Bubbling Brooke proves point in golden zone
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EVERY cloud is supposed to have a silver lining. Not true. It turns out that the cloud that has hung over Australian swimmer Brooke Hanson since the Athens Olympics is lined instead with gold.
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By Ingrid Stegemoeller, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Sep.
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Olympic gold medallist Kelly Holmes said she was amazed at her path from council estate to inclusion in the Queenâs New Year Honours List.
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About an hour after his US women&#39;s basketball team had won the gold medal, coach Van Chancellor was asked to sum up the legacy of Lisa Leslie, Sheryl Swoopes and Dawn Staley.
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The losing team made the news Monday in Olympic softball&#39;s gold medal game. It scored a run. With Crystl Bustos hitting two shots that would have dented the outfield fence had
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The Newton-based Smash Volleyball's 18-and-under girls' squad won a gold medal in the recent East Coast Championships at Penn State University. In a riveting semifinal game against the Flash 18s from Centerville, Pa., the Smash rallied from a 24-15 deficit for a 28-26 victory in game one; dropped the second game, 26-24; then closed with a 15-6 victory. In the ...
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BURLINGTON -- The ball couldn't be bouncing any better for the Woburn Tanners this season.
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ATHENS, Greece - The woman who scored the gold-medal winner playfully jumped in the back row to get noticed as NBC television cameras gathered in front of the US women&#39;s soccer team after beating Brazil.
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DALLAS Clifford Robinson scored a season-high 25 points and Golden State led by as many as 17 in the second half of a 111-to-107 win at Dallas.
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ATHENS -- Her coach calls it &quot;Blythish.&quot; Blythe Hartley says it&#39;s just the way she operates. Whatever it is, it was working for the Edmonton-born diver yesterday in the preliminaries of the women&#39;s three-metre springboard event.
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NEW YORK - Judging merely by the motion Jamal Crawford was using on his jump shot, it was clear he had leapt into the realm players call âThe Zone.
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THE US has won the Olympic bronze medal in the women&#39;s water polo, holding off a spirited second-half fightback by Australia. The Americans led 4-0 at halftime, but the reigning world champion Australians
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A FAST finish in the pool at Athens has delivered Australia&#39;s best swimming medal haul since the 1956 Melbourne Games. A heroic butterfly leg from Petria Thomas in the women&#39;s medley relay yesterday snared the team&#39;s seventh and final gold medal.
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NORMAN, Okla. -- Matching a single-game school scoring record meant little to Oklahoma coach Sherri Coale. Playing crisply and neatly while doing so made her especially proud.
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - With one gold medal already, he could have packed it in. But it wouldn&#39;t have been right, not after what his teammate accomplished Saturday night.
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ATHENS -- In another era, say as far back as the pre-BALCO days, it would have been a wonderful moment. The host country's new hero, a rising star, sets an Olympic record, wins a gold medal, and lifts the emotions of an entire nation.
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Chantelle Newbery has jumped into sporting history by winning Australiaâs first Olympic diving gold medal since 1924 in the women&#39;s 10 metre platform in Athens.