With a smile and a wave — not to mention a win — Galen Rupp bid goodbye to college and started a new chapter in his career. Rupp easily won the 10,000 meters on the track at Hayward Field at the U.S. championships, his last race representing the University of ...

It is hard to believe that it has been 37 years since the Munich Olympics, the so-called Serene Olympics that turned out to be anything but. Everybody who was there or watching on TV lost something during the summer of 1972, beginning, of course, with the Israeli athletes who lost their lives to ...

Olympic gold medalist LaShawn Merritt bested his own Hayward Field record by winning the seldom-run 300 meters in 31.30 seconds Sunday in the Prefontaine Classic. Merritt, who won gold in the 400 last summer in Beijing, surpassed his own mark of 31.31 at the venerated ...