The format of The Ultimate Fighter has changed little over the years. Fighters live and train together, then fight their way to “a contract” (though, usually,

A Survivor must survive tough conditions. A Top Chef has to cook something.

MMA is governed by the Unified Rules. The Ultimate Fighter is governed by Dana White.

Rich Franklin is not one of the more controversial figures in UFC history. He tended to respond to trash talk with gentle self-deprecating wit. He has given

“It's rarely the best fighter that wins the show. It's the person that can stay focused the longest. It's easy to get caught up with a whole bunch of

Day 1, Season 1. The fighters check out the gym. They’re impressed. They check out the house. They’re even more impressed.

“I'll never forget being at the airport once we all got out. We all went in different directions, and I turned my phone on. I've got all these messages and

I am the author of a book called Inside The Ultimate Fighter.

Joe Buck is a seasoned broadcaster. Royce Gracie has plenty of media appearances under his belt. So we may never know why Buck felt the need to ask Gracie,

I’ve compiled power rankings / predictions / odds from several sources and presented them below in order of median. I chose to emphasize the median over the mean to diminish the influence of …

I did a presentation at the 2017 NSCAA Convention in L.A. called “Confessions of a Parent Coach: How to Recruit and Train Us.” Several people were interested in seeing it again and sharing it, so I…

I try to steer clear of politics, mostly for professional reasons. But this, to me, isn’t about simple politics. This is about our fundamental ability to discern fact from fiction. It’s…

The pipeline looks solid in the pool, gymnastics should be strong as ever, and soccer and basketball will be fine. Expect USA to prosper in four years’ time

They were going to smash the Americans. So claimed Alain Bernard, whose French team was going to beat Michael Phelps and the USA in the 4x100-meter freestyle relay in 2008, ruining Phelps' quest for a record haul of eight gold medals in one summer...

Breaking news: The USA is likely to win a lot of medals in Rio. Both basketball teams should take gold. A lot of swimmers and gymnasts will win. For Simone Biles and Katie Ledecky, only the quantity of medals is in doubt...

The drama. The diversity. Scandals and showcases. There's nothing quite like the Olympics. Like the world's biggest wedding, everyone fusses about the preparation, whether they're ...

The USA will win 88 medals this summer. Or maybe 136. Hey, the Olympics were totally predictable, they wouldn’t be any fun, right? Prediction analysis No, I didn’t do event-by-event predictio…

The U.S. won the first Olympic women's soccer competition in 1996 in Atlanta, and many of those players are still involved in the game. Beau...

Athletes older than I am: 5. (Two shooting, three equestrian) Born in Georgia: 6. (Two Atlanta swimmers, two Atlanta track and field athletes, one Augusta track and field athletes, one Gainesville …

Fourth place in the world is quite an accomplishment. Most of us would be thrilled. And at the Olympics , it means you're in good company...

Most of the Olympic teams have been selected, but the run-up to Rio will still have plenty of intrigue. Which athletes will get the bulk of the pre-Games publicity? Will injured ...

The USA Track and Field Olympic trials are generally simple—as long as athletes have met the Olympic qualifying standards, then the top three finishers in each event go to Rio...

Most of the players who have played this year are locks for the Olympic roster, and coach Jill Ellis rarely experiments – because she doesn’t need to

USA Swimming’s Olympic trials saw a changing of the guard, with Natalie Coughlin and Tyler Clary showing no veteran’s spot is safe...

“Parents just don’t understand,” said Will Smith and a whole lot of soccer coaches. For years, the coaches may have been right. Parents typically didn’t play the game, and they didn’t have many resources to educate themselves. Show up with an accent and an embellished resume, and you can fool any parents to send their kids your way.

Don’t stereotype. Don’t rush to judgment. Those are the lessons of the Duke lacrosse case from 10 years ago. Three men suffered the horror of being flung into the spotlight as wrongly a…

“The last of the Southern belles.” That’s how Dad described Meg Gunn when he broke the news that he had asked her to marry him after a “whirlwind courtship” (Miss Meg’s words) in 1997. She certainl…

Duke, Wilmington memories rekindled with NCAA matchup