As he walked into the Four Seasons, Matt Damon did not know what to expect. The actor had just received a phone call asking if he wanted to meet Ted Williams. Damon did not need to think twice. “Absolutely,” he said. Both were in Boston for the same reason. The 1999 Major League All-Star Game […]
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NORTH BERWICK, Scotland — The 16th green at Renaissance Club sits well below the sloped fairway just off the Firth of Forth, low enough that not a soul surrounding it could see the golfer standing in the Scottish dune grass taking five minutes to hit the ball. They knew nothing of metal spikes or hidden […]
It was past midnight in Berlin and, in the bowels of the Olympiastadion, one England player after another emerged from the dressing room in stony-faced silence. Some heads were bowed, some hoods were pulled up. There goes Harry Kane. There goes Jude Bellingham. There goes Phil Foden. There goes Declan Rice. It was a night […]
LAS VEGAS — With a chance to sign the second nine-figure contract of his career, Jalen Brunson was unavailable. Negotiations, if you could even call them that, on a probable extension could not begin until the clock struck midnight (ET) Friday. Yet, long before any legalese came his way, the All-Star point guard could guess […]
First, he sank to the ground, grimacing. Play continued for a few seconds and then came the communal gasp. Lionel Messi was down. And Lionel Messi is not a player who goes down for nothing. Argentina’s playmaker and talisman clutched his right ankle. He had fallen on his own, with no obvious kick to point […]
Rodri is approaching serial winner territory now. After numerous successes with Manchester City, the Spain midfielder is now a significant part of European Championship history. Here he is, talking to ITV Sport: 💬 “It’s unbelievable. This is a dream. The best national team in the Euros is crazy. But this talks about how humble we […]
Shakira’s performance is expected to see halftime last 25 minutes, a prospect that Colombia head coach Nestor Lorenzo did not welcome. “I think the halftime for the final should be 15 minutes because those are the rules,” Lorenzo said yesterday. “And because we’ve been fined when we’ve walked back onto the pitch 16 minutes later. […]
It was the hamstring injury that reverberated around college baseball. Just four games into top MLB Draft prospect JJ Wetherholt’s junior season, the West Virginia star suffered a Grade 3 hamstring strain scoring a run on a wild pitch against Stetson on Feb. 19. The injury would cost Wetherholt a significant part of the season, […]
So much had to go right for Djokovic to even get a chance to play Alcaraz in the Wimbledon final 39 days after undergoing surgery on the meniscus in his right knee. Ultimately, it might have gone too right as he looked to play himself back into shape. Djokovic got lucky, not just by drawing […]
After 28 days of drama and more than 80 hours of football, 24 teams have been filtered down to two. There is only one more game to play. Spain and England prepare for battle at the Olympiastadion in Berlin on Sunday evening, meeting for the first time since 2018 to fight for the European Championship […]