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Venezuela and University of Denver gymnast Jessica Lopez -- surprise, surprise -- isn't huge. But when the Olympian completes a double twist, she generates the same amount of energy as NBA big man Dwight Howard. See how she does it in this edition of...

If it wasn't the best sports day in history it was certainly one of the busiest. From tennis to soccer to baseball to tracks to hockey to basketball to boxing, June 9 had everything but football.

The first weekend of the NBA playoffs proved to be a wild one. The top two teams in the West were defeated, as the eighth-seeded Memphis Grizzlies picked up their first playoff win in franchise history. Here's what else you missed this weekend.

When Dominique Dawes walks into Team USA's gym. In the 1996, Dawes became the first African-American woman to win gymnastic gold, at the Atlanta Olympics. Apparently she made a big impression on Dwight Howard, who was not yet even Super Boy. Back the...

Olympic athletes may be allowed to blog for the first time at the 2008 Beijing Games.

I'm going to be a guest on sportstalk radio in Wisconsin this afternoon. Fellow named Homer. We both used to work at Madison's WIBA. So, in honor of Wisconsin, here's a highlight of their new rookie doing some sweet gymnastics as a warmup to a so-s...

In honor of tonight's gymnastics-as-basketball competition, here's a real dunk--one against defense. Thanks to Coach McCormick for finding this dunk, which was requested in the comments of Vince Carter's Olympic dunk....

Sharon Stoll knows why the sports page often reads like a police blotter -- filled with news of illegal drugs, rapes, beatings and other crimes committed by athletes.