Follow live coverage of day one at The Open 2024 from Royal Troon today HOLYWOOD, Northern Ireland — About 3,000 miles from here, Rory McIlroy walked along Manhattan’s West Side five weeks ago; shoulders pushed up, head slung down, earbuds in. He strolled the High Line, a repurposed freight rail running from Gansevoort Street to […]
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Follow our Olympics coverage in the lead-up to the Paris Games. For many years across Olympic swimming venues, the sound of “The Star-Spangled Banner” was ubiquitous. From the 1992 Games in Barcelona through the pandemic-delayed 2021 Games in Tokyo, the United States swim team won more gold medals than any of its peers. Its anthem played, […]
On Wednesday, Angel City FC became “the most valuable women’s sports team in the world” after the club entered into a definitive agreement for Willow Bay and Bob Iger to become the new controlling owners. The team’s board of directors unanimously approved the sale via a vote, but it still must be approved by the […]
They gathered in a 100-year-old Gothic church-turned-recording studio, a couple of blocks from Vanderbilt’s campus in Nashville. Eighty-five musicians, with their brass, wind and percussion instruments, cycled through the sanctuary to contribute to a unique task: Recording a song that fit the grandeur of the return of a college football video game. The thunder of […]
This week serves as a sort of pause for the sport of baseball. The amateur draft, followed by the All-Star Game, followed by the Hall of Fame induction ceremony feels a bit like a mid-season side quest, a break from the regular so that players and fans alike can celebrate the game’s very best at […]
LAS VEGAS — Seventeen-year-old Maci Joncich sat in the bleachers at Coronado High School’s football stadium in Las Vegas on a spring day in April, her future in football crystalizing. Joncich had recently become the youngest player to make the U.S. Women’s Flag Football National Team. While she had no doubts about where she was […]
TROON, Scotland — The questions came every single day, one after the other, pressing Scottie Scheffler about whether he’d leave the Masters if his wife went into labor with their first child. The entire week was framed around this emotional crossroads in his life. People and Us Weekly tracked it like celebrity gossip. Here at […]
The black gates at the southwest entrance of Hard Rock Stadium had been closed for one hour and 45 minutes when a young child was hoisted on a guardian’s shoulders amid the crush of people waiting to get in for the Copa América final. The boy waved his hands toward the police officers and security […]
WIMBLEDON — This wasn’t a torch-passing. It was more like a torch-grabbing, followed by a sprint around the bend and then another mile or two down the road. Last year, Carlos Alcaraz beat Novak Djokovic by a whisker in the Wimbledon men’s final, taking advantage of a few rare errors from the now 24-time Grand […]
Spain arrived in Germany under the radar, with a feeling they were unnoticed. They leave not just as the European champions — but with another thrilling generation with the potential to rule the world. This was the Euros of Lamine Yamal and Nico Williams, two adolescents off the pitch who turned into gamebreakers in a […]