Jackie Joyner-Kersee is a veteran American track and field star. She is widely regarded as one of the greatest female athletes of all time. Joyner-Kersee won six Olympic medals across four Olympic ...

Jennifer King was invited to the Yakima Valley during Black History Month to speak about her legacy as the first Black woman ...

If she was going to make a U.S. Olympic team, it would surely be in the heptathlon, the seven-event discipline of track and ...

It’s way past time for the city to have its very own shrine to its sports heroes, and the Los Angeles Sports Council announced one this week with a target date of 2027.

Monica Seles never won another Grand Slam title. A new generation arrived and supplanted her, led by Martina Hingis, Davenport and two sisters from Compton, Calif. named Venus and Serena Williams.

An NBC Olympic and Paralympic podcast. Join us for insider coverage during the intense competition at the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games. In the run-up to the Opening Ceremony, we’ll bring ...

For a group of students from the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Center in East St. Louis, a simple school bus ride turned into a journey of a lifetime: a chance to see the best athletes in the world compete in ...

Amber Glenn and Alysa Liu battled for the women's singles title at the 2026 U.S. figure skating championships, and Glenn made ...

Serena Williams has not played professional tennis since losing to Ajla Tomljanovic in the 2022 US Open third round; Watch ...

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