Month: August 2024

By Jenna West, Kevin Fishbain and Ben Standig Saturday’s preseason action gave NFL fans their first glimpse of quarterbacks Caleb Williams and Jayden Daniels, the Nos. 1 and 2 picks of this year’s draft, and the rookies delivered. The Buffalo Bills hosted the Chicago Bears, who played Williams for the entire first quarter. He delivered […]

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — Grinning last month, Louis Rees-Zammit shared just how much he wanted to experience his first full-contact hit as an NFL player. Rees-Zammit, the Welsh former rugby star who joined the Kansas City Chiefs in March, knew he was just a few days away from his first training camp practice in full […]

LOS ANGELES — “Permanent, for now” has reached its end date. Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts shifted course Friday afternoon and said that Mookie Betts will make his return to the Dodgers on Monday in right field, not at shortstop. This comes just three days after Roberts said the plan would be for Betts […]

PARIS — Van Chancellor knew he wanted Diana Taurasi on the 2004 Olympic team in Athens. She was young, skilled, confident, brash. He expected she would be a centerpiece of American basketball in the years to come, but he also knew that she would still be able to contribute on the squad of superstars that […]

SAINT-DENIS, France — Sha’Carri Richardson took the baton and ran like the track owed her a gold medal. As the anchor of the women’s 4×100 relay, she didn’t have to worry about getting out of the blocks quickly enough. With the eliteness of the American sprinters — Melissa Jefferson handing to Twanisha Terry, handing to […]

PARIS — India Sardjoe is 18, with a mouth full of braces, and is on the hunt. “I really like exchanging pins in the Olympic village,” she said Friday, after taking part in the inaugural Olympic breaking competition at La Concorde. Known in the breaking game as B-Girl India, the 2022 world champion had been […]

PARIS — Last summer, Naomi Girma introduced herself to the world at the 2023 Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. In contrast to the U.S. stumbling in the round of 16, Girma’s first major tournament with the senior national team showed that she wasn’t just the future of the program, she had already […]

Few people grasped the misery of the Chicago White Sox quite like Art Mahaffey, the best player on the only team in modern history to lose more games in a row. And when the White Sox finally snapped their 21-game losing streak Tuesday night in Oakland, Mahaffey’s spirits soared. “The White Sox are on a […]

The Olympic men’s marathon on Saturday will fall almost six months to the day since Kelvin Kiptum died. He and his coach Gervais Hakizimana were killed in a road traffic accident in Kaptagat, Kenya, on 11 February. Kiptum was 24 and the darling of the marathon world. It takes a special athlete to stand out […]

The message reached Mike McDaniel from Steve Young in early spring, 2022. When you coach Tua Tagovailoa, make sure he feels his left-handedness is an advantage, not a flaw or annoyance. In 2005, Young became the first left-handed quarterback selected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He is one of only 33 to have […]