The Russian runner Yekaterina Volkova was the winner of the women’s 3,000 meter steeplechase event Monday at the World Athletic Championships. She was the 2nd place finisher in 2005 and won this year with a time of nine minutes and 6.57 seconds – a new World Championships record.

Spartak Moscow women’s basketball team has a new American coach, the former women’s coach at LSU, Pokey Chatman. She will be moving to Moscow in October to begin her 6 month stay in Russia.

The stunning and talented Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova is making plans to visit the Chernobyl region where her family is from in her role as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Development Program sometime in the future. The 20 year old was conceived there and the nuclear disaster that devastated the region occurred [...]

There’s a new sport in St. Petersburg that Russian women and men are playing together and it’s called Ultimate Frisbee. Ultimate, a sport that borrows from both soccer and American football and uses a Frisbee as the way to score, is a non-contact sport that provides a strenuous cardio workout. It attracts both men and [...]

The beautiful Russian woman tennis star, Maria Sharapova may end up in a surgical gown instead of a tennis dress if her shoulder injury does not improve. Not only has the injury kept her from participating in part of the tour this year, it has also kept her from a Fed Cup debut in the [...]