Month: October 2024

MEXICO CITY — With his son watching on, arms draped on the right-hand side of the podium at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, Sergio Pérez soaked in the adulation of his home fans. Even though Max Verstappen had won the race for Red Bull, third-placed Pérez drew the crowd’s focus after scoring his first Mexican Grand […]

LOS ANGELES — The baseball disappeared into the jet-black sky, only resurfacing as the lights of Dodger Stadium illuminated its descent. There have been days this month when Freddie Freeman looked like he could barely walk. After his final swing in a 6-3 victory over the New York Yankees in Game 1 of the World […]

As the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers meet in the World Series, it’s not just a matchup of the teams with the most American League and National League pennants, respectively. It also features two of the most iconic and best-selling caps in the world. The Yankees and Dodgers caps represent more than just […]

ASHBURN, Va. — His alarm buzzes at 4:45 each morning, but most days Jayden Daniels doesn’t need it. He’s already awake, driving through the predawn darkness, pulling into an empty parking lot at 21300 Coach Gibbs Dr. The routine he started his final year at LSU has become a staple of his rookie season in […]

If there is a Guinness Book of World Records entry for the most consecutive field stormings in a college football season, we have our winner. Meet Gary Morse, a Class of 2026 college baseball recruit who took official visits — on three straight weekends — to Vanderbilt (for the Alabama game), Oregon (for the Ohio […]

This World Series gives baseball a chance to reclaim its own moniker, for the national pastime to again be national. And maybe even more. Rob Manfred, Major League Baseball’s commissioner, has been gifted a marketer’s dream. Two of the sport’s most iconic brands, the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees, are squaring off in […]

For Mikaela Shiffrin, the goalposts keep moving. All that chatter about her setting the record for the most World Cup wins and becoming the greatest skier ever is so 2023. Now, with Shiffrin getting back to racing as the alpine season begins this weekend in Soelden, Austria, the talk has shifted to when she will […]

The Army–Navy game occupies a special, yet peculiar position on the college football calendar. Its significance is undeniable, given the history, ferocity and pageantry of the rivalry. It stands alone — literally — as the only game on the Saturday after conference championship weekend in December. Yet the stakes of the game typically haven’t mattered […]

Let me apologize in advance for cheating a bit. We use the term “breakout” like it’s just spontaneous combustion, but that’s rarely how it happens. Like most reactions, usually they require a catalyst. Thus, the inherent issue about calling a “breakout” in advance is that often the term isn’t quite what we’re describing. Instead, the […]

Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa is expected to make his return to action Sunday against the Arizona Cardinals after missing four games due to a concussion he suffered in Week 2. It was Tagovailoa’s third diagnosed concussion in two years, which prompted league-wide discussion about whether he should continue playing football. GO DEEPER Former players […]