Bella Sims has learned to manage not only her time at the University of Florida, but the immense expectations placed on her by the U.S. swimming community.
Olympics
The Raiders have several international players on their roster, which made for some lively debate about the announcement that NFL players could compete at the 2028 Olympics.
Retton was 16 years old when she became an icon of the U.S. Olympic movement during her gold medal-winning performance at the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles.
Orleans Arena has hosted major curling events for a decade, but now a nonprofit plans to renovate a south Las Vegas building and use it to grow the Olympic sport.
A Las Vegas swimmer was the youngest member of the U.S. team at the 2020 Olympics at 15 years old. Now, she’s headed to the Paris Olympics in 2024.
Kevin Durant scored 24 points and Andre Iguodala added 18 as Team USA cruised to a 113-59 victory over the Dominican Republic at the Thomas & Mack Center.
A fuming U.S. Sen. Harry Reid said Thursday that made-in-China uniforms for America’s Olympic team should be destroyed and not worn to opening ceremonies in London later this month.
Good luck convincing U.S. Olympic men’s basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski that tonight’s game against the Dominican Republic at the Thomas & Mack Center is a meaningless exhibition. Krzyzewski has a lot of issues to deal with and some hard decisions to make before the Americans face France in their first preliminary-round game in London.
It was called “Blood in the Water,” the most famous water polo match of all-time. Hungary vs. the USSR, on Dec. 6, 1956, at the Melbourne Olympics. A month earlier, Soviet tanks had squelched Hungary’s rebellion. A less violent water polo match played in Las Vegas on Tuesday featured the U.S. women’s team, which will be playing in the Summer Games in London, and cast members of the Cirque du Soleil show “O.”
Ten-year-old Ferious Nieves was among 100 children of Nellis airmen who participated in the USA Basketball Hoops for Troops clinic at the base’s 3-month-old Warrior Fitness Center. “It was fun,” said Nieves, the son of Tech. Sgt. Jason Nieves. Legendary NBA coach Lenny Wilkens said the program “shows young people we have a lot of interest in them.”
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The Raiders have several international players on their roster, which made for some lively debate about the announcement that NFL players could compete at the 2028 Olympics.
Orleans Arena has hosted major curling events for a decade, but now a nonprofit plans to renovate a south Las Vegas building and use it to grow the Olympic sport.
Former UNLV sprinter Kaysha Love will compete for the U.S. bobsled team next month in the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing.
Goaltender Robin Lehner said Sunday he won’t play for Team Sweden at the upcoming 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
