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Aaron Pike is one of many top competitors to emerge from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign program.

McGrory is a three-time Bank of America Chicago Marathon champion with back-to-back victories in 2007 and 2008 and another in 2010.

This year marks Tatyana McFadden’s 12th start in Chicago.

Marcel Hug (a.k.a. the “silver bullet”) enters the Bank of America Chicago Marathon as one of the most dominant athletes of 2021.

Daniel Romanchuk seized his first AbbottWMM win in Chicago last fall and he has been invincible ever since.

According to the Council on Foreign Relations, every city hosting the Olympics since 1960 incurred cost overruns, sometimes by tens of billions of dollars.

Ahead of the Tokyo Olympics, athletes from gymnasts to skateboarders to water polo players reflect on the role their family has played in their career.

NBA legend Dwyane Wade buys ownership stake in Utah Jazz

“It’s important that women are not only paid equal, but treated with equal respect.”

There will be six different art pieces for sale ranging from $2,500 to $15,000, and the drop will include a mystery auction item with no set price.

Nike will investigate accusations of abuse by Mary Cain while she was part of Alberto Salazar’s training group. The runner says it reached the point where she started having suicidal thoughts and cutting herself. Cain joined the disbanded Nike Oregon Project run by Salazar in 2013, soon after competing in the 1,500-meter final at track and field’s world championships when...

The United States’ largest governing body for college athletics took the first step Tuesday toward allowing amateur athletes to cash in on their fame, voting unanimously to permit them to “benefit from the use of their name, image and likeness.” The NCAA and its member schools now must figure out how to allow athletes to profit while still maintaining rules...

Daniel Romanchuk seized his first AbbottWMM win in Chicago last fall and he has been invincible ever since.

Tatyana McFadden, a four-time Paralympian, made history in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 as the only athlete to ever win four AbbottWMM in one year: London, Boston, Chicago and New York. In total, she has won 22 AbbottWMM in just 10 years of elite marathon racing. But she has recently shared the spotlight with Switzerland’s Manuela Schär, and Shär, the...

Mo Farah, a four-time Olympic gold medalist, six-time world champion and five-time European champion, enters this year’s Chicago Marathon as the defending champion.

Emma Bates is an exciting athlete to welcome to this year’s field. After struggling to find her stride while running professionally in Boston, she packed up and moved back to Boise, Idaho – opting for solitude and serenity over the hustle and bustle of a major metropolitan city. Soon, she’ll return to the big city for a big run.

An ex-cheerleader who suffered multiple concussions while on the University of California, Berkeley’s cheerleading team, filed a lawsuit against the school, USA Federation for Sport Cheering, and her former coaches, for repeatedly endangering her health and safety, according to a complaint filed this week in Alameda County Superior Court.

A book written by Chanel Miller, the woman who was sexually assaulted by ex-Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner, was released to the public Tuesday.

A North Texas high school is mourning the sudden death of a 16-year-old football player who reportedly collapsed and died in his twin brother’s arms.

Federal investigators are looking into the way the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee and national governing bodies of Olympic sports handled sex-abuse allegations, people with knowledge of the investigations told The Associated Press on Friday. The probes, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, come in the aftermath of the Larry Nassar sex-abuse cases that led to massive turnover at...