Month: August 2024

It was a small broadcasting moment, one you understandably may have missed, but it highlighted why Laurie Hernandez has been one of the broadcasting stars of the Paris Games. During NBC and Peacock’s live coverage of the women’s gymnastics team final at the Paris Olympics last Tuesday — the United States took gold thanks to […]

Sixty metres into the men’s 100-metre Olympic final in Paris and Noah Lyles is third. He is three-hundredths of a second down on his compatriot Fred Kerley and Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson. Yet — and this may sound bizarre — that is exactly where he needs to be. Lyles has unmatched top-end speed. He wins as […]

Well past midnight in Paris with final preparations for the Olympics finishing up, NBC Sports president Rick Cordella was tired and in need of sleep. On this late July evening, the official word if the NBA had returned to the NBC after nearly a quarter century was being confirmed in New York, a time zone […]

It was another day and another loss for the Chicago White Sox, but there was something extra special about Sunday’s defeat. Sunday’s loss, a standard 13-7 defeat at the hands of the Minnesota Twins, marked their 20th in a row — a nice round number to give this franchise the national stage it deserves. No […]

In the scorching heat of Inter Miami’s training base in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the final moments of Wolverhampton Wanderers’ morning training session are playing out. “We are 1-0 up at the Emirates, two minutes to go, keep going,” urges the Wolves head coach Gary O’Neil. Wolves begin their Premier League season away at Arsenal’s Emirates […]

SAINT-DENIS, France — Once again, Noah Lyles didn’t get out of the blocks well. His reaction time tied for the worst in the eight-man field. Slow starts cost him in the first round, then again in the semifinals. Such felt like a recipe for disaster with this stellar field, among the most loaded in Olympic […]

HOMER GLEN, Ill. — The McDonald’s billboard down the street offered congratulations. Television crews and some enthusiastic fans waited outside the house in the quiet subdivision. Security guards stood in the doorway. Inside was a man on a hospital bed wearing a gold jacket, with many of the people who love him most. It is […]

NANTERRE, France — Bobby Finke saved Team USA from notoriety with a world-record swim and an Olympic gold medal on the final day of the swimming portion of the Paris Games. He took gold in the men’s 1500-meter freestyle for the second consecutive Olympics. His time of 14:30.67 set a new world record in the […]

PARIS — The U.S. women’s soccer team is through to the Olympic semifinals following its 1-0 extra-time victory against Japan at Parc des Princes thanks to Trinity Rodman’s left foot, a heaping dose of patience and confidence in consistency. It wasn’t pretty football, but it was what the U.S. expected. When the players walked through […]

Leon Marchand is an enigma. Over the past eight days, he has produced one of the best Olympic pool displays. It featured an unprecedented double gold in the 200m breaststroke and 200m butterfly. Only one athlete had ever made the final in both strokes over any distance. That was Mary Sears in 1956, with the […]