Since 1949, the AAU Junior Olympic Games have been a staple of American youth athletics, and being the largest participatory track and field event in the U.S., numerous AAU track stars have gone on to ...

Modern basketball player development has question marks, but coaching legend Rick Pitino says don't blame AAU — it's the parents.

When news broke on June 1 that the Association of American Universities (AAU) had added six new members to its ranks — Notre Dame, Miami, Arizona State, USF, UC Riverside and George Washington — it ...

Team USA alpine ski racer Mikaela Shiffrin made a lot of waves during the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. The 30-year-old had a rough start in this year’s Games. Shiffrin and teammate Breezy ...

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- Nine-year-old and 12-year-old siblings who just qualified for three swimming events in the AAU Junior Olympics say the sport pushes them to be better people physically ...

We choose to go to the moon.” It’s the title of a famous speech delivered at Rice University by President John F. Kennedy on Sept. 12, 1962. In […] ...

The Amateur Athletic Union is being sued for allowing a prominent volleyball coach, who left his volunteer AAU post after decades-old findings of sexual molestation resurfaced, to return to the youth ...

As Jeff Goodman reported on his podcast and Rob Dauster of NBC Sports confirmed, the National Association of Basketball Coaches is proposing big changes to summer basketball recruiting. The idea is to ...

Sports Illustrated released an investigation into a shady grassroots basketball operation yesterday, and most of us yawned. We long ago accepted that the world of non-scholastic basketball -- usually ...

NEW ORLEANS – Of all his earthly possessions lost to Katrina’s flood in 2005, the one Richard Coffey wishes he had right now is a program from a long-ago basketball tournament. For years he had kept ...

Iowa State recently became one of only five schools in the last 122 years to withdraw from the prestigious Association of American Universities. Iowa State's exodus means the Midwestern land grant ...