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Aly Raisman Is Ready To Burn It All Down

Olympic gold medalist gymnast Aly Raisman delivered a 13-minute victim impact statement today in front of Ingham County Circuit Judge Rosemarie Aquilina and Larry Nassar himself, in which she excoriated not just Nassar for his sexual abuses against herself and nearly 150 other athletes, but also US...

Former Olympian Jordyn Wieber Identifies Self As Larry Nassar Victim At Sentencing Hearing

American gymnast Jordyn Wieber was a member of the U.S. gymnastics team that competed at the Summer Olympics in 2012, and won a gold medal in the team competition. Up until now, she was not known to be a victim of former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, who has pleaded guilty to multiple counts o...

Women Continue To Address Decades Of Sexual Abuse By Larry Nassar On Third Day Of Sentencing

More than a dozen women gave statements in court today about the sexual abuse that they endured at the hands of former U.S.A. gymnastics and Michigan State University doctor Larry Nassar. Currently in jail on child pornography charges, Nassar has pled guilty and is now awaiting sentencing on 10 coun...

USA Gymnastics Will No Longer Train Athletes At The Karolyi Ranch

Just a few days after four-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles said that Larry Nassar—the former Michigan State and USA Gymnastics physician who has pleaded guilty to multiple counts of criminal sexual misconduct—sexually abused her at the in Karolyi Ranch in Huntsville, Texas, USA Gymnastics an...

Larry Nassar In Letter To Judge: Listening To Victims' Statements In Court Is Too Mentally Taxing 

Larry Nassar, who admitted to decades of sexual abuse of girls and young women, often under the guise of medical treatment, wrote a letter to the judge in charge of his sentencing hearing in which he accused her of using the hearing to get media attention for herself and expressed concern about his...

Report: More Than A Dozen Michigan State Staffers Were Told Of Larry Nassar's Sexual Abuse And Nothing Happened

During the first day of sentencing this week of Larry Nassar, the former Michigan State and USA Gymnastics doctor who will spend the rest of his life in prison and is accused of sexually abusing more than 150 women and girls, no MSU officials were in the courtroom. A school spokesperson said they di...

More Women Address Larry Nassar's Sexual Abuse At Day Two Of His Sentencing

Twenty-one more women spoke on Wednesday at day two of Larry Nassar’s sentencing hearing. The former U.S.A. gymnastics and Michigan State University doctor has pled guilty to decades of sexual abuse on women and young girls in his care, and the court has now heard 50 total victim-impact statements o...

How This Hockey Team Will Run Tonight’s Game In An Empty Arena<em></em>

The AHL’s Charlotte Checkers sold more than 7,000 hot dogs last night during their 3-0 win over the Bridgeport Sound Tigers. At today’s home game, they’ll sell zero....

Women Describe Larry Nassar's Decades Of Sexual Abuse At First Day Of His Sentencing

More than two dozen women who said they were sexually abused by Larry Nassar, dating back to the early 1990s, gave victim-impact statements today in a Ingham County, Mich., courtroom. The statements were read ahead of Nassar’s sentence on 10 counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct. Together, ...

Aly Raisman Says USA Gymnastics Should Stop Sending Athletes To Karolyi Ranch

The Karyolyi ranch in Huntsville, Texas, has been USA Gymnastics’ training center for the sport’s most elite talent since 2001. Owned and operated by coaching legends Marta and Bela Karolyi, a list of gymnasts that now includes Simone Biles and Aly Raisman say it was the perfect environment for form...

Simone Biles Reveals She Too Was Sexually Abused By Larry Nassar

Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles said today on Twitter that she was sexually abused by former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar....

Denis Shapovalov And Coco Vandeweghe Both Had Banana Trouble At The Australian Open

Tennis players often snack on bananas during changeovers. The light meal is routine and usually without drama, but Day One of the Australian Open featured two banana incidents....

The Gerrit Cole Deal Sure Looks Odd For Pittsburgh

The Pirates have been playing with the burners of the hot stove for weeks now over the possibility of a Gerrit Cole trade, and now that it’s finally happened, they have surprisingly little to show for it....

Maggie Nichols Reveals That She Was A Larry Nassar Victim

Former USA Gymnastics national team member Maggie Nichols has revealed that she was sexually abused by former Team USA physician Larry Nassar, and that she was the first member of the U.S. team to alert USA Gymnastics to Nassar’s behavior....

Erik Karlsson Wasn't Ready For Andreas Athanasiou

It took just six seconds for young Red Wing upstart Andreas Athanasiou to get the winning goal in overtime against the Senators Wednesday night. And for that, he can thank the best defenseman in hockey....

There Are No Remaining Undefeateds In Men's College Basketball

Villanova, Arizona State, and TCU entered their Saturday games as the sole undefeated teams in men’s college basketball, and one after another, they all lost that honor. Tenth-ranked TCU went down in a 90-89 thriller against Trae Young and Oklahoma, the number-one ’Nova Wildcats got beat up in India...

Report: Astros Coach Rich Dauer Was Rushed From World Series Parade For Life-Saving Surgery 

Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic has a fantastically detailed story about how Astros first base coach Rich Dauer came very close to death before being rushed into emergency brain surgery from the team’s World Series championship parade last month....

The Gift That Keeps On Giving

Police Documents Detail Another Time Michigan State Failed To Stop Larry Nassar

More than two years before the serial sexual abuse of athletes by USA Gymnastic and Michigan State doctor Larry Nassar became widely known and discovered, the university failed to protect the women in his care. Police reports, originally obtained by the Lansing State Journal, show that Michigan Stat...

McKayla Maroney Accuses USA Gymnastics Of Buying Her Silence On Sexual Abuse [Update]

Olympic champion McKayla Maroney recently said that she’d been sexually abused by disgraced USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar for years, and on Wednesday she filed a lawsuit against USA Gymnastics for supposedly paying her to sign an unlawful confidentiality agreement about that abuse. Maroney late...