Michael Phelps suspended six months, will miss 2015 worlds
USA Swimming announced Monday it has suspended Michael Phelps for six months, and he has withdrawn by mutual agreement with the federation from the U.S. team for the 2015 World...
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IOC: Bid city requests are suggestions, not demands
International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams said in a Monday email there were "misleading claims" in a chicagotribune.com story referring to the reasons why Norway last week rejected the Oslo...
Michael Phelps to enter treatment program
Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps is taking time away from swimming to enter a six-week, in-patient treatment program following his arrest last Tuesday on a drunken driving charge for the...
Michigan hockey star Compher willing to risk body
There will be a lot of breath held when JT Compher goes to his next U.S. national junior hockey team camp. Especially every time the Michigan sophomore center from Northbrook...
Excess, not just cost, turned off Norway to 2022 Olympics
Selling Norway on another Winter Olympics should have been a no-brainer. No country is more passionate about and successful in winter sports. No country has them more completely woven into...
Phelps case puts USA Swimming in no-win position
USA Swimming finds itself in a no-win situation as it discusses what penalty to levy against Michael Phelps after his second drunk driving arrest. While the federation undoubtedly will wait...
2022 Olympic site choices now bad and worse
The U.S. Olympic Committee could kick itself over not having submitted a bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics. It might look like a slam dunk now. After Norway nixed the...
Phelps’ second DUI arrest should draw harsher penalty
The last time he was arrested for drunk driving, Michael Phelps was 19, a newly-minted multiple Olympic gold medalist and millionaire suddenly living in the fast lane. Immaturity never can...
Synchro figure skating, mass start speed race proposed for 2018 Olympics
Synchronized skating, a figure skating discipline, and a mass start speed skating event open to both long track and short track athletes could be on the program for the 2018...
Jason Brown takes first senior title
Despite being penalized for four under-rotated jumps in the free skate, Jason Brown of Highland Park won his first senior-level international competition Friday, the Nebelhorn Trophy in Germany. Brown, a...