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FILE - Stanford's Shane Griffith celebrates after defeating Pittsburgh's Jake Wentzel during their 165-pound match in the finals of the NCAA wrestling championships in St. Louis, in this Saturday, March 20, 2021, file photo. Griffith wore a black singlet minus the Stanford logo as a statement after the school announced in July that wrestling and 10 other sports, most of them that produce athletes for the U.S. Olympic team, would be dropped to save money. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
Olympic gold: 'Keep Stanford Wrestling' aims to save program

By Pat Graham Apr. 08, 2021 06:53 PM EDT

Seiko Hashimoto, president of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Organizing Committee, speaks during a press conference following the Tokyo 2020 Executive Board meeting in Tokyo Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. (Yuichi Yamazaki/Pool Photo via AP)
Seiko Hashimoto takes over as Tokyo Olympic president

By Stephen Wade Feb. 17, 2021 11:04 PM EST

Japan's Olympics Minister Seiko Hashimoto, center, is surrounded by reporters at the Lower House in Tokyo, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021. Japan's Kyodo news agency, citing a source “familiar with the matter,” said a selection committee will ask Hashimoto to become the new president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee. Hashimoto, who could be named this week, would replace Yoshiro Mori who was forced to resign last week after he made demeaning comments about women — basically saying they talk too much.(Meika Fujio/Kyodo News via AP)
Report: Hashimoto will be offered job to head Tokyo Olympics

By Stephen Wade Feb. 17, 2021 08:01 AM EST

People walk by signage to promote the Olympic Games, in Tokyo, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. The Olympics are scheduled to open on July 23 but recent polls show about 80% of the Japanese public want the Olympics canceled or postponed. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
Tokyo Olympics to pick Mori replacement; is a woman likely?

By Stephen Wade Feb. 16, 2021 01:22 AM EST

FILE - In this Jan. 24, 2014, file photo, former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori answers a reporter's question at a press conference in Tokyo as Mori was officially appointed head of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic organizing committee. Mori resigned Friday, Feb. 12, 2021 as the president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee following sexist comments implying women talk too much. (AP photo/Junji Kurokawa, File)
Mori is gone but gender issues remain for Tokyo Olympics

By Stephen Wade Feb. 12, 2021 06:59 AM EST

FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2019, file photo, Utah head coach Larry Krystkowiak speaks during the Pac-12 NCAA college basketball media day, in San Francisco. The return of football isn't likely to make much of a dent in the losses athletic departments across the Pac-12 will ultimately incur because of the coronavirus pandemic. Faced with dramatic budget shortfalls, most schools in the league have already resorted to layoffs, furloughs, and cutting some sports entirely. At Utah, football coach Kyle Kyle Whittingham and men's basketball coach Larry Krystkowiak both took salary cuts to help offset up to $60 million in projected losses. (AP Photo/D. Ross Cameron, File)
Pac-12 football may be back, but not all the revenue will be

By Anne M. Peterson Oct. 13, 2020 01:32 PM EDT

FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2009, file photo, Japan's Shintaro Ishihara, President of Tokyo's 2016 Bid Committee, left, and former swimmer Mikako Kotani are pictured during a news conference of Tokyo's bid team in Copenhagen, Denmark. The organizing committee of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics announced Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, it has named Kotani as its new sports director. Kotani won two bronze medals in synchronized swimming, now called artistic swimming, at the the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. (AP Photo/Fabian Bimmer, File)
Tokyo Olympics name Mikako Kotani as new sports director

Sep. 30, 2020 03:49 AM EDT

Brazil sets Olympic camp in Portugal due to pandemic at home

By Mauricio Savarese Jul. 27, 2020 06:06 PM EDT
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil has set up its Olympic training camp in Rio ... Rio Maior that is, a relatively small Portuguese city of 21,000 residents outside...

FILE - In this Jan. 2, 2019, file photo, Penn State's Bo Nickal, rear left, wrestles with Stanford's Nathan Traxler in the 197-pound championship bout of the Southern Scuffle wrestling tournament in Chattanooga, Tenn. Stanford announced Wednesday, July 8, 2020, that it is dropping 11 sports amid financial difficulties caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The school will discontinue men’s and women’s fencing, field hockey, lightweight rowing, men’s rowing, co-ed and women’s sailing, squash, synchronized swimming, men’s volleyball and wrestling after the 2020-21 academic year. Stanford also is eliminating 20 support staff positions.(C.B. Schmelter/Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP, File)
'Heartbreaking day' — Stanford drops 11 sports to cut costs

By John Marshall Jul. 08, 2020 02:08 PM EDT

The Arizona Diamondbacks play an intrasquad baseball game Tuesday, July 7, 2020, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)
The Latest: D-Backs' Guerra returns after negative test

By The Associated Press Jul. 08, 2020 01:21 PM EDT

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May. 06, 2020 08:57 AM EDT
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May. 05, 2020 11:26 AM EDT
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FILE - In this March 26, 2020, file photo, Jason Hackedorn looks into Progressive Field, home of the Cleveland Indians baseball team, in Cleveland. With the distinct possibility of pro sports resuming in empty venues, a recent poll suggests a majority of U.S. fans wouldn't feel safe attending games anyway without a coronavirus vaccine.(AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)
The Latest: Indy high school to hold graduation at Speedway

By The Associated Press May. 05, 2020 05:25 AM EDT

Chiara Colicchia starts a training session at the Acquaniene swimming center in Rome, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. The athletes of the Italian down syndrome synchronized swimming team, continue their training at home despite the Tokyo 2020 postponement due to the lockdown for the COVID-19. Synchronized swimming is not yet a Paralympic sport and the Italian team were aiming at a non-competitive festival in Japan which is the routine showcase before becoming part of the official list. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
AP PHOTOS: Down syndrome synchro team aims for Paralympics

By Paolo Santalucia And Alessandra Tarantino Apr. 12, 2020 04:15 AM EDT