Month: July 2024

Real Madrid striker Kylian Mbappe has become the majority owner at Ligue 2 club Caen via his Coalition Capital investment fund. Coalition Capital has bought the 80 per cent of the club’s shares which had been owned by asset management company Oaktree Capital Management, which also owns 99.6 per cent of Italian club Inter Milan. […]

PARIS – The dawn rain slowed to a drizzle just before 8 a.m. Wednesday in Paris, just as 46 of the fittest women in the world trotted onto the Pont Alexandre III, descended a flight of stairs onto a floating dock and dove into the Seine, bacteria be damned. After years of planning, construction of […]

Olympic medalists from North Korea, South Korea and China posed for a selfie following the table tennis mixed doubles medal’s ceremony. China’s Sun Yingsha and Wang Chuqin beat North Korea’s Ri Jong-sik and Kim Kum-yong in the final to win gold, as South Korea won bronze with pair Lim Jong-hoon and Shin Yu-bin defeating Hong […]

Rome Odunze’s aunt and uncle are Chicago Bears fans. They got him a Brian Urlacher jersey, his introduction to the NFL, but more importantly, showed him a YouTube video. It’s a compilation of Devin Hester’s returns from his first three seasons. “I was in awe,” Odunze said. “I thought it was awesome because he never […]

DALLAS — It’s the middle of June and just shy of 11 a.m. on a Wednesday. The track and infield at David W. Carter High School is bustling. The sky is mostly clear and bluer than a teenager’s tongue after a Jolly Rancher. The Texas heat is already sweltering, as if the sun rose from […]

Emma Navarro didn’t want to be on the losing end of a tight three-set match at her first Olympic Games. Losing 6-7 (7), 7-6 (4), 6-1 to China’s Qinwen Zheng in the third round Tuesday meant Navarro’s Paris 2024 singles tournament was over. Instead of just the customary handshake after each match between opponents, Navarro […]

By Sam Blum, Brittany Ghiroli and Stephen J. Nesbitt Baltimore Orioles get: LHP Trevor Rogers  Miami Marlins get: OF Kyle Stowers and IF Connor Norby Sam Blum: What a get for the Miami Marlins. Norby is one of the Orioles’ top prospects and was recently called up to the big leagues. Rogers is valuable as […]

By Grant Brisbee, Tim Britton and Chad Jennings Every week,​ we​ ask a selected group of our baseball​ writers​ — local and national — to rank the teams from first to worst. Here are the collective results. This date has been marked on every baseball fan’s calendar since the start of spring training, and at last, […]

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Despite the disappointing way their 2023 season ended, the Jacksonville Jaguars believe they will be back in the mix for an AFC South championship this season. After losing five of six games to finish 9-8 and cede the division crown to the Houston Texans (10-7), the Jags knew big changes were needed. […]

John and Tracy Sellers arrived in Lubbock, Texas, the evening of Monday, July 22, with dinner reservations and an intention: to woo the best college softball player in the world to play for Texas Tech. The dinner was at Las Brisas, a white-tablecloth steakhouse just south of Texas Tech’s campus that serves up lobster guacamole […]