Author – The Durango Herald

Olympic scandals march on long after torch goes out

TOKYO – From doping to demonstrations to dirty officials, the Olympics have never lacked their share of off-the-field scandals and controversies that keep the Games in the headlines long aft...

DATE: Jul 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Sports

Shaun White streamlines life on road to 2022 Olympics

ASPEN – With the mountains closed and the halfpipes shuttered during a pandemic that turned the world and its sports upside down, Shaun White put double-corks on hold and saved his most inte...

DATE: Feb 2, 2021 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Chloe Kim returns to X Games superpipe rested, healthy and wiser

Olympic star took time away from sport to focus on college

DATE: Jan 28, 2021 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

COVID, legislation, lawsuits signal change in college sports

The coronavirus was only one factor in a chain of events that consumed college sports in 2020, and is poised to do more of the same in 2021 and beyond. The virus, combined with th...

DATE: Dec 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Sports

Winter X Gamesin Aspen won’t have fans

Athletes still get chance to perform

DATE: Dec 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Snowboard icon: Sports are great with or without Olympics

To all those surfers, rock climbers, skateboarders and, now, break dancers, who dream of taking their act to the Olympics soon, one of history’s best snowboarders has a message: Your sports ...

DATE: Dec 11, 2020 | CATEGORY: Outdoors

Attention, U.S. Olympic hopefuls: Need money? This can help

DENVER – U.S. Olympic hopefuls will be able to cut their own deals with the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee’s marketing partners under a first-of-its-kind plan that has potential to sh...

DATE: Nov 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

U.S.: WADA efforts a direct personal attack on US government

Any thought that the U.S. and World Anti-Doping Agency are smoothing out their differences was undermined Thursday when a U.S. representative characterized a WADA proposal to penalize nation...

DATE: Nov 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Sports

American sprinter Christian Coleman banned, runs out of chances for Olympics

To believe that the evidence supporting Christian Coleman’s two-year ban from track is flawed is to believe that the 24-year-old sprinter really has redefined the title “World’s Fastest Man....

DATE: Oct 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

U.S. Olympic Committee gets positive grade on reforms

COLORADO SPRINGS – The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee received a positive progress report from the committee that analyzed the federation’s problems and recommended dozens of changes ...

DATE: Aug 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Sports

U.S. Olympic Committee opens books, gives detail about funding

Transparency key during COVID-19 times

DATE: Aug 3, 2020 | CATEGORY: Sports

Players describe abusive environment of Oregon State volleyball

Athletes and others with ties to the program told The Associated Press that the head volleyball coach at Oregon State University runs an abusive program that has seen 11 players quit or tran...

DATE: Jul 30, 2020 | CATEGORY: College Sports