Colombian soccer player Linda Caicedo bounced back from a scary moment at practice earlier in the week to lift her squad to a 2-1 win over Germany at the Women’s World Cup on Sunday. Caicedo broke the scoreless tie in the second
Ji Man Choi, Bryan Reynolds and Carlos Santana hit home runs for the Pittsburgh Pirates, who held off the San Diego Padres 3-2 on Wednesday to win two of three games. David Bednar loaded the bases with one out in the ninth
A cancer survivor, a Real Madrid star and now a scorer on her debut at the Women’s World Cup. Linda Caicedo is an inspirational figure already at the age of 18. Her broad smile at the end of Colombia’s 2-0 win over
Lionel Messi sure has a flair for the dramatic. In his Major League Soccer debut, Messi, arguably the greatest soccer player of all time, scored the game-winning goal in extra time to give Inter Miami a 2-1 victory over Cruz Azul in
Aroldis Chapman’s first win since being traded to Texas came after the hard-throwing Cuban unleashed the two fastest pitches of the Statcast era for the Rangers. A 100 mph fastball from Pete Fairbanks sank the Tampa Bay Rays in the opener of
Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci redefined perfection on this day in history, July 18, 1976, when she scored the first-ever perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics history. Competing on the uneven bars apparatus during the compulsory portion of the team event of the women’s
Megan Rapinoe and Trinity Rodman stood side by side at the top of a stairwell waiting to return to the field for some final cheers and fanfare before the Americans departed for the Women’s World Cup Down Under. The Old Guard and
Jesús Ferreira scored his second international hat trick, Djordje Mihailovic had two goals and the 13th-ranked United States overwhelmed No. 139 St. Kitts and Nevis 6-0 on Wednesday night in the CONCACAF Gold Cup. Mihailovic, Bryan Reynolds and Ferreira scored in a
Breanna Stewart scored 24 points and Jonquel Jones added 14 points and 11 rebounds in her return to Connecticut as the New York Liberty beat the Sun 89-81 on Tuesday night. The victory moved the Liberty into a tie with Connecticut atop
In a game where offense was hard to come by, Mike Trout’s struggles at the plate stood out. With a chance to get a critical seven-game homestand off to a successful start, he still found a way to create a run, one