Brooke Henderson, who has won 20 times since turning professional in 2014, rolled in a putt on the final hole of last year’s Amundi Evian Championship to win the women’s major by one shot over the rookie Sophia Schubert. It was Henderson’s seventh time playing the championship, which starts on Thursday and is the only […]
Maddy Wood was an incoming freshman at Western Kentucky last fall, on scholarship, in shape and elated to pitch for the Hilltoppers. The feeling lasted only a few days, before that old, insidious anxiety gripped her. Wood could no longer throw the ball to the catcher’s glove. Her pitches skidded in the dirt, bounced off […]
A DEVASTATING injury that robbed a champion apprentice jockey of his career has been thrust into the limelight again amid a flurry of bans for riders. Freddy Tylicki was officially crowned the future star of racing in 2009 when he took the rookies' title. Having started out in Ireland under master trainers Dermot Weld and […]
BUKAYO SAKA has stunned Arsenal fans with his stunning one-year body transformation. The Gunners star was snapped in pre-season training looking much bulkier than this time last year. Saka, 21, has become one of the best players in the Premier League over the last year but at times did struggle with the physicality of the […]
The University of Northern Colorado landed at No. 10 in the Big Sky Football preseason poll by the coaches and voting media. UNC comes into the season with first-year head coach Ed Lamb. He replaces Ed McCaffrey, who went 3-8 overall and 2-6 in conference play in 2021 and 2022. Montana State was picked to […]
NEW YORK — Betnijah Laney scored a season-high 22 points, Jonquel Jones added 18 points and the New York Liberty rode a record hot start to rout the Indiana Fever 101-83 on Sunday. New York (16-5) made its first nine shots on the way to a 44-point first quarter. That’s the most points ever scored […]
Sign up to our free sport newsletter for all the latest news on everything from cycling to boxing Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news Thanks for signing up to the Sport email American Brian Harman remained firmly on course to claim his first major title on a rain-soaked final […]
“It’s been hard to deal with. I think someone mentioned that I’ve had more top 10s than anyone since 2017, so that’s a lot of times where you get done, you’re like, dammit, man, I had that one; it just didn’t happen for whatever reason. “I had a lot of success as a junior golfer. […]
Brian Harman knew Saturday evening that sleep might be hard to come by, as much as he knew he needed it. He had been here — the 54-hole leader at a major tournament — six years ago and knew the agonizing cost of a fitful night: a runner-up finish, months and then years of what-ifs, […]
Every major tournament has the cruel, curt power to humble golf’s stars. Rory McIlroy at the Masters. Justin Thomas at the P.G.A. Championship. Phil Mickelson at the U.S. Open (OK, make that a lot of them). This British Open was seeming awful vengeful, more hostile and taunting to the sport’s powers than most recent majors […]
