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Getty Images The images of Italian boxer Angela Carini after she quit less than one minute into her Olympic match with Algeria’s Imane Khelif created an internet firestorm. The situation was fueled by allegations that Khelif was a biological male being allowed to compete against females on the sport’s biggest amateur stage. Those allegations track […]

The United States men’s basketball team, with another star-studded veteran roster, is chasing a fifth gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The Americans have won their first two games in Group C and will meet Puerto Rico on Saturday at 11:15 a.m. ET to wrap up group play. Regardless of that result, Team USA […]

July is an eventful month on Major League Baseball’s calendar for a few reasons. Foremost, it features the All-Star Game and the official line of demarcation between the first and second halves. But, for a certain type of fan, the greater significance of July is that it contains both the amateur draft and the trade […]

USATSI It’s essentially a flip of a coin whether or not you’ll see some of your favorite players compete in the preseason. Nowadays, NFL teams often take a more conservative approach when it comes to their star players, opting to keep them sidelined for the majority — if not the entirety — of the preseason […]

Brazil’s Bruno Caboclo dominated Japan in a 102-84 victory at the 2024 Paris Olympics on Friday. Ten years after he was drafted, the 28-year-old big man went off for 33 points on 13-for-19 shooting, 17 rebounds and a block in 30 minutes. Caboclo made all four of his 3-point attempts and nine of his rebounds were […]

Welcome to the weekend! There is more Olympic soccer coming your way this weekend, starting with the U.S. men against Morocco in Paris on Friday before the USWNT follow their compatriots at Parc des Princes on Saturday against Japan. Jonathan Johnson here — the hunt for gold medals in France does not stop and neither […]

Team USA fell to 0-4 in men’s basketball pool play at the 2024 Paris Olympics with a 20-18 loss to Lithuania followed by a 21-19 loss to Latvia on Thursday. It certainly hasn’t been the showing the Americans were looking for in their first Olympic competition. The team’s biggest-name player by far is Jimmer Fredette. The […]

Mike Trout is done for the year…again. Angels GM Perry Minasian announced Thursday that the slugger has suffered a meniscus tear and will be shut down for the rest of the season. That means Trout will finish his 2024 campaign having logged just 29 games. In that time, he posted .220/.325/.541 slashline with 10 home runs […]

One way to look at Team USA’s lineup changes: Other teams at the 2024 Olympics only wish they had to choose which All-NBA player to sit before every game. Steve Kerr and his coaching staff chose not to play Joel Embiid in the United States’ 103-86 win against South Sudan on Wednesday, three days after […]

USATSI The Chicago Bears played their first game of the 2024 preseason Thursday. And they hope to be playing all their home games in a brand-new stadium within the next four years, president Kevin Warren confirmed to ESPN during a Thursday night interview, saying the goal is to be “moving dirt” in construction in 2025. […]