Biden to meet with national security team amid threats of Iranian attack against Israel
President Biden is scheduled to meet with his national security team in the Situation Room on Monday ahead of an expected Iranian attack on Israel. The White House announced that Vice President Kamala Harris, a leading Democratic candidate, would also attend the meeting. The meeting came a day after U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met […]
Dearica Hamby, USA Basketball women’s 3×3 team eye an Olympic gold medal today: ‘We wouldn’t change a single thing that happened’
The U.S. women’s 3×3 basketball team has won five straight games to advance to the semifinals and will compete for an Olympic medal today. After a slow start to the Olympics, losing their first three games and coming within one loss of elimination, the U.S. turned things around and is once again competing for a […]
2024 Olympics: Introducing the sensational Team USA women’s golf team
Welcome to Playing Through’s morning ritual, Golf Talk Today. The second week of the Paris 2024 Olympics has arrived and the women’s competition has begun. The women will be competing at Le Golf National from August 8th to 11th, the same venue where the men competed last week. 60 women from 33 countries will compete […]
Egyptian beach volleyball team blast French hijab ban
Egypt’s women’s beach volleyball team last week condemned France’s move to ban its players from wearing the hijab after a match at the Paris 2024 Olympics. Marwa Abdelhadi and Doaa Elghobasy, who will represent Egypt at the 2024 Paris Olympics, wore hijabs, black leggings and long-sleeved T-shirts during a women’s beach volleyball match against Spain. […]
Jimmer Fredette reveals injury after USA 3×3 team exits Olympics is disappointment
For Jimmer Fredette, the road to recovery is long. The former BYU star revealed he “completely tore two different ligaments” in his adductor muscles early in Team USA’s 3×3 pool play and that it will take him six months to recover from the injury. Fredette, 35, made the announcement on social media after the U.S. […]
Team USA easily wins gold in golf uniforms at 2024 Olympics, the 3 best, 3 worst team fits
The men’s golf competition has officially concluded, with the U.S. team winning their second consecutive Olympic gold medal. Scottie Scheffler shot a 9-under 61 to add a gold medal to her growing trophy collection. Tommy Fleetwood won the silver medal for Great Britain, and Hideki Matsuyama won the bronze medal for Japan. But I’m not […]
US women’s 4x100M medley relay team wins gold, sets world record in last Olympic swimming event of Paris Games
Regan Smith, Lily King, Gretchen Walsh and Tori Huske won the women’s 4×100 medley in the final Olympic swimming event on Sunday, also setting a world record in the event. The group swam the race in 3 minutes 49.63 seconds, beating the previous record, also held by the United States, by 0.77 seconds. The Americans […]
Harris team launches GOP group with endorsements from ex-Trump officials, key Republican voices
Vice President Harris’ campaign launched a “Republicans for Harris” rally, bringing together more than 25 Republican supporters, including former Secretaries Chuck Hagel and Ray LaHood, as well as former Republican governors and lawmakers. The campaign announced Sunday that Stephanie Grisham, White House press secretary during the Trump administration, and Olivia Troye, a former national security […]
Trump shooter classmate: Thomas Crooks not 'safe fit' on rifle team
(News Nation) — Max Schrager, a former classmate of Thomas Matthew Crooks, the man who attempted to assassinate President Trump, says Crooks was not on the school’s rifle team and apparently “was not a safe team.” Schrager spoke exclusively with NewsNation’s Rich McHugh about what he knows about Crooks. “I know he tried out for […]
Hailey Van Lith, Dearica Hamby, and USA Basketball 3×3 team beat China to advance to medal games
When the U.S. women’s 3×3 basketball team went 0-3 in pool play, the prospect of a two-time Olympic gold medalist seemed like a pipe dream, with teamwork and inexperience seemingly insurmountable and USA Basketball’s selection decisions perhaps misplaced. The four-man team, consisting of Haley Van Lith, Dearrica Hamby, Sierra Burdick and Rhyne Howard, lost to […]