Team Ineos are already poised for a Tour de France triumph before the race even enters the high mountains after a brutal display of strength on the eve of the first rest day.
Dutch rookie Wout van Aert won stage 10 of the Tour de France Monday as Julian Alaphilippe extended his overall lead after a blistering late charge split the peloton.
Ex-Olympic boxing gold medalist and four-weight world champion Pernell Whitaker has died after a traffic accident in Virginia, police confirmed Monday.
South African Daryl Impey added an individual stage win to his Tour de France happy memories when he prevailed at the end of a long breakaway from St. Etienne Sunday.
England won the World Cup for the first time as they beat New Zealand in a dramatic Super Over after a nerve-shredding final ended in a tie at Lord’s Sunday....
Defending champion Geraint Thomas gained time on his rivals in a brutal finish in the sixth stage of the Tour de France as several top guns cracked in the...
Slovakia’s Peter Sagan kept enough strength in reserve in the hills of Alsace to win a reduced bunch sprint for his 12th overall Tour de France stage win...
Italy’s Elia Viviani was too fast for any of the other top speedsters in a classic 70 kilometer per hour bunch sprint at the end of the fourth stage of the...
Lebanon will be quietly confident of a successful World Cup qualification campaign, after they were handed a relatively favorable draw in Kuala Lumpur...
Record Manchester City signing Rodri made his debut and Raheem Sterling scored twice as the Premier League champions came from behind to beat West Ham United...
The Serbian press Monday proclaimed Novak Djokovic “king of tennis” with the “heart of a hero” after he claimed his fifth Wimbledon title beating eight-time...
Novak Djokovic again proved the toughest of nuts for Roger Federer to crack as he repelled everything the Swiss threw at him to claim a fifth Wimbledon title...
There is no favorite.
The Los Angeles Clippers pulled off two major acquisitions late Friday night, as ESPN and The Athletic reported that free agent forward Kawhi Leonard will...
Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton hailed his home fans after celebrating a record sixth British Grand Prix win Sunday and stretching his lead over luckless...
Valtteri Bottas kept Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton off the top of the timesheets in practice for the Formula One leader’s home British Grand Prix Friday,...
France’s Julian Alaphilippe lived up to the hype as he snatched the Tour de France overall leader’s yellow jersey by winning the third stage Monday.
Amanda Nunes won in spectacular fashion. Jon Jones barely hung on.
Dutchman Mike Teunissen clung on to the yellow jersey for another day as his Jumbo-Visna team powered to victory in the Tour de France’s second stage Sunday -...
Kuwait has been cleared to compete in the 2020 Olympics after the International Olympic Committee announced Friday it was lifting the suspension it imposed on...
Holly Holm didn’t fight in a mixed martial arts cage until she was already a 29-year-old boxing champion of three weight classes. She had both a head start...
Geraint Thomas will face mountains galore and a wide cast of rivals, even within his own camp, when the three-week Tour de France begins on the cobbled...
The Lebanese Rugby League Federation has suspended 16 national team players for their part in a planned protest against Fiji last month.
Milan/Cortina d’Ampezzo was named as host of the 2026 Winter Olympics Monday, beating off a bid from Stockholm/Are in Sweden and giving Italy the showpiece...
A planned boycott by players of the Lebanese national rugby league team of an upcoming fixture was narrowly avoided Wednesday, after the sport’s international...
Olympic 800-meter champion Caster Semenya has accused the global athletics governing body of using her as a human guinea pig, as it emerged that the IAAF had...
Few Stanley Cup trophies have ever been as heavy as the one earned Wednesday by the St. Louis Blues, who lifted the weight of a championship-starved city that...
The 119th U.S. Open at Pebble Beach has the makings of a classic as Tiger Woods returns to the scene of a signature triumph to take on a new generation of...
Chris Froome will miss the Tour de France after hitting a wall at high speed and suffering severe injuries in a training accident at the Criterium du Dauphine...
In the musty funk of a Havana boxing gym, Idamelys Moreno smacks a series of whomping right hooks into a heavy punching bag.
Tony Ferguson’s path to the lightweight title is becoming clear. He won by technical knockout after a medical stoppage in a lightweight fight against Donald...
Double Olympic champion Caster Semenya will be able to run in her favored 800 meters event without medication to lower her testosterone levels until an appeal...
Anthony Joshua’s bid to make a splash in his U.S. debut ended in misery for the three belt heavyweight world champion with a stunning loss to underdog Andy...
Olympic 800-meters champion Caster Semenya filed an appeal to Switzerland’s highest court Wednesday against rules requiring middle-distance female athletes...