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On the surface, Bill Cowher looked like he wasn't ready to be an NFL head coach. Too young. Too anonymous. Too unproven. So while the then-34-year-old Cowher might have been on the list to replace Chuck Noll following Noll's retirement after the 1991 season, thanks to the enthusiastic endorsement of mentor Marty Schottenheimer, he wasn't [...]
SAITAMA, Japan — Time would solve many problems for the U.S. men's basketball team right now. A few practices to develop chemistry and figure out exactly how these roster pieces fit together would do wonders. It's not happening. There is no time. Or, more accurately, this is the time. The U.S. men have two games [...]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Devin Leary can only imagine what it's like being a high school recruit in the era of college athletes finally being able to profit from their fame. North Carolina State's fourth-year quarterback figures there will be plenty of questions about how to cash in. "As a recruit now," Leary said, "I [...]
GATES MILLS — Baker Mayfield is letting everyone else stress over his contract situation and future with the Browns. He's got other priorities. "I'm about winning," Mayfield said last week while hosting more than 300 youngsters at his football camp. "And I think everything will play itself out. I'm not worried about it at all [...]
Sam Mikulak felt frantic. The American gymnast had his training disrupted by COVID-19, and the Tokyo Olympics were postponed until 2021. That unease stayed with Mikulak for a while, and it led him to confront all the ways the perfectionism of gymnastics had affected the rest of his life. "I've had to like change my [...]
Michael Phelps reached for his mother's hand through a chain-link fence near the pool. The 19-year-old swimmer had just won his first Olympic medal — gold, of course — at the 2004 Athens Games, and he wanted to share it with the woman who raised him on her own. That kind of moment between loved [...]
For a man tabbed as swimming's next superstar, Caeleb Dressel couldn't be more disinterested. Of course, he cares about being fast in the pool. He just isn't into anyone else's expectations or comparisons. Fame isn't his thing, either. "I'd rather just shut up and swim," the 24-year-old Floridian said. Dressel could win as many as [...]
Kobe Bryant, a few months before he died, made an appearance at the Basketball World Cup in China and was asked about the future of USA Basketball. His message was clear: Gold medals will no longer come easily. "It's not a matter of the rest of the world catching up to the U.S.," Bryant said. [...]
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Surfing has a lot riding on its Olympic debut: a taste of the mainstream spotlight, athletic legitimacy for the uniquely four-dimensional sport, and, perhaps, some newfound respect so it can finally shake the stereotype as merely the pleasure pursuit of beach town himbos. Acceptance has been a century in the making. [...]
Michael Phelps loomed over the pool at the past four Summer Olympics, a figure so transcendent it was hard for anyone else to get their proper due. He's retired now, leaving a giant void in his wake. Not to worry. Even without Phelps, plenty of star power will be on display at the $515 million, [...]