Jessica Berg paces the length of the wrestling mat as she prepares for her next bout. The key to her game is aggression: As a freshman, she has to beat older wrestlers by controlling the match. To get into that mind frame, Berg cues up music while she stares down her opponent. First up on her ...
MILAN — An all-time great comeback and a controversial exclusion are dominating the Milan Cortina Olympics on Day 6. And then there's Chloe Kim, the American snowboarder who fell just short in her bid to become the first to win three consecutive Olympic gold medals in her sport. NHL ...
MILAN — U.S. ice dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates didn't conceal their disappointment Thursday at the bittersweet Olympic silver medal for what Bates called their "absolute best performance," while Chock said the confusion over the result "does a disservice to our sport." During ...
Caleb Wilson has powered No. 11 North Carolina all year. The Tar Heels will now have to figure out how to play without their freshman star. The team said Thursday that the high-end NBA prospect had suffered a fracture in his left hand, an announcement coming two days after the 11th-ranked Tar ...
The postseason has arrived for wrestling and boys swim and dive, and local athletes helped lead their teams in key moments during league championships. Here are this week's selections for Journal-World Athletes of the Week: Anderson Bateman, Free State Free State swimmer Anderson Bateman ...
Kansas freshman guard Darryn Peterson has played in 13 of KU’s games this season, but he has missed 11 and been limited in the second halves of plenty more, for a host of different reasons. “He’s got a string of bad luck,” head coach Bill Self said. From his early-season hamstring ...
