Author: Christine Brennan, USA TODAY

Katie Ledecky is the world record holder in the women’s 1,500 (the mile), which has been added to the Olympic program for the first time in Tokyo.

A’ja Wilson becomes one of the few women athletes to be immortalized with a statue with the University of South Carolina, doing the honors.

Nathan Chen has not lost a competition since finishing fifth at the 2018 Winter Olympics. He picked up his fifth consecutive national title Sunday.

Alysa Liu struggled with a growth spurt and hectic training this season, but she remains the U.S. women’s best hope for a medal at the 2022 Olympics.

U.S. Figure Skating has agreed to pay $1.45 million to settle a skater’s lawsuit accusing the organization of failing to protect athletes from abuse.

French Olympian Morgan Cipres allegedly sent two lewd photos to a 13-year-old American female figure skater, and has not been charged in Florida.

Phil Mickelson, now 50 and 10 years removed from his third and last Masters championship, is playing the role of elder statesman this week.

Alabama’s Nick Saban is the latest in college football to test positive for COVID-19, another warning sign that playing in a pandemic is dangerous.

Duke earns dubious distinction of being only Top-10 academic school to defy science, try to make a buck playing football during coronavirus pandemic.

Some are angry that Fauci is throwing out the first pitch at the Nats opener and some are unhappy with the Giants. But those aren’t true baseball fans