Germany's Stefan Schumacher surged to the overall lead in the Tour de France on Tuesday by winning the first individual time trial of the three-week race. ...more

July 9, 2008

Your move, Yanks. For the fourth straight season, the Bronx Bombers will head into the All-Star break looking up at the AL East leaders. ...more

July 7, 2008

OREGON - Sprinter Tyson Gay has a mild strain in a muscle in the back of his leg and he has been told to restrict himself to light physical activity for the next two weeks. ...more

July 6, 2008

Michael Phelps will get another shot at Mark Spitz's Olympic record in Beijing. ...more

July 6, 2008

EUGENE, Ore. -- John Capel credits his 8-year-old daughter, Janya, with keeping him honest. After Capel, who served a two-year suspension from track for smoking marijuana, ran his opening-round 200-meter race Friday in the US Olympic Track and Field Trials, he said his daughter keeps on him about staying out of trouble. ...more

July 5, 2008

Calvin Smith, the dad, spoke to Calvin Smith, the son, on the phone Wednesday. It was the eve of the most important race of young Calvin's career, tonight's 400-meter final at the United States Olympic Track and Field Trials at historic Hayward Field. ...more

July 3, 2008

Coming off the final turn in Monday's 400-meter dash semifinal, Tampa's Calvin Smith II realized he was sitting in fifth place, out of the money if he wanted to run in Thursday's Olympic Track and Field Trials final. ...more

July 1, 2008

Four years ago, Rose Richmond was a U.S. Olympic track and field trials rookie with little or no expectations of reaching the Athens Games in the women's long jump. ...more

June 30, 2008

With one brilliant burst, Marshevet Hooker put her name alongside those of Florence Griffith-Joyner, Marion Jones and Evelyn Ashford. ...more

June 28, 2008

SEBRING –– Championships have become a habit for Sebring's Chuck Detore. As member of the Florida Storm, Detore won his sixth International Senior Softball Association (ISSA) world championship in seven years recently and is going for yet another world championship later this summer. "It's really good to get a chance to play with and against the best players in the country," Detore said. "The competition is what we're all out there for. We want to play against the best. "To win, you have to compete against teams from all over the country. The tournaments are really intense and we don't hold anything back. We're all there for one thing in mind and that's to win." The Storm were the tops out of 40 teams at the championships and they recently won another world qualifier in the Amateur Softball Association (ASA). They'll compete for the world championship in the 55-over division in Burlington, NC beginning Aug. 29. ...more

June 23, 2008