By Zjan ShirinianFebruary 26 - Sprinter Usain Bolt remains on track to win a record-equalling fourth Laureus World Sportsman of the Year award after being shortlisted.

Moscow 5,000 metre and 10,000 metres champion Mo Farah and American LeBron James, nominated the National Basketball

Tiger Woods is among those nominated for the World Comeback of the Year award, along with Oracle Team USA

Laureus World Sports Award set for the Istana Budaya in MalaysiaFebruary 2014: Comeback kings Oracle Team USA

By Gary AndersonFebruary 19 - America's Cup winners Team Oracle USA and Spanish tennis ace Rafael Nadal

Chinese National Games in Liaoning in September.Other names in contention for the award include French basketball

returned from injury to help France take the European crown and lead the San Antonio Spurs to the National Basketball

way to second US Open crown against DjokovicSeptember 2013: Olympic great Sir Ben helps Oracle Team USA

By Gary AndersonFebruary 14 – American basketball star Chris Paul has paid a visit to a project helping

special ties with New Orleans after he spent the first six years of his professional career with National Basketball

Students listen intently as Chris Paul addresses them in New Orleans ©Getty Images Laureus USA, along

with partner Mercedes-Benz USA, has been involved in projects in New Orleans for the past two years

The incident required surgery, USA Hockey have revealed.He is being replaced by Ray Shero, general manager

and counsel of the medical team and, as a result, I will not be travelling to Sochi to be with Team USA

Tatyana Ovechkina was a member of the Soviet women's basketball team that won at Montreal 1976 and Moscow

By Gary AndersonFebruary 5 - Five medallists from Vancouver 2010 - Mark Bathum, Alana Nichols, Laurie Stephens, Danelle Umstead and Stephani Victor - have been nominated as part of a 26-strong United States Alpine skiing squad for the Sochi 2014 Winter Paralympic Games.

Nichols, part of the gold medal winning US women's wheelchair basketball side at Beijing 2008, won two

total, 22 Paralympic Alpine skiing medals have been won by the US squad over the past three Games.Team USA

Brazil, Finland, Greece and Turkey have been awarded wild cards to participate in the 2014 International Basketball

The decision was made in order to "make the FIBA Basketball World Cup as competitive as possible" according

This proves that FIBA's Central Board is determined to make the FIBA Basketball World Cup as competitive

Greece, fifth in the current ranking, are a powerhouse of international basketball and this is the first

the Finnish Basketball Association and still has a lot of potential for development."

Lithuania, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Senegal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Ukraine and USA

be used to ease the passage of more new, youth-friendly sports and disciplines - squash, say, or 3x3 basketball

the showdown between the US and Canada, which the Canadians won 2-0.The clash between Canada and the USA

By Paul OsborneJanuary 23 - USA Basketball has announced the 28 players who have been selected for the

"This is the first step of building the USA Basketball National Team pool of players for 2014-16," said

Jerry Colangelo, chairman of USA Basketball."

kind of commitment is remarkable and it demonstrates how much it means to our players to represent USA

Basketball and their country."

Every one of the selected players has been involved in USA Basketball previously and that speaks to how

By Duncan Mackay at the Sandton Convention Centre in JohannesburgNovember 11 - Turkey's anti-doping laboratory in the capital Ankara is to have its re-accreditation process fast-tracked by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), it has been announced here today.

accreditation in June 2011 after a urine sample provided by Diana Taurasi, a member of the United States basketball

judging ourselves by the highest standards of international best practice, against countries like the UK, USA

By Nick ButlerOctober 31 - Next year's Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championships in Toronto will

As a wheelchair basketball athlete myself, I am extremely proud to be an Honorary Chairman of the 2014

Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship," he said.

Canada will continue their rivalry with the USA at the 2014 World ChampionshipsThe Championships hopes

and Sport who is also responsible for the 2015 Pan and Parapan American Games, claimed the wheelchair basketball

ChampionshipsMarch 2013: Canadian wheelchair basketball star may come out of retirement for Toronto

By Gary AndersonSeptember 30 - Five-time Olympic alpine skiing medallist Bode Miller was on hand to help launch US Paralympics' new talent identification programme, Gateway to Gold, that aims to introduce people with disabilities to sport and identify future champions.

and move toward elite performances.Danelle Umtead has won two Winter Paralympic bronze medals for the USA

in the medal count at the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Games with 13 medals, while at London 2012 Team USA

day.November 17 will see a swimming talent identification event being held in Lake Forrest, wheelchair basketball

By Gary AndersonSeptember 20 - Official Team USA sponsor, Citi has today unveiled the nine athletes that

global banking firm Citi, they were selected because they embody the spirit and mission of Citi's Team USA

Winter Games Five of the athletes selected by Citi, which has been an official sponsor of Team USA

sitting and super combined sitting competitions.The 30-year-old from New Mexico also claimed a wheelchair basketball

gold at Beijing 2008.Alpine skiing and wheelchair basketball gold medallist Alana Nichols is part of

By James CrookSeptember 5 - America's Jennie Finch, one of the most successful players in the history of the sport, has become the latest advocate of the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) campaign to get the bat-and-ball sports back on the Olympic sports programme.

of the sport, famed for her professionalism, ability and marketability.The Chicago Bandits and Team USA

won their third consecutive Olympic softball titleThis early success translated to a call-up to the USA

and there was a celebration of women's sport at the 2004 Olympic Games with the US women's soccer, basketball

Elation turned to despair four year's later when the USA were defeated in the final scheduled Olympic

Finch is adamant that she will be involved in Team USA at the 2020 Olympic Games should baseball and

By James CrookAugust 15 - American Paralympic stars Tatyana McFadden and Katie Holloway have been named as finalists for the 2013 Women's Sports Foundation Sportswoman of the Year awards in the individual and team categories respectively.

now has her sights set on more marathon glory in Chicago and New York, where she will lead the Team USA

points on 80 kills, nine blocks and seven aces in the full 17 sets she started for the US.Two-time USA

and being named as the tournament's Most Valuable Player in the process, before being named as the USA

State University - Northridge, where she became the first amputee ever to play NCAA Division 1 women's basketball

Open at Roland Garros.Front-runners in the team award alongside Holloway are two-time Women's National Basketball

By Duncan MackayJuly 31 - USA Basketball today announced plans to relocate to Tempe in Arizona,

USA Place has been selected to develop a new national headquarters and training centre for USA Basketball

Basketball headquarters and training centre, USA Place will also include a 4,500-seat event centre,

This is an exciting and an incredible opportunity that offers nothing but positives for USA Basketball

," said USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo."

USA Place will offer USA Basketball an excellent site for the development of its office headquarters,