“It’s a huge challenge,” said Pierre-Olivier Ngadjole, a doctor with the Swiss humanitarian organization Medair, which runs the Munigi treatment center. At the hospital in South Kivu, Nathalie’s mother, Ms. Binja, said she was aware that she could be infected with mpox because of the close contact with her daughter. But she said, “I don’t […]
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Another game for Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever meant another run-in with history. On Wednesday night, she set the WNBA rookie record for most 3-pointers in a single season. Clark scored 19 points in an 84-80 victory against the Connecticut Sun, going 3-of-12 on 3-pointers to bring her season total to a league-best 88. […]
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Russell Wilson can still remember the phone call that started it all on April 27, 2012. The Seattle Seahawks had just handed Matt Flynn a three-year contract with the expectation he would stabilize their uncertain quarterback situation. But in the third round (pick No. 75), the Seahawks changed the course of their franchise’s history when […]
Continue ReadingThere it is, plainly stated in the Baseball Writers Association of America’s instructions to voters, for all those who wish to play “gotcha” with Shohei Ohtani’s quest to win his third MVP award in four years. In listing the five criteria, which remain the same as they were written on the first ballot in 1931, […]
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If and when Mauricio Pochettino moves to the United States and becomes U.S. men’s national team head coach, he’ll be in for an adjustment. Atlanta, Georgia — the future site of U.S. Soccer’s headquarters and training center — is a far cry from Barcelona, Paris or London. Atlanta is, by most accounts, cosmopolitan, but it’s […]
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Two weeks ago, Scottie Scheffler, the No. 1 player in the world and the current leader of the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup playoffs, called the premise of the entire competition “silly.” “You can’t call it a season-long race and have it come down to one tournament,” Scheffler said in Memphis, Tenn. “Hypothetically, we get to […]
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NEW YORK — On Tuesday afternoon, the world No 88, in the U.S. Open main draw as a wildcard, destroyed the 10th seed Jelena Ostapenko in the U.S. Open first round. In theory, that sounds like a shock win, but the wildcard in question is Naomi Osaka, a two-time champion here and one of the […]
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ParalympicsGB chef de mission Penny Briscoe said it is an “absolute disgrace” that 11-time Paralympic gold medallist Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson was forced to “crawl off” a train. The former wheelchair racer arrived at London’s King’s Cross on Monday evening on a London North Eastern Railway (LNER) train but there was no one there to assist […]
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The Champions League proper returns next month and this season it will have a brand new format. The ‘Swiss Model’ makes its debut and, as a result, the Champions League draw tomorrow (Thursday) is going to look rather different to the eight-groups-of-four setup we’ve all become used to in recent years. So let The Athletic take […]
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Follow live coverage of the 2024 U.S. Open NEW YORK — What motivates Novak Djokovic now that he has nothing left to fight for? The 24-time Grand Slam champion finally won his coveted Olympic gold medal in Paris this month. In so doing, he essentially completed tennis, sweeping up the only coveted title in the […]
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