As Coco Gauff and Mirra Andreeva faced off at the U.S. Open on Wednesday, fans in the stands remarked about how old — really how young — they were while competing at the top of their sport. Gauff, who at 19 is not much older than the 16-year-old Andreeva, has for several years been a household name in tennis, ever […]

With a long-running feud in women’s professional ice hockey now settled, a new league with many of the world’s best players is ready to push forward in January, and its inaugural home cities and other details were announced on Tuesday. The six teams in the new Professional Women’s Hockey League will be evenly divided between the United States and Canada, […]

After a marathon match between Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz on Sunday in the final of the Western & Southern Open in Ohio, Djokovic said he hoped to play Alcaraz again at the U.S. Open “for the crowd.” The crowd may get to see that rematch. The men’s and women’s singles draws for the U.S. Open, which begins on Monday […]

As a high school senior and a musical theater enthusiast in Amery, Wis., Alicia Monson hoped to join her classmates in their production of “The Wizard of Oz” in the fall of 2016. In fact, Monson could have had a leading role, said Laura Badman, who was co-directing the show. Monson had a lovely singing voice. “She was an alto,” […]

To win a World Cup, everything usually has to be perfect. The manager and the players have to exist in harmony. The squad has to be in delicate balance: between talent and tenacity, youth and experience, self-belief and self-control. A team needs momentum, and good fortune, and unity. Spain, in the year preceding this year’s Women’s World Cup, had none […]

Spain is ready to go: It released its lineup almost two hours before kickoff, and the only change is notable. But so is England: It wasn’t far behind. Part of that might be that neither team had any surprises in their lineups. The most notable choices, in fact, are two players who are NOT starting. England’s team is unchanged from […]

The 123rd U.S. Amateur Championship culminates with Sunday’s 36-hole title match at Cherry Hills Country Club. Here’s a look at what happened in Saturday’s semifinals and the background of the two finalists, who tee off 8 a.m. Sunday. Semifinal Results Nick Dunlap def. Parker Bell, 3 and 2 — Dunlap was down a hole early, but just as he did […]

About a half-hour before a mid-August Brooklyn Cyclones game, a family of three, a reporter and a middle-aged man dressed in a Jedi robe walked into an elevator at Maimonides Park. As the door closed and they began their ascent, the Jedi turned to the others and asked, “So, what planet are you all from?” “Um, Brooklyn,” responded the matriarch […]

Happy to be home and in need of a win over a division rival and fellow wild card chaser, the Yankees lost their sixth consecutive game on Friday. It didn’t take long for onlookers to realize that the pinstripers were on their way to another defeat, as the Red Sox jumped on Jhony Brito and scored four runs before the […]

Rest is both Marcus Stroman’s friend and enemy right now. The schedule is working against Stroman and any hopes the Chicago Cubs right-hander will get back on the mound in the near future. Stroman on Friday spoke for the first time since the Cubs announced his right rib cartilage fracture diagnosis Tuesday. He has been prescribed rest and can’t be […]