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U.S. women’s volleyball team forms strong bond with 1980 squad

Nine members of the 1980 team gather in Colorado, watch U.S. women compete in Tokyo TOKYO — The Japanese-style lanterns hanging in the rooms of the U.S. women's volleyball players at the Ol...

DATE: Aug 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: AP Sports

American defender Vines transfers from Colorado to Antwerp

COMMERCE CITY — American defender Sam Vines is transferring to Belgium's Antwerp from Major League Soccer's Colorado Rapids. The 22-year-old joined the Rapids' academy when he was 13. H was ...

DATE: Aug 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: AP Sports

Teacher union president: Goal is to get kids back to school

RIO RANCHO, N.M. – The head of a national teachers union is visiting New Mexico on Thursday as part of a nationwide campaign to convince parents that it’s safe to send their kids back to pub...

DATE: Aug 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Southwest Colorado’s first Olympic medal in 2021? Coach is making history

Hovasse’s journey takes him from Durango to Penn State, the NBA, Japan and the medal round

DATE: Aug 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: Sports

U.S. women earn bronze medal with 4-3 win over Australia

KASHIMA, Japan — Although the color of their medal wasn’t what they wanted, the mettle of the team came through in the end. The United States salvaged a rocky tournament by winning bronze in...

DATE: Aug 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: Sports

Alvarez a summer-winter medalist, U.S. reaches baseball final

YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — Eddy Alvarez sat in the U.S. dugout after the final out, buried his face in his hands and wept, even though his biggest game remains ahead. A 7-2 victory over def...

DATE: Aug 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: Sports

Losses in track, wins on field: Another rocky day for USA

TOKYO (AP) — A five-minute burst of action near the backstretch of the Olympic track served up the perfect snapshot of what is going right, and all that is going wrong, for the U.S. track an...

DATE: Aug 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: Sports

U.S. routs Australia 97-78, to play for more basketball gold

SAITAMA, Japan (AP) — The U.S. has owned gold for three straight Olympics, making the middle of the medals platform property of the Americans. The Australians tried everything they could to ...

DATE: Aug 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: Sports

A star is found: In 200, De Grasse finally gets his gold

TOKYO — Perhaps the world's next sprint star wasn't so hard to find after all. He's Andre De Grasse, the Canadian who ran his first sprint as a teen in baggy basketball shorts and borrowed ...

DATE: Aug 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: AP Sports

Biles returns to competition with a bronze medal and a smile

TOKYO — Simone Biles returned to the competition at the Tokyo Olympics in style, and will leave with another medal. What color it is really isn't the point. That she delivered a tense, heart...

DATE: Aug 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Sports

You again! Thompson-Herah speeds to second Olympic sprint sweep

TOKYO (AP) — It was billed as a star-studded race that anyone could win. So long as that person's name was Elaine. Elaine Thompson-Herah blew away a much-decorated field in the 200 meters Tu...

DATE: Aug 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Sports

Biles returns to Olympic competition, wins bronze on beam

TOKYO (AP) — Simone Biles isn't going home with a fistful of gold medals. A mental block — one brought on by exhaustion or stress or something the American gymnastics star still can't quite ...

DATE: Aug 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: AP Sports