Olympic Basketball News

Larry Probst needs to be the U.S. Olympic Committee chairman for at least eight years.

PISCATAWAY, N.J. Rutgers University head women's basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer will be honored prior to her team's contest versus Stanford on Sunday, Nov.

Nike, which has been a sponsoring partner of USA Basketball since 2006, has extended the relationship.

In this Aug. 23, 1999 file photo, Detroit Shock coach Nancy Lieberman-Cline, center, gives some instructions to the team in Auburn Hills, Mich.

As soon as Mebrahtom Keflezighi, better known as Meb, won the New York City Marathon on Sunday, an uncommon sports dispute erupted online, fraught with racial and nationalistic components: Should Keflezighi's triumph count as an American victory? Keflezighi in California after he finished second in the 2004 Olympic marathon.

Queen Elizabeth II visited the Olympic Park on Tuesday to inspect preparations for the 2012 London Games.

Northwest Tucson Special Olympics sent three softball teams to the Arizona State Fall Championships Oct.

Yuan Weimin signs his memoir in Nanjing. His tell-all about China's Olympic bid has caused some to brand him a traitor.

FOUR countries are considering basing themselves in High Wycombe for the London 2012 Olympics a ' with more expected to declare their interest soon.

Nominees Dani Samuels and Cadel Evans talk with the Herald's Jacquelin Magnay at the launch of the awards this morning.

Tom Keep has been jogging and walking wherever he goes in the small southern Manitoba community of Brandon where he lives, getting his blood going for his 300-metre stint with the Olympic flame in January.

US singing star BeyoncA©'s "I AMa " World Tour will be staged at Beijing's Wukesong Arena following a NBA preseason game, taking place in the same building several days after the Olympic-style stadium was renovated into China's first ever multi-purpose center for sports and cultural events.

Isiah Thomas said a 17-year-old wound has been reopened in a new book that Magic Johnson and Larry Bird wrote with author Jackie MacMullan .

When he heard the criticisms from his former friend Magic Johnson in a soon-to-be-released book, Isiah Thomas said he'd had enough.

In this June 16, 1988 file photo, Detroit's Isiah Thomas, right, and the Los Angeles Lakers' Ervin "Magic" Johnson exchange their usual pregame kiss before the start of their NBA basketball game at The Palace of Auburn Hills, Mich.

John Shuster has high hopes for his sport in the U.S. "Maybe it will become like the World Series of Poker on TV," he said.

Britain is looking for tall talent ahead of the 2016 Rio Games. UK Sport and the English Institute of Sport have launched an initiative called Talent 2016 to attract tall but inexperienced athletes between the ages of 15 and 22.

NBA and Olympic icon Jerry Colangelo's childhood town Chicago is the setting for a press conference introducing the U.S. Olympic gold medal basketball team builder's new book about the Beijing Olympics, "Return of the Gold: The Journey of Jerry Colangelo and the Redeem Team" and his new role as national spokesperson for Merchants Information ...

After years of courting the European and Asian markets, the NBA is trying to build up its fan base among Hispanics.

Ten lucky students from schools and colleges in Cheshire and Merseyside had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see first-hand the progress being made in preparing for the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.