SALT LAKE CITY — As a rookie last season, forward Taylor Hendricks didn’t pay much notice to the mantra repeated daily around the Utah Jazz. Show Love. The credo, preached by coach Will Hardy, is painted in white on the weight room walls at the team’s practice facility. It’s in block letters on a wall […]

The Professional Women’s Hockey League, hoping to educate players on the art of taking a hit, brought in a big name. Ex-NHL player Ryan Getzlaf was one of his generation’s best combinations of skill and physicality. He was an elite playmaking center — who won a Stanley Cup and two Olympic gold medals — and […]

Congratulations, North Carolina. You managed to hire someone completely unqualified to be your next football coach. You did that thing so many schools do where they try to win the press conference instead of win football games. It rarely works. GO DEEPER Bill Belichick agrees to deal to become UNC football head coach I realize […]

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — During quiet moments on the sideline, Calais Campbell can still hear his father’s voice. Truth is, it never left him. The words were stored away, hardened into his psyche. Charles Campbell saw his son’s path before his son ever could. Twenty years later, the lessons have lasted. Like the time Calais […]

DALLAS — Brian Cashman recalls reading stories in 2008 that compared his ability to close the CC Sabathia free agency deal to the former coach of his beloved Kentucky Wildcats, John Calipari, walking into a five-star recruit’s living room and securing a commitment. The story of how the New York Yankees landed Sabathia was much […]

In a week when he lamented a bias against United States men’s national team players in Europe, Weston McKennie did what he does best. In adversity, the midfielder stood up to be counted and proved that you write him and his USMNT team-mates off at your peril. Left on the bench, alongside compatriot Tim Weah, […]

India’s 18-year-old prodigy Gukesh Dommaraju capped his meteoric rise by becoming the youngest world chess champion in history after defeating Ding Liren 7½-6½ in a tense championship in Singapore. The teenager, already the youngest challenger to compete for the world title, gained the point required in the final of the best-of-14 classic games to beat […]

Four more weeks. That’s all New York City football fans must endure. Four more weeks, and this terrible, horrible, no good, very bad season from … will finally be over. In case you’re someone who doesn’t live in New York — we don’t mean you, Buffalo, your Bills are great — or follow their wretched […]

The Kansas City Chiefs keep winning games no team should win so frequently, leaving opposing fans pointing to everything from dumb luck to favorable officiating to explain the maddening inevitability. Mathematically, the Chiefs’ 15-game winning streak in games decided by one score or less should happen once in 406 chances. With a 19-17 victory over […]