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Victoria Australia Premier On Mega Sports Events: All Costs And No...

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Victoria has bailed out of hosting the 2026 Commonwealth Games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ9KY-RRx3g The people who are responsible for spending public money for major sports events in Victoria,...

Mexico Wants The 2036 Summer Olympics

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A number of countries plan to bid for the Games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI1hv0q6EGA For politicians and business leaders of countries there is something seductive when they think about...

Saudis Plan To Go After World Cup And Olympics

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The country has the money to land both events. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJcoaeXuVkI Somebody invented the term “sportswashing” which describes someone or some country using sports to improve a...

EXPLAINER: The Winter Games, a different kind of Olympics

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BEIJING (AP) — The first so-called modern Olympics took place in 1896 in Athens. But the inaugural Winter Olympics were not held until 1924...

NHL players are not happy about being barred from the Winter...

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Brad Marchand is not happy. Neither is Vladimir Tarasenko. And they are not alone. A handful of NHL players are voicing their frustration over the...

The Costly Tokyo Olympics Is At The Halfway Point

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The Paralympics is coming. in the middle of the pandemic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8c6sWYeBBk Much of the circus has departed Tokyo but there is another round of athletic events...

Olympics: US Women gets blanked by Sweden 3-0 in soccer opener.

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TOKYO (AP) — Sweden didn’t have to bunker down on defense against the Americans this time. Stina Blackstenius scored a pair of goals and the...

US women soccer team looks strong in their quest for a...

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TOKYO (AP) — The U.S. women’s national soccer team is in a bubble of its own making for the Tokyo Olympics, and it’s not...

Shocker: US falls to Nigeria 90-87 in pre-Olympic opener

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — This is not how USA Basketball expected to open its Olympic summer. Nigeria probably didn’t expect it, either. If there was any...

Todd Frazier brings passion, power to US Olympic baseball

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LITTLE FALLS, N.J. (AP) — Sitting in the dugout at tiny Yogi Berra Stadium as he prepared to play for the Frontier League’s Sussex...