SMITHTOWN, NY — FloJo, a 5-and-a-half-year-old female white and tan terrier mix, is the Smithtown Animal Shelter's Pet of the Week. She is "delectable," shelter staff said. "Named after the ...

In many ways, it seems Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell is FloJo, but Bayhiyah Sayyed-Gaines and Dwana Adiaha Smallwood are, in the sinuously complex duets, also FloJo surrogates.

Olympic champions Elaine Thompson-Herah and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce are closing in on world records long thought to be unattainable.

Jamaica's Elaine Thompson-Herah broke her longstanding Olympic record on Saturday, but her overall world record remains comfortably intact.

Despite the marijuana thing, Sha’Carri Richardson was so close to resembling Florence Griffith Joyner, her role model in women’s track and field. Remember FloJo? Griffith Joyner used the ...

July 16, 1988 - At the beginning of the day, the 100-meter world record of 10.76 seconds belonged to Evelyn Ashford. But at the Olympic Trials in Indianapolis, Florence Griffith Joyner shocked the ...

Athletics, we are told and want to believe, will make us stronger, healthier, and give us long lifelines. And then along comes, or, more accurately, goes, a Florence Griffith Joyner. Or a Jim Fixx.… ...