Olympic Softball News

Castro junior - an orthopaedic surgeon who was the chief medical officer for the Cuban Olympic team at London 2012 - is seeking to reverse the International Olympic Committee's 2005 decision to drop the sports.

A Chechen immigrant shot to death in central Florida after an altercation with an FBI agent had several ties to that of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects who authorities were questioning him about at the... A Chechen immigrant shot to death in central Florida after an altercation with an FBI agent had several ties to that of one of the ... (more)

PETALING JAYA: It is a just a week away before squash knows its Olympic fate with the bid for the 2020 Games rapidly gaining momentum.

It's easy to see that Bryce Blackburn and Dennis Bahrenfuss are excited for Friday to arrive.

U.S. freestyle wrestler Kyle Dake, right, and his opponent from Iran, Hassan Tahmasebi, back left, wait during their introduction at an international wrestling competition at Grand Central Terminal, on Wednesday in New York.

Antonia Roots, one of the organizers for Riverside-San Bernardino County Indian Health Inc.'s sixth annual Health Fair and Native Youth Olympic Games, asks participants to recite an Olympic oath before starting the games on Saturday, May 11, at the Soboba Sports Complex.

Am I saying sailing doesn't belong in the Olympics? Well, if it comes at the exclusion of wrestling, then, yes, I guess I am.

The United States, Iran and Russia may be at odds over issues including Syria's civil war and Tehran's nuclear ambitions, but on Tuesday their wrestling teams formed an unlikely coalition at the United Nations to keep their sport in the Olympics.

Bruins softball enters the double-elimination tournament seeded No. 2, with a 48-9 record overall.

KUALA LUMPUR: With less than seven months to go, Malaysia have yet to identify their chef-de-mission or even finalise the athletes by numbers for the SEA Games in Myanmar.

Former NFL player Todd Steussie and ex-basketball star Sean Lampley head a list of eight athletes who have been selected for enshrinement into Cal's athletic Hall of Fame.

An annual "Friend-Raiser" held by the Friends of San Clemente Beaches, Parks and Recreation Foundation will induct the first four of nine athletes into their Sports Hall of Fame wall Saturday at the San Clemente Aquatics Center.

A small, sweat-filled gymnasium on Versailles Road is by no means a glamorous home for Lexington Legends Boxing Inc.

"Those are the things that you bring to the Olympic Games with this sport," Huynh said.

Local athletes have trained hard and are ready to show the area they've got the right stuff during the Area 9 Special Olympics Qualifier set for 9 a.m. Saturday at Harding Stadium.

International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge has stated that wrestling still stands a chance to be included in the program of the 2020 Olympic Games .