Newsome High and the Brandon Blue Wave's Jason Taylor was hoping for a strong USA Swimming Junior National Championships in Minneapolis last week, but wasn't expecting to swim as fast as he did. ...more

August 13, 2008

Newsome High and the Brandon Blue Wave's Jason Taylor was hoping for a strong USA Swimming Junior National Championships in Minneapolis last week, but wasn't expecting to swim as fast as he did. ...more

August 13, 2008

Newsome High and the Brandon Blue Wave's Jason Taylor was hoping for a strong USA Swimming Junior National Championships in Minneapolis last week, but wasn't expecting to swim as fast as he did. ...more

August 13, 2008

Newsome High and the Brandon Blue Wave's Jason Taylor was hoping for a strong USA Swimming Junior National Championships in Minneapolis last week, but wasn't expecting to swim as fast as he did. ...more

August 13, 2008

Newsome High and the Brandon Blue Wave's Jason Taylor was hoping for a strong USA Swimming Junior National Championships in Minneapolis last week, but wasn't expecting to swim as fast as he did. ...more

August 13, 2008

Local youths competing in last month's Amateur Athletic Union Junior Olympic Games in Detroit earned high honors in the karate division, including one teenager whose three gold medals earned her an outstanding performance award. ...more

August 13, 2008

Tied no more. Michael Phelps swam into history as the winningest Olympic athlete ever with his 10th career gold medal - and fourth world record of the Beijing Games. ...more

August 13, 2008

Rafael Nadal took the court at 10:30 a.m. and hit his final shot more than 11 hours later. Roger Federer's first day of Olympic tennis was slightly shorter but just as successful. ...more

August 12, 2008

The great bellow of victory seemed to begin in the soles of Michael Phelps' feet and coil upward through his taut frame, gathering force in that all-world diaphragm, before it came ripping out of his throat. His quest for eight gold medals was still alive, though only by mere fractions of a second, saved by the unforgettably lion-hearted performance of his teammates on the United States' 4x100-meter relay team, anchored by Jason Lezak, who made the water boil with his world-record effort. ...more

August 12, 2008

Michael Phelps got one of his toughest races out of the way, and it couldn't have been any easier. ...more

August 10, 2008