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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Andy Nussbaum, who coached legendary basketball player Candace Parker when she played in high school. Parker recently said she is retiring from the WNBA after 16 years.
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Katie Ledecky is used to getting medals, having earned 10 at the Olympics. But on Friday she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest award a civilian can get from the U.S. government.
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Demand is skyrocketing to see Caitlin Clark play with the Indiana Fever. Ahead of her WNBA debut, ticket sales are soaring and some teams are relocating their games to larger venues.
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The categories include most valuable player, defensive player of the year and rookie of the year. The league plans to announce the winners starting Tuesday during TNT's coverage of the NBA playoffs.
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The World Anti-Doping Agency acknowledges it knew of doping concerns involving 23 Chinese swimmers before the 2021 Tokyo Games but failed to alert others. Some of those swimmers later won gold medals.
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Do you know how to swim well enough to save your life? NPR's Life Kit lays out the five basic water safety and swimming skills that can help prevent drowning.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to sports columnist Jason Gay of the Wall Street Journal about the explosion of sports gambling and all the scandals that come with that growth.
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NPR's Scott Simon and Meadowlark Media's Howard Bryant discuss yet another sports gambling scandal and preview the NHL and NBA playoffs.
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NPR's Scott Simon remarks on the long career of John Sterling, the New York Yankees' play-by-play announcer, who is retiring at the age of 85.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with hall of fame broadcaster Ernie Johnson, host of Inside the NBA, about the new faces of the NBA chasing championship hopes in this changing of the guard post-season.
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A baseball player who was part of the Atlanta Braves in 1980 is one day short of qualifying for MLB retirement. Now, there's a petition to get him on the roster for that last day.
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Can anyone stop Nelly Korda? The 25-year-old women's professional golfer is on an epic winning streak and trying to capture her fifth straight in Houston.