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First Strokes is a New York-based organization working to get teens in the water safely — and to try to remove the barriers to learning. Above, a First Strokes class at Hill Regional Career High School in New Haven, Conn.

Many teens don't know how to swim. A grassroots organization is trying to change that

4:43pm June 09, 2023

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

First Strokes, a nonprofit based in New York City, is helping students learn water safety skills and how to swim. They offer free swimming lessons for teens — taught by other teens.

What is there a shortage of? Find out in the NPR news quiz (hint: it's not smoke)

12:31pm June 09, 2023

by Holly J. Morris

From Barbie to Messi to Rishi Sunak, a lot happened this week. How well were you paying attention?

Does the pop, pop, pop noise of pickleball annoy or entice you?

Pickleball has a noise problem. He's trying to fix it

12:27pm June 09, 2023

Pickleball is America's fastest growing sport, but it has a noise problem. One man is on a mission to fix that.

A preview of the big tennis match between Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic in Paris

4:22pm June 08, 2023

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Sports Illustrated executive editor and senior writer about the Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic tennis match up at the French Open.

Fixing pickleball's noise problem

4:22pm June 08, 2023

Pickleball is one of America's fastest growing sports, but it has a noise problem. Bob Unetich is working to fix it.

Harold Varner III (left) is doused by teammate Talor Gooch after Varner won the LIV Golf Invitational - DC at Trump National Golf Club on May 28, in Sterling, Va. The upstart tour will be united along with the PGA Tour, in a blockbuster merger.

'I still hate LIV': Golf's civil war is over, but how will pro golfers move on?

3:34pm June 08, 2023

by Bill Chappell

"I still hate LIV. Like, I hate it. I hope it goes away," Rory McIlroy, the world's no. 3 player, said of the new deal between the PGA Tour and the Saudi fund behind LIV.

North Carolina state Reps. Jason Saine, left, R-Lincoln, and Rep. Carla Cunningham, D-Mecklenburg

North Carolina lawmakers approve sports and horse-race gambling, bill now heading to governor

10:49am June 08, 2023

by Gary D. Robertson, Associated Press

The North Carolina General Assembly finalized legislation Wednesday to authorize statewide and regulate sports and horse-race wagering, a decision poised to open the nation's ninth-largest state to

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Police in India detain wrestlers after they made sexual harassment allegations

5:04am June 08, 2023

by Shalu Yadav

The IOC has condemned Indian police for their treatment of the country's top wrestlers, who accuse a lawmaker of sexual harassment. (Story aired on All Things Considered on 6/7/23.)

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Messi shocks soccer world with announcement he'll join Miami's MLS team

5:04am June 08, 2023

Soccer legend Lionel Messi is coming to the United States to join Major League Soccer. He will be playing for Inter Miami, a franchise led by soccer icon David Beckham.

Sloane Stephens of the U.S. plays a shot against Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus during their fourth round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Sunday, June 4, 2023.

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Tennis stars get lots of hate online. The French Open gave them AI 'bodyguards'

5:01am June 08, 2023

by Adam Bearne

They've been offered an app intended to block the abuse and toxicity that can slip past older social media filters.

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