As Joan Benoit Samuelson negotiated the hairpin turn into the Coliseum tunnel, ran past the USC locker room and onto the stadium’s red synthetic track for the final 400 meters of the 1984 Olympic ...

Jul. 28—Joan Benoit was already the world-record holder in the women's marathon. The 27-year-old Cape Elizabeth native and Bowdoin College graduate had won the Boston Marathon twice. But this was ...

Signing the sharp-shooting guard who averages 2.8 points per game in her WNBA career was one of the best decisions Shannon Seebohm has ever made. It’s because to the four-year head coach of ...

Karlie Samuelson came off the bench to score 13 points in the first half of the Washington Mystics' game against the Phoenix Mercury on Thursday night. She also took one of the hardest hits of the ...

As far as celebrity encounters go, talking to a professional runner probably wouldn’t excite all that many people. Well, it depends on who you tell. After my 20-minute phone call with Joan Benoit ...

Paul Solman: We continue this week with excerpts from an interview I did with Paul Samuelson in his office almost a decade ago, just after the dot.com collapse in the year 2000. I was helping make a ...

Katie Lou Samuelson was sitting in a doctor’s office toward the end of 2017-18 season when she heard the word “surgery.” The Huskies were undefeated and making a run at a 12th national title and while ...

Ruth Culbertson Samuelson, who entered politics in Charlotte and rose to its top ranks in North Carolina before walking away three years ago, has died at 57. Forthright and strong in her faith, ...