Mayor Richard Daley is heading to the Olympics, and said he's especially interested in checking out Beijing's public transportation to look for any tips Chicago might use to refine its bid for the 2016 Summer Games. Daley said he'll leave next week for in China as part of a Chicago contingent that will be there to check out the games in action.

In many ways, Becky Hammon feels playing basketball for Russia and not the United States is the most "American" thing she has ever done.

BEIJING - Some secrets are out for the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. One big one remains.

This was supposed to be Jeremy Cummings' last hurrah in baseball. Cut in spring training and temporarily pitching in Taiwan, the career minor leaguer planned to call it a career at season's end and settle into fatherhood. Not so fast, Pops. After catching on with Triple-A Durham and unexpectedly starting strong, Cummings wound up fielding an even more surprising last-minute call to join the U.S.

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators called for an Olympic truce in Darfur during the Beijing Olympics. The senators introduced a resolution Thursday that urges China to pressure trading partner Sudan to end the violence that has claimed an estimated 300,000 lives and displaced 2.7 million others. "The Chinese government hoped to show the world a new China with the Olympics, but instead the spotlight...

LeBron James' ankle looked just fine, and so did Team USA.

USA Track & Field (USATF) chief executive Doug Logan on Thursday asked for the American men's 4x400-metres record, which is also the world record, to be re-examined in light of recent doping revelations.