As the public address announcer at Barclays Center called the names of the Chicago Sky starters, the deafening boos of the white-knuckled Liberty fans filling the stands drowned out his voice.Boos are...
Read moreSAN DIEGO — In his first public comments since being suspended for 80 games on Aug. 12 for testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs, the San Diego star Fernando Tatis Jr. sat in...
Read moreWho is going to win the United States Open, which starts next week? Given the results over the weekend in an important warm-up tournament near Cincinnati, the answer seems like it could...
Read moreAlbert Pujols’s dream of reaching 700 career home runs has hardly been a secret. Even as his career faded badly with the Angels, and any hope of topping Barry Bonds for the...
Read moreA day after battling Alek Manoah, a candidate for this year’s American League Cy Young Award, and fending off a four-game sweep at the hands of the Toronto Blue Jays, the Yankees...
Read moreLike his fellow chief executives at soccer clubs across Europe, Sergei Palkin of the Ukrainian team Shakhtar Donetsk spent weeks this summer negotiating player trades.He and Fulham, a team newly promoted to...
Read moreThe Yankee Stadium that honored Paul O’Neill on Sunday differed from the one he played at throughout his nine seasons in New York, but he felt right at home in his first...
Read moreHINCKLEY, Minnesota — Just after 9 p.m., a noticeable quiet descended on the van full of sweaty athletes who had already been running and driving for 13 hours. We weren’t even halfway...
Read moreOne thing was evident early in the Game 2 playoff matchup between the Chicago Sky and the Liberty: If the Sky were going to lose their first-round series, it would not be...
Read moreIt’s kind of funny to Sylvia Fowles that everyone is on the same page about what she should do with her life now that she has retired from the W.N.B.A.Everyone, that is,...
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