Naomi Osaka used a powerful forehand and a matching serve to win the U.S. Open against Serena Williams two months ago, soaring as high as No. 4 this season in the WTA tennis rankings.
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Major League Baseball and its players’ union likely will not decide until the eve of spring training whether to change rules in an effort to increase action on the field next year.
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The credo in NASCAR has always been “If you ain’t cheatin’, you ain’t tryin’,” and that has never changed despite serieseffort to keep things on the up-and-up.
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With the NFL’s volcanic offenses, can’t-hit-them-too-hard rules and bewildered officials, linebackers today aren’t the snarling 250-pound thumpers who used to just give running backs fits.
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Floyd Mayweather has called off his bout with Japanese kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa and says he was “blindsided” by promoters of the proposed New Year’s Eve event.
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The University of Maryland has fired two trainers that were involved in the treatment of football player Jordan McNair after he collapsed on the field and subsequently died of heatstroke.
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Associated Press on November 7, 2018 • Updated on November 7, 2018 at 12:01 pm
Associated Press Posted on November 7, 2018 • Updated on November 7, 2018 at 12:01 pm
The former Dallas Cowboys wide receiver, who has been looking for an NFL home since becoming a free agent, will join one of the NFL’s top offenses in New Orleans.
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Senior hitter McKenna Granato had her 11th double-double of the season, but it was not enough as Hawaii dropped a critical nonconference volleyball match tonight, falling to Pepperdine 25-19, 20-25, 25-22, 18-25, 15-6 in Malibu, Calif.
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By Brian McInnis bmcinnis@staradvertiser.com Posted on November 6, 2018
Pepperdine’s Paige Fecske hit a 3-pointer with 10 seconds left to give the Waves a 65-64 win over Hawaii in the teams’ 2018-19 season opener at the Stan Sheriff Center tonight.
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Hundreds of rules officials worldwide who face a crash course on the modernized Rules of Golf that take effect Jan. 1. The modernized rules, which took more than five years to develop, were announced in early March.
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Three high-profile Olympic and Paralympic athletes are incensed over a proposed age minimum that would eliminate their choice to be the next president of the World Anti-Doping Agency.
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Larry Drew’s awkward impasse with the Cleveland Cavaliers is over. The team relented to Drew’s requests by restructuring his contract and signing him to be their coach for the remainder of this season — and perhaps beyond.
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Late New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, former managers Lou Piniella, Davey Johnson and Charlie Manuel, and six players headed by Lee Smith are on the 10-man ballot for the baseball Hall of Fame’s Today’s Game Era committee to consider next month.
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Mississippi’s football program has earned the reputation of one that plays extremely hard and can occasionally put a bunch of points on the scoreboard.
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Associated Press on November 5, 2018 • Updated on November 5, 2018 at 2:38 pm
Associated Press Posted on November 5, 2018 • Updated on November 5, 2018 at 2:38 pm
The U.S. Olympic Committee is moving to revoke USA Gymnastics’ status as the governing body for the sport at the Olympic level, meting out the nuclear option to an organization that has botched its own reorganization in the wake of a sex-abuse scandal involving former team doctor Larry Nassar.
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The 2017-18 college basketball had everything a fan could want. Standout performances, a No. 1 seed finally falling in first game of the NCAA Tournament and Villanova cutting down the nets for the second time in three seasons.
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Like any other workplace, there is constant, if hidden, interplay between NFL players and officials on the field, a largely overlooked dialogue reserved for the few permitted to participate in the action.
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