Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Days until training camp opens and weeks until the MLS season starts, Troy Lesesne is sorting through a tall stack of tall tasks. It has been barely a week since he agreed to coach D.C. United, and there’s hardly time to catch his breath. The…

This was supposed to be a marquee matchup, a competitive affair between two teams that have amounted to more than the sum of their parts through the first two-plus months of the season. The Canucks sure played like the No. 1 team in the Pacific Division. The same can’t be said for the No. 1…

Coach Bill Belichick’s potential final game with the New England Patriots was one for the record books — in a way he won’t want to remember. The Patriots lost to the Jets 17-3 at Gillette Stadium on Sunday, ending New York’s 15-game losing skid to New England. The Patriots recorded 119 yards of offense, marking…

One of Jaime Lozano’s chief tasks when he was put in charge of the Mexico national team last summer was to make its talent pool deeper and younger. Which brings us to Saturday’s friendly with Colombia, to be played in front of an expected crowd of more than 60,000 at the Coliseum. Fifteen of the…

CNN  —  Coco Gauff was ruthless and totally dominant in her US Open quarterfinal against Jelena Ostapenko, dropping just two games in a match that could have really troubled the young American. Ostapenko, although blighted by inconsistency, had been expected to pose serious questions to Gauff’s title credentials after an impressive run in New York,…

CNN  —  As Linn Grant left the course at Halmstad Golf Club in Tylösand, Sweden, she found herself swarmed by a group of young fans. Clamoring for anything and everything in the Swede’s golf bag, they excitedly waved pens in the hopes of securing an autograph. Grant duly obliged, signing everything from hats to golf…