The roster of Olympic sports might be expanding with a very unusual addition. During the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, classic sports such as swimming, track and field, gymnastics and basketball might be joined by the likes of surfing, sport climbing, skateboarding and, unexpectedly enough, breakdancing. Karate, baseball/softball, squash, chess, snooker and petanque also applied for…

University of Tennessee women’s basketball  coach Pat Summitt announced in an open letter that she was diagnosed by doctors as having early onset dementia at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn this summer. The inspiring part of this story is that the 59-year-old Hall Famer is determined to continue coaching the Lady Vols for the 2011-2012…

By MICHELE CHABIN c. 2011 Religion News Service JERUSALEM (RNS) The international basketball federation has decided to permit an Orthodox Jewish basketball player to cover her arms during competitions in accordance with her religious beliefs. FIBA made the decision several weeks after point guard Naama Shafir, a member of the Israeli national women’s basketball team,…

By CATHY LYNN GROSSMAN and SEAN LEAHY c. 2011 USA TODAY (RNS) Tim Tebow is a 23-year-old second-year, second-string quarterback on a so-so NFL team. So who’s going to buy his memoirs? What’s to remember? Only … — The play-by-play of his life from conception (his missionary dad, Bob, prayed for a son and promised…

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