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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

CUTLINE Kyren Williams donated funds and his time to Los Angeles firefighters during the January 2025 wildfires. Williams is the Los Angeles Rams nominee for the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year ...

Three-time Olympic gold medalist Gabby Thomas has joined the Athlete Leadership Council at Athletes for Hope (AFH). AFH educates, encourages, and empowers professional, Olympic, Paralympic, college ...

Medals and titles might be one way to measure an athlete’s accomplishments, but sometimes it’s a lot more than that. Whether ...

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

ROCHESTER — In just less than a month with the Mayo High School boys swimming and diving team, Kai Joyner has broken seven pool and three team records. Until this season, the sophomore had been a ...

A record number of people have sought tickets to LA’s 2028 Olympics since the lottery opened Wednesday morning, officials said. More than 1.5 million people signed up for the chance to snag tickets to ...