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Jan. 31, 1991: Sentencing for Duke student who posed as French baron

Nov. 13, 1990: Duke women's basketball player returns from knee injury (Chronicle)

Sept-Oct 2011 Duke alumni magazine

USA TODAY magazine Olympic preview

Sept. 26, 1990: Profile for The Chronicle

The College Football Playoff has expanded to from four to 12 teams this season, yet the debate around it remains as intense as ever. Here’s our foolproof selection method

How should the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee define success? Is it strictly in terms of medals?

As the Paris Paralympics kick off, here’s a look at 10 athletes from Team USA worth keeping an eye on

The English coach benefited from a degree of fortune at Paris 2024 but she had the skill and pool of talent to exploit it

Players win games. Coaches lose their minds. Referees facilitate games. Parents ruin games.

The annual Project Play report on youth sports participation has been released in advance of a summit at which Crystal Dunn, Alex Morgan and Jess Fishlock  were featured speakers, and the numbers are so-so. Pre-pandemic, the decline in soccer participation in thecrucial 6-12 age bracket had finally stopped, with the rate nudging upward from 7.4% […]

They call soccer The Simplest Game. But officiating it can certainly get complicated, especially when the coaches let it get that way. At the lowest levels, it can be basic confusion over who’s in charge of a game, as I found in my last game of the season. The players were U-11 boys who, if […]

The spectrum of thought on the U.S. women’s team’s results at the World Cup span runs between these two extremes: Everything is wrong. The USA doesn’t produce players capable of matching European supremacy in tactics and technique. We’re all focused on college soccer, which prizes athleticism more than anything else. We need 100 professional clubs […]

The defending 800m Olympic champion won’t defend her title after a stumble in a single race. Her absence is a needless wound for Team USA

Minute-by-minute report: Will the hosts get off to a winning start in Arlington, Texas? Join Beau Dure for the latest news and action

Minute-by-minute report: The Celtics sealed a record 18th NBA championship with an emphatic victory at TD Garden

Minute-by-minute report: The Gamecocks beat the Hawkeyes to cap a perfect season with the NCAA women’s Tournament title

Selling the game in Vegas was worth a try but pyrotechnics, booming music and its commonality to other sports won’t work in the long run

Live updates: The Wolverines beat the Huskies thanks to an outstanding team effort to claim the national title

The Englishwoman will leave Chelsea in May to take up her new role, leaving her just four games to prepare for the 2024 Olympics. That may not be a problem

Rolling report: Gotham FC defeated OL Reign in the NWSL final at San Diego’s Snapdragon Stadium. Beau Dure was watching

Iga Swiatek raced to victory in under an hour to win her first WTA Finals title and secure the year-end world No 1 ranking

Chelsea coach will leave at the end of the season and is expected to take over the four-time World Cup winners. The job is far from easy

Another week, another round of VAR controversies across the Premier League. Coaches and fans are turning on in-game technology, but referees want more

The country that plays host to the most World Cup players is now England. That’s not down to anything the NWSL is doing wrong, but what English clubs are doing right

US footballers have slowly but surely broken down barriers in Europe – gaining places in top leagues, becoming fan favorites, even winning the Champions League. Here are 10 of the best

Families often have to pay thousands of dollars to help their kids reach the elite level of youth soccer. No wonder participation is dwindling

Minute-by-minute report: Spain booked a spot in the semi-finals with an extra-time win over the Netherlands in Wellington