Let’s start with a little intellectual exercise. A purely hypothetical, entirely subjective, ultimately inconclusive one, admittedly, but still: Now that each of the presumed contenders to win the European Championship has shown at least some of its hand, how competitive…
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The Milwaukee Bucks looked wobbly for a moment in the fourth quarter of Thursday’s Game 6 against the Nets. A 15-point lead had been cut to 5 in a matter of minutes. Kevin Durant, coming off a marvelous Game 5…
Read MoreOlympics: Games staff and volunteers vaccinated as Tokyo 2020 nears
TOKYO (AFP) – Thousands of Olympics volunteers and officials began receiving vaccines in Tokyo on Friday (June 18), five weeks before the Games begin, as experts warned it would be safest to hold the event without fans. With just over…
Read MoreOlympics: Titmus eyeing a golden Games for Australia's swimmers in Tokyo
ADELAIDE (REUTERS) – It has been some turnaround. For a young woman who came into this week’s Australian Olympic swimming trials plagued by questions about a lingering shoulder injury, freestyle specialist Ariarne Titmus has not only blown away the cobwebs…
Read MoreWhat to Watch For in the U.S.A. Track & Field Olympic Trials
For months, they have trained in relative isolation. They have triple jumped in empty stadiums and chased qualifying standards on high school tracks. You may have heard this before, but the pandemic created challenges for American track and field athletes….
Read MoreFootball: Ryan Nelsen reveals the chaos that underpinned All Whites’ 2010 World Cup campaign
World Cup football captain Ryan Nelsen has claimed chaos underpinned the All Whites’ campaign at the 2010 tournament in South Africa. And Nelsen, a former English Premier League star with Blackburn Rovers, Tottenham Hotspur and Queens Park Rangers, has admitted…
Read MoreRafael Nadal Says He Will Skip Wimbledon and the Olympics
Rafael Nadal, the 20-time Grand Slam winner, will not go for No. 21 at Wimbledon this year, he announced on Thursday. He also pulled out of the Olympics, and in doing so became the latest top athlete to suggest that…
Read MoreAt the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines, Tiger Woods Still Looms Large
SAN DIEGO — Arms folded across his chest, Rocco Mediate stared at a small, square television to see if his life was about to change forevermore. Mediate stood in a low-slung nondescript area behind the 18th hole grandstand at the…
Read MoreRangers Hire Gerard Gallant as Coach
As they seek to build another contending team, the Rangers hired Gerard Gallant as their new coach, the team announced Wednesday. Gallant will succeed David Quinn, who was fired last month after three seasons behind the Rangers’ bench. A 57-year-old…
Read MoreCristiano Ronaldo's Coca-Cola stunt cost company billions
American Airlines, Coca-Cola, Nike blasted for being ‘woke’ in new ad campaign Executive Director of Consumers’ Research Will Hild says the organization aims to expose ‘distraction’ and ‘mistreatment’ of customers by ‘woke’ companies. Cristiano Ronaldo’s Coca-Cola snub during his Euro…
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