Athletics: Coleman world record highlights U.S. indoor champs Christian Coleman made sure the world record was his this time. After being denied ratification last month for the fastest ever 60 meters when he clocked 6.37 seconds in a race that did not use electronic starting blocks, the world outdoor silver […]
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Team World routs Team USA in Rising Stars Challenge One-hundred and eight international players — from a record 42 countries and territories — were on opening-night rosters for the 2017-18 NBA season. Ten of those players lit up Staples Center on Friday night for Team World in the league’s annual […]
Hebard sets NCAA record, No. 9 Oregon beats USC in 2nd OT Oregon coach Kelly Graves summed up Ruthy Hebard’s performance in one word: “Perfect.” Hebard scored 27 points and set an NCAA record with 30 consecutive field goals to help the No. 9 Ducks hold off Southern California 80-74 […]
Jaylen Brown: Laura Ingraham’s comments about LeBron are ‘ridiculous’ and ‘insulting’ Jaylen Brown hadn’t yet heard the comments made by Fox News’ Laura Ingraham that LeBron James should just “shut up and dribble” instead of making his voice heard and speaking out about politics. But he wasn’t surprised. “That’s ridiculous,” […]
Czechs prevail in shootout against Canada The Czech Republic beat Canada 3-2 in a shootout on Saturday in a back-and-forth preliminary game in the men’s Olympic ice hockey tournament. Petr Koukal and Jan Kovar both scored in the shootout, topping Canada’s lone goal. Canada drew first blood on the powerplay […]
Back on top, Federer becomes oldest ATP world number one Roger Federer added yet another record to his vast collection when he guaranteed becoming the oldest ATP world number one by beating Dutchman Robin Haase 4-6 6-1 6-1 to reach the semi-finals in Rotterdam on Friday. Fresh from winning his […]
Golf: Inconsistent Woods six behind first-round leaders at Riviera Tiger Woods “fought hard” in an inconsistent performance to trail first round leaders Tony Finau and Patrick Cantlay by six strokes at the Genesis Open on Thursday. Woods, in his second start of the PGA Tour season after a year-long absence […]
Bengals QB AJ McCarron wins grievance, becomes a free agent AJ McCarron tried to stay busy Thursday. He got a workout in, working on his dropbacks and getting in some throws. He went to lunch with his cousin. Anything to stay out of the house as he anxiously waited to […]
Alpine skiing: Swede Hansdotter wins gold, no medal for Shiffrin Sweden’s Frida Hansdotter won gold in the women’s slalom as defending champion and clear favorite Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States failed to even reach the podium. Shiffrin has utterly dominated women’s slalom, winning four of the last five World […]
Charles Barkley sounds off: Cavaliers, LeBron’s future and problems in the NBA Charles Barkley was late. The TNT analyst was scheduled to sit down with a small group of writers inside the Nokia Theatre on Thursday afternoon, to chat about all things NBA for a bit here at All-Star weekend […]
