OAKLAND — Less than 3,000 fans attended an Oakland Athletic game on a quiet night earlier this month. The large, old coliseum was so empty and serene that visiting Tampa Bay Rays players could hear the clear expression of every taunt that came their way. Rays outfielder Brett Phillips said one of his teammates told …
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Jeremy Giambi, who played for the Oakland Athletics and three other teams in his six-season career in Major League Baseball, was found dead in Southern California on Wednesday. He was 47 years old. His manager, Joel Wolfe, confirmed the death. Associated PressHe reported that he was located in Claremont, east of Los Angeles. The cause …
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TOKYO – A week and a half passed in extremes. Excessive heat. Extremely sharp and an extreme trace, two technological advances that combine to produce extreme times. But it’s also the extreme absence of spectators, a gap that athletes try to camouflage with extreme performances. Athletics at the Tokyo Games helped fill the final 10 …
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Here are some highlights of Wednesday evening and overnight US broadcast coverage. All times are East. ATHLETICS A series of running finals airs tonight on USA Network. women’s pole vault, men’s shot put, men’s triple jump and men’s 110 meters hurdles. To be careful Grant Hollowaythe dominant American 110m barriers to secure the Olympic dock …
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Here are the highlights of Wednesday morning’s US broadcast coverage. All times are East. DIVE The qualifying round in the women’s 10 meter platform diving airs is live in the USA at 02:30. VOLLEYBALL In the women’s quarterfinals, Serbia faces Italy at 4 p.m. and Brazil faces Russia at 8:30 p.m. Both matches will be …
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Ball, for his part, doesn’t seem to have much trouble keeping perspective. “It always seems funny to me because they’re like, ‘Oh, my Achilles hurts,’” Ball said. “Okay, well, they cut off a part of my eye last week. Everyone has problems.” Gravity is the enemy Ball grew up in Davenport, Iowa, where his father …
Here are some highlights of Saturday morning’s US broadcast coverage. All times are East. ARCHERY The men’s individual quarterfinals, semi-finals and final will begin at 1:45 p.m. on CNBC at the Yumenoshima Park Archery Range. NBC will air the finale at 8 a.m. TENNIS Swiss Belinda Bencic plays with Czech Republic’s Marketa Vondrousova for the …
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Women competing in the 5,000 meters. On Saturday, men and women will compete against each other for the first time in Olympic track and field. Credit…Alexandra Garcia/The New York Times TOKYO – Saturday is the day for the new mixed gender events at the Olympics. The track will feature the 4×400 mixed relay and the …
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Leeper’s preferred running legs made him nearly 6 feet 6 inches tall when competing. He stood out as the next great blade runner in 2018, running the 400 meters in 44.42 seconds. Time could have earned him a spot on the 2016 United States Olympic team. However, he should have competed at around 6 feet …
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TOKYO – Dutch Sifan Hassan can try to do something unprecedented at the Tokyo Games: win the ladies’ 1,500, 5,000 and 10,000 meters. To do this, he would need to run multiple knockouts in multiple events, including five races over the next six days if he successfully passed the rounds. He kicked off his bid …
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For six years, Sebastian Coe, president of the athletics world governing body, has been fighting a battle. A two-time gold medal winner in the 1,500m and a former member of the British Parliament, Coe was on a mission to uphold his vision of a level playing field, even as he faced increasingly vocal advocates for …
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TOKYO – Until then it never feels like the Olympics athletics begins. The match starts on Friday morning in Tokyo with the women’s 100m qualifiers and continues all day until the men’s 10,000s single final in the evening. After a loss, a win and a draw, the USA women’s soccer team faces a life-or-death final …
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