The UCLA women's basketball team could open the NCAA tournament in an empty venue after the school said fans may not attend home athletics events for a month.

Matt Keough, the former Oakland Athletics pitcher and special assistant, has died. He was 64. He was an American League all-star as a rookie in 1978 and two years later comeback player of the year.

Supporters of the bill say it would extend critical civil rights protections to more students. But opponents say it ignores parents' rights in schools and could lead to confusing situations for some children.

Students celebrated for athletic and student life achievements during the Finally Finished Fest

Hazleton native Megan Bobish has joined the Penn State Hazleton Athletics Department as the newest member of its team.

The 2020 Olympics, which were set for July 24-August 9 this year, were postponed until 2021 by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) this week because of the coronavirus.

Haskell's Fall season has come to an end!

The 36th edition of the European Athletics Indoor Championships is scheduled to take place from March 5 to 7 next year in Torun, Poland.

Amongst an audience of their peers at the National Collegiate Athletic Association, representatives from Yale University recently outlined how they plan to bring green to the university athletic department. How exactly

The controversial hybrid Nike shoes used to break world records are set to be banned pending further research. Some variations of the Vaporfly are likely to be forbidden by World Athletics.

From April 2020, any shoe must have been available for purchase by any athlete on the open retail market for a period of four months before it can be used in competition.

Athletes have accused World Athletics of favouring Nike in the wake of their new regulations to tackle the growing controversy around racing shoes.

British Cycling was subjected to a UK Sport review into the culture of its elite programme in 2016, but the sheer scope and breadth of this look into UK Athletics is thought to be unprecedented.

Arnold, whose 46-year coaching career yielded over 70 major medals, said: 'After London 2012 and the opportunity that brought, you have to wonder how it has been allowed to get like this.'

The upheaval and chaos at UK Athletics intensified on Thursday night with the surprise resignation of chairman Chris Clark.

While some British athletes are abroad training for the Olympics and will not be compelled to return, the firm advice from the organisation is against further travel out of the country from this point.

UK Athletics have brought forward plans to hire a new head coach in the wake of the postponement of the Olympics.

A wide-ranging review of UK Athletics has heard that the under-fire organisation 'couldn't get any worse' - and has raised specific concerns about its ethics.

Ahead of the IAAF World Championships in Beijing next week, Jessica Ennis-Hill and Katarina Johnson-Thompson have been busily preparing at a training camp in Fukuoka, Japan.

UK Athletics chief executive Niels de Vos has defended Britain's performance at the World Championship by claiming an athletics medal is the hardest prize to win in sport.

Her haul of 4,138 points puts her 96 clear of the Olympic champion from Belgium, which is not unusual - the configuration of this event is such that she usually has the best of day one.

EXCLUSIVE BY RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Crisis-hit UK Athletics are under pressure to further investigate the concerns of athletes over the use of thyroid medication after the issue was raised.

Justin Gatlin accused British Athletics of hypocrisy after they refused to invite him to compete in the London Anniversary Games, despite paying other drugs cheats to appear.

On Sunday night the best 100m sprinters in the world will settle down on to their blocks in the iconic Bird’s Nest Stadium in Beijing, the scene of much heroics in the 2008 Olympics.

OLIVER HOLT: If Justin Gatlin wins, it will be a terrible indictment of a sport. If Usain Bolt wins, it will merely reinforce the idea that he is all that stands between athletics and oblivion.

JONATHAN MCEVOY: 20 years on from becoming the only man to claim an Olympic 200m and 400m double, Michael Johnson opens up on the problems facing his friend Lord Coe and British hopes in Rio.

EXCLUSIVE - RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: British Athletics will be spared the embarrassment of Justin Gatlin racing at its inaugural Athletics World Cup in London next month.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI IN DOHA: There are growing doubts over Neil Black's future as the performance director of UK Athletics after he refused to rule out resigning after the Alberto Salazar scandal.

Athletics Australia officials and sporting identities are angered at the timing and nature of Eric Hollingsworth's comments.

ADAM GEMILI: I met Jamal Edwards, the founder of SB.TV, recently when we both visited my old college to talk to the students there and he said something that really stuck with me.

It's pretty crazy for me to be nominated for Sports Personality of the Year award. I found out when my management company rang me but it didn't really sink in until the official announcement.

MATT HUGHES: Russia are facing a worldwide ban from all major sports events after being given three weeks to explain signs of tampering with drug tests. 

OLIVER HOLT - CHIEF SPORTS WRITER: To say Radcliffe's performance when asked about the ban handed down to Salazar by USADA was awkward would be an understatement.

Neil Black will leave his role as UK Athletics' performance director at the end of this month after being heavily criticised for backing Alberto Salazar. Black had twice refused to rule out resigning.

The prospect of Russian track and field athletes taking part in the Tokyo Olympics are looking slimmer after the president of the country's athletics federation was charged on Thursday.

American coach Alberto Salazar, who worked with Mo Farah from 2011 to 2017, was banned for four years by the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) in October.

EXCLUSIVE BY ROB DRAPER: UK Athletics called a special meeting with the English Institute of Sport to discuss the controversial use of thyroid medication on elite athletes.

The trial of Lamine Diack, the former president of World Athletics, has been adjourned until June and the 86-year-old's request to return from Senegal has been refused.

MIKE KEEGAN IN PARIS: World Athletics is to sue Lamine Diack and his co-defendants for £35million. The ex-head of the sport's governing body, formerly known as the IAAF, was in a Paris court on Monday.

Findings from the independent review into UK Athletics' handling of the Alberto Salazar affair are due to be announced in the spring.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: It emerged in Panorama on that some UKA officials had misgivings about whether administering the legal supplement ahead of the London Marathon was within the 'spirit of sport'.

EXCLUSIVE BY RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: British Olympian Pavey has called for greater scrutiny of Salazar's involvement at UK Athletics from his four years as consultant with the organisation.

UK Athletics allowed Sir Mo Farah to continue training with Alberto Salazar after elements of the board felt 'blackmailed' by senior members of their performance team, according. to a review.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: UKAD have launched an attack on UK Athletics over their failure to share information relating to Sir Mo Farah's former coach Alberto Salazar in 2015 - calling for full disclosure.

Joanna Coates says the crisis-hit organisation are prepared to hand over Sir Mo Farah's data to UK Anti-Doping and insist ethics will rule over medals under her tenure.

UK Anti-Doping have finally received the full internal review into Sir Mo Farah's relationship with Alberto Salazar after their astonishing criticism of UK Athletics last month.