Mike Downey

In 1936, our basketball team kicked some serious Olympic butt. A guy named Joe Fortenberry scored eight points in the gold-medal game. So did Canada. Final score: U.S. 19, Canada...

Ding Dong must love this. And so must Overmars, Johnny Bravo, Mundo, Chicken and Bear, Pree Dam, Strength and Sir Yummy They are the Jamaicans who taught Usain Bolt his...

Terrorized by a stalker, depressed, seeing a psychologist, dreading medication, selling her house to avoid bankruptcy, seeing the guy placed under house arrest, having him turn up anyhow, fearing murder...

Our relations with China were nearly broken at the plate. A near-brawl with our Olympic hosts in a baseball game won 9-1 by the U.S. team Monday night resulted in...

Tall and tan and young and handsome, the boy from Espana goes walking. And each girl he passes goes, "Aaah." When he walks it's like a samba that swings so...

One flew through the Bird's Nest. Usain Bolt is his name. Track and field is his game. He comes from Jamaica, man. He runs like lightning. The wind can't catch...

Dara Torres was born on April 15, 1967, two weeks before a blessed event at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas -- the wedding of singer Elvis Presley and his...

She isn't coming. I am sitting here under a red canopy with a Coca-Cola logo (in Chinese) on it, waiting for Iraq's only woman in the Olympics to show up....

When he was 5, a cute boy from Southern California by the name of Nuufolau Joel Seanoa -- now a 29-year-old pro wrestler known as "Samoa Joe" -- performed a...

"Did you do it for Michael?" "How did Michael feel about what you did?" "It must have made you really happy for Michael." Michael, Michael, Michael! He may be America's...