Month: August 2024

LOS ANGELES — After a wild few seasons, quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo finally looks relaxed. The 10-year veteran has returned to a backup role, with both Garoppolo and the Los Angeles Rams recognizing it was the perfect time to unite. Garoppolo was looking for some solid footing, while the Rams wanted a reliable insurance policy for […]

A new Premier League season is nearly here, which means only one thing: it’s time for footballers to stand moodily, staring straight ahead, possibly somewhere with artistic lighting and some extremely jerky camerawork, modelling their team’s new kit for the season. A relatively new phenomenon has been clubs revealing the new kits to the players […]

There were two requirements for the Stade de France track for the 2024 Paris Olympics: make it purple and make it fast. The colour was, in fittingly Parisian fashion, about creating a unique stage for athletes to perform. A lighter hue than the typical red tracks, following in the footsteps of the 2016 Olympics in […]

PARIS — Jayson Tatum stood in the arena loading dock Saturday night, an Olympic gold medal draped around his neck and untold bottles of champagne waiting for him, answering questions about his personal disappointment and his mom coming to his defense on social media. This should have been, and in many ways still was, the […]

PARIS — France was the official opponent; Team USA, its own worst enemy. One of the two? The Americans could overcome. But both? That’s a tough road. And against an eager, home-crowd-boosted team like France, it sure looked like the U.S. picked a bad game to have a bad game. And then, it somehow got […]

With the Paris Olympics complete, the U.S. topped the total medal count and tied China for the most golds. China held a slight lead over the U.S. entering Sunday and claimed its final gold medal with Li Wenwen’s weightlifting win in the women’s +81 kilogram division. The Americans caught up to China with Jennifer Valente’s […]

Jordan Chiles’ bronze medal in the floor exercise in the gymnastics floor exercise at the Paris Games will be reallocated to Ana Bărbosu of Romania, the International Olympic Committee said in a statement Sunday, after a court invalidated the correction to Chiles’ score that put her on the podium. USA Gymnastics, though, said Sunday the […]

The Olympics should be the pinnacle of an athlete’s career. Yet scratch beneath the surface and the physical toll is often accompanied by an emotional comedown known as the ‘post-Olympic blues’. That is an experience which unites swimmer Michael Phelps — the most decorated Olympian with 28 medals, gymnast Simone Biles with seven medals, Allison […]

Andre Onana returned to competitive football this weekend in the Community Shield against Manchester City, with his side losing on penalties at Wembley. Last season it emerged the Manchester United goalkeeper uses Vaseline on his gloves, which raised several other questions for me. What other substances do we ’keepers put on our gloves to try […]

PARIS — “A Gold Medal in Four Acts,” authored by and starring Wardell Stephen Curry. Stephen Curry hugged Kevin Durant at midcourt at Bercy Arena. They each had hold of a U.S. flag, that enveloped both of them. They had won back-to-back NBA championships together, when they changed the path of the league by joining […]