Summer Time

1992 Olympic gold medalist Summer Sanders, star of the popular Nickelodeon TV show, “Figure It Out,” has been named Ahmad Rashad’s co-host on NBC’s “NBA Inside Stuff.”

Grote Honored

Kurt Grote was elected president of the Stanford chapter of the American Medical Students Association. Grote, the 1998 World Champion in the 200m breaststroke, won gold in both the 100

East German Doctor And Coach Fined

BERLIN – A former East German doctor and a swim coach who admitted giving performance-enhancing drugs to young female swimmers were fined and convicted of causing bodily harm. Rolf Glaeser,

De Bruin Says She Didn’t Tamper With Drug Test

LAUSANNE, Switzerland – Michelle De Bruin, has appealed her four-year suspension for tampering with a drug test. The filing was made with the International Court of Arbitration for Sport. If

Palmer Out Of Commonwealth Games

1996 Olympic silver medalist, Paul Palmer will withdraw from the 1998 Commonwealth Games because of illness. The Commonwealth Games Council for England said Palmer was suffering from muscle fatigue syndrome.

Athletes Often Escape Drug Testing

WASHINGTON – 50% of the athletes picked for random drug tests by the USOC escape the exams, partly because of the cost of tracking them down. “Everybody’s got to get

Water Polo – The Action is Underwater

From www.uswp.org Bruce Wigo, USWP Executive Director In 1931, the legendary New York Times reporter, Bob Kieran, chronicled a bitter argument over water polo in a “Sports of the Times”

Former East German Coach Admits Doping Athletes

BERLIN, GERMANY – In the latest confession of doping from former East German sports figures, the former national women’s swim coach admitted in court that he secretly gave his athletes

Russian Doping Appeals Rejected

LAUSANNE, Switzerland – Russian swimmers Vladimir Pyshnenko, Natalia Mesheryakova and Olga Kochetkova, who claimed they had been tricked into eating a sabotaged cake, had their appeals thrown out. Pyshnenko, Mesheryakova