ZANDVOORT, Netherlands — Max Verstappen is staying in Formula 1, the Dutch Grand Prix is leaving and Kimi Antonelli remains the driver to beat. F1 returned from its mid-season break with an intriguing challenge for the drivers Friday, but Antonelli still led the way. The single practice ...
NEW YORK — Top-ranked Jannik Sinner withdrew from the U.S. Open on Friday, unable to recover from a right knee injury that has sidelined him since winning the Wimbledon title. Sinner beat Alexander Zverev last month for his second straight title at the All England Club, but then pulled out of the hard-court tournaments in Montreal and Cincinnati that serve as a warmup for the U.S. Open. He wrote Friday that he won't be ready when the main draw begins on Aug. 30. "Even though I have been working hard with my team and my medical staff, we have now had to make the difficult decision ...
DALLAS (AP) — WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert denounced people she said are trying to "sow divisiveness" as the league grapples with a debate over transgender athletes. Engelbert made the comments Thursday before the Indiana Fever's 91-85 loss to the Dallas Wings at the home of the Dallas Mavericks. Demonstrators showed up outside American Airlines Center, as they have at other venues since the Fever's Sophie Cunningham voiced support for barring transgender girls and women from girls' and women's sports in an extensive ESPN profile. The league issued a statement last week ...
MILWAUKEE — Pat Murphy doesn't sound like the manager of a team with the best record in the major leagues as he discusses what the Milwaukee Brewers have accomplished thus far. "I don't think we've played great," the two-time reigning NL manager of the year said Wednesday. "We haven't ...
PITTSBURGH — Paul Skenes insists he has had stretches during his still-burgeoning career when he has had to grit his teeth and grind through it. The problem is, it rarely seemed like it. Spending two seasons doing things few pitchers in the history of the game have done — as Skenes did ...
The introduction of name, image likeness payments that rule the college landscape is hardly the first time atheltes have been compensated for playing. Almost since the beginning, they've received train tickets, some walking-around money and scholarships. For decades, a lot of the money came to players and their families under the table. Now, that money comes with the OK of the NCAA , though it doesn't mean college sports is truly clean. A brief look at the history of athlete compensation in college sports: The early years The NCAA was founded in 1906, in a push from President Teddy ...
