The ball would not stay on the 11th green. Rory McIlroy stood there on Monday, the wind gusting to 30 miles per hour, and watched as physics overruled architecture. The green was too fast. The slope was too severe. The ball rolled. It kept rolling. The forecast for Thursday is worse—gusts of 35 to 40 […]
The last time Graeme McDowell played a major championship, his son Wills was three years old. The boy would have no memory of it. The father would have no expectation of it happening again. Between 2008 and 2016, McDowell made 34 consecutive major appearances. The run ended. The invitations stopped. The sands of time, as […]
The last time Alex de Minaur and Denis Shapovalov faced each other with a trophy on the line, it was 2016. Wimbledon. The junior final. Shapovalov won it 4-6, 6-1, 6-3. They were teenagers then, still becoming the players they would eventually be. The match was a glimpse of the future. The future has arrived. […]
A year ago, he was outside the world’s top 800. He had never played a main-draw ATP Tour match. He had never contested a Grand Slam. He was a teenager with a famous name and an unknown game, the kind of player who appears on practice courts and is introduced as “the other Rafael”—the one […]
The first expletive arrived when Corentin Moutet described how he felt watching Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard save a match point with a 142mph second serve. The reaction was instinctive, the language unvarnished, the moment exactly the kind of raw, unfiltered emotion that live sports television craves—until it doesn’t. Jenny Drummond, the BBC presenter, asked him not […]
The forehand clipped the net and dropped dead. Cameron Norrie had broken serve early, the Queen’s Club crowd stirring with the particular energy that follows a British number one when he starts well on grass. The movement was there. The rib, the one that had forced him to retire from his first-round French Open match […]
The cross came from the left. David Moller Wolfe whipped it low, the kind of ball that requires a striker to arrive at exactly the right moment, in exactly the right space, with exactly the right instinct. Erling Haaland arrived. He slid. He stabbed it home. Norway’s first World Cup finals goal in 10,220 days—the […]
The Test summer has lasted 166 overs. Not enough to fill two complete days. It has included a captain stood down, a security guard punched, a fast bowler suspended, an all-time great retiring, four debutants selected across two matches, a spinner picked who didn’t bowl and then was dropped, a batter who flew to New […]
The shot was a four to square leg. Nat Sciver-Brunt had played it with the same fluency she had shown throughout her 48 runs, steering England toward a target of 119 they had no business chasing with any drama. Then she stopped. She called for the physio. She retired hurt. Nine runs were needed for […]
President Donald Trump has announced the Strait of Hormuz will reopen “toll-free” under the US-Iran deal set to be signed on Friday in Switzerland, as Brent crude oil fell to $78 a barrel on Tuesday, down from a peak of $120 during the conflict. Speaking at the G7 summit in France, Trump said the agreement […]
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