Presumably, once you’ve won Olympic gold and broken your own world record, you get a little bored. At least, that’s the simplest explanation for Mondo Duplantis and Karsten Warholm racing each other over 100m on a warm, early September evening in Zurich, the night before the Weltklasse Diamond League meet. Neither athlete is a sprinter […]
There’s no ‘I’ in team but there is one in ‘best player in the world’ and that, one and all, is where the Ballon d’Or comes in. Crowning the number one footballer in the world over the last year may seem like a fool’s errand given the multitude of nuances involved, but that’s what the
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It was about as close as an FA Cup-winning manager has come to a mic drop. In a room of journalists who had spent the previous few days reporting on his bosses’ plan to replace him, a bruised, embattled but belligerent Erik ten Hag defended his record as manager of Manchester United. “Two trophies in
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Caitlin Clark: Raising the Game A commemoration of Caitlin Clark’s meteoric career at Iowa and evaluation of the start of her WNBA rookie season. A commemoration of Caitlin Clark’s meteoric career at Iowa and evaluation of the start of her WNBA rookie season. Buy Late next week, the WNBA will send out ballots for its
The Bills were knocked out of the playoffs last season by the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC Divisional Round while the Cardinals missed the postseason with a 4-13 record. Dissecting the Bills’ options at safety In the final year of his rookie deal, Hamlin went from potentially on the roster bubble heading into training
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ATLANTA — Whit Merrifield has had enough of control-challenged pitchers hitting batters with pitches. The veteran infielder became the latest in a string of Atlanta Braves players hit by fastballs when he was plunked in the back of his head Tuesday by Colorado Rockies rookie Jeff Criswell, and Merrifield said Major League Baseball needs to
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Australian breaker Rachel “Raygun” Gunn, who quickly became one of the most talked about Olympians at the Paris Games following her performance, said much of the heavy criticism of her skills was due to a lack of knowledge of the sport. “The energy and vitriol that people had was pretty alarming,” Gunn told “The Project,”
After the Añejo tequila from the night before had worn off, Aaron Rodgers asked Packers assistant director of communications Tom Fanning for Jordan Love’s cell phone number. Rodgers was driving home in Southern California from a workout the morning after the first round of the 2020 NFL Draft. Before he entered an area without service,
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Teresa Weatherspoon couldn’t watch “The Shot” for years. It’s still not the easiest topic for her to discuss. Weatherspoon is the head coach of the Chicago Sky, but 25 years ago she was a guard for the New York Liberty and facing the Houston Comets in the 1999 WNBA Finals. Houston led 67-65 with 2.4
What would inspire you to sell up your old life and move thousands of miles away to a small country you’d only previously spent two weeks in? For Maikeli Lomu, it was a Facebook post. He was taking a break from working on his laptop when he spotted the advert. It was an appeal from
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