Month: July 2024

Carlos Sainz will join Williams for the 2025 Formula One season, putting an end to months of speculation about his future. Sainz, 29, has been at the heart of the F1 driver market for next season ever since Ferrari announced in February it had signed Lewis Hamilton, leaving the Spaniard without a seat. Sainz faced […]

Canada is appealing the six-point deduction levied by FIFA against the Olympic women’s soccer team that stemmed from a staffer flying a drone over New Zealand’s training sessions before the start of the Paris Games. The Canadian Olympic Committee and Canada Soccer filed the appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Monday, […]

MARSEILLE — To be in the mixed zone at Stade de Marseille following an Olympic soccer match is to witness an impromptu tap show. As each player enters the small maze of ropes to meet their tournament obligations, their cleats create a chaotic rhythm punctuated by their laughs or sighs, depending on which side of […]

PARIS — From a small, fluorescent lit gym just north of Paris, Team USA coach Cheryl Reeve was asked about her team’s biggest advantage in the Olympics. Depth, she paused. No, size. “1A, 1B,” she decided. Reeve isn’t wrong. With three players taller than 6-4 and a bevy of guards in the 6-foot range, Team […]

McKenna Whitham became the youngest player to debut in a first-division men’s or women’s soccer match in the United States on Sunday, making history one day after her 14th birthday. In the 80th minute, Whitham came into the match for NJ/NY Gotham FC, replacing Katie Stengel in a 2-1 win over the Washington Spirit in […]

WHITE SULFUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — I’ve tried. I’ve really tried with Deshaun Watson. I defended the Browns pursuing him because Baker Mayfield wasn’t good enough and they needed to upgrade the most important position. Despite all his legal issues, Watson was the best quarterback available at the time.  But Watson isn’t and has never been […]

Stay informed on all the biggest stories in Formula One. Sign up here to receive the Prime Tire newsletter in your inbox every Tuesday and Friday. SPA, Belgium — Sergio Pérez looked ready to make a late case for his Red Bull Formula One future on Saturday after putting his car on the front row of the […]

LA GRANGE PARK, Ill. — The father of the Minnesota Vikings’ quarterback of the future slides over, swipes at his phone and leans over to offer up a picture. “How great is this?” Jim McCarthy asks. The image shows a kid with shaggy blond hair wearing an oversized Iowa State football jersey. He might have been […]

In December 2023, the presence of 3,000 women at the Tehran derby between Persepolis and Esteghlal seemed to indicate progress in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Female fans had been banned from attending men’s matches across the country since 1981, two years after the nation’s Islamic Revolution. For more than four decades, female protestors and […]

Follow our Olympics coverage from the Paris Games. And follow live coverage of day two of the 2024 Paris Olympics, including dedicated gymnastics coverage PARIS — Five words changed basketball forever, not just in the United States but around the world. “If they’re in, I’m in.” That was Michael Jordan’s response when asked to join […]