All American Sports

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Letter from the Editor

I didn't quite understand what my dad did growing up, so I'd tell my classmates that he was a banker by day and a baseball player at night, kind of like a Bronx-born Superman.

Naomi Osaka & Coco Gauff's Heartfelt Post-Game Moment Was A Lesson In True Sportsmanship

This tennis match was one to remember. On Saturday, Naomi Osaka defeated Coco Gauff at the US Open, and the two athlete's post-game moment exemplified true sportsmanship. Osaka and Gauff faced off in a third-round match, a career-first for the two…

The Final Score For The World Cup Is Here & Team USA Just Scored Another Title

The Women's World Cup victory belongs to the USA for the second year in a row. The final score for the World Cup was 2-0 for the U.S. Women's soccer team in its final game against the Netherlands in Lyon, France on Sunday. The team's defeat over the…

Jamie Yancovitz & Kristen Cabildo Are Redefining The Practice Of Filipino Martial Arts For Women

In Los Angeles, Jamie Yancovitz trains her students at parks under swaying palm trees; meanwhile, in New York City, Kristen Cabildo trains hers in the backyard of her brownstone apartment. They're two women on two different coasts but with one…

Adriene Mishler’s Mexico City Spanish & Yoga Immersion Retreat Showed Her How To Unite These Practices

It all started when I woke up on New Year’s Day in 2018, and thought about what I wanted to focus on that year. For me, that was learning Spanish. I’d always wanted to do it throughout my 20s and now in my 30s, but when I woke up this day, all the…

Florencia Galarza’s Soccer Career In Argentina Shows How The Culture Is Making More Space For Women

My first sport was actually swimming when I was three years old. I started playing tennis when I was very young as well because I looked up to Gabriela Sabatini and Steffi Graf, all those amazing athletes. But when I got to play soccer on a team…

Nneka & Chiney Ogwumike On Supporting Each Other As Sisters & WNBA Teammates

Basketball players Nneka and Chiney Ogwumike have always supported each other on and off the court — from their very first childhood practice in their Texas hometown, to their current careers playing for WNBA team the Los Angeles Sparks (which makes…

For Olympic Fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad, Faith And Sports Go Hand-In-Hand

Ibtihaj Muhammad is a trailblazer in every sense of the word. Not only did she win a bronze medal in the 2016 Olympics in Rio for fencing, but she was the first Muslim woman to represent the United States while wearing a hijab. Now, with a Barbie…

Monica Puig Is Still Fighting For Puerto Rico, Two Years After Hurricane María

Tennis player Monica Puig rose to international stardom when she became the first athlete — of any sport, and any gender — to win the gold medal for Puerto Rico at the 2016 Rio Olympics, beating the then-#2-ranked Angelique Kerber. For Puerto…

I Have Two Passports But Allegiance To My Fútbol Team Is My TRUE Citizenship

For a portion of my childhood I was fluent in no languages, a product of anxiety that was almost physically painful and two languages —English and Spanish — that were constantly jockeying for position in my brain. But what I have always been fluent…

Soccer Is A Source Of Pride In Nigeria — And It's What Connects Me & My Dad

I heard my bedroom door creak open. It was 8 a.m. on a Saturday and my dad was coming to wake me so we could go to the soccer field, but I was already up. I was six years old, and although nothing excited me more than sleeping in and watching…

Serena Williams' Waved To Olympia During Her Latest U.S. Open Win

Simone Biles Called Out USA Gymnastics For Their Birthday Tribute

Serena Williams Won Her First New Title In Nearly Three Years

The Real Ken Miles From ‘Ford V Ferrari’ Is A Legend Whose Life Was Cut Short

Simone Biles' New Record Made Her The Most Decorated Gymnast In History