LONDON — College football abroad ain't easy. Brian Dubiski knows. In 1988, he was a Texas Tech defensive back on a flight to Tokyo preparing to face Barry Sanders and Oklahoma State. Hours after winning the Heisman Trophy, Sanders rushed for 4 touchdowns and more than 300 yards in the ...
Motor neurone disease is not likely to stop Jai Arrow trying to bring up a career milestone in Australia's National Rugby League. The NRL is planning an exception to its rules to allow the veteran forward a chance to be on the field for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in his 99th and 100th rugby league games for the club, if only for a few moments. Arrow, 31, had retired from the sport to concentrate on his treatment and family when he was diagnosed in May with motor neurone disease, which MND Australia describes as an umbrella term for a group of progressive neurological conditions where ...
NEW YORK — Serena Williams is back at the U.S. Open for her first match at the Grand Slam tournament since 2022, playing mixed doubles alongside defending men's singles champion Carlos Alcaraz. Williams and Alcaraz are facing one half of the reigning women's doubles champions, Erin ...
NETHERLANDS — The popularity of four-time world champion Max Verstappen shows up at track after track with the “Oranje Army,” the Dutch spelling of Orange, a popular color in the Netherlands because of the country’s royal family the House of Orange-Nassau. His home country wanted to ...
The playoff that everyone wanted — make that, demanded — is now a fixture in college football. The latest set of tweaks were made to favor Notre Dame and maybe some mid-level champion of a big-name conference (think, Duke and the ACC last year), while the losers in that calculation are ...
ATLANTA — Ten years after he retired as commissioner, Tim Finchem and his wife are donating $13 million to help launch a new charity strategy at a time when so much emphasis in golf is on profit in the new commercial enterprise of the PGA Tour. The tour on Monday revealed plans for PGA ...
