Tag: Olympics

If the box score was all that mattered, this game wasn’t even close. But for 72 minutes, it was a lot closer. Tobin Heath scored in the 16th minute to get the U.S. on the board but it wasn’t until […]

NBC and Comcast have won the bid for the Olympic games. The NBC family will retain the rights to Olympic coverage in the United States through the 2020 games. The deal includes the 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2020 games and […]

In Switzerland Monday, Fox led off the presentations to gain TV rights for the Olympic games. The three U.S. networks bidding for the next set of television rights, Fox, NBC and ESPN, will most likely lead to a multi-billion-dollar deal. […]

The International Olympic Committee is working out details for TV rights for the next two Olympics. The IOC is currently “feeling out” offers for the 2014 and 2016 Olympic games. The three companies – NBC, Fox and ESPN – are […]

Former Oregon State University rower Josh Inman has made the U.S. Olympic Team in the men’s pair. Inman, a graduate of Hillsboro High School, teamed with Matt Schnobrich of St. Paul, Minn., with a time of 6:38.104 over the 2,000-meter […]

GUEST COLUMNIST: Jenna Santelli "The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself," said former Olympic swimmer from Australia Dawn Fraser. To be an Olympian, I feel, is probably one of […]