Driven by greed, the sports-trading-card industry all but collapsed. Can it rebuild itself?

NBC's opening-night coverage was as commercial as the Games themselves

An alarm clock keeps the Bridgeton (N.J.) Invitational moving along smartly

Ashley FickleSANTA BARBARA, CALIF.Fickle, a 16-year-old junior on the Westmont College tennis team, became the NAIA's youngest first-team All-America after he reached the men's doubles finals...

An unidentified woman gymnast tried to get a leg up on the competition in the compulsories as the Olympics began.

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His goal-oriented lifestyle, reverence for his family, and demeanor make Emmitt Smith a role model.DAVID TURNER, CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.

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100Years since the first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens.

During a recent men's golf tournament at Lakewood Country Club in Rockville, Md., members held a locker room "vodka shoot-out," featuring an ice sculpture of a nude woman with chilled vodka...

Mike PowellThe U.S. long jumper, to Olympic teammate Dan O'Brien afterMomentarily forgetting the decathlete 's stunning failure to qualify in 1992: "Did you march in Barcelona, Dan?"

Exhibit at Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., to July 27, 1997

The Atlanta Olympics began with an orgy of commercialism that was classically American

As he stood in sun-scorched Woodruff Park last Friday afternoon, waiting among thousands of giddy Atlantans for the Olympic torch to pass by, Roy Blount Jr. confessed to feeling disoriented. "I...

Tom Dolan and Eric Namesnik moved their prickly rivalry from the Michigan pool to the Olympics, with telling effect

Pastime of the nobility or dirty little secret of the Games? The image of fencing is nothing like its reality

Members of the mighty U.S. Softball team have dreams that are far brighter than gold

Frankie Fredericks of Namibia is the leading man in a star-studded cast heading for the starting blocks of the 100 meters in Atlanta

In the games played away from the Olympic arena, Atlanta's street people are losing out

At the British Open, rough and rumpled Tom Lehman did what Greg Norman couldn't: hold off Nick Faldo to win a major championship

In big-bucks bidding, new Laker (and movie genie) Shaquille O'Neal and other top NBA free agents conjured staggering riches

The author found that swimming the English Channel is draining in several ways

Bjarne Riis, a late-blooming Dane, overcame climatic chaos to bring the long reign of Miguel Indurain to a decisive close

A bunch of players are in the midst of career seasons. Are their performances just flukes, or do they bode well?

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Martinez is threatening to break the 65-year-old record for two-baggers, The Marlins' Big Fish, The Last Straw

When the Open comes to this wacky, tacky town, it's just another visitor

Graham steps down as captain in the wake of a player mutiny, Tiger's major accomplishment, New fan plan

Nick Faldo won the hearts of Britons by reaching for the game's highest prize

Muni-hardened Tim Hogarth mixed business with pleasure at the Publinks in paradise

The U.S. show of strength at Royal Lytham proved that the world's best players are made in America