Month: July 2024

Every year the call didn’t come, the tears would. So would the disbelief. The anger. The nights of lost sleep. For Andre Rison it was like a knife in the side, his annual rejection from the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Hadn’t he done enough? Wasn’t he one of the best of his era? He […]

Follow our live MLB trade deadline tracker for the latest. Here are seven things to watch leading up to the trade deadline at 6 p.m. ET Tuesday on what will be a drama-filled day that could feature several major trades. 1. Will an ace get moved? The Tigers have listened to inquiring teams on their American […]

From Bob, Barclay and Bill Plager to Brian, Rich and Ron Sutter, the St. Louis Blues are no strangers to having brothers on their roster. In July, they added another family tree to their franchise history, making a trade with the Ottawa Senators for forward Mathieu Joseph, 27, and then signing free-agent defenseman Pierre-Olivier Joseph, […]

Happy MLB Trade Deadline Eve! This year’s trade deadline is clearly a seller’s market as 24 of the 30 major-league teams entered Monday within 6 1/2 games or less of making the playoffs, with only the Blue Jays, Angels, A’s and White Sox further back in the American League and only the Marlins and Rockies […]

Caitlin Clark’s exclusion from the U.S. Olympic women’s basketball team was the biggest talking point of the team’s roster announcement in early June. Less than two months later, Dawn Staley said Clark’s recent form might have commanded a place on the team. “Caitlin is just a rookie in the WNBA and wasn’t playing bad, but […]

Americans Jagger Eaton and Nyjah Huston both medaled in the men’s street skateboarding in a thrilling display of gutsiness, but it was Japanese star Yuto Horigome who pulled off an unfathomable Nollie 270 noseblunt on his final trick to leapfrog the competition and win his second consecutive gold medal. Eaton and Huston were positioned to […]

PARIS — On Saturday morning, after Stephen Nedoroscik finished his pommel horse routine, Paul Juda pointed to Nedoroscik’s forearm: “You’ve got goosebumps,’’ he said. After the men’s gymnastics team’s final, Nedoroscik gave them to everyone else. Brought to Paris to nail one routine and one routine only, the pommel horse specialist delivered in the most […]

NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. — Yes, Nate Oats is worried. No, Alabama’s basketball coach is not alone. Arguably the hottest topic at conference meetings and inside college athletic departments this month is how schools will handle the most groundbreaking element of a settlement in the House v. NCAA antitrust lawsuit: a revenue-sharing agreement that will allow […]

VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ, FRANCE — If ever there was a play that should make Kevin Durant’s basketball soul smile, and which perfectly captured his peerless legacy within the Team USA national program, it was that thing of beauty at the end of the first half of their Olympic pool play blowout against Serbia on Sunday. Steve Kerr, […]