Month: August 2024

Matt Carbone sat in his car on Tuesday as construction near his family’s gymnasium brought traffic to a halt. A police officer approached and asked Carbone the question that’s been on the mind of many residents in Sterling, Mass. and nearby Worcester these days. “Are we doing a parade for Stephen?” the officer asked. Carbone, […]

It was the USA’s highly-vaunted summer of soccer, but it was also a stress test for the nation hosting the World Cup. There was certainly plenty of stress to test. Aside from concerns over field conditions, crowd control and security — alarmingly highlighted before the Copa America final in Miami when ticketless fans forced their […]

BOSTON — On May 10, on his first shift, Brad Marchand tumbled to the TD Garden ice. It took him time to get up.  Bruins HC Jim Montgomery says Brad Marchand is day-to-day with an upper-body injury after this play where he collided with Panthers’ Sam Bennett in Game 3. (🎥: @Sportsnet)pic.twitter.com/zLPwMauLxC — theScore (@theScore) […]

With the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2024 set to be enshrined on Saturday, let’s look ahead at who might be in Canton next. For some teams, it’s easy to predict who the next inductee will be. With the Arizona Cardinals, it almost certainly will be wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald. Tight end Antonio […]

“Remove equestrian events from the Olympic Games.” The statement from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), a United States-based animal rights group, did not pull any punches. “Horses don’t volunteer — they can only submit to violence and coercion. It’s time for the Olympics to move into the modern era.” This was […]

PARIS — There they go again.  For the second time in three weeks, Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz will do battle for one of the biggest prizes in tennis. When they meet in the Paris 2024 Olympics gold medal match at Roland Garros, on Sunday around 1 p.m. UK / 8 a.m. ET, they will […]

Late in 2023, a delegation of senior Liverpool staff were visiting the college town of Columbia, South Carolina, when they wondered if it might be possible to work out early the following morning. Their hosts from the athletics department of the University of South Carolina swiftly sensed an opportunity. Chance Miller, at the time the […]

The first time Janet Evans watched her good friend Katie Ledecky swim away with the Olympic 1,500 meter race, she cried her eyes out like a broken-hearted teenager whose first love had run off with someone else. This was back in 2021, the first time women got to swim “the mile,” as Evans and every […]

As 18-year-old Montreal Canadiens draft pick Michael Hage searched for words to honor his father, who had died in a swimming pool accident a year earlier, Sportsnet broadcaster Jeff Marek placed his hand on Hage’s arm, helped him move his microphone up so he could be heard and then put a reassuring hand on Hage’s […]