gymnastics trials and five years since the Rio Games, the women who will represent Team USA in Tokyo walked silently through the darkness inside The Dome at America’s Center. As the house lights lifted and fireworks illuminated the arena in red-white-and-blue sparkles and smoke, seven-time Olympic medalist Shannon Miller read the names of the top […]
The West New York, New Jersey, man told news outlets that he and his sister were watching television in an apartment on the 11th floor of the Champlain Towers condominium complex in Surfside, Florida, when they heard the building shake sometime after 1 a.m. When they saw dust and debris rising up over the balcony, […]
Lindsey joined the Jazz in 2012, serving seven years as general manager and two as the executive vice president, overseeing the franchise’s rise from a rebuilding team to the No. “In recent years, I have had conversations with the Miller family and then Ryan Smith when he came on board about moving into an advisory […]
It came a little more than a minute after Trae Young walked off the Hawks bench and back into the game, stifling a grimace because of a sore right ankle from a freak tweak after he stepped on referee Sean Wright’s foot late in the third quarter. Young answered it with a rainmaking 3 to […]
Blazers president of basketball operations Neil Olshey and Billups’ agent, Andy Miller of Klutch Sports, finalized the contract terms on Sunday, sources said. Before making a formal offer on Friday night, the Blazers continued investigating a 1997 rape allegation against Billups, sources said. Billups encouraged the examination, sources said, and his answers in several conversations […]
There were 115 miles to the Pocono finish, Busch had a fried clutch, only one gear and had to rush his car chief out of the car. “We’re going down the front straightaway and I’m like, ‘Damn, I wish I could clutch it,’” Busch said. But he got the critical pit road assist Sunday and […]
It’s hard to not react to that. A guy like him, nice guy in the clubhouse, really a lot of energy, positivity and to see him go through that was really tough. Said Francona: “On the replay, Naylor, I think, was going to catch it right about shoulder height. “He could have been on the […]
It’s been a tumultuous June for pitchers across baseball, and none of them has operated under a brighter spotlight than New York Yankees ace Gerrit Cole. That pitch was a 96 mph four-seam fastball with a spin rate of 2,414 revolutions per minute, and it was deposited into the first row of seats above the […]
Lamet left the game against the Arizona Diamondbacks with one out in the third inning, one batter after surrendering Eduardo Escobar’s 17th home run. …Read the full story
On Saturday, the song happened to start while outspoken activist Gwen Berry was standing on the podium after receiving her bronze medal in the hammer throw. Toward the end, she plucked up her black T-shirt with the words “Activist Athlete” emblazoned on the front, and draped it over her head. Berry’s reaction to the “Star-Spangled […]
“Saturday will definitely give me a gauge of it,” Davis told ESPN on Thursday. Early on in Davis’ fight against Mario Barrios on Saturday night, it seemed like there was a similar adjustment period for Davis, who was fighting a bigger fighter in every way — giving up height, reach and natural weight. Moving up […]
Once again, Quest does its best work not with the action of today, but with the nostalgic charms of bygone teams. Nassau Coliseum was a character in this season’s playoff drama, as the New York Islanders pushed all the way to a Game 7 in the last days of the old hockey barn. But he […]
Wimbledon 2021 kicks off Monday, and even with heavy hitters like Naomi Osaka and Rafael Nadal not competing, it’s sure to be an entertaining Slam. With no Rafael Nadal in his path as a possible spoiler, Djokovic’s in position to win for the sixth time at Wimbledon. Five times the champion, on a roll again […]
As they set to construct a roster over the past two months, the rules outlined for the Tokyo Olympics were revealed to be almost as restrictive as the restarted 2019-20 NBA season: no family or friends, confinement mostly to housing areas when not practicing or playing, no restaurants or night life. Lillard is still bitter […]
Not until the job is done,” Paul said after the Suns’ gritty 84-80 win over the LA Clippers on Saturday to go up 3-1 in the Western Conference finals. Paul, of course, has been here before. “I was mad I missed them that could have put us up by five or seven, but it’s so […]
3 seed Lorenzo Sonego 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 over more than 2 1/2 hours in a men’s final in which each player collected the same number of total points, 107-107. That gave the 22-year-old Australian his fifth ATP title and second of 2021. Ostapenko reached the semifinals there in 2018 and the quarterfinals the year before, […]
And Italy, despite winning 2-1 in extra time to advance past Austria, will have plenty to learn. Austria came into their Wembley round-of-16 game as underdogs after a group stage that saw them beat the team they were expected to in North Macedonia, lose to the team that was expected to beat them in Netherlands […]
“I had a five-shot lead starting the day, I’ve got four now, so all in all, I didn’t give away too many,” Stricker said. Stricker is going for his second victory of the year, and it looked for so long that this one might be a breeze. Stricker caught a bad break when his 6-iron […]
