This is the week of final chances. The World Cup in Qatar is not quite eight months away, and more than half of the 32 places at the tournament have been taken. That number will increase over the course of the next seven days, as teams from Tunisia to Tahiti compete to join the 15 […]
Tennis, with all its aging and ailing superstars, has been bracing for big farewells for years. But players like Roger Federer, Serena and Venus Williams and Andy Murray have defied the timeline and the expectations, pressing on and rejecting retirement through competitiveness, stubbornness, and a love of the game and the platform. Which is why […]
PHOENIX — Kylie McKenzie, once one of America’s most promising junior tennis players, is for now back where she began, hitting balls on a local court, often with her father, living at home while trying to rescue what once seemed like a can’t-miss future. There is little doubt where that future went astray. In 2018, […]
Longtime U.S. Olympic snowboarding coach Peter Foley, accused of sexual misconduct by a former athlete during the Winter Games in February and relieved of his duties over the weekend, faces a broader, formal investigation into new allegations of sexual assault. Lindsey Sine Nikola, who worked for U.S. Ski and Snowboard from 2006 to 2010, told […]
For more than two decades, Paul McCrory has been the world’s foremost doctor shaping the concussion protocols that are used by sports leagues and organizations globally. As the leader of the Concussion in Sport Group, McCrory helped choose the members of the international group and write its quadrennial consensus statement on the latest research on […]
NORTH PORT, Fla. — The evolution of modern baseball can be neatly explained by the Atlanta Braves’ path to their last two championships. In the 1995 World Series, they used four ace starters — Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, John Smoltz and Steve Avery — in the first four games, then went back to Maddux and […]
Thomas, a former world No. 1, praised the growing accomplishments of this younger set even though the competition has helped push his current world ranking to seventh. “I’ve played some pretty damn good golf, but if you’re not winning tournaments now, you’re getting lapped,” Thomas said. “That’s just the way it is, which just goes […]
DOHA, Qatar — If you need to buy a cricket bat here, everyone tells you the same thing: “Call Ali.” Diminutive and polite, with a thickish beard and messy hair, Ali works in accounts for a tourism agency. But his real passion is designing and selling cricket equipment from a small room in his apartment […]
OTTAWA — No matter how enjoyable at first, whooshing round and round the constrained oval of an ice rink can get monotonous for even the most die-hard skater. But gliding on the ice through miles of pristine forest, with birds in the trees, paw prints of wildlife imprinted in the snow and a new discovery […]
The University of North Carolina’s men’s basketball team spent part of December being crushed by Kentucky. January brought humiliations at Miami and Wake Forest. February included being embarrassed on its home court by Duke and Pittsburgh and requiring overtime to beat a woeful Syracuse. Then came March. The Tar Heels went over to Duke and […]
