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By mid-afternoon on August 1, 2017, the temperature in Stockton, Calif. was at least 105 degrees. Thirteen-year-old Jayden Galbert complained to his mother, Shynelle Jones, about the heat, but didn’t want to skip preseason football practice and hurt his chances of making the freshman football team. Instead, he showed up, pushed himself to participate, and […]
Team USA scored the prized gold medal in Olympic curling when the men’s team, led by skip John Shuster, defeated Sweden on Saturday. But it just so happens that The Simpsons predicted that exact outcome eight years ago. It turns out that an episode aired eight years ago was also spot on with Team USA’s […]
(Bloomberg) — NBA superstar Steph Curry and a young fan from California have pushed Under Armour to include girls in the marketing and sales of the basketball star’s signature shoe. Until recently, Under Armour’s website listed the Curry 5 as an option in the menus for men, women and boys. Though the shoe’s sizes are […]
Alizé Cornet was penalized at the U.S. Open for quickly removing her shirt and putting it back on, a move from the Open that critics are calling sexist. The chair umpire Christian Rask hit French player Cornet, who is ranked No. 31 in the world, with the code violation, effectively a warning in the sport, […]
With just one day to go until England battles Croatia for a spot in the 2018 World Cup final, the English team is trying out an interesting new training method. Ahead of Tuesday’s semi-final match between France and Belgium, the English squad—including Golden boot frontrunner Harry Kane—was spotted tossing around a rubber chicken in preparation […]
Jamaica didn’t make it to the podium on Wednesday at the 2018 Winter Olympics, but that hasn’t stopped the internet from cheering for the squad nonetheless. Jamaica is known for many things—sun, sand, blue water. Snow is not one of them. But Jamaica still sends bobsled teams to the Winter Olympics. Thirty years after the […]
IDEAS Ahmed is a writer, public speaker and sports activist focusing on Muslim women in sports, and the intersections of racism and misogyny in sport. She is part of a team of five women who created the feminist sports podcast, Burn It All Down. Cristiano Ronaldo is Portugal’s most famous soccer player and arguably the most famous […]
Click:butane gas barbecue gun A record-setting 1,218 Intel drones came together to form the five Olympic rings in the sky at the 2018 Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang Friday, wowing viewers around the world. But while the opening ceremony drone display was certainly impressive, a significant aspect of the Olympic rings specifically was lost in […]
The fifth time was the charm for Aljona Savchenko, a Ukrainian who has skated in five Olympic Games for two different countries and with three different partners. In PyeongChang, she finally realized her Olympic dream of winning gold. Together with partner Bruno Massot, Savchenko, who skates for Germany, was in fourth place after the short […]
When Misty Copeland first joined the American Ballet Theater, one of the most prestigious dance companies in the world, at age 17, she couldn’t help but feel like an outsider. “We don’t know in history that black women, from the beginning of time in ballet, have been told to lighten their skin, and to shade […]