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A college volleyball match in Nebraska has set a world record

6:05am August 31, 2023

The record is for attendance at a women's sporting event. More than 92,000 fans packed the Cornhuskers' stadium Wednesday to watch the Huskers vanquish the Omaha Mavericks in a 3-0 sweep.

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In Spain, there's a reckoning over sexism and women's sports

6:56am August 30, 2023

Spain's World Cup victory was supposed to be a moment of triumph, but it was overshadowed when the head of the country's soccer federation planted an unwanted kiss on one of the team's star players.

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Coco Gauff is praised after she calls out a U.S. Open chair umpire over slow play

5:10am August 30, 2023

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Amira Rose Davis, assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin, about tennis player Coco Gauff's argument with a chair umpire.

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5:10am August 30, 2023

Florida braces for Hurricane Idalia as it prepares to make landfall. Senior leaders of the Proud Boys will be sentenced Wednesday. And an unwanted kiss may have set off a new movement in Spain.

Noah Lyles celebrates after anchoring the USA team to victory in the men's 4x100m relay final during the World Athletics Championships at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest on August 26.

Noah Lyles questioned the NBA 'world champions' label. Everyone had thoughts

5:13pm August 28, 2023

by Manuela López Restrepo

When track and field star Noah Lyles questioned why people refer to NBA title winners as "world champions," everyone from Drake to Kevin Durant rushed to have their say.

With her her 8th U.S. Championship win, Simone Biles is still the gymnastics GOAT

4:55pm August 28, 2023

NPR's Juana Summers talks with writer Camonghne Felix about how Simone Biles won her eighth U.S. Championship Sunday night — a record — 10 years after she first ascended to the top of her sport.

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Gymnast Simone Biles wins a record 8th U.S. title a full decade after her first

7:22am August 28, 2023

At 26, Biles became the oldest woman to win a national title since USA Gymnastics began organizing the event in 1963. What's next? Biles told the AP she wants to keep her goals private.

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Serbia's Novak Djokovic, left, and Spain's Carlos Alcaraz pose for a photo ahead of the final of the men's singles on day fourteen of the Wimbledon tennis championships in London, Sunday, July 16, 2023.

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Alcaraz and Djokovic symbolize the transition in tennis as U.S. Open is set to begin

4:39am August 28, 2023

by The Associated Press

Observers say the sport for both the men's and women's games is changing, leaving parity and opportunities for new ascending champions.

Simone Biles warms up before the U.S. Gymnastics Championships Sunday, Aug. 27, 2023, in San Jose, Calif.

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Simone Biles wins a record 8th U.S. gymnastics title a full decade after her first

10:51pm August 27, 2023

by The Associated Press

Biles became the oldest woman to win a national title since USA Gymnastics began organizing the event in 1963. Her eight crowns moved her past Alfred Jochim, who won seven between 1925-33.

Driver Ryan Preece is introduced on stage on Saturday at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla. His car flipped over in a terrifying wreck in the race's final laps.

NASCAR driver Ryan Preece is released from the hospital after violent multi-flip crash

9:10pm August 27, 2023

by Emma Bowman

Preece went to the hospital on Saturday after his Mustang flipped at least 10 times during the final laps of the NASCAR Cup Series race in Daytona Beach, Fla.