meters

By The Associated Press Aug. 08, 2022 10:00 AM EDT
Aug. 9 1936 — Jesse Owens becomes the first American to win four Olympic gold medals as the United States sets a world record in the 4x100 relay at the...

Sportlight-Week Ahead, Aug. 5-11

By The Associated Press Aug. 04, 2022 10:00 AM EDT
Aug. 9 1936 — Jesse Owens becomes the first American to win four Olympic gold medals as the United States sets a world record in the 4x100 relay at the...

FILE - A member of the Arab Commando group which seized members of the Israeli Olympic Team at their quarters at the Olympic Village appearing with a hood over his face stands on the balcony of the building where the commandos held members of the Israeli team hostage in Munich, Sept. 5, 1972. The German government indicated Wednesday that it is willing to pay further compensation for the families of the Israeli athletes killed in an attack at the 1972 Munich Olympics following decades-long criticism from relatives over how Germany handled the attack and its aftermath. (AP Photo/Kurt Strumpf, File)

Germany offers money to families of Olympic attack victims

By Kirsten Grieshaber And Ilan Ben Zion Jul. 27, 2022 07:25 AM EDT

US women's hockey forward Dani Cameranesi, 27, retires

Jul. 20, 2022 05:14 PM EDT
COLORADO Springs, Colo. (AP) — U.S. women’s hockey forward Dani Cameranesi announced her retirement from the national team Wednesday. Cameranesi, 27,...

Malik Tillman loaned to Glasgow Rangers from Bayern Munich

By The Associated Press Jul. 15, 2022 08:56 PM EDT
Defender Malik Tillman was loaned to Scotland's Glasgow Rangers from Bayern Munich for the 2022-23 season. Rangers says the agreement with Bayern...

Jim Thorpe wins the decathlon at the Stockholm Olympics

By The Associated Press Jul. 14, 2022 10:00 AM EDT
July 15 1912 — Jim Thorpe wins the decathlon at the Stockholm Olympics and, in the closing ceremony, Sweden’s King Gustav proclaims Thorpe the world’s...

FILE - USA's Kim Glass, left, jumps for the ball with Cuba wing spiker Rosir Calderon during a women's Volleyball match at the Olympics in Beijing on Aug. 11, 2008. A former Olympic volleyball player was attacked Friday, July 8, 2022, in downtown Los Angeles when a man threw a metal object at her face in an assault that fractured bones in her face and left one of her eyes swollen shut, the athlete said in videos posted to social media. Glass, a silver medalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, had been leaving a lunch on Friday afternoon when she saw a man run up with something in his hand. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)

Suspect charged in LA assault of Olympic volleyball player

Jul. 12, 2022 09:04 PM EDT

Olympian injured in downtown Los Angeles attack

By Stefanie Dazio Jul. 11, 2022 01:26 PM EDT

FILE - Natalie Geisenberger, of Germany, celebrates winning the gold medal in luge women's singles at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022, in the Yanqing district of Beijing. Two-time defending Olympic women's luge gold medalist Natalie Geisenberger has announced that she is expecting her second child. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

Olympic luge champ Natalie Geisenberger expecting 2nd baby

By Tim Reynolds Jul. 04, 2022 11:48 AM EDT

FILE - Barcelona's Adama Traore leaves the pitch after being substituted during a Spanish La Liga soccer match against Athletic Bilbao at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022. Traoré and Luuk de Jong are leaving Barcelona after finishing their loan deals, the club said on Saturday, July 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Joan Monfort, File)

Athletic Bilbao vs FC Barcelona 2/27/2022

Jul. 02, 2022 12:58 PM EDT

Executive director Ramsey Baker to leave US Figure Skating

Jun. 24, 2022 07:38 PM EDT
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Ramsey Baker is leaving U.S. Figure Skating at the end of the year, leaving the organization in search of an executive director after...