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Fleet Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold talks about folk music, shows and the band’s future.

For a swimming standout from San Diego State University, NOW is her time. After an impressive performance in the pool at a high-stakes competition this week, the athlete has qualified for the U.S. Olympic Time Trials.

A football coach at Helix Charter High School was charged with a misdemeanor count of battery and sentenced to community service for punching a 15-year-old student athlete on the practice field in October 2018.

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...

Senior center Carly Diehl is this month’s Inspirational Student-Athlete. NBC 7’s Derek Togerson reports.

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.

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 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...

A San Diego athlete trained in the physically-demanding discipline of parkour is taking his skills to the spotlight: he’s a contestant on a TV competition called “Exatlon,” which premieres a new season Monday on Telemundo.

Zion Clark was born without legs. He moves around with the help of a wheelchair. But, at 21, he’s not one to dwell on what he doesn’t have. Gordon Tokumatsu reports for the NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 9, 2019.

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...

A professional skateboarder from San Diego’s North County is being held in high regard by fans, peers and icon Tony Hawk after becoming the first-ever skateboarder to land a 1260 trick at the X Games.

A San Diego State University basketball player lost her two cousins in the El Paso shooting on Saturday. The senior forward’s cousins were shot and killed while protecting their youngest baby from the gunfire.

SDSU basketball player mourns the death of her cousin and her husband who were killed in El Paso shooting as they protected their baby. NBC 7’s Danica McAdam has the story

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.