Tag: Swimming
Dozens more men sue Ohio State over doc’s sexual misconduct
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Dozens more men are suing Ohio State over the university’s failure to stop sexual abuse and misconduct decades ago by team...
AP Sportlight
May 17
1875 — Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby by...
Mack Horton on swim rival Sun Yang: let’s change the subject
SYDNEY — Two years after his controversial podium move at the world swimming championships, Australian Mack Horton still can't seem to shake off questions...
AP Sportlight
May 14
1913 — Washington’s Walter Johnson gives up a run...
AP Sportlight
May 12
1909 — The Preakness Stakes is held in Maryland...
AP-Sportlight-Week Ahead
May 11
1892 — Azra, ridden by Alonzo Cayton, wins the...
Olympic torch relay detour; diving test event opens in Tokyo
TOKYO — The Tokyo Olympic torch relay will take another detour this weekend when it enters the southern island of Okinawa.
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Australian swimming great John Konrads dies at age 78
SYDNEY — John Konrads, who set 26 individual freestyle swimming world records and won an Olympic gold medal in 1960, has died, the Sport...
AP Sportlight
April 26
1905 — Jack McCarthy of the Cubs became the...
Nort Thornton, swim coach who produced Olympians, dies at 87
BERKELEY, Calif. — Nort Thornton, who coached the California men’s swimming team to NCAA titles in 1979 and ’80 during a 33-year career that...