“There’s no wrong, only right,” Roger Federer says.He is speaking with The Athletic about one of tennis’s defining issues this year, and possibly the defining issue right now: how best to retire.As Wimbledon...
Read moreA groggy Joey Slackman woke from an anesthetic slumber the morning of Nov. 20. The Penn defensive lineman was in a Philadelphia hospital bed. He had just spent three hours in surgery...
Read moreINDIANAPOLIS — Lydia Jacoby looked up, stunned. Only 27 hundredths of a second separated her from Emma Weber’s second-place finish in the women’s 100-meter breaststroke final, but the two might as well...
Read moreINDIANAPOLIS — Athletes often speak in generalities as a defense mechanism. Rather than go in-depth on a potentially controversial topic, or even address the issue at all, they provide non-answers, using cliches and...
Read moreRafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz will represent Spain as a tennis doubles pairing at the Paris Olympics, which begins on July 26.David Ferrer, the former world No 3 and current national selector...
Read moreThere was a point towards the end of last year when there was a genuine feeling that Daniel Ricciardo was lining up to take Sergio Pérez’s Formula One seat at Red Bull...
Read moreSitting down for a routine pre-match interview with the in-house media team at Barnsley a few years back, Callum Styles decided there was something he was going to drop into conversation.It was,...
Read moreOKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — Fans in the outfield turned their gaze toward left field as Oklahoma’s Kelly Maxwell jogged out of the bullpen. The Sooners were four outs away from a national...
Read moreFollow live coverage of England vs Iceland in the final Euro 2024 warm-up match todayGareth Southgate has been mocked for his Loro Piana sweater in his recent shoot for GQ magazine, but...
Read moreFollow live coverage of the 2024 French Open women’s final todayJannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz have been the future of men’s tennis for a little while already.Their first meeting, at the Paris...
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