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USA Boxing Foundation launches Be Like Mike campaign in nod to convicted rapist Mike Tyson

  • Boxing

The USA Boxing Foundation has launched the "Be Like Mike" campaign to help raise support for the sport

HectorColonMKE , has a special message for our campaign he wanted to share. pic.twitter.com/RdHRtwiMvn— USA

The original 'Be Like Mike' campaign ran in a 1991 Gatorade campaign celebrating basketball player Michael

USA Boxing Foundation is carrying the sentiment forward as a nod to Mike Tyson, not only because he is

Boxing Executive Director, has had for the USA Boxing Foundation, as one of the foundation's biggest

supporters," a USA Boxing spokesperson told insidethegames."


Players' union WNBPA renews call for Griner's release as she passes 100 days in detention in Russia

  • Basketball

The Women's National Basketball Players Association (WNBPA) has issued a renewed call for the release

was extended until June 18 by the Khimki City Court in Moscow earlier this month.The Women's National Basketball

investing in women's sports so athletes like BG don't have to risk their health and safety playing basketball

WeAreBG" hashtag on social media and engage in discussions about pay equity.National governing body USA

Basketball also tweeted "bring BG home", a message echoed by numerous players and officials.Griner's

team which triumphed at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020.She also claimed gold at the International Basketball


United States to host Rugby World Cup for first time as five editions awarded

  • Rugby Sevens

World Rugby has confirmed the next five hosts for the Rugby World Cup, with Australia and the United States set to stage back-to-back editions of the men's and women's events.

either of the continents to host the women’s event.Let's make history. pic.twitter.com/9gW1FnuKum— USA

vision to grow this incredible sport exponentially across our country," Ross Young, chief executive of USA

USA Rugby will now venture into a new era and ensure the sport’s most treasured event is a springboard

and the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Brisbane in 2032.They are also scheduled to stage the Women's Basketball


North Carolina bid for 2027 Summer World University Games inspected by US officials

  • Chungcheong 2027

North Carolina’s push to stage the 2027 Summer World University Games bid process has taken its next step following an official visit from the United States International University Sports Federation (USIUF) Board of Directors.

secretary general Delise O’Meally assessed.The group walked through the Greensboro Aquatic Centre, while USA

Coach K Court, the USIUF delegation greeted Kara Lawson, the head coach of Duke University’s women’s basketball


Knight Riders and MLC plan new cricket venue as sport intensifies pursuit of LA 2028

  • Los Angeles 2028

Cricket’s pursuit of being on the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic programme has intensified after Major League Cricket (MLC), the United States’ official franchise league due to launch in 2023, united with the Knight Riders Group to build a new 10,000-seater cricket venue in South California.

Our investment in MLC in America is based on our belief in the exciting future of cricket in the USA

18 American football fields, seven baseball fields, five softball fields, five volleyball and four basketball


Former USA Hockey executive Carey named Premier Hockey Federation commissioner

  • Ice Hockey

Reagan Carey has been selected to succeed Tyler Tumminia, who resigned after the 2021-2022 season, as the Premier Hockey Federation (PHF) league commissioner.

Carey had served as the general manager and director of USA Hockey’s women’s hockey teams previously.She

fan development and youth marketing at National Hockey League side Atlanta Thrashers and the National Basketball

during her time at Colby College, where she graduated with a sociology degree in 2001.Prior to joining USA


USA Softball signs three-year renewal with Wilson Sporting Goods

  • Baseball and Softball

USA Softball has announced a three-year renewal of its contract with its long-term supporter and national

Wilson Sporting Goods has been a true supporter of USA Softball, our Annual Council Meeting and our National

with them as we continue to develop the game across the globe," Craig Cress, the chief executive of USA

The company produces a variety of products for several sports, including baseball, badminton, basketball

set to remain as the sponsor of the international event, Border Battle, in addition to sponsoring the USA

Wilson has always had a great relationship with USA Softball, and we look forward to working with them


Paralympic gold medallist Brown headlines six new USABA ambassadors for blind football

  • Football News

Paralympic gold medallist David Brown has been announced as one of the six new blind football ambassadors for the United States Association of Blind Athletes.

football, during high school and college and he later used his talents to secure the pentathlon record for USA

the University of Northern Iowa, became visually impaired as a teenager and she participates in beep basketball


Fourcade insists Paris 2024 basketball venue meets FIBA criteria after criticism

  • Basketball

Paris 2024 Athletes’ Commission President Martin Fourcade has hit back at criticism of the basketball

venue for the Olympic Games, insisting it "meets all the criteria" set by the International Basketball

the "embarrassing" selection of Hall Six at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre as a stage for basketball

We mix several sports on a site not only specific to basketball."

The place meets all the criteria set by the International Basketball Federation, which requires a ceiling

I don’t know who’s in charge but you have to do better for basketball!

And they really think of playing Team USA, whose stars are worth tens of millions and play in giant arenas


Griner detention in Russia on drugs charge extended by two months

  • Basketball

Two-time Olympic basketball gold medallist Brittney Griner of the United States has been detained on

from New York City on an unspecified date in February but said she was a "a member of the US National Basketball

Association, a two-time Olympic basketball champion in the US team".USA Basketball officially confirmed

on Griner’s case.Brittney Griner shows off her gold medal after helping the United States' women's basketball

The only objective problem has turned out to be the basketball player's height," added Kalugina."

(WNBA).The American, also a member of the US team that won the International Basketball Federation World


French players criticise "embarrassing" proposed basketball venue for Paris 2024

  • Paris 2024

Controversy is escalating over the Paris 2024 basketball venue, with several French players publicly

The preliminary phase and quarter-finals of the basketball tournaments at the Olympics in two years'

Paris International Agricultural Show.French publication L’Equipe has reported that the International Basketball

I don’t know who’s in charge but you have to do better for basketball!"

I don’t know who’s in charge but you have to do better for basketball!

pic.twitter.com/fPSb2iRw3l— Nicolas Batum (@nicolas88batum) March 16, 2022"And they really think of playing Team USA


American double Olympic basketball gold medallist arrested on drugs charges in Moscow

  • Basketball

Double Olympic gold medallist Brittney Griner has been arrested in Moscow on drugs charges, USA Basketball

31-year-old Griner, a member of the US team that won Olympic gold medals at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020.USA

Brittney has always handled herself with the utmost professionalism during her long tenure with USA Basketball

and her safety and wellbeing are our primary concerns.— USA Basketball (@usabasketball) March 5, 2022They

added: "Brittney has always handled herself with the utmost professionalism during her long tenure with USA

Basketball and her safety and well-being are our primary concerns."


USOPC announces new cooperation agreement with NCAA through to 2024

  • PASO

The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) has signed a cooperation agreement with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) that will run through 2024 in a bid to try out new initiatives together.

relationship with the gymnastics community after in December reaching a $380 million settlement, along with USA

strategy discussions with collegiate adaptive programmes in sports such as Para athletics, wheelchair basketball


Mike Rowbottom: Valieva meltdown shows grim power of the sporting asterisk

  • Inside the Blogs

Talented, trapped and - ultimately - tearful, 15-year-old Kamila Valieva today failed to reach a medal position in the women’s figure skating at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. The "asterisk" hanging over her performance appeared to have exerted a malign power.

COVID-19 circumstances of 2020 brought the asterisk trundling out into the light once again.Speaking to USA

Today about the destination of the 2020 National Basketball Association (NBA) title, the game's legend


Chinese narrative enters traditional US-Canadian story in Beijing 2022 women's ice hockey tournament

  • The Big Read

The first question to be asked about the women's ice hockey competition now underway at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games is an all-too-familiar one: will gold go to the United States or to Canada?

largest women's Olympic tournament thus far engender a boom of the kind which has occurred in women's basketball

elite women players threatened a boycott over low wages in 2017, and were given a significant rise by USA

But they are still a world away from their compatriots in professional basketball or soccer.With the