MELBOURNE, Oct. 7. AUSTRALIA'S Simon Leighfield, 29, set the only world record on Day One of the World Masters Games in Melbourne. Leighfield blitzed the 200m breaststroke in 2:20.25, slicing

By Forbes Carlile SYDNEY, October 7. CHINA'S performance at the just-concluded Asian Games invites new questions about doping — not because her female swimmers were so spectacular in Busan –they

BERKELEY, CA., Oct. 6. THE Bruins are definitely NOT in ruins. UCLA's men's water polo team, NCAA champs in 1999-2000 and runners-up to Stanford last season, bounced back from a

CITY OF COMMERCE, Calif., Oct. 6. PAUL V. Carter began the short course season where he left off in long course — breaking two USMS national records over the weekend

BERKELEY, CA. Oct. 5. COACH Nort Thornton's Cal Golden Bears men's swimming team — among the contenders for national honors at next spring's NCAA Championships in Austin the final weekend

SACRAMENTO, CA., October 5. WITH the debate about the interpretation and implementation of Title IX raging — and with the Collegiate Wrestling Coaches' Assn. having filed suit in federal court

BUSAN, South Korea, Oct. 6. KAZAKHSTAN was the surprise winner of the gold medal in water polo in the Asian Games today, upsetting Japan 15-14 in a hard-fought, overtime game.

LOS ANGELES, October 5. AS one of America's first women swimming superstars, Donna de Varona — double Olympic gold medalist and winner of the first 400 IM in Tokyo in

TEMPE, Ariz., Oct. 4. THE Arizona State Swimming and Diving program got its season underway with the annual Maroon and Gold intrasquad meet at Mona Plummer Aquatic Center this afternoon.

NOTRE DAME, Ind., Oct. 5. THE Notre Dame men's and women's swimming and diving team swept all but two events Friday at the 2002 Notre Dame Relays held at the