It might have been fitting if someone from Holywood won this year’s U.S. Open at Los Angeles Country Club. But Rory McIlroy, born in the Northern Ireland town of Holywood, is not having that kind of year. On Sunday, McIlroy was chasing his first major championship title in nine years, a drought that continues to […]
The News According to a post on the police department’s public safety site, officers in Pittsburgh found Huggins blocking traffic in a black S.U.V. on Friday just before 8:30 p.m. Huggins’s door was open, and the car had “a flat and shredded tire.” The police instructed Huggins to move his vehicle off the road, which […]
Not many international sporting contests predate the countries that play them, but few contests are as old as the Ashes. The cricket series between England and Australia was first played in 1882, before Australia was even founded as a nation. On Friday, its 73rd edition will begin in Edgbaston, a suburb of Birmingham, England. But […]
Track and Field Career: She was the world’s fastest woman. Bowie’s ascension to the fastest woman in the world began on a basketball court in Sandhill, Miss. Pisgah High School was too small to field separate basketball and track teams, so if Bowie wanted to play basketball, she would have to run track, too. She […]
Novak Djokovic began his day picturing how it would end, holding his children in his arms, raising another Grand Slam tournament trophy above his head and singing his national anthem as Serbian fans chanted and danced and celebrated his third French Open men’s singles title and much more. On Sunday at Roland Garros, Djokovic defeated […]
The Toronto Blue Jays cut pitcher Anthony Bass, 35, on Friday, after he drew backlash and boos from fans for reposting a video on Instagram that called Target and Bud Light “evil” and “demonic” for being supportive of the L.G.B.T.Q. community. The Blue Jays announced on Friday that they had designated Bass for assignment, effectively […]
Behind the head-spinning news this week that the PGA Tour wants to merge with a rival, the upstart Saudi-backed league called LIV Golf, was an entity with billions to spend to make it happen: Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund. Though the fund has long been a known presence in financial circles, the deal that stunned […]
Jim Hines, who in 1968 became the first man to sprint 100 meters in under 10 seconds, and later that year won a gold medal in that distance at the Olympic Games in Mexico City with a blistering time of 9.95 seconds, a mark that stood as a world record for 15 years, died on […]
Outdoor N.H.L. hockey will make its debut in New Jersey next year when MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford will host a four-team doubleheader of sorts in the league’s so-called Stadium Series. The New Jersey Devils will play the Philadelphia Flyers on the night of Saturday, Feb. 17, and the Islanders will play the Rangers on […]
N.B.A. Commissioner Adam Silver on Thursday said that the league would wait until the conclusion of the finals to announce the findings of its latest investigation into the behavior of Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant, as well as any potential discipline of him. On May 13, Morant appeared to brandish a firearm in public for […]
