Police say Dolphins receiver Chad Johnson has been arrested on a domestic violence charge, accused of head-butting his newlywed wife during an argument in front of their home in Davie, Fla. Davie police Capt. Dale Engle says Johnson and his wife were at dinner Saturday night and she confronted him about a receipt she had […]
The U.S. women’s soccer team won its third straight Olympic gold medal Thursday, beating Japan 2-1 in a rematch of last year’s World Cup final and avenging the most painful loss in its history. Carli Lloyd scored early in both halves, Solo leaped and dived to make saves, and the entire roster found the redemption […]
Allyson Felix won the women’s 200 meters at the London Games in 21,88 seconds, adding a gold medal to her previous two Olympic silver medals and highlighting a medal haul for the United States in track and field on Wednesday night. In four events at the Olympic Stadium, the U.S. came away with three gold […]
Amid the chaos at the bottom of a mound of joy that formed after Alex Morgan’s goal in the 123rd minute gave the U.S. women’s soccer team an epic 4-3 Olympic semifinal victory Monday night over Canada at Old Trafford, Abby Wambach found clarity. “I told her in the dog pile after the match: ‘I […]
Jessica Ennis won the heptathlon in the Olympic Stadium on Saturday night, but this was more than a welcome first gold medal around the neck of a British track and field athlete. It was a dazzling performance by the 26 year-old from Sheffield, a show-stopper more than worthy of all the attention showered on the […]
Ledecky began swimming at age 5, joining what was the Palisades Summer League a year later. By the time she was in the third or fourth grade, she said, she drifted away from other sports to concentrate on the pool, and soon was qualifying for sectional championships. Last summer, as the U.S. senior national team […]
Team USA’s 2012 Olympics women’s gymnastics squad is superior to Nastia Liukin’s crew in every way. Back in 2008, Liukin, Shawn Johnson and company racked up the medals for the U.S. They won silver as a team. And Liukin won four individual medals including all-around gold. While her success in Beijing was impressive, Gabby Douglas […]
This was not what the Americans expected. Oh sure, being atop the standings by a comfortable margin after their qualifying session in women’s gymnastics, that went according to plan. But world champion Jordyn Wieber (a heavy favorite to add the Olympic gold) won’t even get to contend for the all-around title after finishing behind teammates […]
John Orozco (the teenager from the Bronx) helped lead the U.S. gymnastics team to the top of the rankings in a qualification round. It was an impressive afternoon for the men, as Orozco and Danell Leyva also became two of four Americans to advance to the individual event finals. The U.S. posted a team total […]
Michael Phelps qualified eighth-fastest in the 400-meter individual medley preliminaries on Saturday, grabbing the last spot in the evening final. The two-time defending Olympic champion won his heat in 4 minutes and 13.33 seconds with a time that was well off his world record of 4:03.84 set four years ago in Beijing – when Phelps […]