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Simone Biles leads U.S. Olympic gymnastics trialsSimone Biles landed a Yurchenko double pike vault on Friday and leaped to first place in the all-around standings after the opening day of women's action at the U.S. Olympic gymnastics trials in Minneapolis.,However, the overall health of the U.S. women's gymnastics roster became the bigger story on...

Frederick Richard on top at U.S. Olympic gymnastics trialsRising University of Michigan junior Frederick Richard holds the all-around lead after the opening night of the U.S. Olympic gymnastics trials on Thursday in Minneapolis.,Richard, the reigning world championship all-around bronze medalist, posted the day's best scores on the floor exercise and high ...

AEW's Sting sendoff was perfect in so many waysDarby Allin crashed some 20 feet through a plate of glass onto the floor, spent a good five to 10 minutes having ringside medical staff picking shards out of his back, leaving Sting to perform his last-ever comeback and win, and it might have only been the third or fourth best match on the card for ...

Looks like the new 'Steroid Olympics' are actually going to happen

There’s good news for steroid fans: juicers will finally get their day on the field. A who’s who of extremely online investors pitched in to fund a series of events called the Enhanced Games, which describes itself as “the 21st Century Olympics without drug testing.” The list includes Christian Ange...

Novak Djokovic was the boulder, Taylor Fritz was Sisyphus

It has to be hard enough to work through the mental gymnastics it takes to take the court against Novak Djokovic, convinced you can win. That’s what professional athletes do, of course, it’s part of the job. But they’re also still human, and it gets hard to shut out the list that makes Djokovic the ...

NCAA-ESPN's new broadcast deal is great for women's sports

The NCAA and ESPN agreed to an eight-year, $115 million annual deal to broadcast 40 different championships including the women’s college basketball tournament....

Lexi Thompson’s PGA Tour debut comes with a chance at history and to pierce through golf’s sexism

In the modern history of golf, no female has made a cut on a PGA Tour event. Only Babe Didrikson Zaharias has done it ever, playing all four rounds at the 1945 Phoenix Open, and Tucson Open. And as Lexi Thompson becomes the seventh woman to play in a PGA Tour event next week, on a sponsor’s invitati...

Michigan State is pathetic for connection to Urban Meyer rumors

Despite the rumors, Urban Meyer isn’t going to be the next head football coach at Michigan State. Despite logic, let’s not act like Michigan State hasn’t turned itself into a place where many would welcome him with open arms. Drawing the line at Meyer after employing Larry Nassar and Mel Tucker isn’...