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Phelps is back, and why not
By Alan Abrahamson | 4-24-2014
A great many people are desperately afraid in this life of failure. Being afraid does only one thing. It holds you...
READ MORE“Thank you, Meb”
By Alan Abrahamson | 4-22-2014
Meb Keflezghi’s victory Monday at the Boston Marathon, so poignant, so soulful, proved an epic reminder of why sports matter.
READ MOREUSATF, Nike in apparent $500 million deal
By Alan Abrahamson | 4-21-2014
USA Track & Field on Tuesday announced a groundbreaking 23-year deal with Nike apparently worth $500 million, an arrangement that...
READ MOREANOC gets big-time professionalized
By Alan Abrahamson | 3-31-2014
KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait — When you are living it in the moment, it is of course a challenge indeed to...
READ MOREWhy by the Persian Gulf
By Alan Abrahamson | 3-31-2014
KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait — Accounting for the sudden resignation a couple days ago of French ski legend Jean-Claude Killy, there...
READ MOREWhat does Sheikh Ahmad want?
By Alan Abrahamson | 3-31-2014
KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait — One rumor has him one day taking over FIFA, soccer’s international governing body. Another has it that...
READ MOREDoping echoes of East Germany
By Alan Abrahamson | 3-24-2014
Doping in elite international sport is “rampant,” the former executive who last year exposed failings in the Jamaican testing program...
READ MOREThe vexing Iran conundrum
By Alan Abrahamson | 3-24-2014
With leadership comes responsibility. At wrestling’s freestyle World Cup Sunday in Los Angeles, the Iranian men’s wrestling team asserted it is,...
READ MOREWrestling's Handshake Moment
By Alan Abrahamson | 3-24-2014
Russia put troops on the Ukrainian mainland for the first time Saturday, deploying 80 soldiers along with four helicopter gunships...
READ MOREWrestling: now, the spotlight
By Alan Abrahamson | 3-24-2014
Russia massed troops and armored vehicles Thursday in at least three regions along Ukraine’s eastern border, the New York Times...
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