LANE ONE: How the U.S. failure at the 2019 FIBA World Cup could be...
There wasn’t a lot of attention given to the U.S. team in advance of the 2019 FIBA World Cup in China. It was a...
LANE ONE: No matter what the IOC does, the heat is still on, now...
There are a lot of folks who despise the International Olympic Committee, as many or more who really need its support – and money...
LANE ONE: New high school participation numbers show first overall decline in 30 years
It finally happened.
The U.S. National Federation of State High School Associations published its annual participation numbers for American high school sports for the 2018-19...
LANE ONE: Iranian hatred of Israel sends its own World Champion fleeing to Germany
If this story was offered as a movie concept, it would be rejected as too wild, too fanciful to be believed. But truth is...
LANE ONE: Which of the three team nominees for the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic...
You still have time for vote for the Class of 2019 for the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Hall of Fame – click here –...
LANE ONE: World Champion asks “Why does a popular Olympic sport struggle?”
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has an online feature called “Player’s Own Voice” and Melissa Humana-Paredes was the guest columnist last Wednesday (21st) with...
LANE ONE: You can vote on the next class for the U.S. Olympic Hall...
The concept of a U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame got going pretty late, conceived in 1979 and only admitting its first class in 1983....
LANE ONE: If you think track & field could once again be a high-profile...
People who care deeply about track & field in the United States decry the low profile the sport has today. The symptoms are obvious:...
LANE ONE: USOPC tries self-vaccination to ward off possible Congressional surgery over governance
Over the last 150 years, medical science has created solutions for many diseases which have plagued people for centuries. We often take these miracles...
LANE ONE: U.S. survey says most kids quit sports by age 11, but is...
A breathless story posted last Friday on the Web site of station 41 KSHB in Kansas City announced:
“Study shows more young athletes calling it...
THE BIG PICTURE: Seven more Russian weightlifters suspended for suspected doping by IWF
The International Weightlifting Federation announced its second batch of provisional suspensions this week of Russian weightlifters who competed between 2006 and 2017, for violations...
LANE ONE: With a possible 2032 bid ahead, Australia’s Queensland region is now having...
The tumult over bids for the Olympic and Olympic Winter Games should have subsided after the selection of Milan-Cortina to host the 2018 Olympic...
THE BIG PICTURE: Five Russian weightlifters charged with doping violations
The treasure trove of laboratory data and doping specimens retrieved from the Moscow Laboratory by the World Anti-Doping Agency earlier this year appears to...
LANE ONE: What did we learn from the Pan American Games in Lima? It’s...
Make no mistake: the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima was a success.
The venues all worked, the competitions rolled on without too many problems,...
LANE ONE: Lima has done well, but what is the future of the Pan...
If you have been watching the XVIII Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, you have seen some compelling competition and some amazing stories, the...
LANE ONE: Did you see where Germany drew 178,000 for ten national championships on...
Whenever it seems certain that Olympic sport is essentially dead and that most of these sports are on their way back to recreational status...
LANE ONE: Anti-Olympic activists appear to be getting their strategy from … Prof. Quincy...
In one of the most riotous comedies of all time and a world-class spoof of American college life, Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff addressed the...
LANE ONE: U.S. men’s soccer players want their “fair share” of revenues; how much...
The lowest point in the last 30 years for the U.S. men’s soccer team came on 10 October 2017, when Trinidad & Tobago defeated...
HEARD AFTER HALFTIME: Gyarfas charged in 1998 murder plot; worries about IAAF Council candidates...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
● Aquatics ● Back in May, we asked why the international federation responsible...
THE BIG PICTURE: Swiss Court says Semenya’s appeal appears “not well founded”
The Swiss Federal Tribunal issued a statement detailing its order of 30 July, reinstating the IAAF regulations on women with “differences in sex development.”
While...
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