For more than a decade Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi have been at the center of a fierce and largely unsettled debate over who is the greatest player in soccer history. A decade from now, they might still be part of that debate. Only the question then may be more like “who were those two…
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The U.S. was drawn into a group with Uruguay, Panama and Bolivia for next summer’s Copa América while Mexico will play Jamaica, Venezuela and Ecuador. The 16-team tournament, featuring 10 teams from South America and six from CONCACAF, will kick off June 20 in Atlanta with reigning World Cup champion Argentina facing the…
At just 17 years, three months, and 22 days old, Lionel Messi makes his official league debut for Barcelona, coming on as a substitute late in the game. against Espanyol. At the time, he becomes the youngest player to represent the club in an official game after joining the club’s famed La Masia academy in…
The Kings’ season will be an exercise in mathematical wizardry and an attempt to exorcise the memory of two consecutive playoff losses to the Edmonton Oilers. The math component looms large for the Kings, who open the season Wednesday against the Colorado Avalanche at Crypto.com Arena, because the NHL’s hard salary cap has grown slowly…
When Pierre-Luc Dubois is playing his best within the Kings’ well-defined structure, he’s tough to stop. “He’s driving a group of players. He’s not reacting to a group of players. And whether that’s what we’re doing or the other team is doing, he’s just in charge of the situation,” Kings coach Todd McLellan said of…
CNN — When you spend every moment of every day with another person – eating, sleeping, training, competing – it’s hardly surprising that you should develop a formidable partnership, even less so if you share the same DNA. For Bob and Mike Bryan, their “twin energy” was at the heart of their triumphs and titles…
