For Jimmy Butler and Team USA basketball, it gets real Wednesday
The David and Goliath portion of Team USA basketball's schedule is over. Team USA faces a legitimate foe Wednesday night at the Rio Games – Australia. "They will start five...
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Every Big Ten school is represented in Rio
Rajeev Ram is a first-time Olympian with salt and pepper in his stubble and sideburns. He's 13 years past his lone season at the University of Illinois. His key to...
Call it ping pong, call it table tennis; American Lily Zhang hopes you love both
There she was, America's last hope to medal in a sport every single one of us has played, a delightful 20-year-old Californian profiled in the documentary "Top Spin." And there...
Team USA sinks Venezuela, then talks boats
Suffice to say, Team USA is a bit (sea)sick of talking about their accommodations at the Rio Games – a 196-cabin cruise ship they're sharing with the U.S. women's basketball...
When it comes to safety of Rio Games, media hysteria was the real crime
I'm generally not one to rip the media — that would be like A-Rod slamming narcissists — but did we ever blow it in the run-up to the Rio Games....
After wild night in Olympic tennis, here’s the question: Is more to come?
The embrace at the net lasted forever, but only the winner cried. Novak Djokovic's tears would come later as he praised the man who defeated him, Juan Martin del Potro....
Enjoy baseball at Wrigley Field? Then you’ll dig volleyball at Copacabana
Outside the beach volleyball venue Saturday, Brazilians and tourists danced on the boardwalk, munched on grilled shrimp, scanned racks of cheap jewelry and played futvolei — soccer on a volleyball...
With backdrop of worry, Rio opens Games with party of joy, hope, warning
People can question the cleanliness of Rio's waterways, its infrastructure, its commitment to help the poor and the danger of its mosquito population. No one will ever deny Rio de...
For an Olympics outsider, optimism reigns in Rio
I've never considered myself an Olympics guy. Sure, I'm human and American, so I could get choked up watching an NBC feature about a rhythmic gymnast from Hardscrabble, Texas, who...
Jimmy Butler: ‘Thibs is still Thibs and will always be Thibs’
If you've heard that the U.S. men's Olympic basketball team is staying on a giant, luxury cruise ship and picture a party scene from HBO's "Ballers," Jimmy Butler says you'd...