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Nike will investigate accusations of abuse by Mary Cain while she was part of Alberto Salazar’s training group. The runner says it reached the point where she started having suicidal thoughts and cutting herself. Cain joined the disbanded Nike Oregon Project run by Salazar in 2013, soon after competing in the 1,500-meter final at track and field’s world championships when...

There’s not a lot of WR talent out there, but the Eagles have various options to improve their receiving corps.

The United States’ largest governing body for college athletics took the first step Tuesday toward allowing amateur athletes to cash in on their fame, voting unanimously to permit them to “benefit from the use of their name, image and likeness.” The NCAA and its member schools now must figure out how to allow athletes to profit while still maintaining rules...

An ex-cheerleader who suffered multiple concussions while on the University of California, Berkeley’s cheerleading team, filed a lawsuit against the school, USA Federation for Sport Cheering, and her former coaches, for repeatedly endangering her health and safety, according to a complaint filed this week in Alameda County Superior Court.

When it happened, Kamu Grugier-Hill feared his season was over, but after missing just three games, the Eagles’ LB is set to make his season debut Thursday. By Reuben Frank

A North Texas high school is mourning the sudden death of a 16-year-old football player who reportedly collapsed and died in his twin brother’s arms.

A U.S. Army sergeant has been charged in connection with the death of a 22-year-old cadet from New Jersey who was killed in a violent rollover crash near the U.S. Military Academy in West Point nearly three months ago.

A book written by Chanel Miller, the woman who was sexually assaulted by ex-Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner, was released to the public Tuesday.

Federal investigators are looking into the way the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee and national governing bodies of Olympic sports handled sex-abuse allegations, people with knowledge of the investigations told The Associated Press on Friday. The probes, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, come in the aftermath of the Larry Nassar sex-abuse cases that led to massive turnover at...

On Monday evening, Olympic gymnast Simone Biles took to Twitter and addressed the headlines surrounding her older brother Tevin Biles-Thomas’ arrest for triple murder in Ohio. “Still having a hard time processing last week’s news,” she shared on social media. “My heart aches for everyone involved, especially for the victims and their families. There is nothing that I can say...

After video circulated of USWNT star Carli Lloyd booting a long field goal at Eagles practice, the Delran, New Jersey native said she has “gotten some inquiries” from the NFL. BY Dave Zangaro

Former Philadelphia Eagles player Chris Long weighed in on the debate over marijuana in the NFL. In a new interview, Long called the league’s policy “stupid” and “arbitrary.” And he’s not the only athlete to discuss the topic. NBC10’s Lauren Mayk shows us how athletes are trying to change the discussion surrounding marijuana and CBD.

World Cup winner Carli Lloyd kicked field goals during Tuesday’s Eagles practice. She spoke with NBC10 about her excitement for the Eagles upcoming season.

Two Americans used their medal-winning moments at the Pan American Games to draw attention to social issues back home that they feel are spiraling out of control. During their medals ceremonies at the multi-sport event in Lima, fencer Race Imboden took a knee and hammer thrower Gwen Berry raised her fist. Both athletes could represent the U.S. less than a...

NBC10’s Brittney Shipp tries her hand at cornhole as the ACL National Championships takes over King of Prussia. 

Recently Vince Velasquez switched up his game attire and it helped him look even better on the mound Monday night during the Phillies win against the Diamondbacks.

Despite making a first round exit at the Citi Open, rising tennis star Coco Gauff took a break from the courts on Thursday to meet and swap autographs with one of her role models, Michelle Obama.

Former Olympian Ashley Wagner says she was sexually assaulted by another figure skater in 2008 when she was 17. The three-time national champion wrote in USA Today on Thursday that John Coughlin climbed into her bed after a party at a skating camp and began kissing and groping her. Coughlin was 22 at the time and took his life in January at 33.

Skating champion John Coughlin died by suicide after he was suspended from figure skating and later accused of sexual assault by another figure skater.

A bill spurred by Larry Nassar’s sex crimes and other mishandled abuse cases would allow Congress to fire the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee’s entire board and would quadruple the money the federation provides to the U.S. Center for SafeSport. The bill, to be introduced Tuesday, is the most far-reaching response to 18 months of outrage, investigations and recriminations in...