April 3, 2022, 5:30 p.m. ET April 3, 2022, 5:30 p.m. ET Christyn Williams of UConn diving for a loose ball against Cameron Brink of Stanford during their semifinal game.Credit…Elsa/Getty Images She does not command the spotlight, or the floor, like Paige Bueckers. She is not, like Azzi Fudd, a cornerstone of UConn’s future. But […]
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Anna Davis had just turned 12 when Augusta National Golf Club, in a surprise, announced it would create a new national women’s amateur championship. On Saturday, now 16 years old, Davis won the tournament. Annika Sorenstam, who won 10 L.P.G.A. major championships, attended the club’s news conference in 2018, when Augusta National […]
April 1, 2022, 5:30 p.m. ET April 1, 2022, 5:30 p.m. ET UConn players stretching during a practice on Thursday in Minneapolis at the site of the Final Four.Credit…Eric Gay/Associated Press Separated by about 1,000 miles and decades of fragmentation, the N.C.A.A. will stage an eight-team, four-day, two-city carnival of college basketball starting on Friday. […]
April 1, 2022, 4:52 p.m. ET April 1, 2022, 4:52 p.m. ET Credit…David Ramos/Getty Images Louis van Gaal said it all with just the hint of a playful smile. The Netherlands’ draw for the World Cup was not easy, he said, with his characteristic bluntness, and nor was it lucky. It was, instead, “colorful.” That […]
South Carolina’s coach, Dawn Staley, and I were having a long discussion for an article about recruiting last year when she started talking about the transfer portal: “Recruiting isn’t just for the future. You have to recruit the kids that you still have on your roster. The transfer portal was real and people are jumping […]
The World Cup field is almost complete. On Friday, soccer teams will learn the answer to the critical question they and their fans want to know: Who will they play when the tournament opens in November in Qatar? The World Cup draw — part gala, part pep rally, part math seminar — will deliver intriguing […]
China Central Television, China’s state-run TV network, has begun to broadcast N.B.A. games again, signaling that the rift between the league and the authoritarian government that has persisted since 2019 appears to be coming to an end. The news was first reported by Global Times, a state-run Chinese media outlet, and confirmed by a spokesman […]
The World Cup draw is Friday in Qatar, even though the entire field isn’t yet complete. While we don’t know all the teams, we do know quite a bit about how things will play out. Here’s a primer on the world’s greatest sporting spectacle. When is the World Cup? The opening match is Nov. 21 […]
On a warm August night in 1961, Ted Williams, the “Splendid Splinter” who had finished his Hall of Fame baseball career the year before as the last hitter to bat .400 in a single season, strode to the plate before an overflow crowd at Municipal Stadium in Waterbury, Conn., to face a young softball pitching […]
Not that he views his career this way, but Matthews has had brutal timing. When he was with the Bucks two seasons ago, the Lakers won it all. When Matthews joined the Lakers last season, they were undone by injuries and lost to the Phoenix Suns in the first round of the playoffs — while […]
