WIMBLEDON, England — Coco Gauff toed the line to serve, eyes focused, shoulders back, ready to go. It was a moment of peril in her semifinal mixed doubles match here on Wednesday. Break point. One game all, third set. Gauff aimed a tight-spinning serve toward Matthew Ebden, her male opponent, and the point was on: […]
Wednesday was the midpoint of the Yankees’ 2022 season. Through 81 games, they not only had the best record (58-23) in Major League Baseball, but they also were on a pace to match the 1906 Chicago Cubs and the 2001 Seattle Mariners for the most wins (116) in a 162-game regular season. One of the […]
Good news for Knicks fans: The franchise has lured one of the best free agents, a rare occurrence for the team this century. The bad news: It’s a weak free-agent class, and this top free agent — the 25-year-old point guard Jalen Brunson — has never made an All-Star team. He has agreed to sign […]
WIMBLEDON, England — The spotlight on the Australian tennis player Nick Kyrgios, whose confrontations with opponents and Wimbledon officials have made his matches can’t-miss theater for the past week, grew hotter Tuesday when news emerged that the police have begun legal proceedings against him for assaulting a former girlfriend in December. The accusations landed on […]
WIMBLEDON, England — It was nearing 10 p.m., and Richard Hess, an 81-year-old American, was sitting inside his small tent and merrily preparing for his latest sleep-deprived night in the Wimbledon queue. “You caught me blowing up my mattress,” he said, poking his gray-haired head out of the tent and offering his visitor a seat […]
Maybelle Blair walked into a sporting goods store in her early 90s with a mission: to try on a pair of spikes. The salesman suggested that she meant to ask for sneakers. But Blair, a former pitcher for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, insisted on baseball cleats. “He looked at me like I had […]
WIMBLEDON, England — There he was, a surprise, perhaps the biggest of this Wimbledon fortnight: Roger Federer in the flesh Sunday on Centre Court. As always, he looked handsome and freshly pressed. But instead of his tennis whites, Federer wore a trim, dark suit to to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Centre Court. Flanked by […]
WIMBLEDON, England — All white is the dress code at Wimbledon, the oldest and most traditional of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments. So when Nick Kyrgios wears a black hat for his on-court interview, he is sending a message. And that’s what he did Saturday night on the No. 1 Court, after his emotional, […]
The All-Star break has typically been used to split up baseball’s first and second halves. While that has always been misleading — teams often play around 90 games in the first half, leaving only 72 for the second half — it is even more extreme this season as the All-Star Game won’t be held until […]
WIMBLEDON, England — Lesia Tsurenko’s Wimbledon campaign ended Friday during a match in which her head was someplace else. Tsurenko, a 33-year-old tennis veteran from Kyiv, had been watching the news from home all week and seeing that Russians had bombed a shopping mall and other civilian targets. “They’re just trying to kill as many […]
