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BRUNSWICK, Maine. May 8. DAN Hanley, former chief physician to the United States Olympic team and among the first to recognize the dangers of steroids, has died at 85. He was chief physician for several U.S. Olympic teams between 1960 and 1972. Hanley helped to develop protocols for drug testing in ...

Tara Kirk, a 2004 Olympian and '04 Stanford graduate, has been inducted into the Stanford Athletics Hall of Fame along with Rick Schavone, the former Head Diving Coach of the Cardinal for more than 30 years. One of the most decorated diving coaches in the country, Schavone spent 36 years as Stanford...

COLORADO SPRINGS- The most prestigious swimming competition to be staged in the U.S. since the 1996 Olympic Games will be held in Indianapolis, Ind., as FINA awarded the city the 2004 Short Course World Championships, FINA Honorary Secretary Gunnar Werner announced today. The meet, which will take p...

Dear Dr. Perlman, I am saddened by the growing number of colleges and universities choosing to drop men's swimming and diving from their athletic programs. I understand and can appreciate budget constraints, but I have been informed (reliably, I hope) that Nebraska's men's swim budget (r...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, June 18. THE Penn State women’s swimming and diving program and head coach Tim Murphy have inked six new swimmers and divers for the 2014-15 campaign. The class is full of local talent with five Pennsylvania products and one student-athlete from Virginia. The new class...

Commentary By George Block SAN ANTONIO, Texas, March 27, 2014 THE biggest news at the NCAA s happened before anyone hit the water today. A regional director of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that football players at Northwestern University can unionize. Peter Sung Ohr, the NLRB Regi...

Budapest, Hungary - The US Team suffered a second straight defeat and finished fourth at the Unicum Cup. The loss came at the hands of Australia by a score of 5-4. Unfortunately, the US team was jolted by an injury to star 2m man Chris Humbert. In a game against Germany, Humbert was kneed or kicked ...

AUSTIN, Texas, March 7. WALLY Pryor, beloved for years as a champion for aquatic sports in the state of Texas and “The Voice of the Longhorns,” died March 1 at 86 years old. Pryor was best known as the announcer at several football and basketball games at the University of Texas, and also served in ...

NCAA Championship editorial coverage is proudly sponsored by Competitor Swim. Visit CompetitorSwim.com for more information on our sponsor. For all the latest coverage, check out our event coverage page. Also, make sure to check out our Facebook photo gallery for the latest images from the meet in A...

PHOENIX, April 26. LETTERS of support have been rolling in since we posted Phil Whitten's editorial: "S.O.S.: save Our Sport. A Call to Action." Here is a sample: SAVING MEN'S SWIMMING count me in! my swimming background includes: a.. swimming in high school and a.a.u. b.. swimming for both ...

March 5. A RECOMMENDATION released Thursday, Feb. 22 by the James Madison University administration would enable the university to continue offering all 28 intercollegiate sports that are now available at JMU. The recommendation would reverse the previously announced decision that would have cut swi...

INDIANAPOLIS, IN, Dec. 13. THE NCAA Honors Committee has named Stanford women's swimmer Misty Hyman (1997-2001) as one of eight national recipients of the NCAA Today's Top VIII Awards. The NCAA Today's Top VIII Award winners are a group of distinguished student-athletes from the 2001 cal...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, March 26. MISSY Franklin capped off an incredible week by accepting the Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year award during a star-studded ceremony in Malaysia tonight. “Oh my gosh,” said the nine-time world champion upon accepting the award. “I don’t know what I’m doing here....

KUALA LUMPUR, March 23. AMERICAN teenager Missy Franklin, the first woman swimmer in history to win six gold medals at a single World Championships, at the age of just 18, is the latest global sports star to confirm attendance at the Laureus World Sports Awards, the premier honours event on the inte...

BERKELEY, CA., Nov. 25. THE clock struck 12, Cinderella's glass slipper turned into a musty old sneaker and her Ralph Lauren Polo-designer gown became...well, you know the story. Stanford's top-seeded and top-ranked Cardinal, on the strength of (who else?) red-shirt freshman Tony Azevedo'...

March 28. OUR fears, articulated several weeks ago that the Iowa State University men's swim team may be vulnerable to being cut, sadly have been realized. In the last 24 hours we have received several e-mails from ISU students and alums asking for support and help. Jim Zenk, a 1995 ISU grad and...

Commentary by George Block SAN ANTONIO, Texas, May 27. THE "Big 5" college football conferences are inching closer to independence from the NCAA. Meanwhile, the concept of a players' union for revenue sports inches closer to court. With these two developments in mind, the business model of college s...

Gilles Sezionale is a man in the know on swimming and the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The head of the French Swimming Federation (FFN), a pharmacist by profession and currently working on the front line of the global health emergency, has harnessed his knowledge and status in both worlds to tel...

By Phillip Whitten LAWRENCE, Kansas. March 8. THE decision by the University of Kansas to ax men's swimming and tennis has met with fierce resistance from students and student-athletes at the university as well as from outraged alumni. The reaction was immediate, as students ripped gaping holes ...

TUCSON, Arizona, July 12. THOUGH much of the conversation regarding gay athletes has focused on professional football and basketball lately, swimming also has its share of out athletes. In the past 12 months, more than a dozen swimmers and divers have publicly come out as gay to their teams and have...