Olympics
Sue Bird and Larry Bird are two of the greatest basketball players to ever step on a court, but are they related? The answer is no. Although, Sue has been answering that question since she was five years old. Sue Bird will soon be related to marriage, though, to Megan Rapinoe.
French distance runner Morhad Amdouni intentionally knocked over a row of water bottles intended for other men's marathoners in an unsportsmanlike moment at the Tokyo Olympics.
U.S. Olympic legend Carl Lewis has had enough of watching American men's 4×100-meter relay team drop the baton, literally and figuratively. Although Allyson Felix now has more Olympic medals than Lewis, he is still an icon and used that status to absolutely crush the men’s relay team on Twitter.
Vince Carter's dunk over France’s Frédéric Weis in the 2000 Olympics is iconic, but he didn't immediately understand exactly what he did. The future Hall of Famer saw the dunk on Gary Payton’s friend’s camcorder after the game and then fully realized that he just jumped over a 7-foot-2 man.
Dallas Cowboys QB Dak Prescott has been open about his mental health issues and is one person who can relate to Simone Biles. The NFL player and the gymnast are among a growing number of world-class athletes being more open about mental health issues and how they affect them on and off the field.
Simone Biles' eventful Olympics didn't get any better this week.
C.T. Pan won nearly five times more money for winning a bronze medal in the men's golf competition at the Tokyo Olympics than Xander Schauffele did for winning the gold.
Team USA players felt robbed over the conclusion of the gold-medal game at the 1972 Olympics and did not show up for the medal ceremony. They have steadfastly refused the silver medal since.
The two mid-summer Sundays without racing because of NBC coverage of the Olympics , demonstrate how NASCAR has surprisingly little control of its own schedule.
Gabby Thomas won the Women's 200m bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics but with her resume, that is just one more impressive accomplishment. She is also a Harvard-educated neurobiologist and working on her master’s degree in public health and epidemiology. This is all just par for the course from an incredibly impressive young woman.
