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Rick Carlisle takes over Pacers for 2nd time after leaving MavericksVideo
INDIANAPOLIS — When Kevin Pritchard hired a new coach in October, he took a calculated risk. This time, the Indiana Pacers president of basketball operations went for the known commodity. Pritchard hired longtime Dallas Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle on Thursday, reuniting the 61-year-old with the team that helped relaunch his...
Wimbledon 2021: Grand Slam tennis returns to England’s grass
Roger Federer recalls feeling “just shocked, more than anything.” Chris Evert found the news “devastating.” The tennis world was shaken when the All England Club announced April 1, 2020, that Wimbledon would be canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic — the first time since World War II it was called...
2021 Tour de France preview: Tadej Pogacar vs. Primoz Roglic rematch
Not so long ago, Tadej Pogacar was a just a promising outsider still learning the ropes of cycling’s biggest race. His rise to become the second-youngest winner of the Tour de France in September last year has changed everything: The 22-year-old returns to the three-week event as the odds-on favorite...
This Date in Sports History: June 24
1910 — James Braid wins his fifth British Open with a four-stroke victory over Sandy Herd. 1911 — John McDermott becomes the first American-born winner of the U.S. Open when he beats Michael Brady and George Simpson in a playoff. McDermott finishes two strokes better than Brady and five strokes...
Chase Koepka, Brooks’ brother, gets delayed spot in PGA Tour’s stop in HartfordVideo
Chase Koepka is getting his chance to play in the Travelers Championship — a year late. The brother of four-time major champion Brooks Koepka earned his way into the tournament last year in the Monday qualifier, but he wound up withdrawing after playing a practice round alongside someone who tested...
Hempfield grads, lifelong friends chase Olympic dreams together
They were neighbors in the Heather Ridge plan of Hempfield Township with adjacent backyards. They grew up together and competed together for the Hempfield track team. They were state and national track champions. They were NCAA Division I All-Americans. Now they are trying to make the United States Olympic team...
NASCAR legend Jeff Gordon to leave Fox booth for daily role at Hendrick MotorsportsVideo
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Jeff Gordon will leave the Fox Sports booth to take a daily role at Hendrick Motorsports as vice chairman and the second-ranking team official to majority owner Rick Hendrick. Wednesday’s announcement positions the four-time champion and Hall of Famer to one day succeed the 71-year-old Hendrick at...
NCAA could seek once-radical solutions after high court loss
Embedded in Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s scathing rebuke of the NCAA and its rules were a few suggestions on how college sports can be reformed to avoid being sued into oblivion. “Legislation would be one option,” Kavanaugh wrote in a concurrence to the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling against the...
Tokyo shapes up to be No-Fun Olympics with many rules, tests
TOKYO — The Tokyo Olympics, already delayed by the pandemic, are not looking like much fun: Not for athletes. Not for fans. And not for the Japanese public. They are caught between concerns about the coronavirus at a time when few are vaccinated on one side and politicians who hope...
Until golf’s Olympic return, Bryson DeChambeau didn’t dare dream it
Bryson DeChambeau grew up watching the Olympics and wishing that someday he would be able to take part. As a golfer, he knew that was a bit of a stretch. Although the sport was a part of the Olympic program early in the 20th Century, it was dropped from 1904...
This Date in Sports History: June 23
1917 — In baseball’s greatest relief effort, Ernie Shore of the Boston Red Sox retires 26 batters for a 4-0 victory over Washington. Shore relieves Babe Ruth with nobody out and a man on first, who was cut down stealing. 1917 — Molla Bjurstedt wins the women’s U.S. Lawn Tennis...
Pistons win lottery, receive No. 1 pick in 2021 NBA Draft
The Detroit Pistons did a lot of losing this season, finishing with the second-worst record in the NBA and the franchise’s worst record in nearly 30 years. It paid off. The Pistons won the NBA Draft lottery Tuesday night, grabbing the No. 1 pick in the July 29 event and...
Golf notes: KPMG provides LPGA Tour with fuller range of statistics
Along with raising the profile of one of the LPGA Tour’s oldest majors, KPMG this week is launching a program that has been sorely lacking in women’s golf. “KPMG Performance Insights” essentially gives the LPGA Tour a wide array of data and statistics that will give players a better understanding...
Doug Ferguson: Torrey Pines deserves another Open for men and womenVideo
SAN DIEGO — Torrey Pines has staged two U.S. Opens, and it would be hard to find any flaws. The public course along the Pacific bluffs gave us Tiger Woods going 91 holes over five days on one good leg to win his third U.S. Open, and Jon Rahm returning...
Khris Middleton, Jrue Holiday, Kevin Love commit to play for U.S. in OlympicsVideo
Jrue Holiday is planning to try to follow in his wife’s footsteps and win an Olympic gold medal. Holiday has committed to USA Basketball for next month’s Tokyo Games, along with his Milwaukee teammate Khris Middleton and Cleveland forward Kevin Love, said a person with knowledge of the decisions. Holiday...
College Football Playoff presidents OK expansion evaluation
DALLAS — The 11 university presidents and chancellors who oversee the College Football Playoff authorized a continued evaluation of a proposed 12-team playoff Tuesday that, if eventually adopted, could be another five years away. While far from an approval of the proposal, the move by the CFP board of managers...
Top-heavy field for Olympic golf still missing some stars
Four of the top 10 men in the world golf ranking are not going to Japan for the Olympics, only one of them by choice. The 60-man field was set Tuesday based on the world ranking with a half-dozen late withdrawals, a list that included U.S. Open runner-up Louis Oosthuizen...
This date in sports history: June 22Video
1918 — Molla Bjurstedt wins the women’s U.S. Lawn Tennis Association title for the fourth straight year, beating Eleanor Goss, 6-4, 6-3. 1937 — Joe Louis knocks out Jim Braddock in the eighth round at Chicago’s Comiskey Park to win the world heavyweight title, which he would hold for 11...
Transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard selected for Tokyo OlympicsVideo
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Laurel Hubbard hefted 628 pounds in two lifts on the way to qualifying in the women’s super-heavyweight division for the Tokyo Olympics. That’s heavy. But it’s nowhere near the figurative weight Hubbard has carried to become the first transgender athlete to compete at an Olympic Games....
NASCAR team owner, Hall of Famer Tony Stewart realistic about SHR’s strugglesVideo
LEBANON, Tenn. — Tony Stewart tried to do a grid walk at his first Cup Series race since the start of the pandemic. But he’s Tony Stewart and he hasn’t been at the track in almost 16 months. Everybody wants to chat. A long conversation with driver Cole Custer and...
Perspective, passion define Jon Rahm’s win at U.S. OpenVideo
SAN DIEGO — Jon Rahm’s road to becoming a U.S. Open champion might have started with a pair of bogeys. It ended with a pair of birdies at Torrey Pines that will be far more memorable. In the previous 120 editions of the U.S. Open, no one ever had birdied...
High court sides with former athletes in dispute with NCAA
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court decided unanimously Monday that the NCAA can’t enforce rules limiting education-related benefits — such as computers and paid internships — that colleges offer to student-athletes, a ruling that could help push changes in how the student-athletes are compensated. The case doesn’t decide whether students can...
Tokyo Olympics to allow local fans but with strict limits
TOKYO — A sharply limited number of fans will be allowed to attend the Tokyo Olympics, organizers announced Monday as they tried to save some of the spirit of the Games where even cheering has been banned. Organizers set a limit of 50% capacity — up to a maximum of...
This date in sports history: June 21Video
1919 — Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman wins the women’s U.S. Lawn Tennis Association championship with a 6-1, 6-2 victory over Marion Zinderstein. 1932 — Jack Sharkey scores a 15-round split decision over Max Schmeling to win the world heavyweight title in New York. 1960 — Armin Hary of West Germany becomes...
Canyon shot costs Louis Oosthuizen at U.S. OpenVideo
SAN DIEGO — Louis Oosthuizen spent the week before the U.S. Open moving to the horse country in North Florida, where he bought an 86-acre ranch. Once the family moves into the ranch house next spring, Oosthuizen plans to buy some horses, maybe some cattle, enjoy life among the oak...
