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England's Harry Kane kicks a penalty ...

England’s end-to-end FIFA World Cup 2018 dismantling of Panama gives hope

June 24, 2018 at 4:39 p.m.

For a hint that things might really, really be different with England in 2018, check out its 21st-century history in dealing with the minnows, guppies and small carp of Concacaf,...

Switzerland's Breel Embolo, left, and Brazil's ...

Brazil ties Switzerland in FIFA World Cup after push comes to shove

June 17, 2018 at 7:56 p.m.

Global icon and diva Neymar, who departed the last World Cup with a broken vertebra and legitimate tears, returned to this utmost stage on the banks of the Don River...

In Iceland, World Cup players aren’t gods — they’re neighbors

June 10, 2018 at 10:26 p.m.

The 35-year-old hotel manager in her Viking helmet with the upturned horns and the Iceland flag painted intricately across her forehead has a best friend whose sister's boyfriend is best...

Spain's Garbine Muguruza returns a shot ...

Garbine Muguruza takes nothing for granted in French Open rout of Maria Sharapova

June 6, 2018 at 1:48 p.m.

On display Wednesday at Roland Garros was a picture of growth, of the impressiveness that comes when people figure out things, including things as fraught and tricky as rarefied athletic...

Kentucky Derby entrant Justify runs during ...

Everyone is talking about Apollo’s unprecedented 1882 Kentucky Derby win. Here’s why.

May 4, 2018 at 11:15 a.m.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - As that rare sporting event aged enough to let people banter about how something hasn't happened in 136 years, the 144th Kentucky Derby has people bantering about...

America’s gay Olympians hope that in 20 years “gay Olympians” won’t be a thing

February 24, 2018 at 11:12 a.m.

Whoosh forward in the bobsled of your imagination to the 2038 Winter Olympics, and wonder: Will this scene from last Wednesday even be viable?

USA's Matt Hamilton brushes in front ...

U.S. Olympic men’s curling hits new heights with upset of power to the north

February 22, 2018 at 12:18 p.m.

That hapless little Olympic seldom-do-well, the United States, which was a dour 2-4 in round-robin play as of Sunday night, will ride its 5-3 semifinal upset of Canada on Thursday...

Who knew a Tongan Olympic cross-country skier could be so engaging with his shirt on?

February 14, 2018 at 10:42 a.m.

In an Olympic upset Wednesday afternoon, the shirtless, oily Tongan who has won global acclaim and marriage proposals and bawdy tweets by being shirtless and oily proved to be even...

Gold medalist Marcel Hirscher of Austria ...

Marcel Hirscher earns his first Olympic gold, silencing 9 million Austrians

February 13, 2018 at 2:50 p.m.

What happened here Tuesday afternoon at Jeongseon Alpine Centre figures to linger for good in some corridor of memory, the mind's eye casting it as a rampage, a fury, a...

Tiger Woods shows flashes of his past at Torrey Pines, offering hope for his future

January 29, 2018 at 9:25 a.m.

SAN DIEGO - The global curiosity on the subject of Tiger Woods the golfer, which had slid into a dormancy smothered by his serial surgeries, his quashed restarts and his...

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