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England’s end-to-end FIFA World Cup 2018 dismantling of Panama gives hope
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,...
Brazil ties Switzerland in FIFA World Cup after push comes to shove
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
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...
Garbine Muguruza takes nothing for granted in French Open rout of Maria Sharapova
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...
Everyone is talking about Apollo’s unprecedented 1882 Kentucky Derby win. Here’s why.
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
Whoosh forward in the bobsled of your imagination to the 2038 Winter Olympics, and wonder: Will this scene from last Wednesday even be viable?
U.S. Olympic men’s curling hits new heights with upset of power to the north
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?
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...
Marcel Hirscher earns his first Olympic gold, silencing 9 million Austrians
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
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...