Sports

By day, Mónica Negrón is the director of Hispanic, Latinx and Indigenous Initiatives at the University of Louisville Cultural Center. She’s also the head coach of the senior women’s national Puerto Rican lacrosse team.

A long-gestating project to bring a tournament-ready sports complex to far western Kentucky has advanced in fits and spurts since it came into being more than five years ago.

One of the joys of watching the Olympics is getting sucked into sports you’ve barely heard of. If you still need that feeling in your life, these sports are out beyond the Olympic fringe.

The annual Dirt Bowl tournament crowned a new champion over the weekend. The summer league also celebrated its 55th year of basketball and community

Ravon Churchill has been an announcer at the Dirt Bowl summer basketball tournament for two decades.

Athletes from all over the globe are competing on one of the world’s biggest stages. Some members of Team USA have roots in the Bluegrass State.

The pair made history, with Kiefer becoming the first American woman to earn two gold medals in individual foil. Scruggs became the first Black fencer to medal for the U.S. in an individual women's event.

The opening ceremony featured a Parisian performance from Lady Gaga, a heavy metal moment with Gojira and a headless Marie Antoinette, as well as a show-stopping comeback by Céline Dion.

The 2024 Olympics kick off in Paris with a splashy opening ceremony on Friday and will run through Aug. 11. Here's how to keep up with the action, from primetime viewing to occasional scrolling.

"Tested: A surprising history of women's sports" is a new podcast from NPR and the CBC that focuses on who decides how female athletes are tested and for what. Podcast creator and host Rose Eveleth discusses what she learned with LPM's Bill Burton.