Phil Mickelson on Tuesday said he regretted his recent comments in support of a breakaway golf tour backed by Saudi Arabia and suggested he might take a leave from the golf course to “prioritize the ones I love most and work on being the man I want to be.” “I used words I sincerely regret […]
A six-year fight over equal pay that had pitted key members of the World Cup-winning United States women’s soccer team against their sport’s national governing body ended on Tuesday morning with a settlement that included a multimillion-dollar payment to the players and a promise by their federation to equalize pay between the men’s and women’s […]
JUPITER, Fla. — For over five hours here on Monday, several of the most important people in baseball gathered at Roger Dean Stadium, the spring training home of the St. Louis Cardinals and the Miami Marlins. Spring training, which was supposed to begin last week, hasn’t started yet because Major League Baseball locked out the […]
LOS ANGELES — Harold Varner III did not make the cut in the Genesis Invitational at Riviera Country Club. He did not come close. He started bogey, double bogey, bogey on his first three holes on Thursday on the way to a six-over-par 77. Despite rebounding with a 69 on Friday, he missed the cut […]
Feb. 20, 2022, 7:39 a.m. ET Feb. 20, 2022, 7:39 a.m. ET Therese Johaug won Norway’s first and last gold medals at the Beijing Olympics.Credit…Doug Mills/The New York Times Norway, which won the first gold medal of the Beijing Games and then just kept on winning them for two weeks, added its 16th and final […]
Finland’s medal was its seventh in men’s hockey, but its first gold.Credit…Chang W. Lee/The New York Times More than a month ago, when Olympic rosters were still coming into view, Sweden’s coach offered a plain-spoken assessment of a field whose fluidity and mystery were flummoxing men’s hockey executives around the world. “Russia and Finland,” Johan […]
Several members of the Russian contingent were in tears by then, including not only Valieva but the silver medalist, Alexandra Trusova, too. In seconds, the scene at the edge of the rink quickly shifted to a blur of disparate emotions — crushing disappointment, raw frustration, incalculable pain — as the weight of a doping scandal […]
Canada’s gold medal in women’s hockey was its fifth in the past six Olympics.Credit…Chang W. Lee/The New York Times All through the Beijing Games, the unchecked swagger of Canada’s women’s hockey team had been conspicuous for all to see — and to admire, fume over and fear. There were the humiliations of the teams that […]
I first saw Mikaela Shiffrin ski when she was 14 at an Eastern championship for top junior racers culled from nine states. Shiffrin beat everyone (including my daughter) by 11 seconds in a race usually decided by tenths of a second, if not hundredths. I wandered over to a group of coaches from elite ski […]
The American skiers Alex Hall, left, and Nick Goepper took gold and silver in slopestyle skiing on Wednesday.Credit…Dylan Martinez/Reuters Alex Hall let out a whoop when he landed his last trick on the slopestyle course, and that was before the judges awarded him with what would be the winning score. It was, he said later, […]
