Pleased with 400 free, Dwyer now eyes relay
LONDON – For Conor Dwyer, the 400-meter freestyle has provided another happy surprise this season. The Loyola Academy grad had not swum the event competitively for two years before finishing...
Home > Reviews
All Stories
For these divers, they’re happy to make a big splash
LONDON — After both Kelci Bryant and Abby Johnston folded every article of clothing in their rooms, the synchronized diving tandem headed to the bus Sunday morning. En route, Johnston...
Pleased with 400 free, Dwyer now eyes relay
LONDON – For Conor Dwyer, the 400-meter freestyle has provided another happy surprise this season. The Loyola Academy grad had not swum the event competitively for two years before finishing...
Deng plays nearly every minute in Britain’s loss to Russia
LONDON — Luol Deng always knew this Olympic experience would be about more than final scores. So minutes after Great Britain opened preliminary round play at a raucous Basketball Arena...
From London to London, a basketball world apart
LONDON — Basketball-wise, there's nothing exceptional about the lone gymnasium inside the Brixton Recreation Centre. One of the six baskets — or rings as some call them here, and not...
Olympic roundup: Day 2
LONDON -- In a race in which Michael Phelps showed there is nothing wrong with his game, the U.S. men's freestyle relay team was passed in the final strokes by...
U.S. women’s gymnastics looking for 1st team gold since 1996
LONDON — The American women gymnasts giggle like the teenagers they all are as they show off their stash of Olympic pins. A "fave," says team captain Aly Raisman, is...
Lochte dominates for gold in 400 IM
LONDON -- He has posed, shirtless, for the cover of Vogue. He has worn high-top shoes with wings, decorated in red, white and blue. He has sold lime green novelty...
After winning silver, water polo pair out for gold
LONDON — As Ryan Bailey recalls it, he was an 8- or 9-year-old commencing a now decades-long affair with water polo and he would peek to the side of the...
Olympic roundup: Day 1
LONDON — You rarely ever see it, but you did on Saturday, the first full day of competition at the Olympics. But there atop the swimming medal stand, was no...