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U.S. Sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson Left Off Relay List, Won't Compete At Olympics

Sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson won't be competing at the Tokyo Olympics. USA Track & Field kept her off the roster following her positive test for marijuana after her Olympic Trials 100m win.

Cubs and Red Sox Play Again After 90 Years

Thanks to interleague play, the formerly cursed Boston Red Sox and the perhaps-still-cursed Chicago Cubs are meeting on the field for the first time in 90 years. Melissa Block talks with George Lucas, owner of the famed Cubby Bear sports bar in Chicago. He was at Wrigley Field on Friday for the first game in the series.

Cameron Fields is making the jump in the hope he can continue to make an impact inside the classroom.

He was a journalist covering education. What he saw made him switch professions

Cameron Fields was a Cleveland-based reporter who did a deep dive into elementary schools. Now he's leaving journalism behind to pursue a career as a teacher.

Demonstrators stage a protest on the field at the Yale Bowl disrupting the start of the second half of an NCAA college football game between Harvard and Yale, Saturday in in New Haven, Conn.

Activists Disrupt Harvard-Yale Rivalry Game To Protest Climate Change

The game was delayed for about an hour Saturday when students stormed the field after half-time calling on the universities to divest their multi-million dollar endowments from fossil fuels companies.

Charlottesville Jury Finds 'Unite The Right' Protester Guilty Of First Degree Murder

A jury in Charlottesville, Va., returned a guilty verdict in the murder trial of James Fields, Jr., the self-proclaimed neo-Nazi who rammed his car into a crowd last year at a white nationalist rally.

USA Football says it will be testing a new version of the game in select youth programs this fall that could become an alternative to tackle football and flag football.

Big Rule Changes Could Make Youth Football Games A Whole Lot Smaller

A modified version of the sport, billed as a bridge between tackle and flag football, will be piloted with select youth football programs this fall. It features fewer players and a shorter field.

Christian Pulisic, center, with Tyler Adams, just left, Gio Reyna, far left, and Sergiño Dest, right, pictured during ahead of a friendly match between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia in September. All four players made the World Cup roster.

The U.S. will field one of its youngest teams ever at this year's FIFA World Cup

In its 26-man roster, the U.S. men's national team is leaning on Christian Pulisic and other young stars as it looks to turn the page from its shocking failure to qualify for the 2018 tournament.

Shameka Marshall won the silver medal in the long jump at the Pan American Games in Mexico last October. At 28, Marshall may be making her final push to be on the U.S. Olympic team.

At 28, A Long Jumper Eyes Her Last Olympic Leap

Long jumper Shameka Marshall is training for what may be her last shot at the Olympics. Her attempts to make the team in 2004 and 2008 didn't work out. So this year, Marshall is working hard to compete at the U.S. track and field team trials in June.

Finding a Latino doctor can be difficult, a new study points out

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Fabiola Plaza of the Latino Medical Student Association, about Latino underrepresentation in medical fields requiring advanced degrees.

Ahead Of Wisconsin Rally, Trump's Campaign Hit With New Wrinkle

Donald Trump's campaign manager was charged with misdemeanor battery Tuesday for an incident earlier this month. NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with reporter Sarah McCammon on the campaign trail.

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