Month: July 2024

Follow our Olympics coverage from the Paris Games. And follow live coverage of day two of the 2024 Paris Olympics, including dedicated gymnastics coverage NANTERRE, France — Ariarne Titmus got to her lane first. Or so she thought. She dropped her gear and outer layers into the assigned bin for Lane 4, and then she […]

BOSTON — The New York Yankees have long needed reinforcements. The process of adding them started in earnest on Saturday when the Yankees traded with the Miami Marlins in exchange for second baseman and center fielder Jazz Chisholm Jr. In the deal, which was first reported by Craig Mish of SportsGrid, the Yankees are sending […]

Follow live coverage of day two of the 2024 Paris Olympics, including dedicated gymnastics coverage LILLE, France — For the last seven Summer Olympics, Carol Callan has woken up on the morning of the opening ceremonies with a checklist and a hypothetical fire extinguisher. The checklist contained everything that could conceivably go awry: missing shoelaces, […]

Follow live coverage of day two of the 2024 Paris Olympics, including dedicated gymnastics coverage Train hard, eat healthy, sleep well and … don’t wash your hands after using the bathroom? American triathlete Seth Rider is preparing for the heightened E. coli levels in the Seine River with some unconventional — but, apparently, science-backed — […]

The sight of Harry Kane shuffling off the field after an hour of ineffective play in the Euro 2024 final was not how most would have expected his tournament to end. In truth, he probably shouldn’t have been playing at Euro 2024 at all. Kane missed the end of the Bundesliga season with Bayern Munich […]

Follow live coverage of day two of the 2024 Paris Olympics, including dedicated gymnastics coverage FIFA suspended Canada women’s soccer coach Bev Priestman for one year, deducted six points from the team’s Olympic group stage total and issued a fine on Saturday in response to Canada flying a drone over New Zealand’s training sessions before […]

The trade deadline is when teams tell you what they really think. The optimistic palaver of the offseason has faded, replaced by real talk: Are we in or are we out? With Major League Baseball’s trade deadline looming on July 30, here is The Athletic’s Trade Deadline Big Board — 50 players who may change […]

The longest offseason in major professional sports will be over by the end of the week. Five NFL teams have already opened training camp. Twenty-three more start on Tuesday, and the remaining four kick off Wednesday. The Hall of Fame Game between the Houston Texans and Chicago Bears is less than 10 days away. So […]

The Green Bay Packers and quarterback Jordan Love have reached an agreement on a four-year, $220 million contract extension, league sources said Friday. The deal also includes a record $75 million signing bonus and $155 million in new full guarantees, per sources, making Love the highest-paid NFL quarterback. Love’s new deal puts him in line […]

Follow our Olympics coverage from the Paris Games. When John Roethlisberger was an undergraduate at the University of Minnesota, he and his gymnastics teammates vanned to meets at Iowa, at Iowa State, at UW Oshkosh and Wisconsin. Every year, they’d fly to Michigan, where they’d compete against the Wolverines on a Friday night and head to […]