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Perspective | Here’s something all D.C. fans would like to see built: Winning teams
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save The absolutely dreadful Washington Wizards managed their fourth win in 24 games Friday night, and if this season didn’t already feel like a slog, well, now there’s a dark lining to it all. Maybe, in five years, the Wizards will have pulled themselves from their…
Elliott: Cam Talbot ‘exceeding expectations’ for the Kings on his show-me contract
The Kings are Cam Talbot’s seventh NHL stop in 11 seasons. “And, I think, five in the last six years,” the 36-year-old goaltender said, and yes, he’s counting. Talbot made his NHL debut with the New York Rangers in 2013 and then spent three-plus seasons in Edmonton, where he twice led the league’s goalies in…
Meet ‘Snappy Gilmore,’ the viral TikTok sensation reinventing the golf swing | CNN
CNN — Trying out golf for the first time, something just didn’t feel right about the conventional swing for Eliezer Paul-Gindiri. Uncomfortable, he adjusted his grip. His solution, quite literally, changed his life single-handedly. “It was a moment (that) just came out of nowhere,” Paul-Gindiri told CNN. “I held it in one hand and it…
Commentary: MLS made a colossal mistake to drop U.S. Open Cup. How does the league not get that?
Don Garber acknowledged long ago he didn’t know much about soccer when he left the NFL for MLS. Last week, the MLS commissioner showed he still doesn’t understand the sport. The league’s attempt to limit its participation in the U.S. Open Cup to developmental MLS Next Pro players, knee-capping the country’s oldest national soccer competition,…
Reuters special report tells the story of an Olympic dream wiped out | Reuters News Agency
Entertainment & LifestyleHuman InterestSports 20 July 2021, 2:11 pm 1 minute First his torch relay was canceled because of COVID-19 fears. Then spectators were banned from the Games’ first-ever surfing competition. In a Special Report, Reuters details how 78-year-old “Ted” Adegawa and the surfing town he helped build, symbolize the disappointment in Japan over this…
Quebec Still Longs for Its Lost Hockey Team, a Nationalist Symbol
When the Nordiques left Quebec nearly 30 years ago, the hockey team’s departure fueled the kind of mythologizing and nostalgia familiar to fans of the Brooklyn Dodgers. The Nordiques’ stint in Quebec, playing there in the N.H.L. from 1979 to 1995, overlapped with the French-speaking province’s two failed attempts to secede from the rest of…
