Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa suffered a concussion during the third quarter of Thursday’s game against the Buffalo Bills and was ruled out for the remainder of the contest. He took off running on a fourth-down play and ended up going head first into Bills safety Damar Hamlin. Players immediately went to a knee as […]
Jordan Mason was not anticipating being the starting running back for the 49ers when they began their 2024 season against the Jets on “Monday Night Football.” That all changed about an hour before kickoff. Mason entered this season as San Francisco’s No. 2 running back behind Christian McCaffrey. While the third-year player was very likely […]
After a back-and-forth game with offensive explosions — and plenty of miscues — the Philadelphia Eagles are the winner of the NFL’s first game in Brazi, defeating the Green Bay Packers 34-29. In his Eagles debut, Saquon Barkley scored three touchdowns, two on the ground and one receiving. Jayden Reed scored twice for the Packers, […]
The Saquon Barkley era began with a fall for the Philadelphia Eagles, but he got back up to score a big touchdown. When the Eagles offense took to the field for its first possession of the season against the Green Bay Packers in Brazil Friday night, the plan was to give Barkley the first carry […]
About a dozen years ago, a couple of 14-year-old boys arrived in Boca Raton, Fla. They were there for a United States Tennis Association camp, as promising junior players. One was a Black kid from suburban Washington, D.C. The son of refugees from Sierra Leone, he was a natural athlete with magic hands and the […]
The Chiefs open the 2024 NFL season with a game against the Baltimore Ravens. Taylor Swift is officially in the building. As the 2024 NFL season kicked off on Sept. 5, all eyes were on Swift as she arrived at Arrowhead Stadium to continue supporting the Kansas City Chiefs and her boyfriend, tight end Travis […]
This January, Jessica Pegula led Katie Boulter by a set and a double break in Perth. She lost the match. Two months later, in San Diego, Pegula led Marta Kostyuk 5-1 in the first set. She lost the match in straight sets. So when Pegula stepped up to serve Wednesday night in the US Open […]
Caitlin Clark became the fastest player in WNBA history to reach 100 3-pointers in a season and finished with 24 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists for her second career triple-double as the playoff-bound Indiana Fever beat the Los Angeles Sparks 93-86 on Wednesday night. Clark connected on her second 3 of the game and […]
There are some nights when Frances Tiafoe turns Arthur Ashe Stadium into a rocking house party. His house. His music thumping from the loudspeakers. Nearly 24,000 friends, cousins, kings, queens, stars of the silver screen and hardwood, and of course an all-time tennis great or half a dozen. All of them bounce to his beat, […]
Did you see what the Google search page served up yesterday and today? The latest Google Doodle showed two birds—one brown and the other blue—playing tennis in wheelchairs at the Jardin des Tuileries in France. And these birds were quite animated, literally. This animated cartoon showed the birds hitting the ball back and forth with […]