PALM DESERT, July 19, 2017 – The silly Michael Phelps vs. a Great White Shark show coming Sunday is designed to be fun and entertaining. But man vs. beast was no joke for another Olympic […]
PALM DESERT, July 17, 2017 – The International Olympic Committee made a decisive move for the future with its decision to select host cities for both the 2024 and 2028 Olympic Games. Now the International […]
PALM DESERT, July 14, 2017 – The International Olympic Committee gives away 90% of all of its revenue to support the Olympic Movement. Is this, to paraphrase 19th Century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, “lies, […]
PALM DESERT, June 30, 2017 – One of the issues most prominent in Hungarian swim star Katinka Hosszu’s screed against FINA, the aquatics governing body, is that unless you’re one of the top five athletes […]
PALM DESERT, June 12, 2017 – The International Olympic Committee’s Executive Board reshaped significant aspects of the Olympic Games on Friday by changing events, adding and subtracting athletes from sports and even suggesting that one […]
PALM DESERT, June 9, 2017 – Ask anyone in the Olympic Movement about the reason they’re involved and chances are you’ll hear “the athletes.” No doubt about it, athletes are important. But fans – in […]
PALM DESERT, May 15, 2017 – The European Athletics Council approved a plan to radically revise its record lists, simply throwing away decades of history and throwing drug-free athletes in the same dumpster with some […]
PALM DESERT, May 12, 2017 – The NCAA is a college sports behemoth, collecting nearly a billion dollars a year in revenue, mostly from television rights to its men’s Division I basketball tournament. But what […]
PALM DESERT, Apr. 10, 2017 – Remember Glenn Morris? He was the 1936 Olympic decathlon champion and set a world record of 7,900 in the Games in Berlin. He was the Sullivan Award winner for […]
PALM DESERT, Apr. 7, 2017 – The World Anti-Doping Agency released its 2015 report on the number of tests and doping violations. There are 61 pages of tables and statistics, but nowhere does it say […]
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