Bryan Armen Graham

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Bryan Armen Graham

Bozy’s Dungeon never had a fixed address. For years it was tucked two blocks from the clattering El train in North Philadelphia, past strips of weathered rowhouses and corner stores. These days it sits in a quiet residential stretch of the Great Northeast. The location and sign on the door might change, but inside, it’s always the same: a temple of toughness and repetition, where talk is cheap and fighters are made brick by brick, round after round.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Bryan Armen Graham

Sprint-distance swimming races and mixed-gender events in artistic gymnastics and golf are among the additions to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games, after the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) approval of a record 351 medal events on Wednesday. The LA28 schedule includes the Olympic debuts of the 50m backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly for both men and women, and a mixed 4x100m relay on the track.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Bryan Armen Graham

It came down to one more play. In a championship game where every possession felt like a fistfight, Florida landed the final punch. Houston buckled. And for Kelvin Sampson’s Cougars, that sliver of difference will sting for a long time. “They made one more play than we did tonight,” said the 69-year-old Sampson, denied his 800th career win and first national championship in a contest where his team trailed only 64 seconds all night. “We lost by two points.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Bryan Armen Graham

The Gators looked cooked. Down 12. Their star scoreless. The crowd roaring for the hometown favorites. And yet, Florida found a way – erasing the deficit, quieting the red sea inside the Alamodome, and capturing the program’s third NCAA men’s basketball championship. Florida 65, Houston 63. The Gators trailed by double digits in the second half, and didn’t lead again until the final minute – but it was enough.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Bryan Armen Graham |Nicholas Levine

What Florida need to do to win …The Gators need to push the pace and turn it into a high-possession game, disrupting the Cougars’ grind-it-out style. They also must knock down perimeter shots early to stretch Houston’s stingy defense, which is the best in the country by any metric.