Tons of attention was focused on Los Angeles Lakers rookie Bronny James during summer league play in July. The son of future Hall of Famer LeBron James delivered mixed results there, but he ended on a good note, providing a bit of hope that he can meet at least some of the hype surrounding him. Plenty have been skeptical about …
Trinity Rodman doesn’t remember the greatest moment of her young career. “Remind me? I was just (saying), I kind of blacked out,” Rodman said following the United States women’s soccer team’s 1-0 victory in extra time of the quarterfinals of the 2024 Paris Olympics over Japan on Saturday at Parc de Princes Stadium. Rodman’s left-footed strike helped the U.S. break …
Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca has been explaining why he decided to pick Malo Gusto, a right back, over Ben Chilwell at left back in the defeat to Manchester City last night. Gusto started the game as an out and out left full back and was not even inverting as Maresca experimented a different starting setup for this game than what …
Jamaican sprinter Shericka Jackson pulled out of the women’s 200 meters Sunday and will not race for an individual medal at the Paris Games. Jackson, the defending world champion who is the second-fastest woman of all time in the 200, had previously withdrawn from the 100 meters, saying it was partly because of a leg injury she suffered in a …
Exactly seven years to the day of his professional debut as a basketball player in the NBA (he had previously played professionally for the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball) on December 9, 1981, champion Boston Celtics shooting guard Danny Ainge played the best game of that NBA career. The Oregon native led all scorers, putting up 45 points …
The Team USA gymnasts started strong, but both had difficulty landing their jumps Simone Biles and Suni Lee had a tough time on the balance beam Monday. In the penultimate women’s gymnastics event of the 2024 Paris Olympics, Biles and Lee both fell off the apparatus during the balance beam final, ending in 5th and 6th place, respectively. Italy’s Alice …
Simone Biles fell off the beam, a rare miscue here in Paris on Friday, that derailed what was headed to a four-gold-in-four-attempts competition here. Biles lost balance and slipped off the beam at the end of a combination. She recorded a 13.100 to finish fifth. It cost her a chance to collect an 11th career Olympics medal. The good news? …
Travis Kelce has Taylor Swift on the brain. The athlete joked about his Grammy-winning girlfriend when he met a Swiftie during the Kansas City Chiefs training camp. “You just took my wife’s breath away,” a man told Kelce, 34, as he approached them in a TikTok video shared Sunday. “Literally, she just almost died.” @brianwascavagedpm The tight end smiled as …
After three days of headlines, controversies and social media misinformation, the Algerian boxer outlasted her Hungarian opponent. Algeria’s Imane Khelif, boxing in the Olympics for the first time since she became a worldwide subject of notoriety and speculation, defeated Hungary’s Anna Luca Hamori in the women’s 66kg quarterfinals at Paris North Arena by unanimous decision. The media tribune at Paris …
Julian Alvarez: Manchester City’s Rising Star and Transfer Speculation Ever get the feeling he said something to get more game time and it’s backfired somewhat here. Julian Alvarez has been making waves at Manchester City since his arrival from River Plate in January 2022. With his impressive goal-scoring record and undeniable talent, it’s no wonder that rumours of a potential …
