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Golf is a sport where certain years stand out above others, and 2023 may prove to be one of those years. It’s a heady list. In 1860, Willie Park Sr. won the first British Open, which was held at Prestwick Golf Club, marking the debut of the oldest major tournament. In 1913, the amateur Francis …
As the championship match of the 2023 Rugby World Cup ticked into its last half minute, South Africa’s Springboks, the defending champions, girded themselves for a brutal final stand. Arrayed against them were New Zealand’s iconic but troubled All Blacks, scrapping desperately for a victory that just weeks before few had expected would be possible. …
Isabella de la Houssaye, a lawyer and prolific endurance athlete who continued to go on daunting adventures around the world with her five children after being diagnosed with Stage 4 non-small-cell lung cancer, died on Saturday in Hermosa Beach, Calif. She was 59. Her son Cason Crane said she died of the disease at the …
The Belmont will be held at Saratoga next year, not Belmont. Sweeping renovations at Belmont Park on Long Island, including replacing the grandstand and all three racecourses, were authorized in May by the New York State Legislature, putting the track in Elmont, N.Y., out of commission and requiring a temporary home for the Belmont Stakes, …
The Big 12 Championship game between the Texas Longhorns and the Oklahoma State Cowboys on Saturday evening delivered the kind of controversy-mired barn burner that inspires legions of college football fans to pack stadiums and jam sports bars every weekend. But the real competition, it turned out, was not between the football teams (Texas won …
As the basketball player steps to the free-throw line, the crowd watches in hushed anticipation. With one sweeping motion, he bounces the ball off the backboard and through the net. Wait, he banked it in? On purpose? The fans erupt in celebration. The shot is no fluke — just another free throw, South Korean style. …
The weighing of gymnasts will be restricted under new British rules after a report detailed abuse in the sport, particularly of women and girls. Gymnasts who are 11 and older in Britain may now be weighed only with their permission and with the permission of a parent if they are under 18. The weighing must …
Hockey is one of the most physical sports, and referees try to keep it in line by assessing penalties when a push or a trip goes too far. But on Monday night in Ottawa, the officials had enough. After a fight broke out in the third period of a roughly played game between the Florida …
Terry Taylor, who as the first — and only — woman to be named the sports editor of The Associated Press brought a tireless management style to covering the Olympics, the World Cup and leagues and teams worldwide, died on Nov. 14 at her home in Paoli, Pa. She was 71. Tony Rentschler, her husband …
Baseball is not popular in Colombia. Except on the Caribbean coast, soccer dominates. In Bogotá, the capital, many know very little about “béisbol.” And the city has only two public baseball fields. But swing by Hermes Barros Cabas baseball stadium on any weekend, and it doesn’t feel that way. On a recent Sunday, five groups …