Olympics

theScore's Arda Ocal (@arda_ocal) recently spoke with WWE Hall of Famer and current WWE scout Gerald Brisco, who is currently in London scouting for WWE at the Olympic Games.

In Michael Phelps ' telling, one of the greatest Olympic careers almost began with a skinny dip. It was the first trip out of the country for the kid from Rodgers Forge, and he gawked like a tourist - not at monuments or museums - but at the famous swimmers competing in Sydney. "I was kind of just like, 'Wow, that's this person, that's that person, there he is, there she is. This is really cool,' " he said in a recent interview, channeling his wide-eyed 15-year-old self at the 2000 Games.

Olympics Stettinius to be honored at Capitol before Olympics Suzanne Stettinius of Parkton, a top-ranked U.S. pentathlete, will be sent off to the London Games as part of the "Capitol Fourth" celebration on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. The ceremony will air nationally on PBS from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Stettinius is part of a contingent of American athletes who will be honored before departing for the Olympics. The segment featuring Stettinius will be hosted by eight-time Olympic medal-winning speedskater Apolo Anton Ohno . WNBA Mystics beat Mercury, end five-game losing streak The Washington Mystics held off the Phoenix Mercury, 90-77, on Sunday to end a five-game losing streak and win for the first time since June 15. The win came with a price, however.

Today, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) recommended that wrestling be removed from the 2020 Olympic Games . The recommendation was ultimately made by secret ballot of several rounds, and wrestling was voted out from a final group that included modern pentathlon, taekwondo and field hockey. This is an unsettling decision for many in the pro wrestling community, a landscape that is full of successful amateur wrestlers at all levels, including former Olympic gold medalist Kurt Angle, a TNA wrestler.

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When Angel McCoughtry steps on the floor of Basketball Arena in London later this month, she won't play in front of the largest crowd of her life. In her country's opening game against Croatia on July 28, the Baltimore native won't face the best competition she's ever seen. But to McCoughtry, the two weeks of basketball at this summer's Olympics will be the most important of her career thus far. "It's the best honor in the world and the best honor I've received in playing basketball," McCoughtry said.

Mitt Romney and I are competing in a new Olympic event that involves proffering unvarnished criticism of the Olympics themselves. We're the Lochte and Phelps of this event -- appearing united when necessary and when it serves us both, and appearing divided when Mitt says something really stupid. Last week, I blamed cronyism for the awarding of the sole-source security contract for the entire Olympic Games to a company that failed to deliver, requiring the British military to step in at the last minute to pick up the slack.

The Olympic torch came to Brixton on Thursday, and so did Amy Cohen. She lived in the South London district until recently, a job change and the continuing financial crisis sending her to live back home with her parents at age 34. Among the throngs who gathered to cheer the torch onward to its final destination, lighting the caldron to open the 2012 Games Friday night, Cohen was nothing if not characteristically British in her ambivalence when it...

Before I went radio silent during my vacation last week (sorry about that -- computer time proved refreshingly scarce), I wrote about my reactions to the last summer Olympics , when I was a new parent, finding myself relating to the moms and dads in the audience for the first time, especially Debbie Phelps. Now there's a new standard in Olympic parents-in-the-stands moments, courtesy of U.S. gymnast Aly Raisman's folks, who followed along with her routine in the prelims yesterday, looking like they were trying to perform it themselves.

Kyneshi Jeter, 3, still turns the heads of fellow joggers at Montebello Park, even though they've seen her run 10 miles without stopping every other day for the past month. "That girl is going to the Olympics," states a woman dressed in a blue jogging suit. "I've never seen anything like it." The Montebello regulars have dubbed her "Baby Flo-Jo" after the late Olympic champion Florence Griffith Joyner. There are those who have watched her every other day for the past month run as though she is training for the Olympics.