The clip has the uncanny feeling of a dream. We’re watching, or so it seems, from behind the windshield of a racecar as it zooms through the streets of downtown Chicago under a benevolent blue sky. There are no other cars on the road. No buses. No cyclists. No pedestrians. No other people at all. … Read more
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY — The jocks’ room here is cramped, often sounds like the translators’ room in the United Nations and is home to one of the most decorated groups of riders horse racing has ever seen. John Velazquez, of Puerto Rico, and Javier Castellano, a Venezuelan, are Hall of Famers. The Ortiz brothers, Irad … Read more
After a serious ankle injury in her rookie season and a somewhat tentative second year, Sabrina Ionescu has in her third year hit the kind of heights everyone expected of her, and her Liberty are back in the WNBA playoffs. The no. 7 Liberty will face the No. 2 Chicago Sky — the defending champions … Read more
MASON, Ohio — The Serena Williams farewell tour continues to seem like a fine idea that has come too late in the game. Since Williams’s announcement in Vogue last week that she would soon retire from the sport that she once ruled, she has played two matches and lost both in straight sets. Her last … Read more
On a sticky August evening at Citi Field, toward the end of a crucial Mets victory against division rival Atlanta, closer Edwin Díaz threw his last warm-up pitch and began his long, familiar journey from the right field bullpen to the mound for the top. of the ninth inning. But something unusual happened: The television … Read more
Allow me to begin with an admission. I haven’t exactly been a fan of pickleball, the sport that is sweeping America like thorny tumbleweeds blowing across the windswept plains. I’ve always been jarred by the sound of it: Thwack! Although pickleball, a hybrid paddle sport, is increasingly sharing space with tennis at many courts and … Read more
MASON, Ohio — The Serena Williams farewell tour is set to continue Tuesday at the Western and Southern Open. But for how long? The matchup — Williams vs. Emma Raducanu of Britain in the opening round — seems particularly well suited to the grand occasion that is Williams’ extended goodbye from professional tennis. With 23 … Read more
Pete Carril, who coached men’s basketball at Princeton for 29 years and scared big-name opponents with his undersized, often underskilled scholars playing an old-fashioned textbook game, died on Monday. He was 92. His family announced the death in a statement posted on the Princeton Tigers’ website. It did not say where he died or give … Read more
TEL AVIV — The families of the 11 Israeli athletes who were killed by Palestinian militants at the 1972 Munich Olympics said Wednesday that they intend to boycott a memorial ceremony planned in Germany in September to mark the 50th anniversary of the attack because of a dispute with Germany. authorities over compensation. The decision … Read more
Scherzer. DeGrom. DeGrom. Scherzer. You can order them however you would like now that Max Scherzer and Jacob deGrom are finally ensconced at the top of the Mets’ pitching rotation. Each would be nearly every other team’s no. 1 starter, and, either way, you’re not really choosing the order of the team’s rotation or the … Read more