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Wildcats take lst Big Ten field hockey title

June 18, 2018 at 6:57 a.m.

The Northwestern women's field hockey team completed a string of upsets to earn their first Big Ten tournament title and a place in the NCAA tournament for the first time...

Amber Paul, shown against Xavier last month, was named the tournament's outstanding offensive player as DePaul won the Big East tournament Sunday.

DePaul women add Big East soccer tourney title

June 18, 2018 at 7:03 a.m.

The DePaul women's soccer team continued to make individual and program history Sunday. In beating Georgetown 2-0 at Jamaica, N.Y., on goals by Elise Wyatt and Amber Paul, the unbeaten,...

Play it again: Flaws repeats as Big 10 forward of year

June 17, 2018 at 4:43 a.m.

Illinois forward Jannelle Flaws is a unanimous choice as 2014 Big Ten soccer forward of the year. Flaws, from Glenbrook South, who also won the award last year, was tied...

DePaul's Alexa Ben (left) battles Xavier's Alyssa Tindal for the ball. Ben scored the game's only goal.

Schaumburg’s Ben top Big East soccer rookie

June 18, 2018 at 7:13 a.m.

DePaul freshman Alexa Ben of Schaumburg has been named the Big East's soccer rookie of the year. The 5-foot Ben and her team have both played big this fall. Ben...

Defending Chicago Marathon champion Rita Jeptoo poses for a portrait Monday, July 28, 2014, during a brief visit to Chicago after winning the "Medio Maraton de Bogota" in Colombia.

Chicago Marathon winner tests positive for doping

August 19, 2019 at 7:26 a.m.

Another multiple women's winner of the Bank of America Chicago Marathon has run afoul of doping control. Kenya's Rita Jeptoo, who won a second straight title Oct. 12, tested positive...

Freshman Alexa Ben, shown shooting against Xavier, had a goal and an assist Friday in a 3-0 win over St. John's.

DePaul women take soccer conference title

June 17, 2018 at 4:55 a.m.

In bizarre and difficult weather, Rockford's Abby Reed tied a DePaul goal scoring record as her team earned the first women's soccer conference title in the program's 19-year history with...

DePaul's Rachel Pitman heads a ball in the box while being guarded by Xavier's Meredith Gleichert.

DePaul women’s soccer putting it all together

August 19, 2019 at 7:33 a.m.

Erin Chastain could see this coming, bit by bit, since taking over a DePaul women's soccer program that had failed to win a Big East match the season before she...

Mirai Nagasu on the ice after a fall on the opening jump of her badly flawed short program at Skate America.

Nagasu finds unnerving parallel in Madame Butterfly

August 19, 2019 at 7:25 a.m.

From the moment she first appeared before national media, as the 13-year-old surprise winner of the 2007 U.S. junior figure skating title, listening to Mirai Nagasu always had been a...

Elena Radionova, 15, the Skate America winner, is one of many talented Russian women.

Russian women dominate at Skate America; Gold takes 3rd

May 22, 2019 at 7:16 a.m.

For the second straight season, the most compelling women's figure skating competition will take place in Sochi, Russia. Last season, it was the 2014 Winter Olympics. This season, it is...

(left to right) Silver medalist Jason Brown, gold medal winner Tatsuki Machida and bronze winner Nam Nguyen.

Fatigued or not, Tatsuki Machida golden at Skate America

May 22, 2019 at 7:16 a.m.

Figure skating can be an unforgiving sport. When fatigue sets in late in a long program, which lasts 41/2 minutes for men, the athletes mist push forward with jumps and...

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