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Hunter Kemper was winning youth triathlons long before the sport was added to the Olympic program. The Longwood, Fla., native, who will go to his second Olympic triathlon in August, spoke with USATODAY.com's Beau Dure.

Getting lost in the Italian Alps can be scary. Getting lost in the Italian Alps around 1 a.m. is that much scarier. That’s what happened to me at the erratically organized 2006 Olympics. I ha…

We weren’t expecting to get a dog that day. Sure, we were looking for a dog to bring home. But we had just gone through a demoralizing process with another dog agency. A Duke friend of mine, …

In grad school, I worried that the same “postmodernist” tools that ivory-tower professors used to question reality were also being used by propaganda merchants to question climate chang…

My mom was a prolific writer. Most of her writing exists today in longhand, in her distinctive but usually legible cursive, sometimes written with felt-tip pens in unusual colors. (Yay, purple.) So…

I was in over my head. I knew it, and so did the man sitting across the desk from me. He was a legitimate jazz man who ran in the same circles as Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins. I was a 17-year-…

Three weeks into my symbolic logic class, I realized I didn’t belong. It certainly seemed like a good idea to take it. I was a philosophy major, and I had aced logic. Loved it. Breezed throug…

With the 40th anniversary celebration of Saturday Night Live coming up, we’re seeing a lot of listicles. Rolling Stone went to extremes, ranking nearly everyone who was ever in the cast. The …

A quick open letter to those who don’t value liberal arts in college, figuring we can just skip the whole college experience in favor of a few online courses in the technology du jour:Today&#…

Are we doomed to believe things that are demonstrably false? Brendan Nyhan (Dukie!) has devoted much of his career to fighting falsehoods, and he is depressed by a three-year study he conducted to …

I thought about writing an “open letter” to mass shooter Elliot Rodger in response to his manifesto of suffering women’s rejection. Perhaps even borrowing the “It gets bette…

The USWNT is again in a labor dispute that could delay their players’ appearances at NWSL pre-season camps – but a lack of urgency isn’t helping matters

With the Pyeongchang Games just one year away, the US team will depend on older athletes more than ever before in their quest for a record medal haul

The US soccer federation’s annual meeting is this weekend in Hawaii, where a number of decisions impacting the tone of the future could be made

World Cup holders suffer worst defeat in nearly a decade in 3-0 loss to France at Washington’s RFK Stadium

There are still many unanswered questions about the new agreement between team and federation, but the deal is done, and much of the anger is gone

Beau Dure: Things are looking up for the National Women’s Soccer League, which opens its fifth season with a new TV deal and is no longer merely fighting for survival

Players such as Carli Lloyd and Alex Morgan have chosen to pursue spells in Europe. But it’s not just money that proves an attraction

The outspoken USA goalkeeper, who turns 36 this summer, is inching back into the spotlight after a six-month suspension and shoulder replacement surgery

In the 1970s, the Cosmos created a team of stars, including Franz Beckenbauer and Carlos Alberto – and an equivalent team today would set you back plenty

Beau Dure: The labor dispute between US Soccer and the women’s national team got a rare prime-time audience on Sunday, whether equal pay is realistic remains unclear

Disputes over pay mean that the NWSL is struggling to keep hold of top international talent

The single final is insufficient, and the two-leg final doesn’t reward the higher-seeded team for their regular-season performance. So why not combine the two?

Sick of players parking the bus and playing for a draw? Then maybe it’s time to start making sure they feel the wrath of the referee for sitting back

Hope Solo sounded a petulant note after the team crashed out of the Olympics but the warning signs were there in the USWNT’s performances at Rio 2016

The American is the only person to have won an individual swimming gold past the age of 31. Persistence, money and freakish talent have helped

It wasn’t much of a surprise but Simone Biles was in awesome form as she won gold for the US with her compatriot Aly Raisman in second

USA won a second straight Olympic gold thanks to a brilliant all-round performance while Britain finished in fourth place