#Summer Games

It was 2013 and Alev Kelter, then 23, stood on top of a mountain near her house in Eagle River, Alaska, clutching her snowboard with both hands. Her mind was elsewhere. She was replaying the just-concluded Olympic ice hockey team tryouts over and over in her head. She had been so close. But she'd failed to make the final cut for the 2014 Sochi…

RUGBY UNION chief executive Bill Sweeney is recovering in hospital after suffering a blood clot on lung, the governing body has confirmed. Sweeney was admitted on Friday and the RFU said he is "expected to make a full recovery and return to work" following a period of recuperation. Sweeney joined the RFU in 2019 after spending five years as chief…

Izell Reese thinks of himself as a visionary, the kind of man who finds solutions to big problems. As a teenage football star, he went unrecruited from his Dothan, Ala., high school. Undaunted, he walked on at the University of Alabama Birmingham, not only making the team but starting as a freshman. Four years later, he was drafted by the Dallas…

Something aches deep within Nate Ebner's chest. Jogging onto a field at the Olympic training center, he begins warming up with a teammate, the two of them stretching, whipping a ball back and forth. "I literally feel like my lungs are sore," he says. The NFL veteran is accustomed to training camp aches and pains, the agony that accompanies…

Chinese legend Ma Long and world No. 1 Fan Zhendong will square off Friday morning in what should be a thrilling men's table tennis final at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Ma is the reigning gold medalist, while Fan is the world's top-ranked player, and it is a rematch of the 2020 World cup final, a nail-biter won by Fan. Ma is widely considered the best…

Summer League action continues on Friday as the Indiana Pacers take on the Washington Wizards in Las Vegas! Join us for our NBA odds series, where our Pacers-Wizards prediction and pick will be revealed. The Pacers kick off the weekend after having two days off since their last victory over the Pistons 101-87. With a win over the Wizards on Friday…

Over the next week, we'll be providing comprehensive betting previews for every major event ahead of the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo, which will run from July 23 - August 8. This edition focuses on the table tennis competition, which will be held July 24 - August 6 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium. China barely broke a sweat in sweeping the table…