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Freddy Adu and Michael Bradley, both at the heart of the U.S. men's team's midfield, picked up two yellow cards in two games and will miss the group-stage finale against Nigeria.

One minute away from one of the biggest wins any U.S. soccer team has recorded, the American men gave up a tying goal and settled for a 2-2 draw Sunday against the Netherlands.

Soon after Sarah Konrad got her Ph.D. in geology, she gave up her cycling career and decided to put her cross-country ski talents to use in biathlon. This year, at age 37, she has qualified for not one, but two World Championships cross-country and...

Water polo player Ryan Bailey spends much of his time two meters away from the opponent's goal, but that's given him a unique view of the world. The former UC Irvine star spoke with USATODAY.com's Beau Dure after the first of his team's two daily...

Laura Wilkinson has plenty of gold. In 1998, she won at the Goodwill Games. In 2000, she won in Sydney. In 2002, she married Eriek Hulseman. The 26-year-old Texan is gearing up to win again in Athens 2004, and she has already had success at the...

Sailing isn't all about yachts for people in silly hats. The Mistral class of Olympic sailing is essentially windsurfing, and it's a true test of athletic ability as well as sailing skill. Peter Wells, who won the U.S. Olympic trials in the men's...

Curt Clausen, who won a bronze medal in walking at the 1999 world championships, has qualified for his third trip to the Olympics. He took time out of training for his difficult sport to talk with USATODAY.com's Beau Dure.

Synchronized swimming is a demanding sport that requires athletes to do maneuvers that many would find difficult on land, let alone in a pool in which they can't touch the bottom. Yet many in the United States know the sport through an old Saturday...

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