Alex Kirschenbaum is a Newsweek reporter covering sports and entertainment content based in Los Angeles. He has in-depth knowledge of all things basketball, particularly the NBA and WNBA.

The U.S. Olympic team for the 2026 Milan Cortina Games is starting to take shape now that the 2024-25 winter sports season is nearly complete. Two-time Olympic gold medalist Chloe Kim became the first ...

The Redeem Team is officially in the Naismith Hall of Fame. The 2008 men's Olympic basketball team earned the moniker "Redeem Team" after an underperformance at the 2004 Athens Games with a bronze ...

The U.S. Olympic team for the 2026 Milan Cortina Games is starting to take shape now that the 2024-25 winter sports season is nearly complete. Two-time Olympic gold medalist Chloe Kim became the ...

Flag football's Olympic debut at LA28 sparks debate over NFL player participation. While players like Jalen Hurts are eager, team owners fear injuries and disrupted training. The NFL sees global ...

After a year of intensive training, 11 determined Emirati athletes competed in six winter sports at the Special Olympics World Winter Games Turin 2025, held from March 8 to 15. The team returned ...

Team USA gymnast Jade Carey, a gold medal winner at the Paris Olympics last year, has revealed she is in a relationship with another woman on Instagram. Carey shared multiple pictures to her ...

Greg Meehan has been named USA Swimming’s new national team managing director, leaving his post as the Stanford women’s head coach. Meehan, the Tokyo Olympic women’s head coach, succeeds Lindsay ...

The UAE delegation has achieved an exceptional sporting feat at the Special Olympics World Winter Games Turin 2025 wwhich wrapped up on March 16. The team clinched a remarkable total of 16 medals ...

Image: The Olympic Games has created stars like Cindy Ngamba (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) Cindy Ngamba, who became the first Refugee Team member to win an Olympic medal when she took middleweight ...

British Olympic legend Rebecca Adlington has opened up about her diagnosis with coeliac disease in a new video on Coeliac UK's Instagram page. The Team GB swimming icon, 36, shed light on her ...

In ninth place sits Mehmet Okur with 517, while Darrell Griffith sits eighth with 530, leaving Markkanen tons of time to catch up in just under 15 games remaining in Utah's 2024-25 regular season ...