What will Serena Williams’ return to tennis do to Wimbledon, four years after her last appearance? Are two dominant world No. 1s in a strange position? Will a player protest continuing from the French Open have the desired effect? And what will Novak Djokovic’s tournament say about his future?
A GRIP ON SPORTS • One would think participating in our eighth decade on this planet, the questions would have all been answered. Instead, there are always more. Like today.
All Larry Weir wanted to do was get back in the radio booth, call a nice easy game and get his feet wet again. But the Spokane Indians and Vancouver Canadians had a different idea.
When assessing the health of the Spokane River, many look to the native interior redband trout. A subspecies of rainbow trout, Spokane calls the redband its own, erecting sculptures of it and creating a local mascot of it in the form of the Spokane Indians’ Ribby the Redband Trout.
Looking at the statistics, the Spokane Indians probably shouldn't have expected to be in the game Saturday night. They were outhit, committed two errors and allowed three home runs in one inning.
CLEVELAND – During this recent stretch of anemic production and really for much of the season, scoring three runs in a game has somehow been enough for the Mariners to win more games than expected.
The United States’ path through the 2026 World Cup knockout rounds came into focus on Friday when potential opponents in the round of 16 and quarterfinals locked up Groups G and H, respectively.
Here’s what we know with near certainty as rumors and anticipation escalate in the lead-up to MLB’s Aug. 3 trade deadline: The Mariners front office will do something.
SEATTLE – After knifing through New Zealand’s box and burying a goal 92 years in the making, Mohamed Salah effectively summarized the stakes. He stood inside Vancouver’s BC Place stadium Sunday, minutes removed from the first World Cup win in Egypt’s soccer history, with stray gray hairs in his neat black beard. With magic in his famous, 34-year-old feet.
Parker Jefferson was finishing up an offseason workout at Loyola Marymount last month when trainer Zachary Gonzales asked the Gonzaga forward to stick around for some additional work.
In the end, it became just a soccer game. One of immense drama and nearly a winning goal multiple times in the dying minutes for a team that’s faced challenges like no other at this FIFA Men’s World Cup.
The United States Soccer Federation has presented head coach Mauricio Pochettino with a proposal to extend for a second World Cup cycle, running until 2030, but any decisions will be deferred until after the 2026 tournament.
