The U.S. women's national team played in the two highest- scoring games in team history, defeating the Dominican Republic 14-0 and Guatemala 13-0 in the opening rounds of the CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament held in Vancouver, Canada.
Portugal's Nelson Evora will not defend his Olympic triple jump gold medal at this summer's London Games because of a fractured shin.
Freestyle skier Sarah Burke died Thursday, a little more than a week after suffering serious injuries in a training accident. She was 29 years old.
Team USA had a strong finish at the IBU World Cup in Nove Mesto, Czech Republic, with the entire men's squad placing in the top 35 in the 12.5km pursuit. Tim Burke (Paul Smiths, N.Y.) placed 16th and posted the top finish for Team USA, while Lowell Bailey (Lake Placid, N.Y.) finished 18th. Russell Currier (Stockholm, Maine) raced to a career-best sixth place in the 10km sprint, and Sara Studebaker (Boise, Idaho) had the highest finish for the American women, placing 42nd in the 10km pursuit.
Miami Heat teammates LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh are three of the 20 finalists for the 2012 U.S. Olympic men's basketball team.
Meb Keflezighi won the U.S. Olympic trials men's marathon Sunday, while Ryan Hall and Abdi Abdirahman finished second and third to also qualify for this summer's games in London.
Freestyle skier Sarah Burke, who has won four Winter X Games gold medals in superpipe, was in "serious" condition after a crash Tuesday.
Simon Cho (Laurel, Md.) and Lana Gehring (Glenview, Ill.) captured the 2012 championship titles on Jan. 8, a first for both, at the U.S. Short Track National Championships in Kearns, Utah. Cho completed the race with a time of 1:33.850 in the men's 1000m. He was followed by Travis Jayner (Midland, Mich.) and Jordan Malone (Denton, Texas), who placed second and third with times of 1:33.931 and 1:33.967. In the women's competition, Gehring finished the 1000m race in 1:31.129 and netted five of six titles from the weekend. She was followed by defending four-time U.S. champion Katherine Reutter (Champaign, Ill.) and Alyson Dudek (Hales Corners, Wis.).
Angela Ruggiero, who won four medals as a member of the U.S. women's Olympic hockey team, has announced her retirement.
Anna Tunnicliffe's (Plantation, Fla.), Molly Vandemoer (Stanford, Calif.) and Debbie Capozzi (Bayport, N.Y.) won the ISAF Sailing World Championships in women's match racing, defeating Great Britain's Lucy MacGregor in four straight matches. Meanwhile, Mark Medelblatt (Miami, Fla.) and Brian Faith (Miami, Fla.) earned a bronze medal in the Star class and Paige Railey (Clearwater, Fla.) earned a bronze in Laser Radial.
Michelle Kwan, the most decorated figure skater in American history, was elected to the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame Class of 2012 on Thursday.
Team USA earned four medals at the 2011 Grand Prix Final and Junior Grand Prix Final. Meryl Davis (West Bloomfield, Mich.) and Charlie White (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) became the first U.S. team to win three straight gold medals at a grand prix final with their top performance in ice dancing, while Jason Brown (Highland Park, Ill.) and Joshua Farris (Colorado Springs, Colo.) earned gold and bronze in junior men's, and Britney Simpson (Golden, Colo.) and Matthew Blackmer (Detroit, Mich.) took the junior pairs bronze medal.
Lindsey Vonn (Vail, Colo.) completed a historic clean sweep in Lake Louise, Alta., topping the Audi FIS Alpine World Cup super G podium on Dec. 4, while Julia Mancuso (Squaw Valley, Calif.) finished third. It was Vonn's 45th career world cup win and 11th in Lake Louise. Following a season- opening giant slalom victory in Soelden, Austria, a pair of downhill victories, and the super G win in Canada, Vonn now has four victories in the five races she's started this season.
Marathoner Paula Radcliffe has been selected to compete for Great Britain at the 2012 London Olympics, where she will resume the pursuit of her first Olympic medal.
Eight companies have been named finalists for the right to build the course that will be used for golf's return to the Olympics in 2016.
Elana Meyers (Douglasville, Ga.) and Katie Eberling (Palos Hills, Ill.) won the women's race at the Europa Cup in Koenigssee, Germany, on Nov. 25 to secure their first victory of the season. Meyers teamed with Brittany Reinbolt (Searcy, Ark.) to earn another gold medal the following day. Meanwhile, Steven Holcomb (Park City, Utah) and Steve Langton (Melrose, Mass.) claimed silver on Nov. 26 in the two-man bobsled. Holcomb and his USA-1 four- man bobsled crew of Langton, Justin Olsen (San Antonio, Texas) and Curt Tomasevicz (Shelby, Neb.) finished fourth in the final Europa Cup race on Nov. 27. Brad Stewart (Hastings, Minn.) earned his first international medal on Nov. 26 after claiming bronze in the second men's skeleton Europa Cup competition of the season.
The U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team lost a 29-27, 25-23, 25-18 match to host Japan on Nov. 18, at Yoyogi National Stadium to finish with the silver medal in the 2011 FIVB World Cup. With the top-three finish, the U.S. (9-2, 26 points) achieved its primary goal of 2012 Olympic Games qualification one day earlier by defeating Italy. The silver medal also represents Team USA's highest finish in the FIVB World Cup after back-to-back bronze finishes in 2003 and 2007.
A former U.S. women's Olympic gymnastics coach accused of having sex with at least three young gymnasts has been banned for life from the sport and kicked out of the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame.
Olympic gold medalist Evan Lysacek will be among the figure skaters performing Friday night in the Smucker's Stars on Ice at BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise.
I'm going to miss this crazy town. I have to go back to Miami, because my daughter starts school Monday. (Miami-Dade public schools start in mid-August, which seems insanely early, but it's the only way to guarantee that the school year will be disrupted by hurricanes.)
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