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…

CNN  —  Novak Djokovic’s straight-sets victory over Cameron Norrie in the Italian Open boiled over when the British tennis star hit the back of the world No. 1’s leg with a smash. The incident occurred at the start of the second set and despite an instant apology from Norrie, Djokovic did not respond well, proceeding…

Marty Walsh learned how to build scaffolding and walls while working rugged construction jobs along Boston’s waterfront. Later, as the leader of laborers’ union local 223 and president of the building trades council, he learned how to build consensus between workers and management. Walsh, the son of Irish immigrants, put his negotiating skills to good…

Sports 05 January 2022, 7:06 pm 1 minute Reuters was first to report that Novak Djokovic, the No. 1 tennis star in the world, was denied entry into Australia on Thursday after initially being granted a medical exemption for the country’s COVID-19 vaccination requirements so that he could play in the Australian Open. The tennis star, left…

Robert Kraft hoped things would end differently. He’d spent the final years of a dying dynasty patching together a fraying relationship between Tom Brady and Bill Belichick, but in early 2020, it was all over. Separate conversations with his head coach and quarterback had kept the pair together long enough to win a sixth Super…

By taking a step back, Franz Beckenbauer put himself a step ahead. The “libero” — taken from the Italian word for “free” and describing a player who had a covering role behind a defensive line — was not an entirely new concept to soccer by the late 1960s and early 1970s. It was just that…