Algeria’s players were strewn on the turf, their faces covered, their chests heaving. Their coach, Djamel Belmadi, seemed frozen by shock. Tears streamed from his eyes. The moment they had been waiting for, the goal that would send them to the World Cup, took 118 minutes to arrive. They had their last-minute winner. And then, […]
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — There were, after all these years, reasons to doubt the Connecticut women’s basketball team almost all season. There were the injuries and the gutting losses to unranked teams, the near-collapse last week during the N.C.A.A. tournament and the head-spinning sense that a program with 11 national titles had somehow been diminished to […]
The United States men’s soccer team is not in the World Cup, not just yet. There is still one last trip to make, one last job to do, one last game to play. It would be hard, though, for a team to keep the Americans from going to Qatar now. And it would be nearly […]
PHILADELPHIA — After the University of North Carolina men’s basketball team ended the N.C.A.A. tournament run by St. Peter’s on Sunday in the round of 8, winning, 69-49, the two coaches involved were facing different futures, albeit promising ones. North Carolina’s Hubert Davis was still on track to become the first first-year coach to win […]
During a news conference March 16, Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll said — unprompted — that he thinks Kaepernick deserves a second shot in his first public comments since trading Wilson. At his workout a week later at Washington, Kaepernick told reporters that he spoke with Carroll and General Manager John Schneider and was hopeful for […]
“When you have the opportunity like our team, why would you give it up,” said Van Lith after the game. “We’re going to run with it as long as we can and give it everything we can.” Tennessee had advanced to the round of 16 for the first time since 2016, as coach Kellie Harper, […]
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Creighton took down a No. 6 seed, Colorado. It defeated second-seeded Iowa. Now it has become the rare No. 10 seed to reach the round of 8. Creighton delivered its third consecutive upset by beating the No. 4 seed Iowa State, 76-68, on Friday night in the N.C.A.A. women’s tournament. The Bluejays […]
Olivia Miles doesn’t remember when she realized she was good at basketball. What she remembers is when other people realized she was good at basketball, which happened almost as soon as she started playing in fifth grade. “People were just telling me that I had the ability,” she said. It was as obvious to anyone […]
Timme led Gonzaga with 25 points and 7 rebounds, and Holmgren added 11 points, 14 rebounds and 2 blocks, but they received insufficient help from their teammates. “We needed Chet to be able to stay in there a little longer,” Few said of Holmgren, who was not among the three Gonzaga players brought to the […]
A grand jury in Brazoria County in Texas declined on Thursday to bring sexual misconduct charges against Deshaun Watson, the former Houston Texans quarterback who was traded to the Cleveland Browns just days ago, district attorney Tom Selleck said in a statement. A grand jury in Harris County, Texas, where Houston is, rejected nine criminal […]
