I believe the proper term is physical education, but in 1970s Chicago it was called gym class or simply gym.
Over the years, and many incarnations, the Herald Examiner excelled at covering local news, catering more to the "man on the street," and was also a huge fan of sensational stories.
Kevin Signo, an 18-year-old Baylor University freshman, was pronounced dead Sunday after he broke his neck while attempting a backflip during a dance ...
It's no secret that athletes crosstrain for their sports in various ways. To stay dynamic it's important to work different muscles to challenge your b...
A talented, young gymnast has been told that she may never walk again after enduring a bad fall during a practice session. On Friday, 15-year-old J...
The 2012 U.S. Olympic gymnastics team stopped by the White House Thursday to visit with President Barack Obama. McKayla Maroney, known for her jaw-...
WASHINGTON — The Fierce Five and other members of the U.S. Olympic gymnastics team got a personal audience with President Barack Obama on Thursd...
Chellsie Memmel is done with competitive gymnastics, this time for good. The three-time world champion and Olympic silver medalist announced her reti...
First, let me just say, on behalf of all the Lululemon-loving women out there with young daughters... OMG!
Everything changed when the doctors discovered that the pain in my wrist wasn't a sprain. The doctors told me I never would do gymnastics again. Both my world and my Olympic dream came crashing down in that doctors' office.
This week on "Big Brother" (Sundays at 8:30 p.m. ET and Wednesdays and Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET on CBS), two houseguests will meet five very fierce and ...
The members of the "Fierce Five" have been everywhere since returning from the London Olympics, making an appearance at the New York Stock Exchange an...
Once in the land of opportunity, you better take from it what it has to offer. And take she did. Earning a BA degree from Yale University, and JD from Columbia Law School, she made her parents proud by honoring their request for her to become a lawyer.
McKayla Maroney has become the 2012 Olympics' biggest internet sensations thanks to her now infamous "not impressed" expression when the gymnast was h...
To be a great gymnast you must be superhumanly strong and have great balance, and yet also display such delicacy of movement that Mikhail Baryshnikov would be impressed.
I think that it's time for black America to move past having only one representative. Yes, Gabby Douglas is a young black lady from the US, but she does not, and cannot, represent an entire culture.
-- Gabby Douglas is really big in her hometown. Really big and painted on a wall. The gold-medal-winning gymnast has a giant mural painted in her ...
This question originally appeared on Quora. By Jason Shen, Co-Founder of Ridejoy, Captain of 2009 NCAA Men's Gymnastics Champion Stanford team Fe...
Believe it or not, sometimes there are even greater heights to soar to -- and greater prizes to claim -- than Olympic glory.
Ever wonder how Olympic gymnasts achieve that ultimate combination of lean muscle, incredible flexibility, and impressive bodyweight-to-strength ratio?
LONDON -- Now it's time to turn those golds into some green. With gymnastics competition over, the Fierce Five got an idea of what life is going to b...
The U.S. Women's Gymnastics Team is pretty flexible, as one viral video proved. But even when rendered in stiff LEGO form, the Fab Five still manages ...
When you tell folks that you've done gymnastics, most automatically ask you if you did the rings. No, I would explain. It's not one of the women's app...
Instead of investing in this incredible source of human potential, we have closed the doors to them. Our society has continued to cast undocumented youth aside, and set them up for failure. Yet they continue to defy these odds.
Although Gabby was the winner, I couldn't stop thinking about Dominique Dawes, and how she paved the way for Gabby and started my obsession with Olympic Sport. Gabby also closed a chapter in my life. She won the Gold Medal that I wanted Dominique to win.
